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• • ·American Heart Journal

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• • ·Determining prognosis in congestive heart failure: Role of the 6-minute walk test

    Pagina :593-596

    Vera Bittner

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• • ·Natriuretic peptides for treatment of congestive heart failure

    Pagina :597-598

    David DeNofrio

    
• • ·Multidisciplinary interventions for the management of heart failure: Where do we stand?

    Pagina :599-601

    Michael W. Rich

    
• • ·Vale, warfarin: A stentorian farewell

    Pagina :602-605

    James E. Tcheng, David F. Kong

     
• • ·Chest pain algorithms in the troponin era: Time to integrate expertise

    Pagina :606-608

    Thomas H. Lee

    
• • ·Preventing perioperative stroke: Look, but don’t touch!

    Pagina :609-611

    Harry Rakowski, Alan S. Pearlman

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• • ·Biplane and multiplane transesophageal echocardiography

    Pagina :612-613

    Ross M. Ungerleider

    
• • ·The sundial and the stopwatch

    Pagina :614-617

    C.Michael Gibson

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• • ·The 6-min walk and peak oxygen consumption in advanced heart failure: Aerobic capacity and survival

    Pagina :618-624

    Caroline Lucas, Lynne Warner Stevenson, Wendy Johnson, Howard Hartley, Michele A. Hamilton, Julie Walden, Virginia Lem, Elizabeth Eagen-Bengsten

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• • ·Comparison of vessel dilator and long-acting natriuretic peptide in the treatment of congestive heart failure

    Pagina :625-632

    David L. Vesely, John R. Dietz, James R. Parks, Ernest A. Antwi, Rose M. Overton, Michael T. McCormick, Guillermo Cintron, Douglas D. Schocken

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• • ·Effect of a home monitoring system on hospitalization and resource use for patients with heart failure

    Pagina :633-640

    Paul A. Heidenreich, Christine M. Ruggerio, Barry M. Massie

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• • ·Myocardial high-energy phosphate metabolism in patients with stable chronic dilated cardiomyopathy under a dobutamine-induced prolonged mild workload

    Pagina :641-645

    Tadafumi Nanbu, Tsunenori Nakakoshi, Kazuya Yonezawa, Akira Kitabatake

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• • ·Cardiac troponins in congestive heart failure

    Pagina :646-653

    Carlos H. Del Carlo, Christopher M. O’Connor

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• • ·Within-patient comparison of effects of different dosages of enalapril on functional capacity and neurohormone levels in patients with chronic heart failure

    Pagina :654-662

    H.P. Brunner-La Rocca, D. Weilenmann, W. Kiowski, F.E. Maly, R. Candinas, F. Follath

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• • ·Comparison of the efficacy and safety of aspirin alone with coumadin plus aspirin after provisional coronary stenting: Final and follow-up results of a randomized study

    Pagina :663-669

    Abderrahman Machraoui, Alfried Germing, Stefan von Dryander, Stefan Lange, Detlev Jäger, Bernd Lemke, Jürgen Barmeyer

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• • ·Systematic primary angioplasty in octogenarian and older patients

    Pagina :670-674

    David Antoniucci, Renato Valenti, Giovanni M. Santoro, Leonardo Bolognese, Guia Moschi, Maurizio Trapani, Enrico Taddeucci, Pier Filippo Fazzini

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• • ·Long-term angiographic results of stenting in chronic total occlusions: Influence of stent design and vessel size

    Pagina :675-680

    Javier Escaned, Jorge Cortes, Marco A. Alcocer, Javier Goicolea, Fernando Alfonso, Antonio Fernandez-Ortiz, Rosana Hernandez, Camino Bañuelos, Carlos Macaya

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• • ·Histopathology of postpercutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty remodeling in human coronary arteries

    Pagina :681-687

    Giuseppe Sangiorgi, Allen J. Taylor, Andrew Farb, Andrew J. Carter, William D. Edwards, David R. Holmes, Robert S. Schwartz, Renu Virmani

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• • ·Elderly patients at highest risk with acute myocardial infarction are more frequently transferred from community hospitals to tertiary centers: Reality or myth?

