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• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Trial Design

  • ·Study of Heart and Renal Protection (SHARP): Randomized trial to assess the effects of lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol among 9,438 patients with chronic kidney disease

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  • ·Design and rationale of the Reduction of Infarct Expansion and Ventricular Remodeling with Erythropoietin after Large Myocardial Infarction (REVEAL) trial

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    Chiara Melloni, Sunil V. Rao, Thomas J. Povsic, Laura Melton, Raymond J. Kim, Rakhi Kilaru, Manesh R. Patel, Mark Talan, Luigi Ferrucci, Dan L. Longo, Edward G. Lakatta, Samer S. Najjar, Robert A. Harrington

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  • ·Randomized comparison of 6- versus 24-month clopidogrel therapy after balancing anti-intimal hyperplasia stent potency in all-comer patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention : Design and rationale for the PROlonging Dual-antiplatelet treatment after Grading stent-induced Intimal hyperplasia study (PRODIGY)

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    Marco Valgimigli, Gianluca Campo, Gianfranco Percoco, Monia Monti, Fabrizio Ferrari, Carlo Tumscitz, Andrea Zuffi, Federico Colombo, Moh'd Kubbajeh, Caterina Cavazza, Elisa Cangiano, Matteo Tebaldi, Monica Minarelli, Chiara Arcozzi, Antonella Scalone, Alice Frangione, Marco Borghesi, Jlenia Marchesini, Giovanni Parrinello, Roberto Ferrari

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  • ·Rationale and design of a trial on the effect of angiotensin II receptor blockers on the function of the systemic right ventricle

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    Teun van der Bom, Michiel M. Winter, Berto J. Bouma, Maarten Groenink, Hubert W. Vliegen, Petronella G. Pieper, Arie P.J. van Dijk, Gertjan T. Sieswerda, Jolien W. Roos-Hesslink, Aielko H. Zwinderman, Barbara J.M. Mulder

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Troponin-positive, MB-negative patients with non–ST-elevation myocardial infarction: An undertreated but high-risk patient group: Results from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network–Get With The Guidelines (NCDR ACTION-GWTG) Registry

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    Michael C. Kontos, James A. de Lemos, Fang-Shu Ou, Stephan D. Wiviott, Joanne M. Foody, L. Kristin Newby, Anita Chen, Matthew T. Roe

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  • ·“Do GRACE (Global Registry of Acute Coronary events) risk scores still maintain their performance for predicting mortality in the era of contemporary management of acute coronary syndromes?”

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    Emad Abu-Assi, Ignacio Ferreira-González, Aida Ribera, Josep R. Marsal, Purificación Cascant, Magda Heras, Héctor Bueno, Pedro L. Sánchez, Fernando Arós, Jaume Marrugat, David García-Dorado, Carlos Peña-Gil, Jose R. González-Juanatey, Gaietà Permanyer-Miralda

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  • ·Early and late outcome prediction of death in the emergency room setting by point-of-care and laboratory assays of cardiac troponin I

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    Per Venge, Claes Öhberg, Mats Flodin, Bertil Lindahl

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  • ·Does ST resolution achieved via different reperfusion strategies (fibrinolysis vs percutaneous coronary intervention) have different prognostic meaning in ST-elevation myocardial infarction? A systematic review

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    Cheuk-Kit Wong, Sophia Leon de la Barra, Peter Herbison

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  • ·Can an elderly woman's heart be too strong? : Increased mortality with high versus normal ejection fraction after an acute coronary syndrome. The Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events

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    Fadi A. Saab, Philippe Gabriel Steg, Álvaro Avezum, José López-Sendón, Frederick A. Anderson, Wei Huang, Kim A. Eagle

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  • ·Association between smoking, outcomes, and early clopidogrel use in patients with acute coronary syndrome: Insights from the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events

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    Matthew Sibbald, Andrew T. Yan, Wei Huang, Keith A.A. Fox, Joel M. Gore, Ph. Gabriel Steg, Kim A. Eagle, David Brieger, Gilles Montalescot, Shaun G. Goodman

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  • ·Early hemodynamic and neurohormonal response after transcatheter aortic valve implantation

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    Mohammad A. Sherif, Mohamed Abdel-Wahab, Omar Awad, Volker Geist, Ghada El-Shahed, Reinhard Semmler, Mazen Tawfik, Ahmed A. Khattab, Doreen Richardt, Gert Richardt, Ralph Tölg

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  • ·Ventricular response to stress predicts outcome in adult patients with a systemic right ventricle

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    Michiel M. Winter, Roderick W.C. Scherptong, Sabina Kumar, Berto J. Bouma, Igor I. Tulevski, Laurens F. Tops, Arno A.W. Roest, Hubert W. Vliegen, Albert de Roos, Maarten Groenink, Barbara J.M. Mulder

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  • ·Echocardiographic left atrial reverse remodeling after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation is predicted by preablation delayed enhancement of left atrium by magnetic resonance imaging

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    Suman S. Kuppahally, Nazem Akoum, Troy J. Badger, Nathan S. Burgon, Thomas Haslam, Eugene Kholmovski, Rob Macleod, Christopher McGann, Nassir F. Marrouche

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  • ·Generalizability and longitudinal outcomes of a national heart failure clinical registry: Comparison of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry (ADHERE) and non-ADHERE Medicare beneficiaries

