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• • ·Cardiac surgery in octogenarians: have we gone too far or not far enough?

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    Jonathan E.E. Yager, Eric D. Peterson

    
• • ·Change of address box

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• • ·Training trials in heart failure: Time to exercise restraint?

    Pagina :190-192

    David J Whellan, Christopher M O'Connor, Ileana Pina

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• • ·Heart failure treatment and renal function

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    Peter G Lapman, Gary N Golduber, Thierry H Le Jemtel

     
• • ·Left atrial size: renewed interest in an old echocardiographic measurement

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    John S Gottdiener

    
• • ·Back issue box

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• • ·Restenosis: are the implications changing?

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    Jason H Cole, William S Weintraub

    
• • ·Table of contents by e-mail box

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• • ·Clinical trials in Japan and the United States

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    John H Alexander

    
• • ·Antibiotics for secondary prevention of coronary artery disease: an ACES hypothesis but we need to PROVE IT

    Pagina :202-209

    Eli V Gelfand, Christopher P Cannon

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• • ·Long-term care of the patient with the atrial defibrillator

    Pagina :210-217

    Andrew Robert John Mitchell, Philip Anthony Roworth Spurrell, Lana Elizabeth Boodhoo, Neil Sulke

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• • ·Interstudy reproducibility of right ventricular volumes, function, and mass with cardiovascular magnetic resonance

    Pagina :218-223

    Frank Grothues, James C Moon, Nicholas G Bellenger, Gillian S Smith, Helmut U Klein, Dudley J Pennell

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• • ·Prevalence of structural cardiac abnormalities in patients with myotonic dystrophy type I

    Pagina :224-227

    Deepak Bhakta, Miriam R Lowe, William J Groh

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• • ·Conflict of interest

    Pagina :228-237

    David R Holmes, Brian G Firth, Astrid James, Ron Winslow, Patricia K Hodgson, Gail L Gamble, Richard L Popp, Robert A Harrington

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• • ·Which β-blocker for heart failure?

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    Manesh R Patel, Wendy Gattis

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• • ·High fasting glucose levels as a predictor of worse clinical outcome in patients with coronary artery disease: results from the Bezafibrate Infarction Prevention (BIP) study

    Pagina :239-245

    Lidia Arcavi, Solomon Behar, Avraham Caspi, Naama Reshef, Valentina Boyko, Hilla Knobler

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• • ·Association of diabetes mellitus and glycemic control strategies with clinical outcomes after acute coronary syndromes

    Pagina :246-252

    Darren K McGuire, L.Kristin Newby, Manjushri V Bhapkar, David J Moliterno, Judith S Hochman, Werner W Klein, W.Douglas Weaver, Matthias Pfisterer, Ramón Corbalán, Mikael Dellborg, Christopher B Granger, Frans Van De Werf, Eric J Topol, Robert M Califf, SYMPHONY and 2nd SYMPHONY Investigators

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• • ·Effectiveness of primary percutaneous coronary intervention compared with that of thrombolytic therapy in elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :253-259

    Rajendra H Mehta, Immad Sadiq, Robert J Goldberg, Joel M Gore, Álvaro Avezum, Frederick Spencer, Eva Kline-Rogers, Jeanna Allegrone, Karen Pieper, Keith A.A Fox, Kim A Eagle, GRACE Investigators

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• • ·Activated factor 12 (FXIIa) predicts recurrent coronary events after an acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :260-266

    Heidi Grundt, Dennis Winston T Nilsen, Øyvind Hetland, Edward Valente, Hans Eirik Fagertun

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• • ·Activation of the inflammation, coagulation, and fibrinolysis systems, without influence of abciximab infusion in patients with non-ST–elevation acute coronary syndromes treated with dalteparin: a GUSTO IV substudy

    Pagina :267-274

    Stefan K James, Agneta Siegbahn, Paul Armstrong, Elliott Barnathan, Robert Califf, Maarten L Simoons, Lars Wallentin

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• • ·Red wine's antioxidants counteract acute endothelial dysfunction caused by cigarette smoking in healthy nonsmokers

    Pagina :274

    Christos Papamichael, Emmanouil Karatzis, Kalliopi Karatzi, Konstantinos Aznaouridis, Theodoros Papaioannou, Athanassios Protogerou, Kimon Stamatelopoulos, Antonis Zampelas, John Lekakis, Myron Mavrikakis

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• • ·Single lead ST-segment recovery: a simple, reliable measure of successful fibrinolysis after acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :275-280

    Mushabbar A Syed, Steven Borzak, Abed Asfour, Madhavi Gunda, Omar Obeidat, Sabina A Murphy, Raymond J Gibbons, Steven G Gourlay, Hal V Barron, W.Douglas Weaver, Michael Hudson

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• • ·Change of multiple complex coronary plaques in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a study with coronary angiography

    Pagina :281-286

    Sang-Gon Lee, Cheol Whan Lee, Myeong-Ki Hong, Jae-Joong Kim, Seong-Wook Park, Seung-Jung Park

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• • ·Is systolic blood pressure recovery after exercise a predictor of mortality?

