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• • ·Influence of age on outcome after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

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    Claudia F Gravina Taddei, William S Weintraub, John S Douglas, Ziyad Ghazzal, Elizabeth Mahoney, Trevor Thompson, Spencer King

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• • ·White blood cell count and mortality in patients with ischemic and nonischemic left ventricular systolic dysfunction (an analysis of the studies of left ventricular dysfunction [SOLVD])

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    Howard A Cooper, Derek V Exner, Myron A Waclawiw, Michael J Domanski

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• • ·Value of exercise electrocardiography in the detection of restenosis after coronary angioplasty in patients with one-vessel disease

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    Mehrdad Malekianpour, Josep Rodés, Gilles Côté, Martin Juneau, Raoul Bonan, Jacques Lespérance, André Couturier, Jean-Claude Tardif

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• • ·Enoximone coupled to very low dose dobutamine echocardiography detects myocardial viability in akinetic and dyskinetic post-myocardial infarcted areas

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    Enrico Mangieri, Nicola Alessandri, Gaetano Tanzilli, Francesco Barillà, Paolo Emilio Puddu, Francesco Monti, Gaetano Canale, Pietro Paolo Campa

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• • ·Maintenance of sinus rhythm with oral d,l-sotalol therapy in patients with symptomatic atrial fibrillation and/or atrial flutter

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    David G Benditt, John H Williams, Judy Jin, Thomas F Deering, Robert Zucker, Kevin Browne, Peter Chang-Sing, Bramah N Singh, for the dl-Sotalol Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter Study Group

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• • ·Effects of radiofrequency catheter ablation on quality of life in patients with atrial flutter

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    Shih-Huang Lee, Ching-Tai Tai, Wen-Chung Yu, Yi-Jen Chen, Ming-Hsiung Hsieh, Chin-Feng Tsai, Mau-Song Chang, Shih-Ann Chen

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• • ·Reproducibility of head-up tilt testing potentiated with sublingual nitroglycerin in patients with unexplained syncope

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    Giovanni Foglia-Manzillo, Franco Giada, Sandro Beretta, Giovanni Corrado, Mauro Santarone, Antonio Raviele

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• • ·Effects of candesartan cilexetil in patients with severe systemic hypertension

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    Suzanne Oparil, Jon H. Levine, Christen A. Zuschke, Alan H. Gradman, Elizabeth Ripley, Daniel W. Jones, J.Denise Hardison, Daniel J. Cushing, Rajesh Prasad, Eric L. Michelson, Candesartan Cilexetil Study Investigators∗A list of investigators appears in the . ∗ Appendix

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• • ·Prevalence and prognostic significance of unrecognized systemic hypertension in patients with diabetes mellitus and healed myocardial infarction and/or stable angina pectoris

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    Alexander Tenenbaum, Enrique Z Fisman, Valentina Boyko, Uri Goldbourt, Ilan Auerbach, Joseph Shemesh, Avraham Shotan, Henrietta Reicher-Reiss, Solomon Behar, Michael Motro

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• • ·Comparison of echocardiography and radionuclide angiography as predictors of mortality in patients with left ventricular dysfunction (studies of left ventricular dysfunction)

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    Haroon Rashid, Derek V Exner, Israel Mirsky, Howard A Cooper, Myron A Waclawiw, Michael J Domanski

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• • ·Detailed examination of fenfluramine-phentermine users with valve abnormalities identified in Fargo, North Dakota

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    Stephen E Kimmel, Martin G Keane, Jack L Crary, Jane Jones, Judith L Kinman, Jeanne Beare, Mary Sammel, Martin St. John Sutton, Brian L Strom

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• • ·Exercise capacity in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy depends on left ventricular diastolic function

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    Carlo Briguori, Sandro Betocchi, Massimo Romano, Fiore Manganelli, Maria Angela Losi, Quirino Ciampi, Rossella Gottilla, Raffaella Lombardi, Mario Condorelli, Massimo Chiariello

