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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Transradial artery coronary angioplasty

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    Ferdinand Kiemeneij, Gert Jan Laarman, Edwin de Melker

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• • ·Segmental analysis of resting echocardiographic function and stress scintigraphic perfusion: Implications for myocardial viability

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    Elyse Foster, Brian O'Kelly, Andrew LaPidus, Dyan Sandler, Kelly Tucker, Michael Dae, Nelson B. Schiller, Elias H. Botvinick

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• • ·High-frequency ultrasound: Determination of the lowest frequency required for cellular imaging and detection of myocardial disease

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    P.Anthony N. Chandraratna, Mohammed I. Awaad, Parakrama Chandrasoma, Mohammed Khan

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• • ·Serial changes in left ventricular function after coronary artery bypass: Implications in viability assessment

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    Massroor Ghods, Samir Pancholy, Virginia Cave, David Cassell, Jaekyeong Heo, Abdulmassih S. Iskandrian

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• • ·Recovery of left ventricular function in acute nonischemic congestive cardiomyopathy

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    Andrew M. Cross, Charles Steenbergen, Michael B. Higginbotham

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• • ·Positive high-dose dipyridamole echocardiography test after acute myocardial infarction is an excellent predictor of cardiac events

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    Aleksandar N. Nešković, Aleksandar D. Popović, Rade Rabić, Jelena Marinkovic, Velibor Obradović

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• • ·Protruding atheromas of the aortic arch in symptomatic patients with carotid artery disease

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    Laura A. Demopoulos, Paul A. Tunick, Neil E. Bernstein, John L. Perez, Itzhak Kronzon

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• • ·Implantation of transvenous nonthoracotomy cardioverter-defibrillator systems in patients with permanent endocardial pacemakers

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    Ross Brooks, Hasan Garan, Brian A. McGovern, Jeremy N. Ruskin

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• • ·Effect of accessory pathway location on the efficiency of heating during radiofrequency catheter ablation

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    S.Adam Strickberger, John Hummel, Marsha Gallagher, Carol Hasse, K.Ching Man, Brian Williamson, Vicken R. Vorperian, Steven J. Kalbfleisch, Fred Morady, Jonathan J. Langberg

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• • ·Diurnal variation of ventricular response to atrial fibrillation in patients with advanced heart failure

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    Bernhard Frey, Gottfried Heinz, Thomas Binder, Michael Wutte, Barbara Schneider, Herwig Schmidinger, Heinz Weber, Richard Pacher

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• • ·Resolution of left atrial spontaneous echocardiographic contrast after percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty: Implications for thromboembolic risk

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    Dominic Y.C. Leung, Ian W. Black, Gregory B. Cranney, R.Michael McCredie, Andrew P. Hopkins, Warren F. Walsh

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• • ·Limitations of transesophageal echocardiography in the risk assessment of patients before nonanticoagulated cardioversion from atrial fibrillation and flutter: An analysis of pooled trials

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    Eduardo Moreyra, Robert S. Finkelhor, Randall D. Cebul

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• • ·Echocardiographic predictors of success of catheter closure of atrial septal defect with the buttoned device

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    S.Chandra Bose Reddy, P.Syamasundar Rao, Jan Ewenko, Rebecca Koscik, Allen D. Wilson

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• • ·Gender differences in dehydration-induced mitral valve prolapse

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    Stephen Aufderheide, Daniela Lax, Stanley J. Goldberg

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• • ·Multicenter trial of sotalol compared with procainamide in the suppression of inducible ventricular tachycardia: A double-blind, randomized parallel evaluation

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    Bramah N. Singh, Richard Kehoe, R.L. Woosley, Melvin Scheinman, Barry Quart

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• • ·Lymphocyte G proteins reflect response to treatment in congestive heart failure

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    Evelyn M. Horn, Marrick L. Kukin, Gerald W. Neuberg, Rochelle L. Goldsmith, Moira McCarty, Mary Gratch, Norma Medina, Madeline Yushak, Milton Packer, John P. Bilezikian

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• • ·Doppler echocardiographic pulmonary venous flow-velocity pattern for assessment of the hemodynamic profile in acute congestive heart failure

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    Tohru Masuyama, Jung-Myung Lee, Reiko Nagano, Kazunori Nariyama, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Johji Naito, Toshiaki Mano, Hiroya Kondo, Masatsugu Hori, Takenobu Kamada

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• • ·Color flow Doppler determination of transmitral flow and orifice area in mitral stenosis: Experimental evaluation of the proximal flow-convergence method

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    Takahiro Shiota, Michael Jones, Lilliam M. Valdes-Cruz, Robin Shandas, Izumi Yamada, David J. Sahn

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• • ·Effect of acute pericardial tamponade on the relative contributions of systolic and diastolic pulmonary venous return: A transesophageal pulsed Doppler study

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    Eric K. Louie, Robert J. Hariman, Yonggao Wang, Ming H. Hwang, Henry S. Loeb, Patrick J. Scanlon

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• • ·Mechanism of balloon angioplasty in children with arterial stenosis assessed by intravascular ultrasound and angiography

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    Toshihiro Ino, Mataichi Okubo, Katsumi Akimoto, Kei Nishimoto, Keijiro Yabuta, Mikio Watanabe, Yasuyuki Hosoda

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• • ·Effects of exercise on plasma level of brain natriuretic peptide in congestive heart failure with and without left ventricular dysfunction

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    Akihiro Matsumoto, Yasunobu Hirata, Shin-ichi Momomura, Etsu Suzuki, Ikuo Yokoyama, Masataka Sata, Yoshi Ohtani, Takashi Serizawa

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• • ·The history of interventional cardiology: Cardiac catheterization, angioplasty, and related interventions

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    Richard L. Mueller, Timothy A. Sanborn

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• • ·Selection criteria for placement of left ventricular assist devices

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    Mehmet C. Oz, Eric A. Rose, Howard R. Levin

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• • ·Intracoronary two-dimensional ultrasound imaging in the assessment of plaque morphologic features and the planning of coronary interventions

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    Jose Baptista, Carlo di Mario, Javier Escaned, Mariarosaria Arnese, Yukio Ozaki, Pim de Feyter, Jos R.T.C. Roelandt, Patrick W. Serruys

    
• • ·Hemodynamic evidence of painless myocardial ischemia with acute pulmonary edema in coronary disease

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    Scott W. Sharkey, Nancy B. Aberg

    
• • ·Transesophageal echocardiographically guided angiography of an anomalous coronary artery

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    Darius Aliabadi, Milton Icenogle, Sarah Samaan, Carlos Roldan, Matthew Holland

    
• • ·Transvenous cardioverter-defibrillator implantation via persistent left superior vena cava

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    Ross Brooks, Guy Jackson, Brian A. McGovern, Jeremy N. Ruskin

    
• • ·Efficacy and safety of metoprolol in the treatment of doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy in pediatric patients

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    Robert E. Shaddy, Stephanie L. Olsen, Michael R. Bristow, David O. Taylor, Emily A. Bullock, Lloyd Y. Tani, Dale G. Renlund

    
• • ·Inherited restrictive cardiomyopathy in a 74-year-old woman: A case of Fabry's disease

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    Russell E. Hillsley, Eugenio Hernandez, Charles Steenbergen, Thomas M. Bashore, J.Kevin Harrison

    
• • ·Natural antioxidants and restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

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    Susan L. Godfried, Lawrence I. Deckelbaum