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    Robb D. Kociol, Bradley G. Hammill, Gregg C. Fonarow, Winslow Klaskala, Roger M. Mills, Adrian F. Hernandez, Lesley H. Curtis

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  • ·Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration is associated with functional capacity in older adults with heart failure

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    Rebecca S. Boxer, Anne M. Kenny, Vinay K. Cheruvu, Marianne Vest, Justin J. Fiutem, Ileana I. Piña

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  • ·Cardiopulmonary exercise testing characteristics in heart failure patients with and without concomitant chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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    Marco Guazzi, Jonathan Myers, Marco Vicenzi, Daniel Bensimhon, Paul Chase, Sherry Pinkstaff, Ross Arena

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  • ·Clinical and prognostic role of pressure-volume relationship in the identification of responders to cardiac resynchronization therapy

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    Quirino Ciampi, Lorenza Pratali, Rodolfo Citro, Bruno Villari, Eugenio Picano, Rosa Sicari

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  • ·Effect of eplerenone versus spironolactone on cortisol and hemoglobin A_1c levels in patients with chronic heart failure

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    Masayuki Yamaji, Takayoshi Tsutamoto, Chiho Kawahara, Keizo Nishiyama, Takashi Yamamoto, Masanori Fujii, Minoru Horie

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  • ·Prognostic usefulness of the functional aerobic reserve in patients with heart failure

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    Paul Chase, Ross Arena, Marco Guazzi, Jonathan Myers, Mary Ann Peberdy, Daniel Bensimhon

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  • ·Uric acid level and allopurinol use as risk markers of mortality and morbidity in systolic heart failure

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    Audrey H. Wu, Jalal K. Ghali, Gerald W. Neuberg, Christopher M. O'Connor, Peter E. Carson, Wayne C. Levy

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  • ·Physician diagnosis of overweight status predicts attempted and successful weight loss in patients with cardiovascular disease and central obesity

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    Siddharth Singh, Virend K. Somers, Matthew M. Clark, Kristin Vickers, Donald D. Hensrud, Yoel Korenfeld, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez

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  • ·Who is missing from the measures? Trends in the proportion and treatment of patients potentially excluded from publicly reported quality measures

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    Susannah M. Bernheim, Yongfei Wang, Elizabeth H. Bradley, Frederick A. Masoudi, Saif S. Rathore, Joseph S. Ross, Elizabeth Drye, Harlan M. Krumholz

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  • ·Association of prior coronary artery bypass graft surgery with quality of care of patients with non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: A report from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network Registry-Get With the Guidelines

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    Michael S. Kim, Tracy Y. Wang, Fang-Shu Ou, Andrew J. Klein, Paul A. Hudson, John C. Messenger, Frederick A. Masoudi, John S. Rumsfeld, P. Michael Ho

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  • ·Increasing rates of angioplasty versus bypass surgery in Canada, 1994-2005

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    Ansar Hassan, Alice Newman, Dennis T. Ko, Stéphane Rinfret, Gregory Hirsch, William A. Ghali, Jack V. Tu

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  • ·Thrombus aspiration followed by direct stenting: A novel strategy of primary percutaneous coronary intervention in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Results of the Polish-Italian-Hungarian RAndomized ThrombEctomy Trial (PIHRATE Trial)

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    Dariusz Dudek, Waldemar Mielecki, Francesco Burzotta, Mariusz Gasior, Adam Witkowski, Ivan G. Horvath, Jacek Legutko, Andrzej Ochala, Paolo Rubartelli, Roman M. Wojdyla, Zbigniew Siudak, Piotr Buchta, Jerzy Pregowski, Daniel Aradi, Andrzej Machnik, Michal Hawranek, Tomasz Rakowski, Artur Dziewierz, Krzysztof Zmudka

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  • ·Long-term outcomes after drug-eluting stent for the treatment of ostial left anterior descending coronary artery lesions

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    Piera Capranzano, Alessandra Sanfilippo, Francesco Tagliareni, Davide Capodanno, Sergio Monaco, Gennaro Sardella, Arturo Giordano, Giuseppe M. Sangiorgi, Corrado Tamburino

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  • ·Differential effects of post-dilation after stent deployment in patients presenting with and without acute myocardial infarction

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    Zhi-Jiang Zhang, Oscar C. Marroquin, Roslyn A. Stone, Joel L. Weissfeld, Suresh R. Mulukutla, Faith Selzer, Kevin E. Kip

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  • ·Incidence and natural history of coronary artery aneurysm developing after drug-eluting stent implantation

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    Chul-Min Ahn, Bum-Kee Hong, Jong-Youn Kim, Pil-Ki Min, Young W. Yoon, Byoung K. Lee, Hyuck M. Kwon, Jung-Sun Kim, Young-Guk Ko, Donghoon Choi, Myeong-Ki Hong, Yangsoo Jang, Won-Heum Shim, Seung-Yun Cho, Byeong-Keuk Kim, Seongjin Oh, Dong W. Jeon, Joo Y. Yang, Jae-Hun Jung

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·Red blood cell storage duration and mortality in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (Am Heart J 2010;159:876-81)

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    Cong Lu, Yu Cheng Chen

    
  • ·Response to the letter regarding the article “Red blood cell storage duration and mortality in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention”

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    Simon Robinson, Christian Janssen, W. Peter Klinke