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• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Authors

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• Editorial

  • ·Cardiac resynchronization therapy: A regulatory perspective

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    Warren K. Laskey, William H. Maisel

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  • ·From efficacy to safety concerns: A STEP forward or a step back for clinical research and intercessory prayer? : The Study of Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP)

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    Mitchell W. Krucoff, Suzanne W. Crater, Kerry L. Lee

    
  • ·Unraveling the pathophysiology of acute heart failure: An inflammatory proposal

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    G. Michael Felker, Gadi Cotter

    
  • ·The clinically unrecognized Q-wave myocardial infarction: What does it mean and what should we do?

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    David Aguilar

    

• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·A perspective on antiarrhythmic drug therapy to treat atrial fibrillation: There remains an unmet need

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    Albert L. Waldo

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  • ·Rescue percutaneous coronary intervention after failed fibrinolytic therapy: Have expectations been met?

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    David R. Holmes, Bernard J. Gersh, Stephen G. Ellis

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• Trial Design

  • ·The REduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health (REACH) Registry: An international, prospective, observational investigation in subjects at risk for atherothrombotic events-study design

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    E. Magnus Ohman, Deepak L. Bhatt, P. Gabriel Steg, Shinya Goto, Alan T. Hirsch, Chiau-Suong Liau, Jean-Louis Mas, Alain-Jean Richard, Joachim Röther, Peter W.F. Wilson, on behalf of the REACH Registry Investigators

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Concerning the mechanism of pexelizumab's benefit in acute myocardial infarction

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    Paul W. Armstrong, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Wei-Ching Chang, W. Douglas Weaver, Judith S. Hochman, Pierre Theroux, Scott Rollins, Thomas G. Todaro, Christopher B. Granger, COMMA Investigators

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  • ·The greatest benefit of enoxaparin over unfractionated heparin in acute coronary syndromes is achieved in patients presenting with ST-segment changes: The Enoxaparin in Non–Q-Wave Coronary Events (ESSENCE) Electrocardiogram Core Laboratory Substudy

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    Shaun G. Goodman, Gerardo E. Bozovich, Mary Tan, Alfonso Dos Santos, Enrique P. Gurfinkel, Marc Cohen, Anatoly Langer, for the Efficacy and Safety of Subcutaneous Enoxaparin in Non–Q-Wave Coronary Events (ESSENCE) Study Group e

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  • ·Comparison of very early treatment with either fibrinolysis or percutaneous coronary intervention facilitated with abciximab with respect to ST recovery and infarct-related artery epicardial flow in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: The Swedish Early Decision (SWEDES) reperfusion trial

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    Leif Svensson, Mikael Aasa, Mikael Dellborg, C. Michael Gibson, Ajay Kirtane, Johan Herlitz, Ake Ohlsson, Thomas Karlsson, Lars Grip

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  • ·Effect on coronary flow velocity reserve in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: Comparison between angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor and angiotensin II type 1 receptor antagonist

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    Takayuki Kawata, Masao Daimon, Rei Hasegawa, Kiyomi Teramoto, Tomohiko Toyoda, Tai Sekine, Kyohei Yamamoto, Daigaku Uchida, Toshiharu Himi, Katsuya Yoshida, Issei Komuro

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  • ·Unrecognized myocardial infarction: The association with cardiopulmonary symptoms and mortality is mediated via echocardiographic abnormalities of global dysfunction instead of regional dysfunction : The Olmsted County Heart Function Study

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    Khawaja Afzal Ammar, Ravindrakumar Makwana, Margaret M. Redfield, Jan A. Kors, John C. Burnett, Richard J. Rodeheffer

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  • ·Ventricular arrhythmias after acute myocardial infarction: A 20-year community study

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    Danielle M. Henkel, Brandi J. Witt, Bernard J. Gersh, Steven J. Jacobsen, Susan A. Weston, Ryan A. Meverden, Véronique L. Roger

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  • ·Angina symptoms in men and women with stable coronary artery disease and evidence of exercise-induced myocardial perfusion defects

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    Bianca D'Antono, Gilles Dupuis, Christophe Fortin, André Arsenault, Denis Burelle

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  • ·Prophylactic pacemaker use to allow ?-blocker therapy in patients with chronic heart failure with bradycardia

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    Eric C. Stecker, A. Mark Fendrick, Bradley P. Knight, Keith D. Aaronson

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  • ·Heart rate variability in patients with cardiac hypertrophy—Relation to left ventricular mass and etiology

