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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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• Editorial

  • ·Acute myocardial infarction and drug-eluting stents: A green light for their use or time for measured restraint?

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    Anthony A. Bavry, Deepak L. Bhatt

    

• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·Prediction of first coronary events with the Framingham score: A systematic review

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    Klaus Eichler, Milo A. Puhan, Johann Steurer, Lucas M. Bachmann

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• Results of Expert Meetings

  • ·Bringing cardiovascular cell-based therapy to clinical application: Perspectives based on a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Cell Therapy Working Group meeting

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    E. Marc Jolicoeur, Christopher B. Granger, John L. Fakunding, Steven C. Mockrin, Steven M. Grant, Stephen G. Ellis, Richard D. Weisel, Margaret A. Goodell, on behalf of the Working Group Members g

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• Trial Design

  • ·The Cobalt chromium STent with Antiproliferative for Restenosis II (COSTAR II) Trial study design: Advancing the active-control evaluation of second-generation drug-eluting stents

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    Tracy Y. Wang, Vic Hasselblad, John L. Peterson, William Wijns, Azin Parhizgar, Dean J. Kereiakes, Mitchell W. Krucoff

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Meta-analysis of clinical trials on use of drug-eluting stents for treatment of acute myocardial infarction

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    Vincenzo Pasceri, Giuseppe Patti, Giulio Speciale, Christian Pristipino, Giuseppe Richichi, Germano Di Sciascio

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  • ·Impact of cardiac and renal dysfunction on inhospital morbidity and mortality of patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing primary angioplasty

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    Giancarlo Marenzi, Marco Moltrasio, Emilio Assanelli, Gianfranco Lauri, Ivana Marana, Marco Grazi, Mara Rubino, Monica De Metrio, Fabrizio Veglia, Antonio L. Bartorelli

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  • ·Reduction of neointimal hyperplasia after coronary stenting by pioglitazone in nondiabetic patients with metabolic syndrome

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    Takuji Katayama, Hiroto Ueba, Ken Tsuboi, Norifumi Kubo, Takanori Yasu, Masatoshi Kuroki, Muneyasu Saito, Shin-ichi Momomura, Masanobu Kawakami

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  • ·Early invasive versus conservative treatment in patients with failed fibrinolysis—no late survival benefit: The final analysis of the Middlesbrough Early Revascularisation to Limit Infarction (MERLIN) randomized trial

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    Babu Kunadian, Andrew G.C. Sutton, Kunadian Vijayalakshmi, Andrew R. Thornley, Janine C. Gray, Ever D. Grech, James A. Hall, Alun A. Harcombe, Robert A. Wright, Roger H. Smith, Jerry J. Murphy, Ananthaiah Shyam-Sundar, Michael J. Stewart, Adrian Davies, Nicholas J. Linker, Mark A. de Belder

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  • ·Outcome after prenatal diagnosis of tricuspid atresia: A multicenter experience

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    Rachel M. Wald, Edythe B. Tham, Brian W. McCrindle, Donna A. Goff, Fionnuala M. McAuliffe, Fraser Golding, Edgar T. Jaeggi, Lisa K. Hornberger, Wayne Tworetzky, Lynne E. Nield

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  • ·Atrial septostomy improves survival in select patients with pulmonary hypertension

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    Mark A. Law, Ronald G. Grifka, Charles E. Mullins, Michael R. Nihill

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  • ·Do race-specific models explain disparities in treatments after acute myocardial infarction?

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    Ashish K. Jha, Douglas O. Staiger, F. Lee Lucas, Amitabh Chandra

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  • ·Outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a physician-staffed emergency medical system according to the Utstein style

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    Heidi L. Estner, Christian Günzel, Gjin Ndrepepa, Frederic William, Dirk Blaumeiser, Bernd Rupprecht, Gabriele Hessling, Isabel Deisenhofer, Michael A. Weber, Karl Wilhelm, Claus Schmitt, Albert Schömig

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  • ·Detection of pulmonary vein stenosis by transesophageal echocardiography: Comparison with multidetector computed tomography

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    Gardar Sigurdsson, Richard W. Troughton, Xiao-Fang Xu, Holger P. Salazar, Oussama M. Wazni, Richard A. Grimm, Richard D. White, Andrea Natale, Allan L. Klein

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  • ·Polytetrafluoroethylene graft calcification in patients with surgically repaired congenital heart disease: Evaluation using multidetector-row computed tomography

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    Yasunobu Hayabuchi, Kazuhiro Mori, Tetsuya Kitagawa, Miho Sakata, Shoji Kagami

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  • ·Relationship and prognostic value of coronary artery calcification by electron beam computed tomography to stress-induced ischemia by single photon emission computed tomography

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    Gautam Ramakrishna, Todd D. Miller, Jerome F. Breen, Philip A. Araoz, David O. Hodge, Raymond J. Gibbons

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  • ·Prospective assessment after pediatric cardiac ablation: Fate of intracardiac structure and function, as assessed by serial echocardiography

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    George F. Van Hare, Steven D. Colan, Harold Javitz, Dorit Carmelli, Timothy Knilans, Michael Schaffer, John Kugler, Craig J. Byrum, J. Philip Saul, Participating Members of the Pediatric Electrophysiology Society

