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

  • ·Radial access for cardiac catheterization is not radical

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    Ian C. Gilchrist, John K. French

    
  • ·Phase I cardiovascular cell therapy clinical trials: Are we running with scissors?

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    Timothy D. Henry, Daniel Satran, Robert F. Wilson

    

• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·Left ventricular function and heart failure in myocardial infarction: Impact of the new definition in the community

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    Adelaide M. Arruda-Olson, Patricia A. Pellikka, Francesca Bursi, Allan S. Jaffe, Paula J. Santrach, Jan A. Kors, Jill M. Killian, Susan A. Weston, Véronique L. Roger

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• Results of Expert Meetings

  • ·Improving the quality of care for women with cardiovascular disease : Report of a DCRI Think Tank, March 8 to 9, 2007

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    Jeffrey S. Berger, C. Noel Bairey-Merz, Rita F. Redberg, Pamela S. Douglas

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• Trial Design

  • ·Rationale and design of IMPROVE-IT (IMProved Reduction of Outcomes: Vytorin Efficacy International Trial): Comparison of ezetimbe/simvastatin versus simvastatin monotherapy on cardiovascular outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndromes

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    Christopher P. Cannon, Robert P. Giugliano, Michael A. Blazing, Robert A. Harrington, John L. Peterson, Christine McCrary Sisk, John Strony, Thomas A. Musliner, Carolyn H. McCabe, Enrico Veltri, Eugene Braunwald, Robert M. Califf, for the IMPROVE-IT Investigators e

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  • ·Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics of a Program to Assess and Review Trending INformation and Evaluate CorRelation to Symptoms in Patients with Heart Failure (PARTNERS HF)

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    David J. Whellan, Christopher M. O'Connor, Kevin T. Ousdigian, Te-Hsin Lung, on behalf of the PARTNERS HF Study Investigators d

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  • ·Trial design of the clinical evaluation of remote notification to reduce time to clinical decision: The Clinical evaluation Of remote NotificatioN to rEduCe Time to clinical decision (CONNECT) study

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    George Crossley, Andrew Boyle, Holly Vitense, Lou Sherfesee, R. Hardwin Mead

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Electrical storm in patients with biventricular implantable cardioverter defibrillator: Incidence, predictors, and prognostic implications

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    Maurizio Gasparini, Maurizio Lunati, Maurizio Landolina, Massimo Santini, Luigi Padeletti, Gianni Perego, Antonio Vincenti, Antonio Curnis, Angelo Carboni, Alessandra Denaro, Alessia Spotti, Andrea Grammatico, François Regoli, Giuseppe Boriani, on behalf of the InSync ICD Italian Registry Investigators

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  • ·Prevalence, clinical profile, and cardiovascular outcomes of atrial fibrillation patients with atherothrombosis

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    Shinya Goto, Deepak L. Bhatt, Joachim Röther, Mark Alberts, Michael D. Hill, Yasuo Ikeda, Shinichiro Uchiyama, Ralph D'Agostino, E. Magnus Ohman, Chiau-Suong Liau, Alan T. Hirsch, Jean-Louis Mas, Peter W.F. Wilson, Ramón Corbalán, Franz Aichner, P. Gabriel Steg, on behalf of the REACH Registry Investigators q

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  • ·Decreased complication rates using the transradial compared to the transfemoral approach in percutaneous coronary intervention in the era of routine stenting and glycoprotein platelet IIb/IIIa inhibitor use: A large single-center experience

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    Jonas Eichhöfer, Eric Horlick, Joan Ivanov, Peter H. Seidelin, John R. Ross, Douglas Ing, Paul Daly, Karen Mackie, Brenda Ridley, Leonard Schwartz, Alan Barolet, Vladimír Džavík

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  • ·Percutaneous coronary implantation of sirolimus-eluting stents in unselected patients and lesions: Clinical results and multiple outcome predictors

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    Giuseppe Sangiorgi, Enrico Romagnoli, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Massimo Margheri, Corrado Tamburino, Rossella Barbagallo, Elena Falchetti, Guido Vittori, Pierfrancesco Agostoni, John Cosgrave, Antonio Colombo, on behalf of the RECIPE (Real-world Eluting-stent Comparative Italian retrosPective Evaluation) Study Investigators

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  • ·Considerations of net present value in policy making regarding diagnostic and therapeutic technologies

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    Robert M. Califf, Emma B. Rasiel, Kevin A. Schulman

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  • ·Clopidogrel use and bleeding after coronary artery bypass graft surgery

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    John Hyung-Jun Kim, L. Kristin Newby, Robert M. Clare, Linda K. Shaw, Andrew J. Lodge, Peter K. Smith, E. Marc Jolicoeur, Sunil V. Rao, Richard C. Becker, Daniel B. Mark, Christopher B. Granger

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  • ·The relationship between renal function and outcome from heart valve surgery

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    Patrick H. Gibson, Bernard L. Croal, Brian H. Cuthbertson, Mildred Chiwara, Anne E. Scott, Keith G. Buchan, Hussein El-Shafei, George Gibson, Robert R. Jeffrey, Graham S. Hillis

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  • ·Incentive spirometry with expiratory positive airway pressure reduces pulmonary complications, improves pulmonary function and 6-minute walk distance in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery

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    Mauren Porto Haeffener, Glória Menz Ferreira, Sérgio Saldanha Menna Barreto, Ross Arena, Pedro Dall'Ago

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  • ·The role of valve surgery in infective endocarditis management: A systematic review of observational studies that included propensity score analysis

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    Imad M. Tleyjeh, Tarek Kashour, Valerie Zimmerman, James M. Steckelberg, Walter R. Wilson, Larry M. Baddour

