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• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Editorials

  • ·Toward evidence-based health care delivery reform

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    Nihar R. Desai

    
  • ·Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in heart failure preserved ejection fraction: Time to expand the paradigm in the prognostic algorithm

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    Marco Guazzi

    

• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·The atrial fibrillation conundrum in dialysis patients

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    An S. De Vriese, Rogier Caluwé, Paolo Raggi

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• Trial Designs

  • ·The LIBERTY study: Design of a prospective, observational, multicenter trial to evaluate the acute and long-term clinical and economic outcomes of real-world endovascular device interventions in treating peripheral artery disease

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    George L. Adams, Jihad Mustapha, William Gray, Nick J. Hargus, Brad J. Martinsen, Gary Ansel, Michael R. Jaff

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  • ·Rationale for the Assessment of Metoprolol in the Prevention of Vasovagal Syncope in Aging Subjects Trial (POST5)

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    Satish R. Raj, Peter D. Faris, Lisa Semeniuk, Braden Manns, Andrew D. Krahn, Carlos A. Morillo, David G. Benditt, Robert S. Sheldon, POST5 Investigators

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  • ·Rationale and design of the EXenatide Study of Cardiovascular Event Lowering (EXSCEL) trial

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    Rury R. Holman, Mary Angelyn Bethel, Jyothis George, Harald Sourij, Zoë Doran, Joanne Keenan, Nardev S. Khurmi, Robert J. Mentz, Abderrahim Oulhaj, John B. Buse, Juliana C. Chan, Nayyar Iqbal, Sudeep Kundu, Aldo P. Maggioni, Steven P. Marso, Peter Öhman, Michael J. Pencina, Neil Poulter, Lisa E. Porter, Ambady Ramachandran, Bernard Zinman, Adrian F. Hernandez

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  • ·A randomized trial to compare the safety of rivaroxaban vs aspirin in addition to either clopidogrel or ticagrelor in acute coronary syndrome: The design of the GEMINI-ACS-1 phase II study

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    Thomas J. Povsic, Matthew T. Roe, Erik Magnus Ohman, Philippe Gabriel Steg, Stefan James, Alexei Plotnikov, Hardi Mundl, Robert Welsh, Christoph Bode, Charles Michael Gibson

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  • ·Rationale and methodology of a collaborative learning project in congenital cardiac care

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    Michael J. Wolf, Eva K. Lee, Susan C. Nicolson, Gail D. Pearson, Madolin K. Witte, Jeryl Huckaby, Michael Gaies, Lara S. Shekerdemian, William T. Mahle, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators

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  • ·Rationale and design of the Aortic Valve replAcemenT versus conservative treatment in Asymptomatic seveRe aortic stenosis (AVATAR trial): A randomized multicenter controlled event-driven trial

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    Marko Banovic, Bernard Iung, Jozef Bartunek, Milika Asanin, Branko Beleslin, Bojan Biocina, Filip Casselman, Mark da Costa, Marek Deja, Hrvoje Gasparovic, Petr Kala, Lois Labrousse, Zlatibor Loncar, Jelena Marinkovic, Ivana Nedeljkovic, Milan Nedeljkovic, Peter Nemec, Serge D. Nikolic, Michael Pencina, Martin Penicka, Arsen Ristic, Faisal Sharif, Guy Van Camp, Marc Vanderheyden, Wojtek Wojakowski, Svetozar Putnik

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Impact of institutional culture on rates of transfusions during cardiovascular procedures: The Michigan experience

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    Donald S. Likosky, Min Zhang, Gaetano Paone, John Collins, Alphonse DeLucia, Theodore Schreiber, Patty Theurer, Samer Kazziha, Dale Leffler, Douglas J. Wunderly, Hitinder S. Gurm, Richard L. Prager, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan Percutaneous Coronary Interventions Collaborative, Michigan Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons Quality Collaborative

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  • ·Clinical characteristics and outcomes after unplanned intraaortic balloon counterpulsation in the Counterpulsation to Reduce Infarct Size Pre-PCI Acute Myocardial Infarction trial

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    Louis P. Kohl, Jeffrey D. Leimberger, Karen Chiswell, W. Schuyler Jones, Holger Thiele, Richard W. Smalling, Praveen Chandra, Marc Cohen, Divaka Perera, Derek P. Chew, John K. French, Jonathan Blaxil, A. Sreenivas Kumar, E. Magnus Ohman, Manesh R. Patel

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  • ·Association of standard clinical and laboratory variables with red blood cell distribution width

