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• • ·Interpreting the exercise electrocardiogram in patients either on β-blocking drugs or with chronotropic incompetence

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    Anthony P. Morise

    
• • ·The emerging role of myoglobin for risk stratification

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    L.Kristin Newby

    
• • ·Antithrombotic therapy after prosthetic cardiac valve implantation: Potential novel antithrombotic therapies

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    Scott D. Berkowitz

    
• • ·A tale of two countries: Insights from the differences in Canadian/American patterns of care for patients with acute coronary syndromes

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    J.Conor O’Shea, Yuling Fu, Wei-Ching Chang, Paul W. Armstrong

    
• • ·Statistical issues relating to international differences in clinical trials

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    J.Conor O’Shea, David L. DeMets

    
• • ·Myoglobin levels at 12 hours identify patients at low risk for 30-day mortality after thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction: A Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction 10B substudy

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    V.S. Srinivas, Christopher P. Cannon, C.Michael Gibson, Elliott M. Antman, Mark A. Greenberg, Milenko J. Tanasijevic, Sabina Murphy, James A. de Lemos, Seth Sokol, Eugene Braunwald, Hiltrud S. Mueller

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• • ·Post–myocardial infarction risk stratification in elderly patients

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    Karen P. Alexander, Anthony N. Galanos, James G. Jollis, Judith A. Stafford, Eric D. Peterson

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• • ·Predictors of left ventricular function after acute myocardial infarction: Effects of time to treatment, patency, and body mass index

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    Conor F. Lundergan, Allan M. Ross, William F. McCarthy, Jonathan S. Reiner, Deneane Boyle, Cynthia Fink, Robert M. Califf, Eric J. Topol, Maarten L. Simoons, Marcel Van Den Brand, Frans Van de Werf, Karin S. Coyne, for the GUSTO-I Angiographic Investigators

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• • ·ST-segment depression in lead aVR predicts predischarge left ventricular dysfunction in patients with reperfused anterior acute myocardial infarction with anterolateral ST-segment elevation

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    Masami Kosuge, Kazuo Kimura, Toshiyuki Ishikawa, Tsutomu Endo, Yoichiro Hongo, Tomohiko Shigemasa, Yuji Iwasawa, Osamu Tochikubo, Satoshi Umemura

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• • ·Continuous ST monitoring: A bedside instrument? A report from the Assessment of the Safety of a New Thrombolytic (ASSENT 2) ST Monitoring Substudy

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    Per Johanson, Jenny Rössberg, Mikael Dellborg

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• • ·Experimental pain and psychologic status of patients with chest pain with normal coronary arteries or ischemic heart disease

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    Robert Zachariae, Hanne Melchiorsen, Ole Frøbert, Peter Bjerring, Jens Peder Bagger

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• • ·Clinical outcome of a cohort of patients eligible for therapeutic angiogenesis or transmyocardial revascularization

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    Debabrata Mukherjee, Kathy Comella, Deepak L. Bhatt, Matthew T. Roe, Vasant Patel, Stephen G. Ellis

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• • ·The risk of stroke and death in patients with aortic and mitral valve endocarditis

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    Christopher H. Cabell, Kyle K. Pond, Gail E. Peterson, David T. Durack, G.Ralph Corey, Deverick J. Anderson, Thomas Ryan, Andrea S. Lukes, Daniel J. Sexton

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• • ·Value of coronary stenotic flow velocity acceleration on the prediction of long-term improvement in functional status after angioplasty

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    M. Albertal, E. Regar, J.J. Piek, G.Van Langenhove, S.G. Carlier, A. Thury, G. Sianos, E. Boersma, B. de Bruyne, C. di Mario, P.W. Serruys, on behalf of the Doppler Endpoints Balloon Angioplasty Trial Europe (DEBATE) Study Group

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• • ·Incidence and short-term prognosis of late sustained ventricular tachycardia after myocardial infarction: Results of the Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Sopravvivenza nell’Infarto Miocardico (GISSI-3) Data Base

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    Alberto Volpi, Augusto Cavalli, Roberto Turato, Simona Barlera, Eugenio Santoro, Eva Negri, on behalf of the GISSI-3 Investigators, Magenta and Milan, Italy

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• • ·Efficacy and safety of dofetilide in the prevention of symptomatic episodes of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia: A 6-month double-blind comparison with propafenone and placebo

