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• • ·Are we asking too much of our trials?

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    Hicham Skali, Scott D. Solomon, Marc A. Pfeffer

    
• • ·When young hearts are broken: Profiles of premature myocardial infarction

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    Ajai Pasricha, Wayne Batchelor

    
• • ·Long QT syndrome: Diagnosis and management

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    Ijaz A. Khan

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• • ·Prophylactic intravenous use of milrinone after cardiac operation in pediatrics (PRIMACORP) study

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    Timothy M. Hoffman, Gil Wernovsky, Andrew M. Atz, James M. Bailey, Akbar Akbary, John F. Kocsis, David P. Nelson, Anthony C. Chang, Thomas J. Kulik, Thomas L. Spray, David L. Wessel

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• • ·Choice of clinical outcomes in randomized trials of heart failure therapies: Disease-specific or overall outcomes?

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    Salim Yusuf, Abdissa Negassa

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• • ·Potential contributing factors to noncompliance with dietary sodium restriction in patients with heart failure

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    Jennifer B. Neily, Kathleen H. Toto, Elizabeth B. Gardner, J.Eduardo Rame, Clyde W. Yancy, Michael A. Sheffield, Daniel L. Dries, Mark H. Drazner

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• • ·Acute effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy on left ventricular Doppler indices in patients with congestive heart failure

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    Ole-A. Breithardt, Christoph Stellbrink, Andreas Franke, Osman Balta, Björn H. Diem, Patricia Bakker, Stefan Sack, Angelo Auricchio, for the Pacing Therapies for Congestive Heart Failure Study Group, Thierry Pochet, Rodney Salo, for the Guidant Congestive Heart Failure Research Group

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• • ·Clinical features and outcomes of elderly outpatients with heart failure followed up in hospital cardiology units: Data from a large nationwide cardiology database (IN-CHF Registry)

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    Giovanni Pulignano, Donatella Del Sindaco, Luigi Tavazzi, Donata Lucci, Marco Gorini, Francesco Leggio, Maurizio Porcu, Marino Scherillo, Cristina Opasich, Andrea Di Lenarda, Michele Senni, Aldo Pietro Maggioni, on behalf of IN-CHF Investigators

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• • ·Acute myocardial infarction in the young— The University of Michigan experience

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    Michele Doughty, Raj Mehta, David Bruckman, Sugata Das, Dean Karavite, Thomas Tsai, Kim Eagle

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• • ·Mode and timing of treatment failure (recurrent ischemic events) after hospital admission for non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndromes

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    Marc Cohen, Elliott M. Antman, Sabina A. Murphy, David Radley

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• • ·Incidence of high-risk acute coronary syndromes and eligibility for glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors among patients admitted for possible myocardial ischemia

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    Michael C. Kontos, Joseph P. Ornato, Kristin L. Schmidt, James L. Tatum, Robert L. Jesse

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• • ·Reduced inhibition by abciximab in platelets with the Pl^A2 polymorphism

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    Guy L. Wheeler, Gregory A. Braden, Paul F. Bray, Stanley J. Marciniak, Mary Ann Mascelli, David C. Sane

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• • ·Effect of cigar smoking on endothelium-dependent brachial artery dilation in healthy young adults

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    Minerva Santo-Tomas, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Humberto Machado, Harry R. Aldrich, Gervasio A. Lamas, Eric H. Lieberman

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• • ·Pharmacodynamic profile of short-term readministration of abciximab in healthy subjects

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    Jane Freedman, Mary A. Mascelli, John C. Pezzullo, Elliot S. Barnathan, Bart Frederick, Robert E. Jordan, Darrell R. Abernethy

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• • ·Multicenter, dose-ranging study of efegatran sulfate versus heparin with thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction: The Promotion of Reperfusion in Myocardial Infarction Evolution (PRIME) trial

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• • ·Relationship of creatine kinase-myocardial band release to Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction perfusion grade after intracoronary stent placement: An ESPRIT substudy

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    C.Michael Gibson, Sabina A. Murphy, Susan J. Marble, David J. Cohen, Eric A. Cohen, Henry K. Lui, Jeffrey Young, Michael M. Kitt, Todd J. Lorenz, James E. Tcheng, for the ESPRIT study

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• • ·Revascularization improves survival in ischemic cardiomyopathy regardless of electrocardiographic criteria for prior small-to-medium myocardial infarcts

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    Bimal R. Shah, Eric Velazquez, Linda K. Shaw, Brad Bart, Christopher O'Connor, Galen S. Wagner

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• • ·Effect of 300- and 450-mg clopidogrel loading doses on membrane and soluble P-selectin in patients undergoing coronary stent implantation

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    Hans-Juergen Seyfarth, Mario Koksch, Gerd Roethig, Traugott Rother, Annerose Neugebauer, Norbert Klein, Dietrich Pfeiffer

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• • ·Six-month outcomes of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in hypertensive patients: Results from the ROSETTA registry

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    Janius Tsang, Richard Sheppard, Koon Hou Mak, David Brown, Thao Huynh, David Schechter, Mark J. Eisenberg, for the ROSETTA Investigators

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• • ·Variability in cost of coronary bypass surgery in New York State: Potential for cost savings

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    Patricia A. Cowper, Elizabeth R. DeLong, Eric D. Peterson, Edward L. Hannan, Kevin T. Ray, Michael Racz, Daniel B. Mark

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• • ·Does enrollment in a randomized clinical trial lead to a higher cost of routine care?

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    J.Peter Weiss, Lori S. Parsons, Nathan R. Every, W.Douglas Weaver, Mark A. Hlatky

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• • ·Benefits of an “angina clinic” for patients with coronary artery disease: A demonstration of health status measures as markers of health care quality

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    John A. Spertus, Tim A. Dewhurst, Cynthia M. Dougherty, Paul Nichol, Mary McDonell, Brent Bliven, Stephan D. Fihn

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• • ·Determinants of disability in older coronary patients

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    Philip A. Ades, Patrick D. Savage, Marc D. Tischler, Eric T. Poehlman, Justine Dee, Joelyn Niggel

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• • ·Assessment of cardiac viability by thallium 201 redistribution and dobutamine echocardiography

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    José Luis Zamorano, Juan Delgado, Carlos Almerı́a, Miguel A.Gómez Sánchez, Teresa Sotelo, Raul Moreño, Enrique Meroño, Cristina Fernández, Juan José Rufilanchas, Luis Sánchez-Harguindey

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• • ·Prognostic value of a negative stress echocardiographic study in diabetic patients

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    Masoor Kamalesh, Robert Matorin, Stephen Sawada

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• • ·Influence of left ventricular size and hemodynamics on the systolic longitudinal myocardial Doppler velocity response to stress

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    Peter Cain, Sheree Napier, Brian Haluska, Leanne Short, Thomas H. Marwick

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• • ·Clinical and electrophysiologic effects of calcium channel blockers in patients receiving ibutilide

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    Mark A. Wood, David M. Gilligan, Chris Brown-Mahoney, Fatemeh Nematzadeh, Bruce S. Stambler, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen

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• • ·The relative importance of left atrial function versus dimension in predicting atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass graft surgery

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    Toshiko Nakai, Randall J. Lee, Nelson B. Schiller, Wayne H. Bellows, Samir Dzankic, John Reeves, Joseph Romson, Scott Ferguson, Jacqueline M. Leung

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• • ·Systemic platelet effects of contrast media: Implications for cardiologic research and clinical practice

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    M.C.D. Dalby, S.J. Davidson, J.F. Burman, J. Clague, U. Sigwart, S.W. Davies

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