| Coronary Artery Disease |
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Prognostic Implications of Normal (<0.10 ng/ml) and Borderline (0.10 to 1.49 ng/ml) Troponin Elevation Levels in Critically Ill Patients Without Acute Coronary Syndrome
13 June 2008
Borderline increase of troponin I (cTnI) is associated with higher rates of cardiovascular events compared with normal levels in the setting of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), but the significance of b...
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Russell Stein,
Bhanu Gupta,
Sanjay Agarwal,
Jason Golub,
Divaya Bhutani,
Alan Rosman,
Calvin Eng
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pages 509-512
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Is Coding for Myocardial Infarction More Accurate Now That Coding Descriptions Have Been Clarified to Distinguish ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction from Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction?
01 July 2008
Outcomes are typically graded on the basis of diagnoses coded according to the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9). To facilitate performance measurement, the ICD-9 codes ...
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Benjamin A. Steinberg,
William J. French,
Eric Peterson,
Paul D. Frederick,
Christopher P. Cannon,
National Registry of Myocardial Infarction Investigators
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pages 513-517
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Usefulness of Paradoxical Systolic Blood Pressure Increase After Exercise as a Predictor of Cardiovascular Mortality
13 June 2008
Exercise treadmill testing (ETT) is a well-accepted examination for patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD), and exercise induced ST-segment deviation is commonly used for CAD detection....
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Chi-Lun Huang,
Ta-Chen Su,
Wen-Jone Chen,
Lian-Yu Lin,
Wen-Lin Wang,
Mee-Huei Feng,
Chiau-Suong Liau,
Yuan-Teh Lee,
Ming-Fong Chen
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pages 518-523
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Effectiveness of Reloading to Overcome Clopidogrel Nonresponsiveness in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction
13 June 2008
Whether increasing doses of clopidogrel can overcome nonresponsiveness was evaluated. Clopidogrel nonresponsiveness was found in up to 25% of treated patients and was associated with worse prognosis i...
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Shlomi Matetzky,
Paul Fefer,
Boris Shenkman,
David Varon,
Naphtali Savion,
Hanoch Hod
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pages 524-529
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Drug-Eluting Stents Versus Bare Metal Stents for Narrowing in Saphenous Vein Grafts
01 July 2008
Conflicting data exist regarding an advantage of drug-eluting stents (DES) over bare metal stents (BMS) in catheter-based treatment of saphenous vein graft (SVG) stenoses. This study was undertaken to...
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Teruo Okabe,
Joseph Lindsay,
Ashesh N. Buch,
Daniel H. Steinberg,
Probal Roy,
Tina L. Pinto Slottow,
Kimberly Smith,
Rebecca Torguson,
Zhenyi Xue,
Lowell F. Satler,
Kenneth M. Kent,
Augusto D. Pichard,
Neil J. Weissman,
Ron Waksman
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pages 530-534
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Impact of Optimal Medical Therapy and Revascularization on Outcome of Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease and on Dialysis Who Presented With Acute Coronary Syndrome
01 July 2008
Coronary artery disease is the main cause of death in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The poor prognosis associated with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in these patients has been related to...
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Laurent Bonello,
Axel De Labriolle,
Probal Roy,
Daniel H. Steinberg,
Teruo Okabe,
Tina L. Pinto Slottow,
Zhenyi Xue,
Rebecca Torguson,
William O. Suddath,
Lowell F. Satler,
Kenneth M. Kent,
Augusto D. Pichard,
Joseph Lindsay,
Ron Waksman
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pages 535-540
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A Clinical Risk Score for Prediction of Stent Thrombosis
The aim was to develop a clinically useful patient risk score predictive for stent thrombosis (ST). Using readily available baseline clinical and angiographic characteristics, a Cox proportional hazar...
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Kenneth W. Baran,
John M. Lasala,
David A. Cox,
Aijun Song,
Mahesh C. Deshpande,
Mary V. Jacoski,
Stephen R. Mascioli,
ARRIVE Investigators
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pages 541-545
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Impact of Perioperative Myocardial Infarction on Angiographic and Clinical Outcomes Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (from PRoject of Ex-vivo Vein graft ENgineering via Transfection [PREVENT] IV)
07 July 2008
Myocardial infarction (MI) after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Frequency, management, mechanisms, and angiographic and clinical outcome...
