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• • ·Follow-up study of patients randomized in the scandinavian simvastatin survival study (4S) of cholesterol lowering

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    Terje R. Pedersen, Lars Wilhelmsen, Ole Færgeman, Timo E. Strandberg, Gudmundur Thorgeirsson, Linda Troedsson, Johan Kristianson, Kåre Berg, Thomas J. Cook, Torben Haghfelt, John Kjekshus, Tatu Miettinen, Anders G. Olsson, Kalevi Pyörälä, Hans Wedel, on behalf of the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study Group∗Members of the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Group have been listed in a previous publication. ∗ 1

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• • ·Fibrin specificity and procoagulant effect related to the kallikrein-contact phase system and to plasmin generation with double-bolus reteplase and front-loaded alteplase thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction

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    Hans Martin Hoffmeister, Christof Kastner, Sebastian Szabo, Martin E Beyer, Uwe Helber, Silke Kazmaier, Andreas Baumbach, Hans Peter Wendel, Wolfgang Heller

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• • ·Synergy between intracoronary stenting and abciximab in improving angiographic and clinical outcomes of primary angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction

    Page :269-274

    Satyendra Giri, Joseph F Mitchel, Jeffrey A Hirst, Raymond G McKay, Rabih R Azar, Roger Mennett, David D Waters, Francis J Kiernan

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• • ·Long-term effects of diltiazem and verapamil on mortality and cardiac events in non–Q-wave acute myocardial infarction without pulmonary congestion: post hoc subset analysis of the multicenter diltiazem postinfarction trial and the second danish verapamil infarction trial studies

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    Robert S Gibson, Jørgen Fischer Hansen, Franz Messerli, Kenneth B Schechtman, William E Boden

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• • ·Ankle/brachial blood pressure in men >70 years of age and the risk of coronary heart disease

    Page :280-284

    Robert D Abbott, Helen Petrovitch, Beatriz L Rodriguez, Katsuhiko Yano, Irwin J Schatz, Jordan S Popper, Kamal H Masaki, G.Webster Ross, J.David Curb

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• • ·Relation of serum triglyceride levels to survival after coronary artery bypass grafting

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    Dennis L Sprecher, Gregory L Pearce, Delos M Cosgrove, Bruce W Lytle, Floyd D Loop, Fredric J Pashkow

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• • ·Identification of patients at risk by graded exercise testing in an emergency department chest pain center

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    Deborah B Diercks, W.Brian Gibler, Tiepu Liu, Michael R Sayre, Alan B Storrow

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• • ·Comparison of simultaneous dobutamine echocardiography and thallium-201 stress-reinjection single-photon emission computed tomography in predicting improvement of chronic myocardial dysfunction after revascularization

    Page :293-298

    Lung-Chun Lin, Yi-Lwun Ho, Chau-Chung Wu, Ming-Fong Chen, Chiau-Suong Liau, Cheng-Tau Su, Por-Jau Huang

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• • ·Population frequency distribution of non–high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (third national health and nutrition examination survey [NHANES iii], 1988–1994)

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    Christopher D Gardner, Marilyn A Winkleby, Stephen P Fortmann

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• • ·Evaluation of coronary flow reserve in hypertensive patients by dipyridamole transesophageal Doppler echocardiography

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    Mohamed S Hamouda, Hanan K Kassem, Mai Salama, Magdy El Masry, Naseem Shaaban, Ekram Sadek, Bijoy K Khandheria, James B Seward, Abdou Elhendy

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• • ·Association of hyperglycemia with reduced heart rate variability (The Framingham Heart Study)

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    Jagmeet P Singh, Martin G Larson, Christopher J O’Donnell, Peter F Wilson, Hisako Tsuji, Donald M Lloyd-Jones, Daniel Levy

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• • ·Evaluation of calibration methods for size estimation in the pediatric cardiac catheterization laboratory

    Page :313-318

    Eytan Szmuilowicz, Mark S Sklansky, Nafiz Kiciman, Saskia Hilton, Abraham Rothman

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• • ·Influence of ventricular morphology on outcome after the Fontan procedure

    Page :319-323

    Paul R Julsrud, Thomas J Weigel, Jacques A Van Son, William D Edwards, Douglas D Mair, David J Driscoll, Gordon K Danielson, Francisco J Puga, Kenneth P Offord

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• • ·Initial energy for electrical cardioversion of atrial fibrillation—is more better?