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    Peter Alter, Wolfram Grimm, Anna Vollrath, Friederike Czerny, Bernhard Maisch

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  • ·Clinical predictors and timing of New York Heart Association class improvement with cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with advanced chronic heart failure: Results from the Multicenter InSync Randomized Clinical Evaluation (MIRACLE) and Multicenter InSync ICD Randomized Clinical Evaluation (MIRACLE-ICD) trials

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    Luis A. Pires, William T. Abraham, James B. Young, Katrina M. Johnson, the MIRACLE and MIRACLE-ICD Investigators 1

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  • ·Rapid titration of carvedilol in patients with congestive heart failure: A randomized trial of automated telemedicine versus frequent outpatient clinic visits

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    Jeffrey Spaeder, Samer S. Najjar, Gary Gerstenblith, Gail Hefter, Linda Kern, James G. Palmer, Sheldon H. Gottlieb, Edward K. Kasper

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  • ·Inflammation and long-term mortality in acute congestive heart failure

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    Christian Mueller, Kirsten Laule-Kilian, Andreas Christ, Hans Peter Brunner–La Rocca, André P. Perruchoud

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  • ·A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, crossover study to evaluate the efficacy of oral sildenafil therapy in severe pulmonary artery hypertension

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    Tarvinder P. Singh, Manojkumar Rohit, Anil Grover, Samir Malhotra, Rajesh Vijayvergiya

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  • ·Prognostic value of heart rate recovery in patients with heart failure

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    Ross Arena, Marco Guazzi, Jonathan Myers, Mary Ann Peberdy

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  • ·Renal insufficiency predicts the time to first appropriate defibrillator shock

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    Haitham Hreybe, Rana Ezzeddine, Maninder Bedi, William Barrington, Raveen Bazaz, Leonard I. Ganz, Sandeep Jain, Ogundu Ngwu, Barry London, Samir Saba

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  • ·Intake of very long-chain n-3 fatty acids from fish and incidence of atrial fibrillation. The Rotterdam Study

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    Ingeborg A. Brouwer, Jan Heeringa, Johanna M. Geleijnse, Peter L. Zock, Jacqueline C.M. Witteman

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  • ·A randomized trial of prophylactic antiarrhythmic agents (amiodarone and sotalol) in patients with atrial fibrillation for whom direct current cardioversion is planned

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    Kunadian Vijayalakshmi, Victoria J. Whittaker, Andrew Sutton, Philip Campbell, Robert A. Wright, James A. Hall, Alun A. Harcombe, Nicholas J. Linker, Michael J. Stewart, Adrian Davies, Mark A. de Belder

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  • ·Common adrenergic receptor polymorphisms as novel risk factors for vasospastic angina

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    Jin-Shik Park, Shu-Ying Zhang, Sang-Ho Jo, Jae-Bin Seo, Lian Li, Kyung-Woo Park, Byung-Hee Oh, Young-Bae Park, Hyo-Soo Kim

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  • ·Effects of lifestyle modification on the progression of coronary atherosclerosis, autonomic function, and angina—The role of GNB3 C825T polymorphism

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    Andreas Michalsen, Nicola T.M. Knoblauch, Nils Lehmann, Paul Grossman, Gert Kerkhoff, Frank H. Wilhelm, Susanne Moebus, Stavros Konstantinides, Lutz Binder, Gerd Heusch, Winfried Siffert, Thomas Budde, Gustav J. Dobos

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  • ·Single-nucleotide polymorphisms of VEGF gene are associated with risk of congenital valvuloseptal heart defects

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    Ádám Vannay, Barna Vásárhelyi, Mária Környei, András Treszl, Gergely Kozma, Balázs Györffy, Tivadar Tulassay, Endre Sulyok

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  • ·Determining myocardial viability in chronic ischemic left ventricular dysfunction: A prospective comparison of rest-redistribution thallium 201 single-photon emission computed tomography, nitroglycerin-dobutamine echocardiography, and intracoronary myocardial contrast echocardiography

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    Lieng H. Ling, Timothy F. Christian, Sharon L. Mulvagh, Kyle W. Klarich, Mary F. Hauser, Rick A. Nishimura, Patricia A. Pellikka

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  • ·Evaluation of a specific activity questionnaire to predict mortality in men referred for exercise testing

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    Paul McAuley, Jonathan Myers, Joshua Abella, Victor Froelicher

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  • ·Restrictive physiology in cardiogenic shock: Observations from echocardiography

