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• • ·Diagnosis, management, and clinical outcome of cardiac tamponade complicating percutaneous coronary intervention

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    Martin Fejka, Simon R Dixon, Robert D Safian, William W O’Neill, Cindy L Grines, Bohuslav Finta, Pamela A Marcovitz, Joel K Kahn

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• • ·Direct coronary stenting versus predilatation followed by stent placement

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    Martin Brueck, Dierk Scheinert, Alois Wortmann, Jens Bremer, Hubertus von Korn, Lutz Klinghammer, Wilfried Kramer, Frank A Flachskampf, Werner G Daniel, Josef Ludwig

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• • ·Comparison of effectiveness of primary angioplasty for proximal versus distal right coronary artery culprit lesion during acute myocardial infarction

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    Kishore J Harjai, Judy Boura, Lorelei Grines, James Goldstein, Gregg W Stone, Bruce Brodie, David Cox, William W O’Neill, Cindy Grines

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• • ·Outcome of acute myocardial infarction in patients with prior coronary artery bypass grafting treated with combination reduced fibrinolytic therapy and abciximab

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    Debabrata Mukherjee, Hitinder Gurm, W.H.Wilson Tang, Marco Roffi, Kathy Wolski, David J Moliterno, Victor Guetta, Diego Ardissinio, Christopher Bode, Gabriel Steg, A.Michael Lincoff, Eric J Topol

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• • ·Baseline characteristics of participants in the Raloxifene Use for The Heart (RUTH) trial

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    Nanette Kass Wenger, Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Peter Collins, Deborah Grady, Marcel Kornitzer, Lori Mosca, Andreas Sashegyi, Simin K Baygani, Pamela W Anderson, Elena Moscarelli, RUTH Investigators

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• • ·Implementation of guidelines to screen relatives of patients with premature coronary heart disease in a hospital setting

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    Serena Tonstad, Arne Westheim

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• • ·Electrophysiologic characteristics of the spontaneous onset and termination of atrial fibrillation

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    Gjin Ndrepepa, Stefan Weber, Martin R Karch, Michael A.E Schneider, J.ürgen Schreieck, Albert Schömig, Claus Schmitt

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• • ·Relation of aortic distensibility determined by magnetic resonance imaging in patients ≥60 years of age to systolic heart failure and exercise capacity

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    Pairoj Rerkpattanapipat, W.Gregory Hundley, Kerry M. Link, Peter H. Brubaker, Craig A. Hamilton, Stephen N. Darty, Timothy M. Morgan, Dalane W. Kitzman

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• • ·Pathophysiologic quantities of endotoxin-induced tumor necrosis factor-alpha release in whole blood from patients with chronic heart failure

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    Sabine Genth-Zotz, Stephan von Haehling, Aidan P Bolger, Paul R Kalra, Roland Wensel, Andrew J.S Coats, Stefan D Anker

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• • ·Left ventricular remodeling with age in normal men versus women : Novel insights using three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging

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    Paul S Hees, Jerome L Fleg, Edward G Lakatta, Edward P Shapiro

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• • ·Neuroprotective effects of statins may not be related to total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol lowering

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    Sabu J George, Abhay J Dhond, Skip M Alderson, Michael D Ezekowitz

     
• • ·Angiographic significance of a discordant ST-segment elevation of ≥5 millimeters in patients with ventricular-paced rhythm and acute myocardial infarction

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    Angel E Caldera, Miguel Bryce, Morris Kotler, Leonard E Braitman, Scott Spielman

     
• • ·Effect of abciximab on myocardial salvage in patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing primary angioplasty

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    Cheol Whan Lee, Dae-Hyuk Moon, Myeong-K.i Hong, Jae-Hwan Lee, S.i-Wan Choi, Hyun Suk Yang, Jae-Joong Kim, Seong-Wook Park, Seung-Jung Park

     
• • ·Effects of renal insufficiency on early invasive management in patients with acute coronary syndromes (The TACTICS-TIMI 18 Trial)

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    James L Januzzi, Christopher P Cannon, Peter M DiBattiste, Sabina Murphy, William Weintraub, Eugene Braunwald, TACTICS-TIMI 18 Investigators

    
• • ·C(−260)T polymorphism in the promoter of the CD14 gene is not associated with coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction in the Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health (LURIC) study

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    Markus Nauck, Bernhard R Winkelmann, Michael M Hoffmann, Bernhard O Böhm, Heinrich Wieland, Winfried März

    
• • ·Incidence, correlates, and outcome of cardiac arrest associated with percutaneous coronary intervention

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    John G Webb, Naresh K Solankhi, Sanjay K Chugh, Haitham Amin, Christopher E Buller, Donald R Ricci, Karin Humphries, Ian M Penn, Ronald Carere

    
• • ·Effect of fenofibrate on brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation in type 2 diabetes mellitus

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    David A. Playford, Gerald F. Watts, James D. Best, Valerie Burke

    
• • ·Vascular endothelial growth factor and soluble P-selectin in acute and chronic congestive heart failure

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    Bernard S.P Chin, Natali A.Y Chung, Christopher R Gibbs, Andrew D Blann, Gregory Y.H Lip

    
• • ·Prognostic value of Doppler-derived myocardial performance index in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction

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    Marcel Peltier, Michel Slama, Sami Garbi, Maurice L. Enriquez-Sarano, Thomas Goissen, Christophe M. Tribouilloy

     
• • ·Usefulness of the response to sublingual nitroglycerin as a predictor of ischemic chest pain in the emergency department

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    Eric A Shry, Jennifer Dacus, Eric Van De Graaff, Michael Hjelkrem, Karl C Stajduhar, Steven R Steinhubl

    
• • ·Comparison of features of active infective endocarditis involving native cardiac valves in nonintravenous drug users with and without predisposing cardiac disease

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    Juan C Castillo, Manuel P Anguita, Francisco Torres, Dolores Mesa, Manuel Franco, Emilio González, Soledad Ojeda, M.ónica Delgado, Federico Vallés

     
• • ·Morphology of anorexigen-associated valve disease by transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography

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    Carlos A Roldan, Erika A Gelgand, Pamela Decker, Arti Prasad, Bruce K Shively

     
• • ·Utility of hand-carried ultrasound devices used by cardiologists with and without significant echocardiographic experience in the cardiology inpatient and outpatient settings

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    Charles J Bruce, Samantha C Montgomery, Kent R Bailey, Jamil Tajik, James B Seward

    
• • ·The heart vector, the regional information in the electrocardiogram, and QT dispersion

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    Marek Malik, Velislav Batchvarov

     
• • ·The heart vector, the regional information in the electrocardiogram, and QT dispersion: Reply

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    John C Somberg, Janos Molnar

    
• • ·Serum cardiac troponin I in acute rheumatic fever

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    J.oël Kamblock