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• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for authors

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• • ·Information for readers

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• Editorials

  • ·Assessing prognosis in heart failure: Is hepatocyte growth factor the next B-type natriuretic peptide?

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    Jason N. Katz, Mark H. Drazner

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  • ·Percutaneous coronary intervention–induced emboli during primary PCI for STEMI: Too little, too much, or too late?

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    Richard E. Kuntz, Campbell Rogers, Donald S. Baim

    
  • ·Do stents reduce mortality compared with balloon angioplasty? A critical review of all the evidence

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    Jassim Al Suwaidi, Peter B. Berger

    

• Progress in Cardiology

  • ·Inflammation and coronary artery disease

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    Alice Y. Tiong, David Brieger

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  • ·A review of the oral direct thrombin inhibitor ximelagatran : Not yet the end of the warfarin era…

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    Robert Mohapatra, Maichi Tran, Joel M. Gore, Frederick A. Spencer

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• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·The clinical challenge of bridging anticoagulation with low-molecular-weight heparin in patients with mechanical prosthetic heart valves: An evidence-based comparative review focusing on anticoagulation options in pregnant and nonpregnant patients

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    Niranjan Seshadri, Samuel Z. Goldhaber, Uri Elkayam, Richard A. Grimm, James B. Groce, John A. Heit, Sarah A. Spinler, Alexander G.G. Turpie, Gideon Bosker, Allan L. Klein

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  • ·Management of risk in peripheral artery disease: Recent therapeutic advances

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    Daniel G. Hackam, Shaun G. Goodman, Sonia S. Anand

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  • ·Is it time to prescribe statins to patients with calcified aortic stenosis?

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    Arash Rashidi, Dale S. Adler, Ward Casscells, Mohammad Madjid

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• Trial Design

  • ·Tezosentan in patients with acute heart failure: Design of the Value of Endothelin Receptor Inhibition with Tezosentan in Acute heart failure Study (VERITAS)

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    John R. Teerlink, John J.V. McMurray, Robert C. Bourge, John G.F. Cleland, Gadi Cotter, Guillaume Jondeau, Henry Krum, Marco Metra, Christopher M. O'Connor, John D. Parker, Guillermo Torre-Amione, Dirk J. Van Veldhuisen, Aline Frey, Maurizio Rainisio, Isaac Kobrin, VERITAS Investigators

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  • ·Index

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• Results of Expert Meetings

  • ·Depression and ischemic heart disease: What have we learned so far and what must we do in the future?

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    Wei Jiang, Alexander Glassman, Ranga Krishnan, Christopher M. O'Connor, Robert M. Califf

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Tenecteplase and tirofiban in ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction: Results of a randomized trial

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    E. Magnus Ohman, Frans Van de Werf, Elliott M. Antman, Robert M. Califf, James A. de Lemos, C. Michael Gibson, Renee L. Oliverio, Lynn Harrelson, Carolyn McCabe, Peter DiBattiste, Eugene Braunwald, for the FASTER (TIMI 24) Investigators

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  • ·The relationship between baseline risk and mortality in ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction treated with pharmacological reperfusion: Insights from the Global Utilization of Strategies To open Occluded arteries (GUSTO) V trial

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    Sorin J. Brener, A. Michael Lincoff, Eric R. Bates, Gang Jia, Paul W. Armstrong, Victor Guetta, Judith S. Hochman, Stefano Savonitto, Robert G. Wilcox, Harvey D. White, Eric J. Topol, for the GUSTO V Investigators

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  • ·Cereal fiber and whole-grain intake are associated with reduced progression of coronary-artery atherosclerosis in postmenopausal women with coronary artery disease

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    Arja T. Erkkilä, David M. Herrington, Dariush Mozaffarian, Alice H. Lichtenstein

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  • ·Distal embolization during primary angioplasty: Histopathologic features and predictability

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    Ugo Limbruno, Marco De Carlo, Sabina Pistolesi, Andrea Micheli, Anna Sonia Petronio, Tiziano Camacci, Gabriella Fontanini, Alberto Balbarini, Mario Mariani, Raffaele De Caterina

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  • ·Inflammation, endothelial cell activation, and coronary microvascular dysfunction in women with chest pain and no obstructive coronary artery disease

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    Oscar C. Marroquin, Kevin E. Kip, Suresh R. Mulukutla, Paul M. Ridker, Carl J. Pepine, Tjendimin Tjandrawan, Sheryl F. Kelsey, Sunil Mankad, William J. Rogers, C. Noel Bairey Merz, George Sopko, Barry L. Sharaf, Steven E. Reis

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  • ·Treatment with granulocyte colony–stimulating factor for mobilization of bone marrow cells in patients with acute myocardial infarction

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    Friedhelm Kuethe, Hans R. Figulla, Michael Herzau, Matthias Voth, Michael Fritzenwanger, Thomas Opfermann, Katharina Pachmann, Andreas Krack, Herbert G. Sayer, Dietmar Gottschild, Gerald S. Werner

