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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

  • ·Primary percutaneous coronary intervention without cardiac surgery on-site: Coming to a hospital near you?

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    Alice K. Jacobs

    
  • ·Improving adherence to medications—Can we make this horse drink?

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    Debabrata Mukherjee

    

• Progress in Cardiology

  • ·Antiplatelet drug nonresponsiveness

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    Patrick Gladding, Mark Webster, John Ormiston, Sarah Olsen, Harvey White

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• Trial Design

  • ·A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study to evaluate the cardioprotective effects of MC-1 in patients undergoing high-risk coronary artery bypass graft surgery: MC-1 to Eliminate Necrosis and Damage in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Trial (MEND-CABG) II—study design and rationale

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    Rajendra H. Mehta, John H. Alexander, Robert Emery, Stephen J. Ellis, Vic Hasselblad, Ahmad Khalil, Michel Carrier, Robert A. Harrington, Jean-Claude Tardif, on behalf of the MEND-CABG II Investigators

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  • ·Drug-eluting or bare-metal stents for large coronary vessel stenting? The BASKET-PROVE (PROspective Validation Examination) trial: Study protocol and design

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    Matthias Pfisterer, Osmund Bertel, Piero O. Bonetti, Hans Peter Brunner-La Rocca, Franz R. Eberli, Paul Erne, Soeren Galatius, Burkhard Hornig, Wolfgang Kiowski, Otmar Pachinger, Giovanni Pedrazzini, Hans Rickli, Stefano De Servi, Christoph Kaiser, for the BASKET-PROVE Investigators l

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• AHJ at the Meetings

  • ·Highlights from American Heart Association, November 4 to 7, 2007, Orlando, FL : Late-breaking trials summary

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    Larry A. Allen, E. Marc Jolicoeur, Chiara Melloni, Renato D. Lopes, Mark Y. Chan, Mohamed Majidi, Jonathan P. Piccini, Jeffrey S. Berger, Jason N. Katz, Bimal R. Shah

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Are “treatment” bare metal stents superior to “control” bare metal stents? A meta-analytic approach

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    David M. Kent, Thomas A. Trikalinos

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  • ·Comparative safety and efficacy of a sirolimus-eluting versus paclitaxel-eluting stent: A meta-analysis

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    Hitinder S. Gurm, Thomas Boyden, Kathy B. Welch

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  • ·The effect of drug-eluting stents on intermediate angiographic and clinical outcomes in diabetic patients: Insights from randomized clinical trials

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    Dharam J. Kumbhani, Anthony A. Bavry, Apur R. Kamdar, Thomas J. Helton, Deepak L. Bhatt

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  • ·Late thrombosis of paclitaxel-eluting stents: Long-term incidence, clinical consequences, and risk factors in a cohort of 604 patients

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    Xacobe Flores-Ríos, Raquel Marzoa-Rivas, Juan Pablo Abugattás-de Torres, Pablo Piñón-Esteban, Guillermo Aldama-López, Jorge Salgado-Fernández, Ramón Calviño-Santos, José Manuel Vázquez-Rodríguez, Nicolás Vázquez-González, Alfonso Castro-Beiras

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  • ·Clinical, procedural, and pharmacologic correlates of acute and subacute stent thrombosis: Results of a multicenter case-control study with 145 thrombosis events

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    Michael J. Rinaldi, Ajay J. Kirtane, Robert N. Piana, Ronald P. Caputo, Paul C. Gordon, John J. Lopez, Harold L. Dauerman, Thomas J. Ryan, Francis J. Kiernan, Donald E. Cutlip, Kalon K.L. Ho, C. Michael Gibson, Sabina A. Murphy, David J. Cohen

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  • ·Simultaneous “hybrid” percutaneous coronary intervention and minimally invasive surgical bypass grafting: Feasibility, safety, and clinical outcomes

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    Barry Reicher, Robert S. Poston, Mandeep R. Mehra, Ashish Joshi, Patrick Odonkor, Zachary Kon, Peter A. Reyes, David A. Zimrin

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  • ·Primary percutaneous coronary intervention expansion to hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery in Michigan: A geographic information systems analysis