    Pagina :688-695

    Rajendra H. Mehta, Erik J. Stalhandske, Patricia A. McCargar, Thomas J. Ruane, Kim A. Eagle

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• • ·Efegatran sulfate as an adjunct to streptokinase versus heparin as an adjunct to tissue plasminogen activator in patients with acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :696-704

    Anthony Y. Fung, Gerald Lorch, Patrick A. Cambier, Dennis Hansen, Bradley G. Titus, Jenny S. Martin, Jennifer J. Lee, Nathan R. Every, Alfred P. Hallstrom, Donna Stock-Novack, Joel Scherer, W.Douglas Weaver, The ESCALAT Investigators*

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• • ·The Goldman algorithm revisited: Prospective evaluation of a computer-derived algorithm versus unaided physician judgment in suspected acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :705-709

    Asad Qamar, Craig McPherson, Joseph Babb, Larry Bernstein, Michael Werdmann, Donna Yasick, Stuart Zarich

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• • ·Effects of long-term adrenergic β-blockade on left ventricular diastolic filling in patients with acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :710-720

    Steen H. Poulsen, Svend E. Jensen, Kenneth Egstrup

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• • ·Evaluation of the potential role of color-coded tissue Doppler echocardiography in the detection of allograft rejection in heart transplant recipients

    Pagina :721-730

    Sunil Mankad, Srinivas Murali, Robert L. Kormos, William A. Mandarino, John Gorcsan

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• • ·Noninvasive determination of endothelium-mediated vasodilation as a screening test for coronary artery disease: Pilot study to assess the predictive value in comparison with angina pectoris, exercise electrocardiography, and myocardial perfusion imaging

    Pagina :731-739

    Stephen Schroeder, Markus D. Enderle, Runald Ossen, Christoph Meisner, Andreas Baumbach, Martin Pfohl, Christian Herdeg, Martin Oberhoff, Hans U. Haering, Karl R. Karsch

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• • ·Comparison of the Diamond-Forrester method and a new score to estimate the pretest probability of coronary disease before exercise testing

    Pagina :740-745

    Anthony P. Morise

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• • ·Protruding aortic arch atheromas: Risk of stroke during heart surgery with and without aortic arch endarterectomy

    Pagina :746-752

    Alexandra Stern, Paul A. Tunick, Alfred T. Culliford, Justine Lachmann, F.Gregory Baumann, Marc S. Kanchuger, Katherine Marschall, Alan Shah, Eugene Grossi, Itzhak Kronzon

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• • ·Influence of dobutamine or exercise stress on the results of pulsed-wave Doppler assessment of myocardial velocity

    Pagina :753-758

    Agnès Pasquet, Elina Yamada, Guy Armstrong, Lisa Beachler, Thomas H. Marwick

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• • ·Correlation between clinical and Doppler echocardiographic findings in patients with moderate and large pericardial effusion: Implications for the diagnosis of cardiac tamponade

    Pagina :759-764

    Jordi Mercé, Jaume Sagristà-Sauleda, Gaietà Permanyer-Miralda, Arturo Evangelista, Jordi Soler-Soler

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• • ·Evaluation of the efficacy of hand-held computer screens for cardiologists’ interpretations of 12-lead electrocardiograms

    Pagina :765-770

    Karlton S. Pettis, Michael R. Savona, Paul N. Leibrandt, Charles Maynard, William T. Lawson, Kathy B. Gates, Galen S. Wagner

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• • ·Costs and cost-effectiveness of routine transesophageal echocardiography in congenital heart surgery

    Pagina :771-776

    Ernest S. Siwik, Michael L. Spector, Chandrakant R. Patel, Kenneth G. Zahka

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• • ·Assessing the severity of mitral stenosis: Variability between noninvasive and invasive measurements in patients with symptomatic mitral valve stenosis

    Pagina :777-784

    Andrew Wang, Thomas Ryan, Katherine B. Kisslo, Thomas M. Bashore, J.Kevin Harrison

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• • ·Corrected TIMI frame count does not predict 30-day adverse outcomes after reperfusion therapy for acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :785-790

    Deepak L. Bhatt, Stephen G. Ellis, Thomas B. Ivanc, Timothy Crowe, Eva Balazs, Darrell Debowey, Andreas Pangerl, Paul H. Chew

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• • ·Mortality and need for reoperation in patients with mild-to-moderate asymptomatic aortic valve disease undergoing coronary artery bypass graft alone

    Pagina :791-797

    James Hochrein, John C. Lucke, J.Kevin Harrison, Thomas M. Bashore, Walter G. Wolfe, Robert H. Jones, James E. Lowe, William D. White, Donald D. Glower

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• • ·Cardiac troponin I as a marker for AMI

    Pagina :798

    Erik J. Lindbloom, James J. Stevermer

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• • ·Reply

    Pagina :798-800

    Fred S. Apple, Scott W. Sharkey

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• • ·Correction—Comparison of the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) cohort with women with coronary disease from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study III (NHANES III) (Herrington DM, et al. Am Heart J 1998;136:115-24)

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