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  • ·Effect of the G-308A polymorphism of the tumor necrosis factor ? gene on the risk of ischemic heart disease and ischemic stroke: A meta-analysis

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    Tiago V. Pereira, Martina Rudnicki, Rendrik F. Franco, Alexandre C. Pereira, José E. Krieger

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  • ·Long-term survival after successful inhospital cardiac arrest resuscitation

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    Heather L. Bloom, Irfan Shukrullah, Jose R. Cuellar, Michael S. Lloyd, Samuel C. Dudley, A. Maziar Zafari

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  • ·Corrections

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  • ·Absence of bilateral vision loss from amiodarone: A randomized trial

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    Joel S. Mindel, Jill Anderson, George Johnson, Anne Hellkamp, Jeanne E. Poole, Daniel B. Mark, Kerry L. Lee, Gust H. Bardy, for the SCD-HeFT Investigators

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  • ·Improvement in diastolic function and left ventricular filling pressure induced by cardiac resynchronization therapy

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    Annemieke H.M. Jansen, Jan melle van Dantzig, Frank Bracke, Kathinka H. Peels, Jacques J. Koolen, Albert Meijer, Jolanda de Vries, Hendrikus H. Korsten, Norbert M. van Hemel

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  • ·Detection of viral genome in the myocardium: Lack of prognostic and functional relevance in patients with acute dilated cardiomyopathy

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    Friedhelm Kuethe, Holger H. Sigusch, Kristina Hilbig, Christiane Tresselt, Brigitte Glück, Renate Egerer, Hans R. Figulla

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  • ·Exercise oscillatory breathing and increased ventilation to carbon dioxide production slope in heart failure: An unfavorable combination with high prognostic value

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    Marco Guazzi, Ross Arena, Aniello Ascione, Massimo Piepoli, Maurizio D. Guazzi, on behalf of the “Gruppo di Studio Fisiologia dell'Esercizio, Cardiologia dello Sport e Riabilitazione Cardiovascolare” of the Italian Society of Cardiology

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  • ·A double-blind placebo-controlled pilot study of controlled-release paroxetine on depression and quality of life in chronic heart failure

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    Stephen S. Gottlieb, Willem J. Kop, Sue A. Thomas, Scott Katzen, Mark R. Vesely, Nancy Greenberg, Joanne Marshall, Michelle Cines, Stacey Minshall

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  • ·Results from a phase II multicenter, double-blind placebo-controlled study of Del-1 (VLTS-589) for intermittent claudication in subjects with peripheral arterial disease

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    Paul Michael Grossman, Farrell Mendelsohn, Timothy D. Henry, James B. Hermiller, Marc Litt, Jorge F. Saucedo, Robert J. Weiss, David E. Kandzari, Neal Kleiman, R. David Anderson, Daniel Gottlieb, Ronald Karlsberg, Jeffery Snell, Krishna Rocha-Singh

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  • ·Elevated ICAM-1 and MCP-1 plasma levels in subjects at high cardiovascular risk are diminished by atorvastatin treatment. Atorvastatin on Inflammatory Markers study: A substudy of Achieve Cholesterol Targets Fast with Atorvastatin Stratified Titration

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    Luis Miguel Blanco-Colio, Jose Luis Martín-Ventura, Eduardo de Teresa, Csaba Farsang, Allan Gaw, GianFranco Gensini, Lawrence A. Leiter, Anatoly Langer, Pierre Martineau, Jesús Egido, on behalf of the ACTFAST investigators

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·AMPD1 gene polymorphism and survival in patients with stable congestive heart failure

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    Barry R. Palmer, Chris M. Frampton, A. Mark Richards, Vicky A. Cameron

    
  • ·The impact of the AMPD1 gene polymorphism on exercise capacity, other prognostic parameters, and survival in patients with stable congestive heart failure. A study on 686 consecutive patients

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    Pascal de Groote, Frédéric Mouquet, Jean Dallongeville, Nicolas Lamblin, Christophe Bauters

    
  • ·Letter to the editor by Dr. Duminda N. Wijeysundera

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    Duminda N. Wijeysundera, W. Scott Beattie

    
  • ·Response to the Letter to the Editor by Dr Wijeysundera

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    Homer Yang, Karen Raymer, Ron Butler, Joel Parlow, Robin Roberts

    
  • ·Allogeneic blood transfusions and infections after cardiac surgery

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    Marco Ranucci

    
  • ·Response to the letter to the Editor (allogeneic blood transfusions and infections after cardiac surgery)

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    Mary A.M. Rogers, Neil Blumberg

    
  • ·Letter of comment on “Intracoronary nitroprusside for the prevention of the no-reflow phenomenon after primary percutaneous coronary intervention in acute myocardial infarction. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial” (Am Heart J 2006;152:887.e9-14)

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    Tom Vydt, Pierfrancesco Agostoni

    
  • ·Response to “Letter to the Editor”

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    Guy Amit, Doron Zahger

    
  • ·Debate on DEBATE

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    Martin Fortin, Cynthia M. Boyd

    
  • ·Response to Letter to the Editor by Dr Martin Fortin

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    Timo E. Strandberg, Kaisu H. PitKala, Reijo S. Tilvis