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• • ·Effect of systemic alpha_-2 adrenergic blockade on the morning increase in platelet aggregation in normal subjects

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    Neil P Andrews, David S Goldstein, Arshed A Quyyumi

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• • ·Discussion

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• • ·Discussion

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• • ·Utility of electron beam computed tomography to stratify patients presenting to the emergency room with chest pain

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    Vallerie V McLaughlin, Tamas Balogh, Stuart Rich

    
• • ·Early predictors of mitral regurgitation after acute myocardial infarction

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    Aleksandar N Nešković, Jelena Marinković, Milovan Bojić, Aleksandar D Popović

     
• • ·Relation between negative U waves in precordial leads on the admission electrocardiogram and time course of left ventricular wall motion in anterior wall acute myocardial infarction

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    Akira Tamura, Kimiaki Nagase, Yoshiaki Mikuriya, Masaru Nasu

     
• • ·Coronary stent grafts covered by a polytetrafluoroethylene membrane

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    Mathias Elsner, Wolfgang Auch-Schwelk, Martina Britten, Dirk H Walter, Volker Schächinger, Andreas M Zeiher

     
• • ·Updating a 12-year experience with arrest and reversal therapy for coronary heart disease (an overdue requiem for palliative cardiology)

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    Caldwell B Esselstyn

    
• • ·Effect of acute myocardial infarction on the angle between the mitral and aortic valve plane

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    Kurt E Harmon, Florence H Sheehan, Hiroaki Hosokawa

     
• • ·Comparison of propafenone versus procainamide for the acute treatment of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery

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    Peter Geelen, Gilles E O’Hara, Nathalie Roy, Mario Talajic, Denis Roy, Sylvain Plante, Jacques Turgeon

     
• • ·Prevalence of depression in congestive heart failure

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    Edward P Havranek, Molly G Ware, Brian D Lowes

     
• • ·Effect of selective versus nonselective beta blockade on QT dispersion in patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

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    Susan I Fesmire, Lucille G Marcoux, Debra S Lyyski, Michael K Sprague, Harold L Kennedy, Eric J Eichhorn

    
• • ·Relation between interstitial myocardial collagen and the degree of clinical impairment in Chagas’ disease

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    Charles Mady, Barbara Maria Ianni, Edmundo Arteaga, Gregorio Santiago Montes, Elia G Caldini, Gisele Andrade, Maria Clementina P Giorgi, Paulo Hilario N Saldiva

    
• • ·Thrombus formation after transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect

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    Karl La Rosée, Hans J Deutsch, Petra Schnabel, Christian A Schneider, Caspar Burkhard-Meier, Hans W Höpp

     
• • ·Deletion 22q11 in patients with interrupted aortic arch

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    Bruno Marino, Maria Cristina Digilio, Monica Persiani, Roberto Di Donato, Alessandra Toscano, Aldo Giannotti, Bruno Dallapiccola

    
• • ·Fate of moderate and large secundum type atrial septal defect associated with isolated coarctation in infants

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    Scott B Yeager, John F Keane

     
• • ·QT interval and QT dispersion in endurance athletes and in power athletes using large doses of anabolic steroids

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    Anu Stolt, Tuomo Karila, Matti Viitasalo, Matti Mäntysaari, Urho M Kujala, Jouko Karjalainen

    
• • ·Effect of prolonged administration of transdermal estradiol on flow-mediated endothelium-dependent and endothelium-independent vasodilation in healthy postmenopausal women

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    Angelo Cagnacci, Maria Grazia Modena, Stefania Malmusi, Nicola Muia, Annibale Volpe

     
• • ·Hemodynamic and electrophysiologic effects of acute chocolate ingestion in young adults

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    Alyse M Baron, Richard L Donnerstein, Ricardo A Samson, Jonathan A Baron, Jodi N Padnick, Stanley J Goldberg

    
• • ·Correspondence

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