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  • ·Twenty-two years of follow-up results of balloon angioplasty for discreet native coarctation of the aorta in adolescents and adults

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    Mohamed Eid Fawzy, Ahmed Fathala, Adil Osman, Amr Badr, Mohammed Adel Mostafa, Gamal Mohamed, Bruce Dunn

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  • ·Transcatheter closure of the patent ductus arteriosus using the new Amplatzer duct occluder : Initial clinical applications in children

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    Basil Thanopoulos, Nikolaos Eleftherakis, Konstantinos Tzannos, Christodoulos Stefanadis

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  • ·Cardiovascular sequelae of preeclampsia/eclampsia: A systematic review and meta-analyses

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    Sarah D. McDonald, Ann Malinowski, Qi Zhou, Salim Yusuf, Philip J. Devereaux

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  • ·Decreased activated protein C levels as a clinical predictor in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction

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    Nobutaka Chiba, Ken Nagao, Takeo Mukoyama, Yoshiteru Tominaga, Katsuhisa Tanjoh

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  • ·Myoglobin and troponin I elevation predict 5-year mortality in patients with undifferentiated chest pain in the emergency department

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    Zehra Jaffery, Richard Nowak, Nabil Khoury, Glen Tokarski, David E. Lanfear, Gordon Jacobsen, James McCord

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  • ·Patterns of use and effectiveness of early invasive strategy in non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: An assessment by propensity score

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    Ignacio Ferreira-González, Gaietà Permanyer-Miralda, Magda Heras, José Cu?at, Emilia Civeira, Fernando Arós, Juan J. Rodríguez, Pedro L. Sánchez, Josep R. Marsal, Aida Ribera, Jaume Marrugat, Héctor Bueno, for the MASCARA study group j

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  • ·Safety and efficacy of consecutive cycles of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor, and an intracoronary CD133⁺ cell infusion in patients with chronic refractory ischemic heart disease: The G-CSF in Angina patients with IHD to stimulate Neovascularization (GAIN I) trial

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    Jason C. Kovacic, Peter Macdonald, Michael P. Feneley, David W.M. Muller, Judith Freund, Anthony Dodds, Sam Milliken, Helen Tao, Silviu Itescu, John Moore, David Ma, Robert M. Graham

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  • ·How to improve noninvasive coronary artery disease diagnostics in premenopausal women? : The influence of menstrual cycle on ST depression, left ventricle contractility, and chest pain observed during exercise echocardiography in women with angina and normal coronary angiogram

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    Adam Grzybowski, Wies?aw Puchalski, Bozena Zieba, Marcin Gruchala, Marcin Fijalkowski, Katarzyna Storoniak, Wojciech Sobiczewski, Dariusz Ciecwierz, Radoslaw Targonski, Andrzej Rynkiewicz

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  • ·Plasma fatty acid composition and incident heart failure in middle-aged adults: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

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    Kazumasa Yamagishi, Jennifer A. Nettleton, Aaron R. Folsom, for the ARIC Study Investigators

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  • ·Central obesity: Association with left ventricular dysfunction and mortality in the community

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    Khawaja Afzal Ammar, Margaret M. Redfield, Douglas W. Mahoney, Matthew Johnson, Steven J. Jacobsen, Richard J. Rodeheffer

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  • ·The partial pressure of resting end-tidal carbon dioxide predicts major cardiac events in patients with systolic heart failure

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    Ross Arena, Jonathan Myers, Joshua Abella, Sherry Pinkstaff, Peter Brubaker, Brian Moore, Dalane Kitzman, Mary Ann Peberdy, Daniel Bensimhon, Paul Chase, Marco Guazzi

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  • ·Difference in prevalence and pattern of mechanical dyssynchrony in left bundle branch block occurring in right ventricular apical pacing versus systolic heart failure

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    Qing Zhang, Fang Fang, Gabriel Wai-Kwok Yip, Joseph Yat-Sun Chan, Qing Shang, Jeffrey Wing-Hong Fung, Anna Kin-Yin Chan, Yu-Jia Liang, Cheuk-Man Yu

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  • ·Fasting and postchallenge hyperglycemia and risk of cardiovascular disease in Chinese: The Chin-Shan Community Cardiovascular Cohort study

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    Kuo-Liong Chien, Hsiu-Ching Hsu, Ta-Chen Su, Ming-Fong Chen, Yuan-Teh Lee, Frank B. Hu

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  • ·Platelet reactivity and response to aspirin in subjects with the metabolic syndrome

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    Muthiah Vaduganathan, Carlos L. Alviar, Mehmet E. Arikan, Armando Tellez, Sadishar Guthikonda, Timothy DeLao, Juan F. Granada, Neal S. Kleiman, Christie M. Ballantyne, Eli I. Lev

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  • ·Clinical correlates, heritability, and genetic linkage of circulating CD40 ligand in the Framingham Offspring Study

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    John F. Keaney, Izabella Lipinska, Martin G. Larson, Josée Dupuis, Jane E. Freedman, Naomi M. Hamburg, Joseph M. Massaro, Jian Rong, Patrice Sutherland, Joseph A. Vita, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Emelia J. Benjamin

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  • ·Long-term clinical outcome after intramuscular implantation of bone marrow mononuclear cells (Therapeutic Angiogenesis by Cell Transplantation [TACT] trial) in patients with chronic limb ischemia

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    Satoaki Matoba, Tetsuya Tatsumi, Toyoaki Murohara, Tsutomu Imaizumi, Yousuke Katsuda, Masaaki Ito, Yoshihiko Saito, Shiro Uemura, Hiroshi Suzuki, Shinya Fukumoto, Yasutaka Yamamoto, Rie Onodera, Satoshi Teramukai, Masanori Fukushima, Hiroaki Matsubara, TACT Follow-up Study Investigators k

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