    Pagina :287-292

    Keith Ellis, Claire E Pothier, Eugene H Blackstone, Michael S Lauer

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• • ·Lack of aspirin effect: aspirin resistance or resistance to taking aspirin?

    Pagina :293-300

    Gad Cotter, Eyal Shemesh, Miriam Zehavi, Irit Dinur, Abraham Rudnick, Olga Milo, Zvi Vered, Rikardo Krakover, Edo Kaluski, Abraham Kornberg

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• • ·The peripheral artery questionnaire: a new disease-specific health status measure for patients with peripheral arterial disease

    Pagina :301-308

    John Spertus, Philip Jones, Sherri Poler, Krishna Rocha-Singh

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• • ·Including patients with diabetes mellitus or coronary artery bypass grafting decreases the association between heart rate variability and mortality after myocardial infarction

    Pagina :309-316

    Phyllis K Stein, Peter P Domitrovich, Robert E Kleiger, CAST Investigators

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• • ·Restenosis detected by routine angiographic follow-up and late mortality after coronary stent placement

    Pagina :317-322

    Helmut Schühlen, Adnan Kastrati, Julinda Mehilli, Jörg Hausleiter, Jürgen Pache, Josef Dirschinger, Albert Schömig

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• • ·The ⍺₁-adrenergic blocker urapidil improves contractile function in patients 3 months after coronary stenting: a randomized, double-blinded study

    Pagina :323

    Michaela Kozàkovà, Jean Marco, Gerd Heusch, Monique Bernies, Irene M Bossi, Carlo Palombo, Gian Battista Anguissola, Francesco Donatelli, Jean Pierre Laurent, Luisa Gregorini

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• • ·Comparison between a sustained administration of carvedilol versus atenolol to reduce restenosis after coronary stenting

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    Kwang Soo Cha, Moo Hyun Kim, Jin Woo Kim, Doo Il Kim, Hje Jin Kim, Dong Soo Kim, Jong Seong Kim

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• • ·Low-dose carvedilol improves left ventricular function and reduces cardiovascular hospitalization in Japanese patients with chronic heart failure: the Multicenter Carvedilol Heart Failure Dose Assessment (MUCHA) trial

    Pagina :324-330

    Masatsugu Hori, Shigetake Sasayama, Akira Kitabatake, Teruhiko Toyo-oka, Shunnosuke Handa, Mitsuhiro Yokoyama, Masunori Matsuzaki, Akira Takeshita, Hideki Origasa, Kennichi Matsui, Saichi Hosoda, MUCHA Investigators

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• • ·Relationship between heart failure treatment and development of worsening renal function among hospitalized patients

    Pagina :331-338

    Javed Butler, Daniel E Forman, William T Abraham, Stephen S Gottlieb, Evan Loh, Barry M Massie, Christopher M O'Connor, Michael W Rich, Lynne Warner Stevenson, Yongfei Wang, James B Young, Harlan M Krumholz

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• • ·Effects of a home walking exercise program on functional status and symptoms in heart failure

    Pagina :339-346

    Teresita Corvera-Tindel, Lynn V Doering, Mary A Woo, Steven Khan, Kathleen Dracup

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• • ·Cardiac surgery for octogenarians: is it an informed decision?

    Pagina :347-353

    Mohamed Y Rady, Daniel J Johnson

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• • ·Peak VO₂ and VE/VCO₂ slope in patients with heart failure: a prognostic comparison

    Pagina :354-360

    Ross Arena, Jonathan Myers, Syed Salman Aslam, Elsa B Varughese, Mary Ann Peberdy

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• • ·Five-year clinical and echocardiographic evaluation of the Das AngelWings atrial septal occluder

    Pagina :361-368

    Joseph D Kay, Martin P O'Laughlin, Kristin Ito, Andrew Wang, Thomas M Bashore, J.Kevin Harrison

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• • ·How should left atrial size be reported? Comparative assessment with use of multiple echocardiographic methods

    Pagina :369-374

    Banthit Khankirawatana, Suwanee Khankirawatana, Thomas Porter

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• • ·Editorial board

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• • ·Information for authors

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• • ·Information for readers

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