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• • ·Prehospital management of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction: A time for reappraisal in North America

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    Robert C. Welsh, Joseph Ornato, Paul W. Armstrong

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• • ·Double negatives

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    David E. Kandzari, James E. Tcheng

    
• • ·Physician adherence to clinical practice guidelines: Does it really matter?

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    Ralph G. Brindis, Cary Sennett

    
• • ·Hierarchical modeling: Its time has come

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    Elizabeth DeLong

    
• • ·Adherence to practice guidelines: The role of specialty society guidelines

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    Lucian L. Leape, Joel S. Weissman, Eric C. Schneider, Robert N. Piana, Constantine Gatsonis, Arnold M. Epstein

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• • ·Comparing hierarchical modeling with traditional logistic regression analysis among patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction: Should we be analyzing cardiovascular outcomes data differently?

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    Peter C. Austi, Jack V. T, David A. Alte

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• • ·Quality of life and time trade-off utility measures in patients with coronary artery disease

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    Kathryn A. Melsop, Derek B. Boothroyd, Mark A. Hlatky

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• • ·No-reflow is an independent predictor of death and myocardial infarction after percutaneous coronary intervention

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    Frederic S. Resnic, Marco Wainstein, Michael K.Y. Lee, Dominik Behrendt, Rodrigo V. Wainstein, Lucila Ohno-Machado, James M. Kirshenbaum, Campbell D.K. Rogers, Jeffrey J. Popma, Robert Piana

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• • ·Primary coronary angioplasty compared with intravenous thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: Six-month follow up and analysis of individual patient data from randomized trials

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• • ·A randomized trial assessing the effect of coumarins started before coronary angioplasty on restenosis: Results of the 6-month angiographic substudy of the Balloon Angioplasty and Anticoagulation Study (BAAS)

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    Jurriën M. ten Berg, Johannes C. Kelder, Maarten Jan Suttorp, Freek W.A. Verheugt, H.W.Thijs Plokker

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• • ·Altered coronary flow properties in diffuse coronary artery ectasia

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    Ömer Akyürek, Berkten Berkalp, Tamer Sayın, Deniz Kumbasar, Celal Kervancıoğlu, Derviş Oral

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• • ·Frequency, patient characteristics, and outcomes of mild-to-moderate heart failure complicating ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction: Lessons from 4 international fibrinolytic therapy trials

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    David Hasdai, Eric J. Topol, Rakhi Kilaru, Alexander Battler, Robert A. Harrington, Alec Vahanian, E.Magnus Ohman, Christopher B. Granger, Frans Van de Werf, Maarten L. Simoons, Christopher M. O'Connor, David R. Holmes

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• • ·Double-blind comparison between zofenopril and lisinopril in patients with acute myocardial infarction: Results of the Survival of Myocardial Infarction Long-term Evaluation-2 (SMILE-2) study

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    Claudio Borghi, Ettore Ambrosioni, behalf of the SMILE-2 Working Party

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• • ·Biochemical and clinical predictors of long-term outcome in patients with nonspecific chest pain and nondiagnostic electrocardiograms

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    Graham S. Hillis, Pamela Taggart, Lorraine Hillis, Ning Zhao, William C. Dalsey, Antoinette Mangione

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• • ·Relationship between initial white blood cell counts, stage of acute myocardial infarction evolution at presentation, and incidence of Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction-3 flow after streptokinase

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    Cheuk-Kit Wong, John K. French, Wanzhen Gao, Harvey D. White

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• • ·High triglycerides/low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, ischemic electrocardiogram changes, and risk of ischemic heart disease

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    Jørgen Jeppesen, Hans Ole Hein, Poul Suadicani, Finn Gyntelberg

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• • ·Direct comparison of characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of patients enrolled versus patients not enrolled in a clinical trial at centers participating in the TIMI 9 Trial and TIMI 9 Registry

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    Maria Cecilia Bahit, Christopher P. Cannon, Elliott M. Antman, Sabina A. Murphy, C.Michael Gibson, Carolyn H. McCabe, Eugene Braunwald