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    Patrícia O. Guimarães, Jie-Lena Sun, Kristian Kragholm, Svati H. Shah, Karen S. Pieper, William E. Kraus, Elizabeth R. Hauser, Christopher B. Granger, L. Kristin Newby, MURDOCK Horizon 1 Cardiovascular Study Investigators

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  • ·Racial/ethnic differences in atrial fibrillation symptoms, treatment patterns, and outcomes: Insights from Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation Registry

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    Harsh Golwala, Larry R. Jackson, DaJuanicia N. Simon, Jonathan P. Piccini, Bernard Gersh, Alan S. Go, Elaine M. Hylek, Peter R. Kowey, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Laine Thomas, Gregg C. Fonarow, Eric D. Peterson, Kevin L. Thomas, Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF) Registry

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  • ·Initiation of ?-blocker therapy and depression after acute myocardial infarction

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    Anil M. Ranchord, John A. Spertus, Donna M. Buchanan, Kensey L. Gosch, Paul S. Chan

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  • ·High-sensitive troponin T is associated with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in stable outpatients with type 2 diabetes (ZODIAC-37)

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    Steven H. Hendriks, Peter R. van Dijk, Kornelis J.J. van Hateren, Joost L. van Pelt, Klaas H. Groenier, Henk J.G. Bilo, Stephan J.L. Bakker, Gijs W.D. Landman, Nanne Kleefstra

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  • ·Association between a healthy cardiovascular risk factor profile and coronary artery calcium score: Results from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)

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    Isabela M. Bensenor, Alessandra C. Goulart, Itamar S. Santos, Márcio S. Bittencourt, Alexandre C. Pereira, Raul D. Santos, Khurram Nasir, Ron Blankstein, Paulo A. Lotufo

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  • ·Pooled analysis of adverse event collection from 4 acute coronary syndrome trials

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    André Zimerman, Renato D. Lopes, Amanda L. Stebbins, Patrícia O. Guimarães, Ghazala Haque, Chiara Melloni, Kathleen Trollinger, Stefan K. James, John H. Alexander, Pierluigi Tricoci, Matthew T. Roe, Erik Magnus Ohman, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Claes Held, Brian Tinga, Karen S. Pieper, Karen P. Alexander

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  • ·Effect of Angiotensin II Type I Receptor Blockade with Valsartan on Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis: A Double Blind Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Valsartan and Placebo (EFFERVESCENT)

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    Ronnie Ramadan, Saurabh S. Dhawan, José Nilo G. Binongo, Ayman Alkhoder, Dean P. Jones, John N. Oshinski, Arshed A. Quyyumi

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  • ·Noninvasive cardiac output estimation by inert gas rebreathing in pediatric and congenital heart disease

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    Amanda K. Marma, Alexander R. Opotowsky, Brian S. Fromm, Ana Ubeda-Tikkanen, Diego Porras, Jonathan Rhodes

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  • ·Impact of proton pump inhibitors on clinical outcomes in patients treated with a 6- or 24-month dual-antiplatelet therapy duration: Insights from the PROlonging Dual-antiplatelet treatment after Grading stent-induced Intimal hyperplasia studY trial

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    Giuseppe Gargiulo, Francesco Costa, Sara Ariotti, Simone Biscaglia, Gianluca Campo, Giovanni Esposito, Sergio Leonardi, Pascal Vranckx, Stephan Windecker, Marco Valgimigli

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  • ·Cardiovascular outcomes after pharmacologic stress myocardial perfusion imaging

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    Douglas S. Lee, Mansoor Husain, Xuesong Wang, Peter C. Austin, Robert M. Iwanochko

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  • ·Dual health care system use is associated with higher rates of hospitalization and hospital readmission among veterans with heart failure

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    R. Neal Axon, Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Charles J. Everett, Paul Heidenreich, Kelly J. Hunt

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  • ·Prognostic value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. The Henry ord Hospal ardioulmonary Eercise Testing (FIT-CPX) project

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    Ali Shafiq, Clinton A. Brawner, Heather A. Aldred, Barry Lewis, Celeste T. Williams, Christina Tita, John R. Schairer, Jonathan K. Ehrman, Mauricio Velez, Yelena Selektor, David E. Lanfear, Steven J. Keteyian

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• Letter to the Editors

  • ·Prosthetic valve thrombosis: When prevention is better than treatment

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    Vincenzo Tarzia, Alvise Guariento, Lorenzo Bagozzi, Andrea Bagno, Tomaso Bottio, Gino Gerosa

    
  • ·Multimodality approach to diagnosis of prosthetic valve thrombosis

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    Mustafa Ozan Gürsoy, Macit Kalç?k, Sabahattin Gündüz, Süleyman Karakoyun, Sinan Cer?it, Mahmut Yesin, Emrah Bayam, Mehmet Özkan