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• • ·Hypertonic saline: A novel therapy for advanced heart failure?

    Pagina :377-379

    Mark H. Drazner, Biff F. Palmer

    
• • ·Assessing the success of fibrinolysis: Can we let the interventionalist rest?

    Pagina :380-382

    David A. Morrow, James A. de Lemos

    
• • ·Chronic kidney disease as a cardiovascular risk factor

    Pagina :383-386

    Patricia J.M. Best, David R. Holmes

    
• • ·Treating dyslipidemia with statins: The risk-benefit profile

    Pagina :387-396

    Luther T. Clark

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• • ·Platelet activation in patients with congestive heart failure: Do we have enough evidence to consider clopidogrel?

    Pagina :397-403

    Alex I. Malinin, Christopher M. O'Connor, Alec I. Dzhanashvili, David C. Sane, Victor L. Serebruany

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• • ·An updated meta-analysis of calcium-channel blockers in the prevention of restenosis after coronary angioplasty

    Pagina :404-408

    J. Dens, W. Desmet, J. Piessens

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• • ·Meta-analysis of sero-epidemiologic studies of the relation between Chlamydia pneumoniae and atherosclerosis: Does study design influence results?

    Pagina :409-417

    Daisy G.M. Bloemenkamp, Willem P.Th.M. Mali, Frank L.J. Visseren, Yolanda van der Graaf

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• • ·Preventing stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation: Current treatments and new concepts

    Pagina :418-423

    Stuart J. Connolly

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• • ·Cardiac management by pediatricians versus pediatric cardiologists in an inpatient academic center

    Pagina :424-429

    Jacques Benun, Stacy D. Fisher, E.John Orav, Marcy L. Schwartz, Vernat Exil, Christine Messere, Steven E. Lipshultz

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• • ·Effect of pacing mode on health-related quality of life in the Canadian Trial of Physiologic Pacing

    Pagina :430-437

    David Newman, Ching Lau, Anthony S.L. Tang, Jane Irvine, Miney Paquette, Kirsten Woodend, Paul Dorian, Michael Gent, Charles Kerr, Stuart J. Connolly, CTOPP Investigators

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• • ·Drug prescriptions after acute myocardial infarction: Dosage, compliance, and persistence

    Pagina :438-444

    Ewurabena Simpson, Christine Beck, Hugues Richard, Mark J. Eisenberg, Louise Pilote

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• • ·Effect of cardiac rehabilitation on functional outcomes after coronary revascularization

    Pagina :445-451

    Sara K. Pasquali, Karen P. Alexander, Laura P. Coombs, Barbara L. Lytle, Eric D. Peterson

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• • ·Comparison of analytic approaches for the economic evaluation of new technologies alongside multicenter clinical trials

    Pagina :452-458

    Deborah A. Taira, Todd B. Seto, Richard Siegrist, Roberta Cosgrove, Ronna Berezin, David J. Cohen

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• • ·Effects of high-dose furosemide and small-volume hypertonic saline solution infusion in comparison with a high dose of furosemide as bolus in refractory congestive heart failure: Long-term effects

    Pagina :459-466

    Giuseppe Licata, Pietro Di Pasquale, Gaspare Parrinello, Antonietta Cardinale, Angela Scandurra, Giuseppe Follone, Christiano Argano, Antonino Tuttolomondo, Salvatore Paterna

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• • ·Relation of fibrinogen to cardiovascular events is independent of preclinical cardiovascular disease: The strong heart study

    Pagina :467-474

    Vittorio Palmieri, Aldo Celentano, Mary J. Roman, Giovanni de Simone, Lyle Best, Michael R. Lewis, David C. Robbins, Richard R. Fabsitz, Barbara V. Howard, Richard B. Devereux

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• • ·Ergometric score systems after myocardial infarction: Prognostic performance of the Duke Treadmill Score, Veterans Administration Medical Center Score, and of a novel score system, GISSI-2 Index, in a cohort of survivors of acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :475-483

    Massimo Villella, Alessandro Villella, Luigi Santoro, Eugenio Santoro, Maria Grazia Franzosi, Aldo Pietro Maggioni, GISSI-2 Investigators*

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• • ·Temporal repolarization inhomogeneity and reperfusion arrhythmias in patients undergoing successful primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: Impact of admission troponin T