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    Michal Tendera, Anna Maria Wnuk-Wojnar, Piotr Kulakowski, Józef Malolepszy, J.W. Kozlowski, M. Krzeminska-Pakula, Jacek Szechinski, Waclaw Droszcz, Kalina Kawecka-Jaszcz, Grazyna Swiatecka, Witold Ruzyllo, Ole Graff

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• • ·Baseline factors predicting early resumption of driving after life-threatening arrhythmias in the Antiarrhythmics Versus Implantable Defibrillators (AVID) Trial

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    Kathleen Hickey, Anne B. Curtis, Scott Lancaster, Greg Larsen, Deborah Warwick, Jack McAnulty, L.Brent Mitchell

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• • ·Impact of prehospital delay on mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with primary angioplasty and intravenous thrombolysis

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    Ralf Zahn, Rudolf Schiele, Anselm K. Gitt, Steffen Schneider, Karlheinz Seidl, Thomas Voigtländer, Martin Gottwik, Ernst Altmann, Ulf Gieseler, Werner Rosahl, Stefan Wagner, Jochen Senges, for the Maximal Individual Therapy in Acute Myocardial Infarction (MITRA) the Myocardial Infarction Registry (MIR) Study Groups

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• • ·Resource utilization and clinical outcomes of coronary stenting: A comparison of intravascular ultrasound and angiographical guided stent implantation

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    James W. Choi, Lynne M. Goodreau, Charles J. Davidson

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• • ·Long-term survival in 11,661 patients with multivessel coronary artery disease in the era of stenting: A report from the Alberta Provincial Project for Outcome Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease (APPROACH) Investigators

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    Vladimir Dzavik, William A. Ghali, Colleen Norris, L.Brent Mitchell, Arvind Koshal, L.Duncan Saunders, P.Diane Galbraith, William Hui, Peter Faris, Merril L. Knudtson, for the APPROACH Investigators

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• • ·Diagnostic exercise tests on 4000 consecutive men

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    Manish Prakash, Jonathan Myers, Victor F. Froelicher, Rachel Marcus, Dat Do, Damayanthi Kalisetti, Jeffrey Froning, J.Edwin Atwood

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• • ·Effects of chronotropic incompetence and β-blocker use on the exercise treadmill test in men

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    Andre J. Gauri, Vinod K. Raxwal, Larissa Roux, William F. Fearon, Victor F. Froelicher

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• • ·Is the dyspnea during adenosine cardiac stress test caused by bronchospasm?

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    K.K. Balan, M. Critchley

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• • ·Diagnosis of culture-negative endocarditis: The role of the Duke criteria and the impact of transesophageal echocardiography

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    Leon Iri Kupferwasser, Harald Darius, Annette M. Müller, Conchita Martin, Susanne Mohr-Kahaly, Raimund Erbel, Jürgen Meyer

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• • ·Second harmonic imaging improves sensitivity of dobutamine stress echocardiography for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease

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    Fabiola B. Sozzi, Don Poldermans, Jeroen J. Bax, Eric Boersma, Wim B. Vletter, Abdou Elhendy, Alberico Borghetti, Jos R.T.C. Roelandt

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• • ·Cardiac rehabilitation and survival in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction

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    David J. Whellan, Linda K. Shaw, Bradley A. Bart, William E. Kraus, Robert M. Califf, Christopher M. O’Connor

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• • ·Relative lymphocyte count: A prognostic indicator of mortality in elderly patients with congestive heart failure

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    Domenico Acanfora, Mihai Gheorghiade, Luigi Trojano, Giuseppe Furgi, Evasio Pasini, Costantino Picone, Antimo Papa, Gian Luca Iannuzzi, Robert O. Bonow, Franco Rengo, the CHF Italian Study Investigators

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• • ·Chronic heart failure in the very elderly: Clinical status, survival, and prognostic factors in 188 patients more than 70 years old

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    Mariantonietta Cicoira, Constantinos H. Davos, Viorel Florea, Waqar Shamim, Wolfram Doehner, Andrew J.S. Coats, Stefan D. Anker

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• • ·Reduced right ventricular ejection fraction as a marker for idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy compared with ischemic left ventricular dysfunction

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    Luigi La Vecchia, Luisa Zanolla, Leonardo Varotto, Carlo Bonanno, Gian Luca Spadaro, Renato Ometto, Alessandro Fontanelli

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• • ·Urgent coronary bypass surgery for failed percutaneous coronary intervention in the stent era: Is backup still necessary?

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    Samuel J. Shubrooks, Richard W. Nesto, David Leeman, Sergio Waxman, Stanley M. Lewis, Philip Fitzpatrick, Nabil Dib

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