    Page :324-325

    D.George Wyse

    
• • ·Cardioversion of atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm: who, when, how, and why?

    Page :326-327

    Eric N Prystowsky

    
• • ·Effects of age, sex, race, diagnosis-related group, and hospital setting on lipid management in patients with coronary artery disease

    Page :328-330

    Sarah E Rich, Jay Shah, Daniel S Rich, Rishi Shah, Michael W Rich

    
• • ·Long-term (three years) effect of estrogen replacement therapy on major adverse cardiac events in postmenopausal women after intracoronary stenting

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    Masroor A Khan, Ming W Liu, Devinderjit Singh, Ashish Pal, Francisco L Chio, David Lawson, Larry S Dean

     
• • ·Noninvasive risk stratification in women with uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction

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    Alessandro Desideri, Riccardo Bigi, Raffaele Terlizzi, Lauro Cortigiani, Gian Leone Suzzi, Giuliana Ginocchio, Leopoldo Celegon, Paolo Fioretti

     
• • ·Usefulness of stent length in predicting in-stent restenosis (the MULTI-LINK stent trials)

    Page :336-341

    Dean Kereiakes, Thomas J Linnemeier, Donald S Baim, Richard Kuntz, Charley O’Shaughnessy, James Hermiller, Stan Fink, Alexandra Lansky, Naomi Nishimura, Thomas M Broderick, Jeffrey Popma

     
• • ·Usefulness of ST elevation II/III ratio and ST deviation in lead I for identifying the culprit artery in inferior wall acute myocardial infarction

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    Boon-Lock Chia, James W.L Yip, Huay-Cheem Tan, Yean-Teng Lim

     
• • ·Polytetrafluoroethylene-covered stent for the treatment of narrowings in aorticocoronary saphenous vein grafts

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    Carlo Briguori, Joseph De Gregorio, Takahiro Nishida, Milena Adamian, Remo Albiero, Gina Tucci, Carlo Di Mario, Antonio Colombo

     
• • ·Increased plasma homocysteine is an independent predictor of new coronary events in older persons

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    Wilbert S Aronow, Chul Ahn

    
• • ·Initial energy for elective external cardioversion of persistent atrial fibrillation

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    Jose A Joglar, Mohamed H Hamdan, Karthik Ramaswamy, Jason D Zagrodzky, Clifford J Sheehan, Lauren L Nelson, Thomas C Andrews, Richard L Page

     
• • ·Clinical, echocardiographic, and hormonal factors influencing spontaneous conversion of recent-onset atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm

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    Anna Vittoria Mattioli, Daniela Vivoli, Paola Borella, Giorgio Mattioli

    
• • ·Comparison of one-year outcome in women versus men with chronic congestive heart failure

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    Cristina Opasich, Luigi Tavazzi, Donata Lucci, Marco Gorini, Maria Cecilia Albanese, Giuseppe Cacciatore, Aldo P. Maggioni, on behalf of the Italian Network on Congestive Heart Failure (IN-CHF) Investigators∗See for a complete list of participating Centers and Investigators. ∗ Appendix

     
• • ·Evaluation of a noninvasive index of global ventricular function to predict rejection after pediatric cardiac transplantation

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    Stephen J Mooradian, Caren S Goldberg, Dennis C Crowley, Achiau Ludomirsky

     
• • ·Late follow-up after thoracoscopic ductal ligation

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    Andrew S Bensky, Karen H Raines, Michael H Hines

    
• • ·Malignant cardiac tamponade in women with breast cancer treated by pericardiocentesis and intrapericardial administration of triethylenethiophosphoramide (thiotepa)

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    Theodore S Bishiniotis, Soumela Antoniadou, George Katseas, Despina Mouratidou, Andreas G Litos, Nikolaos Balamoutsos

    
• • ·Relation of blunted dilation of the brachial artery in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus to microalbuminuria

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    Pavel Poredoš, Anita Kek

     
• • ·Request for assistance

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• • ·Dispersion in electrocardiography has become epidemic

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    Pentti M Rautaharju