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• • ·Effects of the repeated administration of adenosine and heparin on myocardial perfusion in patients with chronic stable angina pectoris

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    Hal V Barron, Maria G Sciammarella, Kathy Lenihan, Andrew D Michaels, Elias H Botvinick

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• • ·G-33a mutation in the promoter region of thrombomodulin gene and its association with coronary artery disease and plasma soluble thrombomodulin levels

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    Yi-Heng Li, Jyh-Hong Chen, Hua-Lin Wu, Guey-Yueh Shi, Huey-Chun Huang, Ting-Hsing Chao, Wei-Chuan Tsai, Liang-Miin Tsai, How-Ran Guo, Wen-Shiann Wu, Zhih-Cherng Chen

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• • ·Benefit of coronary reperfusion before intervention on outcomes after primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction

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    Bruce R Brodie, Thomas D Stuckey, Charles Hansen, Denise Muncy

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• • ·Serial changes and prognostic implications of a Doppler-derived index of combined left ventricular systolic and diastolic myocardial performance in acute myocardial infarction

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    Steen H Poulsen, Svend E Jensen, Jens C Nielsen, Jacob E Møller, Kenneth Egstrup

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• • ·Myocardial ischemia due to coronary artery spasm during dobutamine stress echocardiography

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    Hiroaki Kawano, Hiromi Fujii, Takeshi Motoyama, Kiyotaka Kugiyama, Hisao Ogawa, Hirofumi Yasue

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• • ·Viability of Q-wave infarcted myocardium with restored positive and persistent negative T waves after optimal revascularization compared with dobutamine stress echocardiography

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    Shintaro Watanabe, Yutaka Kawamura, Yasushi Watanabe, Kimio Tanaka, Kazushi Tanaka, Yasuhiko Takei, Nariaki Ejiri, Kazuyuki Shimada

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• • ·Pathologic validation of a new method to quantify coronary calcific deposits in vivo using intravascular ultrasound

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    Douglas S Scott, Umesh K Arora, Andrew Farb, Renu Virmani, Neil J Weissman

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• • ·Prognostic value of negative transesophageal dobutamine stress echocardiography in men at high risk for coronary artery disease

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    Masoor Kamalesh, Stephen Sawada, Aaron Humphreys, Mouaz Tawam, Rene Blessent, Lewis Winter

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• • ·High carbohydrate diets, triglyceride-rich lipoproteins, and coronary heart disease risk

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    Fahim Abbasi, Tracey McLaughlin, Cindy Lamendola, Hee Sun Kim, Akira Tanaka, Tao Wang, Katsuyuki Nakajima, Gerald M Reaven

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• • ·Correlation of homocysteine levels with the extent of coronary atherosclerosis in patients with low cardiovascular risk profiles

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    Wei-Chuan Tsai, Yi-Heng Li, Liang-Miin Tsai, Ting-Hsing Chao, Li-Jen Lin, Tsai-Yun Chen, Jyh-Hong Chen

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• • ·Effect of combined fluvastatin-fenofibrate therapy compared with fenofibrate monotherapy in severe primary hypercholesterolemia

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    Michel Farnier, Sylvie Dejager, French Fluvastatin Study Group

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• • ·Role of cine-fluoroscopy, transthoracic, and transesophageal echocardiography in patients with suspected prosthetic heart valve thrombosis

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    Piero Montorsi, Francesca De Bernardi, Manuela Muratori, Dario Cavoretto, Mauro Pepi

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• • ·Defining left ventricular segmental and global function by echocardiographic intraventricular contrast flow patterns

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    Srihari Thanigaraj, Reema Chugh, Kenneth B Schechtman, L.Veronica Lee, Robert L Wade, Julio E Pérez

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• • ·Effect of phenylephrine with and without atropine on QT dispersion in healthy normotensive men

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    Kok-Meng Yee, Pitt O Lim, Simon A Ogston, Allan D Struthers

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• • ·Cardiologist in the dugout

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    John D Cantwell

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• • ·Predictive value of C-reactive protein in patients with unstable angina pectoris undergoing coronary artery stent implantation

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    Francesco Versaci, Achille Gaspardone, Fabrizio Tomai, Filippo Crea, Luigi Chiariello, Pier A Gioffrè

     
• • ·Ten-year clinical and angiographic follow-up of coronary Wallstent

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    Didier Carrié, Meyer Elbaz, Marc Andrieu, Philippe Cantié, Jöelle Fourcade, Jacques Puel

     
• • ·Difference in fibrinolytic activity between multivessel coronary spasm and one-vessel coronary spasm

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    Hisao Ogawa, Hisakazu Suefuji, Keiji Takazoe, Hirofumi Soejima, Tomohiro Sakamoto, Shinzo Miyamoto, Koichi Kaikita, Michihiro Yoshimura, Kiyotaka Kugiyama, Hirofumi Yasue

     
• • ·ST-segment elevation in leads I and aVL predicts short-term prognosis in acute anterior wall myocardial infarction

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    Hiroshi Udagawa, Hideaki Yoshino, Eisei Kachi, Masato Taniuchi, Masayuki Yotsukura, Kyozo Ishikawa

     
• • ·Association of diabetes mellitus using old and new diagnostic criteria with incidence of new coronary events in older men and women

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    Wilbert S Aronow, Chul Ahn

    
• • ·Obesity does not influence electrocardiographic parameters in coronary patients

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    Atsunobu Nomura, Wojciech Zareba, Arthur J Moss

    
• • ·Comparison of results of an 8-mm split-tip versus a 4-mm tip ablation catheter to perform radiofrequency ablation of type I atrial flutter

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    Luz-Maria Rodriguez, Ashish Nabar, Carl Timmermans, Hein J.J Wellens

     
• • ·Predictors of conversion to sinus rhythm using ibutilide for atrial fibrillation or flutter

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    Munir Zaqqa, Hamid Afshar, Abdi Rasekh, Reza Khoshnevis, William K Vaughn, Ali Massumi

     
• • ·Effect of rhythm regularization on left ventricular contractility in patients with atrial fibrillation

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    Mohamed Effat, Edgar C Schick, David T Martin, William H Gaasch

     
• • ·Effect of ethanol on defibrillation energy requirements in humans

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    S.Adam Strickberger, Barry E Bleske, Theresa Davidson, Emmanuel N Papasafakis, Frank Pelosi, Gregory F Michaud, Bradley P Knight, Fred Morady

     
• • ·Outcome of men with ischemic cardiomyopathy, asymptomatic nonsustained ventricular tachycardia, and negative electrophysiologic studies

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    Michael H Kim, David Bruckman, Marvin M Kirsh, William H Kou

    
• • ·Transesophageal echocardiographic findings in subcortical and cortical stroke

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    Rita A Falcone, Edward P Shapiro, Julie C Jangula, Constance J Johnson

    
• • ·Outcome of infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome who undergo atrial septostomy before heart transplantation

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    Micheal A Kuhn, Ranae L Larsen, Neda F Mulla, Joyce K Johnston, Richard E Chinnock, Leonard L Bailey

     
• • ·Late onset of pulmonary hypertension after successful mustard surgery for d-transposition of the great arteries

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    Eric S Ebenroth, Roger A Hurwitz, Timothy M Cordes

     
• • ·Request for assistance

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• • ·Oral d,l-sotalol in atrial fibrillation and/or flutter

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    Francisco G Cosı́o

    
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    David G. Benditt, John H. Williams

    
• • ·Insulin-mediated glucose uptake in congestive heart failure

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    Wolfram Doehner, Stefan D Anker