Sommario

• • ·Table of contents

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• • ·Editorial board

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• • ·Information for authors

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• • ·Information for readers

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• • ·Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors: a new therapy for atrial fibrillation?

    Pagina :751-752

    Sana M Al-Khatib

    
• • ·On the move

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• • ·Role of stress single-photon emission computed tomography imaging in asymptomatic patients with diabetes

    Pagina :753-755

    Sachin M Navare, Gary V Heller

    
• • ·Does stenting save lives? understanding the strengths and limitations of meta-analysis

    Pagina :756-758

    Adhir R Shroff, David J Cohen

    
• • ·Endomyocardial biopsy: a procedure in search of an indication

    Pagina :759-760

    Roger M Mills, Michael S Lauer

     
• • ·Aortic stenosis and hyperlipidemia: establishing a cause-effect relationship

    Pagina :761-763

    Catherine M Otto

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• • ·Clinical impact of stent construction and design in percutaneous coronary intervention

    Pagina :764-773

    Kean-Wah Lau, Koon-Hou Mak, Jui-Sung Hung, Ulrich Sigwart

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• • ·Coronary heart disease and lipid-modifying treatment in african american patients

    Pagina :774-782

    Keith C Ferdinand

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• • ·Cardiovascular effects of raloxifene: the arterial and venous systems

    Pagina :783-789

    Roger S Blumenthal, Bryan Baranowski, Sherie A Dowsett

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• • ·Amiodarone versus implantable cardioverter defibrillator for asymptomatic nonsustained ventricular tachycardia in nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :790-791

    Peter J Cawley, Sana M Al-Khatib

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• • ·Fractional flow reserve: critical review of an important physiologic adjunct to angiography

    Pagina :792-802

    Andrew H. Bishop, Habib Samady

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• • ·Impaired glucose tolerance and cardiovascular disease: the possible role of post-prandial hyperglycemia

    Pagina :803-807

    Antonio Ceriello

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• • ·Vascular smooth muscle cells and calcification in atherosclerosis

    Pagina :808-814

    Astrid Trion, Arnoud van der Laarse

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• • ·Impact of coronary artery stents on mortality and nonfatal myocardial infarction: meta-analysis of randomized trials comparing a strategy of routine stenting with that of balloon angioplasty

    Pagina :815-822

    Jassim Al Suwaidi, David R Holmes, Amar M Salam, Ryan Lennon, Peter B Berger

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• • ·Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors as adjunctive therapy in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation

    Pagina :823-827

    Azfar G Zaman, Mark T Kearney, Clyde Schecter, Stephen G Worthley, James Nolan

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• • ·A randomized trial comparing monophasic and biphasic waveform shocks for external cardioversion of atrial fibrillation

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    Rudolph W Koster, Paul Dorian, Fred W Chapman, Paul W Schmitt, Sharon G O'Grady, Robert G Walker

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• • ·Eight weeks of moderate-intensity exercise training increases heart rate variability in sedentary postmenopausal women

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    Radim Jurca, Timothy S Church, Gina M Morss, Alexander N Jordan, Conrad P Earnest

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• • ·Primary stenting of occluded native coronary arteries: Final results of the Primary Stenting of Occluded Native Coronary Arteries (PRISON) study

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    Braim M Rahel, Maarten J Suttorp, Gert J Laarman, Ferdinand Kiemeneij, Egbert T Bal, Benno J Rensing, Sjef M.P.G Ernst, Jurriën M ten Berg, Johannes C Kelder, H.W.Thijs Plokker

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• • ·Effect of rosiglitazone on restenosis after coronary stenting in patients with type 2 diabetes

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    Abdulfatah Osman, Javier Otero, Alberto Brizolara, Sergio Waxman, George Stouffer, Peter Fitzgerald, Barry F Uretsky

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• • ·Non-st–elevation acute coronary syndrome in the elderly: treatment strategies and 30-day outcome

    Pagina :830-836

    Stefano De Servi, Claudio Cavallini, Antonio Dellavalle, Giovanni Maria Santoro, Erminio Bonizzoni, Antonio Marzocchi, Alessandro Politi, Antonio Pesaresi, Matteo Mariani, Sergio Chierchia, ROSAI-2 Investigators

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• • ·Diminishing proportional risk of sudden death with advancing age: implications for prevention of sudden death

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    Andrew D Krahn, Stuart J Connolly, Robin S Roberts, Michael Gent, ATMA Investigators

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• • ·Obesity and the risk of death after acute myocardial infarction

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    Jamal S Rana, Kenneth J Mukamal, James P Morgan, James E Muller, Murray A Mittleman

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• • ·Association of the timing of ST-segment resolution with TIMI myocardial perfusion grade in acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :847-852

