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• • ·Are soft echoes really soft? Intravascular ultrasound assessment of mechanical properties in human atherosclerotic tissue

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    Takafumi Hiro, Cyril Y. Leung, Sarah De Guzman, Vincent J. Caiozzo, Ali R. Farvid, Houshang Karimi, Richard H. Helfant, Jonathan M. Tobis

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• • ·Biophysical characteristics of radiofrequency lesion formation in vivo: Dynamics of catheter tip–tissue contact evaluated by intracardiac echocardiography

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    Jonathan M. Kalman, Adam P. Fitzpatrick, Jeffrey E. Olgin, Michael C. Chin, Randall J. Lee, Melvin M. Scheinman, Michael D. Lesh, From the Department of Medicine and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco.

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• • ·Requirement for accurate measurement of regurgitant stroke volume by the combined continuous-wave Doppler and color Doppler flow convergence method

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    Shiro Nozaki, Robin Shandas, Anthony N. DeMaria, From the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California at San Diego Medical Center.

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• • ·Coronary plaque morphologic characteristics early and late after heart transplantation: In vivo analysis with intravascular ultrasonography

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    Volker Klauss, Kilian Ackermann, Christoph H. Spes, Till Zeitlmann, Karl-Heinz Henneke, Frank Werner, Evelyn Regar, Peter Überfuhr, Karl Theisen, Harald Mudra, From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Klinikum Innenstadt, and the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Grosshadern, University of Munich.

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• • ·Diabetes mellitus and echocardiographic left ventricular function in free-living elderly men and women: The Cardiovascular Health Study

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    Marshall Lee, Julius M. Gardin, James C. Lynch, Vivienne-Elizabeth Smith, Russell P. Tracy, Peter J. Savage, Moyses Szklo, Beverly J. Ward

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• • ·Determination of coronary flow measurements by transesophageal echocardiography: Dependence of flow velocity reserve on the location of stenosis

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    Stuart J. Hutchison, Stephen J. Soldo, Sameh Gadallah, David T. Kawanishi, P.Anthony N. Chandraratna, From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center.

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• • ·Effects of physiologic load of pregnancy on left ventricular contractility and remodeling

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    Tal Geva, Mary Beth Mauer, Lynae Striker^a, Brian Kirshon, James M. Pivarnik

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• • ·Heterogeneous aortic response to acute β-adrenergic blockade in Marfan syndrome

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    Annick Haouzi, Hans Berglund, Peter C.D. Pelikan, Gerald Maurer, Robert J. Siegel

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• • ·Percutaneous double-valve balloon valvotomy for multivalve stenosis: Immediate results and intermediate-term follow-up

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    Satyavan Sharma, Yunus Shafi Loya, Dhruman Mohanbhai Desai, Robin Joseph Pinto

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• • ·Transesophageal Doppler echocardiographic assessment of systolic and diastolic coronary blood flow velocities at baseline and during adenosine triphosphate–induced coronary vasodilation in chronic aortic regurgitation

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    Akira Kisanuki, Ryoji Matsushita, Takashi Murayama, Yutaka Otsuji, Yoshitaka Miyazono, Koichi Toyonaga, Shoichiro Nakao, Akira Taira, Hiromitsu Tanaka

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• • ·Pharmacologic stress-induced regional myocardial blood flow heterogeneity and left ventricular wall thickening abnormality: Comparison of intravenous adenosine with dipyridamole in a model of critical coronary stenosis

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    Elizabeth O. Ofili, Frederick A. Dressler, Jeanette A. St. Vrain, Henry Goodgold, John Standeven, Bhugol Chandel, Rita Gentilcore, Lawrence McBride, Ramon Castello, Morton Kern, Arthur J. Labovitz

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• • ·Importance of left ventricular diastolic function on maintenance of exercise capacity in patients with systolic dysfunction after anterior myocardial infarction

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    Tsutomu Sumimoto, Toshimitsu Jikuhara, Toshihiko Hattori, Fumio Yuasa, Mutsuhito Kaida, Makoto Hikosaka, Kazuya Takehana, Teruhiro Tamura, Tetsuro Sugiura, Toshiji Iwasaka

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• • ·Increased renal formation of thromboxane A₂ and prostaglandin F_2⍺ in heart failure

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    Sergio Castellani, Barbara Paladini, Rita Paniccia, Claudia Di Serio, Barbara Vallotti, Andrea Ungar, Stefano Fumagalli, Claudia Cantini, Loredana Poggesi, Gian Gastone Neri Serneri

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• • ·Low-energy intracardiac shocks during atrial fibrillation: Effects on cardiac rhythm

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    Nikola Gjorgov, Frank Provenier, Luc Jordaens, From the Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Ghent.

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• • ·QT interval prolongation and risk of life-threatening arrhythmias during toxoplasmosis prophylaxis with spiramycin in neonates

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    Marco Stramba-Badiale, Filippo Nador, Norberto Porta, Stefano Guffanti, Marco Frediani, Clelia Colnaghi, Fabio Grancini, Giuliano Motta, Vittorio Carnelli, Peter J. Schwartz

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• • ·Aneurysm of the membranous ventricular septum resulting in pulmonary outflow tract obstruction in congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries

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    S.Chandra Bose Reddy, Paramjeet S. Chopra, P.Syamasundar Rao

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• • ·Evaluation of mitral valve prolapse by four-dimensional echocardiography

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    Tsung O. Cheng, Ming-Xing Xie, Xin-Fang Wang, Zhi-An Li, Gang Hu, From The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Cardiovascular Institute and Union Hospital of Tongji Medical University.

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• • ·Neonatal supraventricular tachycardia: Predictors of successful treatment withdrawal

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    Matthew S. Lemler, Michael S. Schaffer, From the Department of Pediatric Cardiology, The University of Colorado and The Children's Hospital.

    
• • ·Congenital cardiomyopathy associated with human parvovirus B19 infection

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    Leslie L. Barton, Daniela Lax, Ziad M. Shehab, Jennifer C. Keith

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• • ·Aneurysm of saphenous vein bypass graft detected by first-pass radionuclide ventriculography

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    Boaz Benari, Jacob Erel, Howard N. Allen, John Friedman, Hosen Kiat, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Alfredo Trento, Daniel Berman, From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, and the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; and University of California LosAngeles School of Medicine.

     
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