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    Jeremy W. Buckley, Eric R. Bates, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu

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  • ·Prognostic importance of creatine kinase and creatine kinase–MB after primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction

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    Mark B. Nienhuis, Jan Paul Ottervanger, Menko-Jan de Boer, Jan-Henk E. Dambrink, Jan C.A. Hoorntje, A.T. Marcel Gosselink, Harry Suryapranata, Arnoud W.J. van't Hof, on behalf of the Zwolle Myocardial Infarction Study Group

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  • ·Drug-eluting stents in octogenarians: Early and intermediate outcome

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    Pieter J Vlaar, Ryan J Lennon, Charanjit S Rihal, Mandeep Singh, Henry H Ting, John F Bresnahan, David R Holmes

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  • ·The efficacy and safety of short- and long-term dual antiplatelet therapy in patients with mild or moderate chronic kidney disease: Results from the Clopidogrel for the Reduction of Events During Observation (CREDO) Trial

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    Patricia J.M. Best, Steven R. Steinhubl, Peter B. Berger, Arijit Dasgupta, Danielle M. Brennan, Lynda A. Szczech, Robert M. Califf, Eric J. Topol, for the CREDO Investigators

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  • ·Accuracy of real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography in the assessment of mitral prolapse. Is transesophageal echocardiography still mandatory?

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    Juan Luis Gutiérrez-Chico, José Luis Zamorano Gómez, José Luis Rodrigo-López, Luis Mataix, Leopoldo Pérez de Isla, Carlos Almería-Valera, Adalia Aubele, Carlos Macaya-Miguel

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  • ·Association of neighborhood socioeconomic status with physical fitness in healthy young adults: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study

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    Mehdi H. Shishehbor, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Catarina I. Kiefe, David Litaker

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  • ·High-risk myocardial infarction in the young: The VALsartan In Acute myocardial iNfarcTion (VALIANT) trial

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    Rachel E. Anderson, Marc A. Pfeffer, Jens Jakob Thune, John J.V. McMurray, Robert M. Califf, Eric Velazquez, Harvey D. White, Jean L. Rouleau, Hicham Skali, Aldo Maggioni, Scott D. Solomon

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  • ·Effects of pioglitazone on major adverse cardiovascular events in high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes: Results from PROspective pioglitAzone Clinical Trial In macro Vascular Events (PROactive 10)

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    Robert Wilcox, Stuart Kupfer, Erland Erdmann, on behalf of the PROactive Study investigators

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  • ·Quantitative troponin elevation does not provide incremental prognostic value beyond comprehensive risk stratification in patients with non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes

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    Ki-Dong Lim, Andrew T. Yan, Amparo Casanova, Raymond T. Yan, Aurora Mendelsohn, Sanjit Jolly, David H. Fitchett, Anatoly Langer, Shaun G. Goodman, for the Canadian ACS Registry II Investigators

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  • ·Estimated glomerular filtration rate, inflammation, and cardiovascular events after an acute coronary syndrome

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    Lisa M. Mielniczuk, Marc A. Pfeffer, Eldrin F. Lewis, Michael A. Blazing, James A. de Lemos, Amy Shui, Satish Mohanavelu, Robert M. Califf, Eugene Braunwald

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  • ·Development of tricuspid regurgitation late after left-sided valve surgery: A single-center experience with long-term echocardiographic examinations

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    Jae-Jin Kwak, Yong-Jin Kim, Min-Kyung Kim, Hyung-Kwan Kim, Jin-Shik Park, Kyung-Hwan Kim, Ki-Bong Kim, Hyuk Ahn, Dae-Won Sohn, Byung-Hee Oh, Young-Bae Park

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  • ·Identification and viability assessment of infarcted myocardium with late enhancement multidetector computed tomography: Comparison with thallium single photon emission computed tomography and echocardiography

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    Kuan-Rau Chiou, Chun-Peng Liu, Nan-Jing Peng, Wei-Chun Huang, Shih-Hung Hsiao, Yi-Luan Huang, Kuen-Huang Chen, Ming-Ting Wu