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• • ·Potential thrombophilic mutations/polymorphisms in patients with no flow-limiting stenosis after myocardial infarction

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    John K. French, Neil S. Van de Water, Timothy M. Sutton, Mayanna Lund, WanZhen Gao, Joanne McDowell, Yiwen Liu-Stratton, Jeanette Pohorence, Diane Szymanski, Pascal Goldschmidt-Clermont, Harvey D. White, Peter J. Browett, Glen Cooke

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• • ·Association of the ScaI atrial natriuretic peptide gene polymorphism with nonfatal myocardial infarction and extent of coronary artery disease

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    Marcin Gruchala, Dariusz Ciećwierz, Bartosz Wasag, Radoslaw Targoński, Witold Dubaniewicz, Arkadiusz Nowak, Wojciech Sobiczewski, Karolina Ochman, Piotr Romanowski, Janusz Limon, Andrzej Rynkiewicz

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• • ·Prognostic value of QT interval and QT dispersion in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction: Results from a cohort of 2265 patients with an ejection fraction of ≤40%

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    Sriram Padmanabhan, Helme Silvet, Jatin Amin, Ramdas G. Pai

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• • ·Prevalence and prognostic value of exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias

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    Sara Partington, Jonathan Myers, Shaun Cho, Victor Froelicher, Sung Chun

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• • ·Prognostic importance of systolic and diastolic function after acute myocardial infarction

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    Jacob E. Møller, Kenneth Egstrup, Lars Køber, Steen H. Poulsen, Ole Nyvad, Christian Torp-Pedersen

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• • ·Flow volume asymmetry in the right aortic arch in children with magnetic resonance phase encoded velocity mapping

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    Mark A. Fogel, Paul M. Weinberg, John Haselgrove

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• • ·Effect of infarcted myocardium on diagnostic accuracy of exercise echocardiography for detecting noninfarct-related coronary artery lesions

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    Toshihiko Nishioka, Hideki Mitani, Akimi Uehata, Hiroyuki Hikita, Tomoo Nagai, Shuichi Katsushika, Bonpei Takase, Kazushige Isojima, Fumitaka Ohsuzu, Akira Kurita, Shingo Ohtomi, Robert J. Siegel

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• • ·Association between angiotensin I-converting enzyme gene insertion/deletion polymorphism and mitral valve prolapse syndrome

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    Hsiang-Tai Chou, Yng-Tay Chen, Yi-Ru Shi, Fuu-Jen Tsai

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• • ·Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Study (LAAOS): A randomized clinical trial of left atrial appendage occlusion during routine coronary artery bypass graft surgery for long-term stroke prevention

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    Eugene Crystal, Andre Lamy, Stuart J. Connolly, Peter Kleine, Stefan H. Hohnloser, Lloyd Semelhago, Labib Abouzhar, Irene Cybulsky, Bernard Shragge, Kevin Teoh, Eva Lonn, Corey Sawchuk, Feycan Oezaslan

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• • ·Rationale for use of an exercise end point and design for the ADVANCE (A Dose evaluation of a Vasopressin ANtagonist in CHF patients undergoing Exercise) trial

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    Stuart D. Russell, Paulina Selaru, David A. Pyne, Maha M. Ghazzi, Kenneth D. Massey, Milton Pressler, Alexis Serikoff, Andrew J.S. Coats

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• • ·Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled long-term study of isosorbide-5-mononitrate therapy in patients with left ventricular dysfunction after acute myocardial infarction

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    Erik Tingberg, Anders Roijer, Ulf Thilen, Jan Eskilsson, Hans Öhlin

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• • ·Reduction of oxidative stress augments natriuretic effect of furosemide in moderate heart failure

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    Hirofumi Tomiyama, Gohki Watanabe, Hideo Yoshida, Nobutaka Doba, Akira Yamashina

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• • ·Home-based versus hospital-based exercise programs in patients with coronary artery disease: Effects on coronary vasomotion

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    Stephan Gielen, Sandra Erbs, Axel Linke, Sven Möbius-Winkler, Gerhard Schuler, Rainer Hambrecht

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