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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Preventing neurologic complications in coronary artery surgery: The “off-pump, no-touch” technique

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    Marco Ricci, Hratch L. Karamanoukian, Giuseppe D’Ancona, Jacob Bergsland, Tomas A. Salerno

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• • ·The prothrombotic state in atrial fibrillation: New insights, more questions, and clear answers needed

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    Gregory Y.H. Lip

    
• • ·Cardiac marker testing: Where should we focus?

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    L.Kristin Newby

    
• • ·Clopidogrel instead of ticlopidine after coronary stent placement: Is the switch justified?

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    Peter B. Berger

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• • ·Should we measure health-related quality of life?

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    Mark Hlatky

     
• • ·Rationale for the use of combination angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor/angiotensin II receptor blocker therapy in heart failure

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    Peter E. Carson

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• • ·Randomized trial of sertraline in patients with unexplained chest pain of noncardiac origin

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    Indira Varia, Eric Logue, Christopher O’Connor, Kristin Newby, H.Ryan Wagner, Charles Davenport, Kenneth Rathey, K.Ranga Krishnan

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• • ·Very early risk stratification after thrombolytic therapy with a bedside myoglobin assay and the 12-lead electrocardiogram

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    James A. de Lemos, Elliott M. Antman, Robert P. Giugliano, David A. Morrow, Carolyn H. McCabe, Andrew Charlesworth, Rolf Schröder, Eugene Braunwald, for the InTIME-II investigators

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• • ·D -Dimer is an early diagnostic marker of coronary ischemia in patients with chest pain

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    Antoni Bayes-Genis, Jose Mateo, Miquel Santaló, Artur Oliver, Josep Guindo, Lina Badimon, Antoni Martínez-Rubio, Jordi Fontcuberta, Robert S. Schwartz, Antoni Bayés de Luna

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• • ·Negative T waves shortly after ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction are a powerful marker for improved survival rate

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    Elena B. Sgarbossa, Peter M. Meyer, Sergio L. Pinski, Biljana Pavlovic-Surjancev, Alejandro Barbagelata, Shaun G. Goodman, Andrea S. Lum, Donald A. Underwood, Kathy B. Gates, Robert M. Califf, Eric J. Topol, Galen S. Wagner

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• • ·Intravascular ultrasound findings of negative arterial remodeling at sites of focal coronary spasm in patients with vasospastic angina

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    Myeong-Ki Hong, Seong-Wook Park, Cheol Whan Lee, Jae-Yoon Ko, Duk-Hyun Kang, Jae-Kwan Song, Jae-Joong Kim, Gary S. Mintz, Seung-Jung Park

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• • ·A Canadian comparison of data sources for coronary artery bypass surgery outcome “report cards”

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    William A. Ghali, Deanna M. Rothwell, Hude Quan, Rollin Brant, Jack V. Tu, the Steering Committee of the Cardiac Care Network of Ontario*

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• • ·Association of patients’ perception of health status and exercise electrocardiogram, myocardial perfusion imaging, and ventricular function measures

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    Jennifer A. Mattera, Carlos Mendes de Leon, Frans J.Th. Wackers, Christianna S. Williams, Yongfei Wang, Harlan M. Krumholz

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• • ·Expensive medical technologies and “indication extrapolation”: The case of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

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    Christopher S. Simpson, George J. Klein, Barry Hoffmaster

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• • ·Coagulation indicators in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: Effects of electric and pharmacologic cardioversion

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    Carlo Giansante, Nicola Fiotti, Maddalena Miccio, Nicola Altamura, Rosamaria Salvi, Gianfranco Guarnieri

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• • ·Sex-dependent electrocardiographic pattern of cardiac repolarization

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    Héctor Bidoggia, Juan P. Maciel, Norberto Capalozza, Susana Mosca, Enrique J. Blaksley, Esteban Valverde, Guillermo Bertran, Pedro Arini, Marcelo O. Biagetti, Ricardo A. Quinteiro

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• • ·Decreasing the number of leads required for an implantable atrial defibrillator: Use of a new 2-lead system

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    Carl Timmermans, Luz-Maria Rodriguez, Gregory M. Ayers, Sandrine Masset, David G. Reuter, Hein J.J. Wellens