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    Harmony R. Reynolds, Sumeet K. Anand, Justin M. Fox, Shannon Harkness, Vladimir Dzavik, Harvey D. White, John G. Webb, Kenneth Gin, Judith S. Hochman, Michael H. Picard

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  • ·Elective percutaneous coronary intervention immediately impairs resting microvascular perfusion assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

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    Andrew J. Taylor, Nidal Al-Saadi, Hassan Abdel-Aty, Jeanette Schulz-Menger, Daniel R. Messroghli, Michael Gross, Rainer Dietz, Matthias G. Friedrich

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  • ·Continuous 12-lead electrocardiographic ST monitoring and long-term prognosis after successful coronary stenting

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    Michael N. Zairis, Stavros J. Manousakis, Evdokia N. Adamopoulou, Stamatis S. Makrygiannis, Markos P. Glyptis, Demetrios J. Beldekos, Nikolaos G. Patsourakos, Christopher D. Olympios, Athanasios A. Prekates, Stefanos G. Foussas

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  • ·Intravascular ultrasound assessment of the spatial distribution of ruptured coronary plaques in the left anterior descending coronary artery

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    Jerzy Pregowski, Pawel Tyczynski, Gary S. Mintz, Sang-Wook Kim, Adam Witkowski, Lowell Satler, Mariusz Kruk, Ron Waksman, Akiko Maehara, Neil J. Weissman

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  • ·Do operator volumes relate to clinical outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention in the Canadian health care system?

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    Warren J. Cantor, Ruth Hall, Jack V. Tu

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  • ·Cardiac procedure use following acute myocardial infarction among American Indians

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    Thomas D. Sequist, Alan M. Zaslavsky, James M. Galloway, John Z. Ayanian

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  • ·Six-month outcomes after percutaneous intervention for lesions in aortocoronary saphenous vein grafts using distal protection devices: Results from the FIRE trial

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    Amir Halkin, A. Zaki Masud, Campbell Rogers, James Hermiller, Robert Feldman, Patrick Hall, Robert H. Haber, Patrick A. Cambier, Ron P. Caputo, Mark Turco, Richard Kovach, Bruce Brodie, Howard C. Herrmann, Richard E. Kuntz, Jeffrey J. Popma, Steve Ramee, David A. Cox, Roxana Mehran, Gregg W. Stone

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  • ·Frequency of clinically unsuspected myocardial injury at a children's hospital

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    Steven E. Lipshultz, Julia C.L. Wong, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Valeriano C. Simbre, Karolina M. Zareba, Vartouhi Galpechian, Nader Rifai

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  • ·Transcatheter patent foramen ovale closure mitigates aura migraine headaches abolishing spontaneous right-to-left shunting

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    Alessandro Giardini, Andrea Donti, Roberto Formigari, Luisa Salomone, Daniela Prandstraller, Marco Bonvicini, Gualtiero Palareti, Donata Guidetti, Oscar Gaddi, Fernando Maria Picchio

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  • ·Impairment of physical exercise capacity in healthy postmenopausal women

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    Giuseppe Mercuro, Francesca Saiu, Martino Deidda, Silvia Mercuro, Cristiana Vitale, Giuseppe M.C. Rosano

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  • ·The extracardiac lateral tunnel Fontan, constructed with bovine pericardium: Comparison with the extracardiac conduit Fontan

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    Matthew S. Lemler, Claudio Ramaciotti, Daniel Stromberg, William A. Scott, Steven R. Leonard

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  • ·Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients: A multicenter randomized trial of uncertainty and certainty of receiving intercessory prayer

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    Herbert Benson, Jeffery A. Dusek, Jane B. Sherwood, Peter Lam, Charles F. Bethea, William Carpenter, Sidney Levitsky, Peter C. Hill, Donald W. Clem, Manoj K. Jain, David Drumel, Stephen L. Kopecky, Paul S. Mueller, Dean Marek, Sue Rollins, Patricia L. Hibberd

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  • ·Left ventricular remodeling impacts the function of the Quattro stentless mitral valve bioprosthesis (a 4-year experience)

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    Mirko Doss, Tayfun Aybek, Jeffrey Paul Wood, Sven Martens, Gerhard Wimmer-Greinecker, Anton Moritz

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·Is nesiritide really that good or that bad?

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    Tsung O. Cheng

    
  • ·Response to letter to the editor by Cheng

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    Robert L. Fitzgerald, Alan Maisel, Vikas Bhalla