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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• Editorials

  • ·The pathophysiology of acute heart failure—It is a lot about fluid accumulation

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    Marco Metra, Livio Dei Cas, Michael R. Bristow

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  • ·Establishing the effectiveness of coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction

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    William S. Weintraub, Deborah Ehrenthal

    

• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·The pathophysiology of acute heart failure—Is it all about fluid accumulation?

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    Gad Cotter, G. Michael Felker, Kirkwood F. Adams, Olga Milo-Cotter, Christopher M. O'Connor

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• Trial Design

  • ·Rationale and design of the Trial of Routine ANgioplasty and Stenting After Fibrinolysis to Enhance Reperfusion in Acute Myocardial Infarction (TRANSFER-AMI)

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    Warren J. Cantor, David Fitchett, Bjug Borgundvaag, Michael Heffernan, Eric A. Cohen, Laurie J. Morrison, Anatoly Langer, Shamir Mehta, Charles Lazzam, Brian Schwartz, Vladimir Dzavik, Shaun G. Goodman

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  • ·Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics for a large international trial of cardiovascular disease prevention in people with dysglycemia: The ORIGIN Trial (Outcome Reduction with an Initial Glargine Intervention)

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  • ·Monitoring the ACTIVE-W trial: Some issues in monitoring a noninferiority trial

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    John A. Cairns, Janet Wittes, D. George Wyse, Janet Pogue, Michael Gent, Jack Hirsh, John Marler, Edward L.C. Pritchett

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Comparing invasive and noninvasive management strategies for acute myocardial infarction using administrative databases

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    Louise Pilote, Christine A. Beck, Mark J. Eisenberg, Karin Humphries, Lawrence Joseph, John R. Penrod, Jack V. Tu

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  • ·Myeloid-related protein 8/14 and the risk of cardiovascular death or myocardial infarction after an acute coronary syndrome in the Pravastatin or Atorvastatin Evaluation and Infection Theraphy: Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (PROVE IT-TIMI 22) trial

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    David A. Morrow, Yunmei Wang, Kevin Croce, Masashi Sakuma, Marc S. Sabatine, Huiyun Gao, Aruna D. Pradhan, Aileen M. Healy, Jacki Buros, Carolyn H. McCabe, Peter Libby, Christopher P. Cannon, Eugene Braunwald, Daniel I. Simon

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  • ·Inflammatory responses after intracoronary injection of autologous mononuclear bone marrow cells in patients with acute myocardial infarction

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    Svein Solheim, Ingebjørg Seljeflot, Ketil Lunde, Pål Aukrust, Arne Yndestad, Haakon Kiil Grøgaard, Svend Aakhus, Kolbjørn Forfang, Harald Arnesen

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  • ·Biomarker analysis by fluorokine multianalyte profiling distinguishes patients requiring intervention from patients with long-term quiescent coronary artery disease: A potential approach to identify atherosclerotic disease progression

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    Paul A. Gurbel, Rolf P. Kreutz, Kevin P. Bliden, Joseph DiChiara, Udaya S. Tantry

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  • ·Kidney dysfunction and fatal cardiovascular disease—an association independent of atherosclerotic events: Results from the Health, Aging, and Body Composition (Health ABC) study

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    Rajat Deo, Christina L. Wassel Fyr, Linda F. Fried, Anne B. Newman, Tamara B. Harris, Sara Angleman, Christie Green, Stephen B. Kritchevsky, Glenn M. Chertow, Steven R. Cummings, Michael G. Shlipak, for the Health ABC study

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  • ·Recovery of normal ventricular function in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy: Predictors of an increasingly prevalent clinical event

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    Philip F. Binkley, Amanda Lesinski, Jeanette Pohorence Ferguson, Patricia S. Hatton, Laura Yamokoski, Sheetal Hardikar, Glen E. Cooke, Carl V. Leier

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  • ·Pentraxin 3, a new marker for vascular inflammation, predicts adverse clinical outcomes in patients with heart failure

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    Satoshi Suzuki, Yasuchika Takeishi, Takeshi Niizeki, Yo Koyama, Tatsuro Kitahara, Toshiki Sasaki, Mina Sagara, Isao Kubota

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  • ·Cystatin C and risk of heart failure in the Physicians' Health Study (PHS)

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    Luc Djoussé, Tobias Kurth, J. Michael Gaziano

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  • ·Amiodarone use after acute myocardial infarction complicated by heart failure and/or left ventricular dysfunction may be associated with excess mortality

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    Kevin L. Thomas, Sana M. Al-Khatib, Yuliya Lokhnygina, Scott D. Solomon, Lars Kober, John J.V. McMurray, Robert M. Califf, Eric J. Velazquez

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  • ·Effects of clopidogrel and aspirin in combination versus aspirin alone on platelet activation and major receptor expression in diabetic patients: The PLavix Use for Treatment Of Diabetes (PLUTO-Diabetes) Trial

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    Victor L. Serebruany, Alex I. Malinin, Alex Pokov, Gregory Barsness, Dan F. Hanley

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  • ·Right atrial pacing and the risk of postimplant atrial fibrillation in cardiac resynchronization therapy recipients

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    Evan Adelstein, Samir Saba

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  • ·A randomized comparison of amiodarone and class IC antiarrhythmic drugs to treat atrial fibrillation in patients paced for sinus node disease: The Prevention Investigation and Treatment: A Group for Observation and Research on Atrial arrhythmias (PITAGORA) trial