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• • ·Effects of diltiazem pretreatment on direct-current cardioversion in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation: A single-blind, randomized, controlled study

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    Giovanni Quinto Villani, Massimo F. Piepoli, Cesare Terracciano, Alessandro Capucci

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• • ·Pilsicainide for conversion and maintenance of sinus rhythm in chronic atrial fibrillation: A placebo-controlled, multicenter study

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    Kaoru Okishige, Mitsuhiro Nishizaki, Kouji Azegami, Masayuki Igawa, Noriyoshi Yamawaki, Kazutaka Aonuma, the Kanagawa Arrhythmia Task Force investigators

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• • ·Increased risk of congestive heart failure among infarctions with nighttime onset

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    Kenneth J. Mukamal, James E. Muller, Malcolm Maclure, Jane B. Sherwood, Murray A. Mittleman

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• • ·Heart transplant center practice patterns affect access to donors and survival of patients classified as status 1 by the United Network of Organ Sharing

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    David J. Whellan, Gail Tudor, David Denofrio, Jonathan D. Abrams, Evan Loh

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• • ·Flash pulmonary edema: Association with hypertension and reoccurrence despite coronary revascularization

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    Keith Kramer, Paul Kirkman, Dalane Kitzman, William C. Little

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• • ·Enhanced prognostic stratification of patients with left ventricular hypertrophy with the use of single-photon emission computed tomography

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    Aman M. Amanullah, Daniel S. Berman, Xingping Kang, Ishac Cohen, Guido Germano, John D. Friedman

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• • ·Cyclic variation of integrated ultrasound backscatter in the left ventricle during the early neonatal period

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    Kazuhiro Mori, Tetsuya Manabe, Masaki Nii, Yasunobu Hayabuchi, Yasuhiro Kuroda, Hiroshi Kitahata

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• • ·Accuracy of three-dimensional echocardiography with unrestricted selection of imaging planes for measurement of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction

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    Mark G. Hibberd, Michael L. Chuang, Raymond A. Beaudin, Marilyn F. Riley, Matthew G. Mooney, James T. Fearnside, Warren J. Manning, Pamela S. Douglas

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• • ·Echocardiographic markers for mitral valve surgery to preserve left ventricular performance in mitral regurgitation

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    Matthew A. Flemming, Hakan Oral, Edward D. Rothman, Kerri Briesmiester, Janet A. Petrusha, Mark R. Starling

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• • ·Clopidogrel for prevention of major cardiac events after coronary stent implantation: 30-day and 6-month results in patients with smaller stents

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    Alison L. Calver, Lucy J. Blows, Sue Harmer, Keith D. Dawkins, Huon H. Gray, John H. Morgan, Iain A. Simpson

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• • ·Abciximab, ticlopidine, and concomitant abciximab-ticlopidine therapy: Ex vivo platelet aggregation inhibition profiles in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions

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    Neal S. Kleiman, Nikki Grazeiadei, Kelly Maresh, Rebecca J. Taylor, Bart Frederick, Ellen T. Lance, Mark B. Effron, Robert E. Jordan, Mary A. Mascelli

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• • ·Safety of intracoronary Doppler flow measurement

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    Juying Qian, Junbo Ge, Dietrich Baumgart, Olaf Oldenburg, Michael Haude, Stefan Sack, Raimund Erbel

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• • ·Comparison of artificial neural networks with logistic regression in prediction of in-hospital death after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

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    Rosario V. Freeman, Kim A. Eagle, Eric R. Bates, Steven W. Werns, Eva Kline-Rogers, Dean Karavite, Mauro Moscucci

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• • ·Flow-mediated vasoactivity and circulating adhesion molecules in hypertriglyceridemia: Association with small, dense LDL cholesterol particles

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    Graziana Lupattelli, Rita Lombardini, Giuseppe Schillaci, Giovanni Ciuffetti, Simona Marchesi, Donatella Siepi, Elmo Mannarino

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• • ·Low caloric expenditure in cardiac rehabilitation

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    Patrick D. Savage, Martin Brochu, Peter Scott, Philip A. Ades

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• • ·Transcatheter closure of fenestrations and excluded hepatic veins after Fontan: Versatility of the Amplatzer device

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    John W. Moore, Kenneth A. Murdison, Gina M. Baffa, Kathy Kashow, John D. Murphy

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