    C.Michael Gibson, Juhana Karha, Robert P Giugliano, Mathew T Roe, Sabina A Murphy, Robert A Harrington, Cindy L Green, Marc J Schweiger, Jerry S Miklin, Kenneth W Baran, Sebastian Palmeri, Eugene Braunwald, Mitchell W Krucoff, INTEGRITI Study Group

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• • ·ST-segment analyses and residual thrombi in the infarct-related artery: a report from the ASSENT PLUS ST-monitoring substudy

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    Per Johanson, Lars Wallentin, Tage Nilsson, Lott Bergstrand, Bertil Lindahl, Mikael Dellborg

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• • ·Acute coronary syndromes complicated by symptomatic and asymptomatic heart failure: does current treatment comply with guidelines?

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    Moti Haim, Alexander Battler, Solomon Behar, Paolo M Fioretti, Valentina Boyko, Maarten L Simoons, David Hasdai

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• • ·Bleeding events with abciximab in acute coronary syndromes without early revascularization: an analysis of GUSTO IV–ACS

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    Timo Lenderink, Eric Boersma, Witold Ruzyllo, Petr Widimsky, E.Magnus Ohman, Paul W Armstrong, Lars Wallentin, Maarten L Simoons, GUSTO IV-ACS Investigators

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• • ·Effect of a cardiac rehabilitation program on left ventricular diastolic function and its relationship to exercise capacity in patients with coronary heart disease: Experience from a randomized, controlled study

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    Cheuk-Man Yu, Leonard Sheung-Wai Li, Man-Fai Lam, David Chung-Wah Siu, Raymond Kin-Man Miu, Chu-Pak Lau

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• • ·Correction

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• • ·Vascular basis for the treatment of myocardial ischemia study: Trial design and baseline characteristics

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    Peter H Stone, Donald M Lloyd-Jones, Michael Johnstone, William Carlson, Joel Rubenstein, Mark Creager, Balz Frei, George Sopko, Maureen E Clark, Gail MacCallum, Scott Kinlay, John Orav, Andrew P Selwyn

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• • ·Long-term outcome of patients with vasovagal syncope

    Pagina :883-889

    Gonzalo Barón-Esquivias, Francisco Errázquin, Alonso Pedrote, Aurelio Cayuela, Silvia Gómez, Almudena Aguilera, Ana Campos, Mónica Fernández, Juan I Valle, Mercedes Redondo, José M Fernández, Ángel Martínez, José Burgos, Antoni Martínez-Rubio

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• • ·Yield of stress single-photon emission computed tomography in asymptomatic patients with diabetes

    Pagina :890-896

    Todd D Miller, Navin Rajagopalan, David O Hodge, Robert L Frye, Raymond J Gibbons

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• • ·Prevalence of resistance against activated protein C resulting from factor V leiden is significantly increased in myocardial infarction: Investigation of 507 patients with myocardial infarction

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    Katharina Middendorf, Peter Göhring, Tanya Y Huehns, Dietrich Seidel, Gerhard Steinbeck, Sigrid Nikol

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• • ·Replication of the association between the thrombospondin-4 A387P polymorphism and myocardial infarction

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    Jennifer Wessel, Eric J Topol, Ming Ji, Joanne Meyer, Jeanette J McCarthy

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• • ·Recovery kinetics of oxygen uptake is prolonged in adults with an atrial septal defect and improves after transcatheter closure

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    Alessandro Giardini, Andrea Donti, Salvatore Specchia, Gloria Coutsoumbas, Roberto Formigari, Daniela Prandstraller, Gabriele Bronzetti, Marco Bonvicini, Fernando M Picchio

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• • ·Lipid profile of patients with aortic stenosis might be predictive of rate of progression

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    Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz, Umit Guray, Yesim Guray, Gokhan Cihan, Vedat Caldir, Serkan Cay, Halil L Kisacik, Sule Korkmaz

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• • ·Endomyocardial biopsy plays a role in diagnosing patients with unexplained cardiomyopathy

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    Hossein Ardehali, Atif Qasim, Thomas Cappola, David Howard, Ralph Hruban, Joshua M Hare, Kenneth L Baughman, Edward K Kasper

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• • ·Are hematinic deficiencies the cause of anemia in chronic heart failure?

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    Klaus K.A Witte, Ramesh Desilva, Sudipta Chattopadhyay, Justin Ghosh, John G.F Cleland, Andrew L Clark

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• • ·Independent prognostic value of elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in chronic heart failure

    Pagina :931-938

    Wei-Hsian Yin, Jaw-Wen Chen, Hsu-Lung Jen, Meng-Cheng Chiang, Wen-Pin Huang, An-Ning Feng, Mason Shing Young, Shing-Jong Lin

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