    Pagina :484-492

    Hendrik Bonnemeier, Uwe K.H. Wiegand, Evangelos Giannitsis, Simone Schulenburg, Franz Hartmann, Volkhard Kurowski, Frank Bode, Ralph Tölg, Hugo A. Katus, Gert Richardt

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• • ·History of depression, angina, and quality of life after acute coronary syndromes

    Pagina :493-499

    John S. Rumsfeld, David J. Magid, Mary E. Plomondon, Anne E. Sales, Gary K. Grunwald, Nathan R. Every, John A. Spertus

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• • ·Two-decade-long trends (1975-1997) in the incidence, hospitalization, and long-term death rates associated with complete heart block complicating acute myocardial infarction: A community-wide perspective

    Pagina :500-507

    Frederick A. Spencer, Samer Jabbour, Darleen Lessard, Jorge Yarzebski, Shmuel Ravid, Virginia Zaleskas, Michael Hyder, Joel M. Gore, Robert J. Goldberg

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• • ·A score predicts failure of reperfusion after fibrinolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :508-514

    John K. French, Krishnan Ramanathan, James T. Stewart, Wanzhen Gao, Pierre Théroux, Harvey D. White

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• • ·Sustained ventricular arrhythmias and mortality among patients with acute myocardial infarction: Results from the GUSTO-III trial

    Pagina :515-521

    Sana M. Al-Khatib, Amanda L. Stebbins, Robert M. Califf, Kerry L. Lee, Christopher B. Granger, Harvey D. White, Paul W. Armstrong, Eric J. Topol, E.Magnus Ohman

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• • ·Troponin I elevation and cardiac events after percutaneous coronary intervention

    Pagina :522-528

    Mark J. Ricciardi, Charles J. Davidson, George Gubernikoff, Nirat Beohar, Lorene J. Eckman, Michele A. Parker, Robert O. Bonow

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• • ·Impact of renal function on morbidity and mortality after percutaneous aortocoronary saphenous vein graft intervention

    Pagina :529-534

    Luis Gruberg, Neil J. Weissman, Augusto D. Pichard, Ron Waksman, Kenneth M. Kent, Lowell F. Satler, William O. Suddath, Ellen E. Pinnow, Natalie Gevorkian, Joseph Lindsay

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• • ·Efficacy and time-efficiency of a “sonographer-driven” contrast echocardiography protocol in a high-volume echocardiography laboratory

    Pagina :535-541

    Ramon Castello, Jonathan N. Bella, Aleksandr Rovner, Jimmy Swan, John Smith, Leslie Shaw

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• • ·Prognostic significance of coronary artery calcium in asymptomatic subjects with usual cardiovascular risk

    Pagina :542-548

    Dimitrios Alexopoulos, Theodoros Toulgaridis, Periklis Davlouros, John Christodoulou, George Sitafidis, Apostolos G. Vagenakis

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• • ·Cardiac dimension and function in patients with childhood onset growth hormone deficiency, before and after growth hormone retreatment in adult age

    Pagina :549-553

    Micha S. Feinberg, Mickey Scheinowitz, Zvi Laron

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• • ·Highlights from the American Heart Association Annual Scientific Sessions 2002: November 17 to 20, 2002

    Pagina :554-562

    Jean-Pierre Dery, Adrian F. Hernandez, Joseph D. Kay, John L. Petersen, Sunil V. Rao, Abdallah G. Rebeiz, Kanwar P. Singh, Mark P. Donahue

    
• • ·Acute and 3-month treatment effects of candesartan cilexetil on hemodynamics, neurohormones, and clinical symptoms in patients with congestive heart failure

    Pagina :E14

    V. Mitrovic, R. Willenbrock, M. Miric, P. Seferovic, J. Spinar, M. Dabrowski, W. Kiowski, D.S. Marks, E. Alegria, A. Dukát, K. Lenz, H.A. Arens, study investigators

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• • ·No effect of an L-arginine-enriched medical food (HeartBars) on endothelial function and platelet aggregation in subjects with hypercholesterolemia

    Pagina :E15

    Abdelhamed I. Abdelhamed, Steven E. Reis, David C. Sane, K.Bridget Brosnihan, Robert B. Preli, David M. Herrington

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• • ·Sarpogrelate treatment reduces restenosis after coronary stenting

    Pagina :E16

    Masatoshi Fujita, Kyoichi Mizuno, Mami Ho, Reiko Tsukahara, Akira Miyamoto, Osamu Miki, Katsuhisa Ishii, Kunihisa Miwa

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