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  • ·Facilitated percutaneous coronary intervention for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: Results from the prematurely terminated ADdressing the Value of facilitated ANgioplasty after Combination therapy or Eptifibatide monotherapy in acute Myocardial Infarction (ADVANCE MI) trial

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    The ADVANCE MI Investigators

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  • ·Comparison of losartan and captopril on heart failure–related outcomes and symptoms from the losartan heart failure survival study (ELITE II)

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    Marvin A. Konstam, James D. Neaton, Philip A. Poole-Wilson, Bertram Pitt, Robert Segal, Divakar Sharma, Erik J. Dasbach, George W. Carides, Kenneth Dickstein, Günter Riegger, A. John Camm, Felipe A. Martinez, Deborah C. Bradstreet, Leila S. Ikeda, Emanuela P. Santoro, On behalf of the ELITE II investigators

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  • ·Depressive symptoms and inflammation among heart failure patients

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    Amy K. Ferketich, Jeanette Pohorence Ferguson, Philip F. Binkley

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  • ·Prognostic significance of circulating levels of angiogenic cytokines in patients with congestive heart failure

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    Nicolas Lamblin, Sophie Susen, Joël Dagorn, Frédéric Mouquet, Brigitte Jude, Eric Van Belle, Christophe Bauters, Pascal de Groote

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  • ·Correction

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  • ·Relationships among exercise capacity, hypertrophy, and left ventricular diastolic function in nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

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    Afonso Y. Matsumoto, Edmundo Arteaga, Barbara M. Ianni, Ana M.F.W. Braga, Paula C. Buck, Charles Mady

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  • ·Randomized comparison of anterolateral versus anteroposterior electrode position for biphasic external cardioversion of atrial fibrillation

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    Stephanos Siaplaouras, Axel Buob, Carsten Rötter, Michael Böhm, Jens Jung

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  • ·Depressed autonomic nervous system function in African Americans and individuals of lower social class: A potential mechanism of race- and class-related disparities in health outcomes

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    Rachel Lampert, Jeannette Ickovics, Ralph Horwitz, Forrester Lee

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  • ·Prognostic value of electrocardiographic criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy

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    Bill P. Hsieh, Michael X. Pham, Victor F. Froelicher

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  • ·Left ventricular diastolic function in normotensive subjects 2 months after acute myocardial infarction is related to glucose intolerance

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    Abdul-Majeed Salmasi, Peter Frost, Mark Dancy

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  • ·The impact of acute coronary syndrome on clinical, economic, and cardiac-specific health status after coronary artery bypass surgery versus stent-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention: 1-year results from the stent or surgery (SoS) trial

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    Zefeng Zhang, John A. Spertus, Elizabeth M. Mahoney, Jean Booth, Fiona Nugara, Rodney H. Stables, William S. Weintraub

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  • ·Improved long-term survival associated with stent deployment during percutaneous coronary interventions: Results from a registry of 3399 patients

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    Joseph B. Muhlestein, Jeffrey L. Anderson, ChangZong Cui, YanPing Lan, Tami L. Bair, T. Jared Bunch, Robert R. Pearson, Sherman G. Sorensen, Dale G. Renlund, Li Zhang, Benjamin D. Horne, G. Michael Vincent

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  • ·Latin American randomized trial of balloon angioplasty versus coronary stenting in diabetic patients with small vessel reference size (Latin American Small Vessel [LASMAL II] Trial): Immediate and long-term results

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    Alfredo E. Rodriguez, Maximo Rodriguez Alemparte, Carlos Fernandez Pereira, Cesar Federico Vigo, Alberto Sampaolesi, Victor Bernardi, Eugenio Marchand, Jorge Tronge, Igor F. Palacios, LASMAL II Investigators

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  • ·Angiotensin I–converting enzyme insertion/insertion genotype as a genetic risk factor for cardiovascular disease

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    Akiyoshi Ogimoto, Mareomi Hamada, Tetsuro Miki, Jitsuo Higaki

    
  • ·Reply to Ogimoto

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    Hsiang-Tai Chou, Chang-Hai Tsai, Fuu-Jen Tsai

    
  • ·Reply to Ogimoto, Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors as a new therapy for atrial fibrillation? Controversy (Am Heart J 2005;149:e19.)

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    Azfar G. Zaman, Mark T. Kearney

    
  • ·Reply to Al-Shaer, Is atorvastatin more appropriate to use in combination with niacin than simvastatin in patients with the metabolic syndrome? (Am Heart J 2005;149:e17.)

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    Haralampos J. Milionis, Moses S. Elisaf

    
  • ·Azithromycin on soluble cell adhesion molecules and markers of inflammation in survivors of an acute coronary syndrome

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    Maurizio Gabrielli, Marcello Candelli, Luca Santarelli, Paolo Pola, Antonio Gasbarrini

    
  • ·Reply to Gasbarrini

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    Graham Hillis

    
  • ·Index

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    Michael J. Lim, J. Gerard Mudd, Morton J. Kern