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    Michele Gulizia, Salvatore Mangiameli, Serafino Orazi, Giacomo Chiarandà, Guglielmo Piccione, Nicolò Di Giovanni, Andrea Colletti, Orazio Pensabene, Francesco Lisi, Ludovico Vasquez, Andrea Grammatico, Giuseppe Boriani, on behalf of PITAGORA Study Investigators

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  • ·Comparison of vascular response to zotarolimus-eluting stent versus sirolimus-eluting stent: Intravascular ultrasound results from ENDEAVOR III

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    Akiyoshi Miyazawa, Junya Ako, Yoichiro Hongo, Seung-Ho Hur, Ichizo Tsujino, Brian K. Courtney, Ali H.M. Hassan, David E. Kandzari, Yasuhiro Honda, Peter J. Fitzgerald, for the ENDEAVOR III Investigators

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  • ·A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the safety and efficacy of intravenous MCC-135 as an adjunct to primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute myocardial infarction: Evaluation of MCC-135 for left ventricular salvage in acute myocardial infarction (EVOLVE)

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    Ik-Kyung Jang, Neil J. Weissman, Michael H. Picard, Michael R. Zile, Veronica Pettigrew, Steven Shen, Jun Tatsuno, Mark G. Hibberd, Dan Tzivoni, Frans J. Th. Wackers, the EVOLVE Investigators

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  • ·Risk-adjusted sequential probability ratio test control chart methods for monitoring operator and institutional mortality rates in interventional cardiology

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    Michael E. Matheny, Lucila Ohno-Machado, Frederic S. Resnic

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  • ·Guideline adjudicated fibrinolytic failure: Incidence, findings, and management in a contemporary clinical trial

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    Christopher E. Buller, Robert C. Welsh, Cynthia M. Westerhout, John G. Webb, Blair O'Neill, Richard Gallo, Paul W. Armstrong

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  • ·Use of endothelial progenitor cell capture stent (Genous Bio-Engineered R Stent) during primary percutaneous coronary intervention in acute myocardial infarction: Intermediate- to long-term clinical follow-up

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    Melissa Co, Edgar Tay, Chi Hang Lee, Kian Keong Poh, Adrian Low, Jimmy Lim, Ing Han Lim, Yean Teng Lim, Huay Cheem Tan

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  • ·Effects of pretreatment with clopidogrel on nonemergent percutaneous coronary intervention after fibrinolytic administration for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: A Clopidogrel as Adjunctive Reperfusion Therapy–Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (CLARITY-TIMI) 28 study

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    C. Michael Gibson, Sabina A. Murphy, Yuri B. Pride, Ajay J. Kirtane, Julian M. Aroesty, Erica B. Stein, Lauren N. Ciaglo, Matthew C. Southard, Marc S. Sabatine, Christopher P. Cannon, Eugene Braunwald, for the TIMI Study Group

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  • ·Culprit-only or multivessel revascularization in patients with acute coronary syndromes : An American College of Cardiology National Cardiovascular Database Registry report

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    Sorin J. Brener, Sarah Milford-Beland, Matthew T. Roe, Deepak L. Bhatt, William S. Weintraub, Ralph G. Brindis

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  • ·Role of magnetic resonance imaging in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia: Insights from the North American arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD/C) study

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    Harikrishna Tandri, Robson Macedo, Hugh Calkins, Frank Marcus, David Cannom, Melvin Scheinman, James Daubert, Mark Estes, David Wilber, Mario Talajic, Henry Duff, Andrew Krahn, Michael Sweeney, Hasan Garan, David A. Bluemke, for the Multidisciplinary Study of Right Ventricular Dysplasia Investigators

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  • ·Predictive value of coronary calcifications for future cardiac events in asymptomatic individuals

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    Alexander Becker, Alexander Leber, Christoph Becker, Andreas Knez

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  • ·Failure of digital echocardiography to accurately diagnose intracardiac shunts

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    Hind W. Rahmouni, Martin G. Keane, Frank E. Silvestry, Martin G. St. John Sutton, Victor A. Ferrari, Craig H. Scott, Susan E. Wiegers

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  • ·Pulmonary vascular input impedance is a combined measure of pulmonary vascular resistance and stiffness and predicts clinical outcomes better than pulmonary vascular resistance alone in pediatric patients with pulmonary hypertension

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    Kendall S. Hunter, Po-Feng Lee, Craig J. Lanning, D. Dunbar Ivy, K. Scott Kirby, Lori R. Claussen, K. Chen Chan, Robin Shandas

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  • ·Interactions of wine drinking with omega-3 fatty acids in patients with coronary heart disease: A fish-like effect of moderate wine drinking

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    Michel de Lorgeril, Patricia Salen, Jean-Louis Martin, François Boucher, Joël de Leiris

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  • ·Effect of pulmonary artery angioplasty on exercise function after repair of tetralogy of Fallot

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    Nicole J. Sutton, Lynn Peng, James E. Lock, Peter Lang, Gerald R. Marx, Tracy J. Curran, Julie-Ann O'Neill, Sarah T. Picard, Jonathan Rhodes

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  • ·Increased central aortic stiffness and left ventricular mass in normotensive young subjects after successful coarctation repair

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    Phalla Ou, David S. Celermajer, Odile Jolivet, Fanny Buyens, Alain Herment, Daniel Sidi, Damien Bonnet, Elie Mousseaux

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• Letter to the Editor

  • ·Letter to the Editor

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    Alberto Morales Salinas, Greter Lopez Morales, Ramiro Ramos Ramirez