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  • ·Clinical response of cardiac resynchronization therapy in the elderly

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    Peter Paul H.M. Delnoy, Jan Paul Ottervanger, Henk Oude Luttikhuis, Arif Elvan, Anand R. Ramdat Misier, Willem P. Beukema, Norbert M. van Hemel

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  • ·Effects of darbepoetin ? on right and left ventricular systolic and diastolic function in anemic patients with chronic heart failure secondary to ischemic or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

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    John T. Parissis, Kallirrhoe Kourea, Fotios Panou, Dimitrios Farmakis, Ioannis Paraskevaidis, Ignatios Ikonomidis, Gerasimos Filippatos, Dimitrios Th. Kremastinos

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  • ·Exercise does not enhance the prognostic value of Doppler echocardiography in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction and functional mitral regurgitation at rest

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    Pierre V. Ennezat, Sylvestre Maréchaux, Clémence Huerre, Ghislaine Deklunder, Philippe Asseman, Brigitte Jude, Eric Van Belle, Frédéric Mouquet, Christophe Bauters, Nicolas Lamblin, Thierry H. LeJemtel, Pascal de Groote

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  • ·Noninvasively determined radial dP/dt is a predictor of mortality in patients with heart failure

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    Jean-Michel Tartière, Jean-Yves Tabet, Damien Logeart, Lamia Tartière-Kesri, Florence Beauvais, Christophe Chavelas, Alain Cohen Solal

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  • ·Delivering heart failure disease management in 3 tertiary care centers: Key clinical components and venues of care

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    Monica R. Shah, David J. Whellan, Eric D. Peterson, Anju Nohria, Vic Hasselblad, Zhenyi Xue, Margaret T. Bowers, Christopher M. O'Connor, Robert M. Califf, Lynne W. Stevenson

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  • ·Relationships of thoracic aortic wall calcification to cardiovascular risk factors: The Multi–Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

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    Junichiro Takasu, Ronit Katz, Khurram Nasir, J. Jeffrey Carr, Nathan Wong, Robert Detrano, Matthew J. Budoff

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  • ·Medication nonadherence is associated with a broad range of adverse outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease

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    P. Michael Ho, David J. Magid, Susan M. Shetterly, Kari L. Olson, Thomas M. Maddox, Pamela N. Peterson, Frederick A. Masoudi, John S. Rumsfeld

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·Vitamin C and mitochondrial uncoupling protein in enhanced dobutamine myocardial contractility

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    Craig S. McLachlan, Zakaria Almsherqi, Yuru Deng, Slade Matthews, Peter Mossop

    
  • ·Sodium bicarbonate, N-acetylcysteine, and saline for the prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy

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    Alberto Bouzas-Mosquera, Alejandro Recio-Mayoral

    
  • ·Monitoring the efficacy of antiplatelet therapy: all methods are equal, but some methods are more equal than others?

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    Daniel Aradi, Margit Tökés-Füzesi, Tünde Paska, András Komócsi

    
  • ·Monitoring the efficacy of antiplatelet therapy: All methods are equal, but are some methods more equal than others?

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    Stefanos G. Foussas, Michael N. Zairis, Nikolaos G. Patsourakos

    
  • ·Carotid plaque screening as a motivational tool for healthy behavior

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    David Nanchen, Jacques Cornuz, Nicolas Rodondi, Pascal Bovet

    
  • ·Response to “Carotid plaque screening as a motivational tool for healthy behavior” by Nanchen et al

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    James H. Stein, Rachael A. Wyman

    
  • ·Revisiting the role of percutaneous revascularization versus medical therapy for later infarct-related artery occlusion (letter of comment on Ioannidis and Katritsis. Am Heart J. 2007;154:1065-71)

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    Darryn Appleton, Antonio Abbate, Giuseppe G.L. Biondi-Zoccai, Sara Delcré, Mario Bollati, Imad Sheiban, Pierfrancesco Agostoni

    
  • ·Percutaneous coronary intervention after myocardial infarction and the late open artery hypothesis

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    John P.A. Ioannidis, Demosthenes G. Katritsis