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James M. Yau,
John H. Alexander,
Gail Hafley,
Kenneth W. Mahaffey,
Michael J. Mack,
Nicholas Kouchoukos,
Abhinav Goyal,
Eric D. Peterson,
C. Michael Gibson,
Robert M. Califf,
Robert A. Harrington,
T. Bruce Ferguson,
PREVENT IV Investigators
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pages 546-551
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Outcomes of Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome and Previous Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (from the Pravastatin or Atorvastatin Evaluation and Infection Therapy [PROVE IT-TIMI 22] and the Aggrastat to Zocor [A to Z] Trials)
13 June 2008
We examined the effects of intensive statin therapy in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACSs) and previous coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) participating in the Pravastatin or Atorva...
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Emmanouil S. Brilakis,
James A. de Lemos,
Christopher P. Cannon,
Stephen D. Wiviott,
Sabina A. Murphy,
David A. Morrow,
Marc S. Sabatine,
Subhash Banerjee,
Michael A. Blazing,
Robert M. Califf,
Eugene Braunwald
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pages 552-558
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| Roundtable Discussion (CME) |
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The Editor's Roundtable: Lipid Management Beyond Statins—Reducing Residual Cardiovascular Risk
This CME activity is supported by an educational grant from Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois.
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Vincent E. Friedewald,
Christie M. Ballantyne,
Michael H. Davidson,
John R. Guyton,
William C. Roberts
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Discussion
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pages 559-567
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| Arrhythmias and Conduction Disturbances |
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Changing Trends of Hospital Utilization in Patients After Their First Episode of Atrial Fibrillation
01 July 2008
A marked increase in hospitalization for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) has previously been noted. Whether this increase is related to a change in the prevalence of AF or a change in the patte...
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Yoko Miyasaka,
Marion E. Barnes,
Bernard J. Gersh,
Stephen S. Cha,
Kent R. Bailey,
James B. Seward,
Teresa S.M. Tsang
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pages 568-572
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Usefulness of P-Wave Dispersion in Standard Twelve-Lead Electrocardiography to Predict Transition from Paroxysmal to Persistent Atrial Fibrillation
14 July 2008
A prospective study was conducted to investigate the validity of the hypothesis that P-wave dispersion (Pd) may be a clinically useful predictor of progression from paroxysmal to persistent atrial fib...
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Yasushi Koide,
Masayuki Yotsukura,
Harunori Ando,
Syuiti Aoki,
Takaomi Suzuki,
Konomi Sakata,
Eiiti Ootomo,
Hideaki Yoshino
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pages 573-577
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Evaluation of Catheter Ablation of Periatrial Ganglionic Plexi in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation
14 July 2008
Recent data suggests that the cardiac autonomic nervous system has an important role in the initiation and maintenance of atrial fibrillation (AF). This study investigated (1) the feasibility of ident...
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Stephan Danik,
Petr Neuzil,
Andre d'Avila,
Zachary J. Malchano,
Stepan Kralovec,
Jeremy N. Ruskin,
Vivek Y. Reddy
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pages 578-583
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Prognosis of Subjects With Brugada-Type Electrocardiogram in a Population of Middle-Aged Japanese Diagnosed During a Health Examination
07 July 2008
There is controversy about the clinical significance of an incidental finding of a Brugada-type electrocardiogram (ECG) pattern. To assess the prognosis of subjects with a diagnosis of a Brugada-type ...
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Hisako Tsuji,
Tadashi Sato,
Kentaro Morisaki,
Toshiji Iwasaka
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pages 584-587
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Cost of Preimplantation Cardiac Imaging in Patients Referred for a Primary-Prevention Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator
14 July 2008
Recent guidelines have focused on ejection fraction cut-off values to determine eligibility for primary-prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). Clinical trials that led to the guide...
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Andrew D. Krahn,
Jeffrey S. Hoch,
Marie Antoinette Rockx,
Peter Leong-Sit,
Lorne J. Gula,
Raymond Yee,
Allan C. Skanes,
George J. Klein
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pages 588-592
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| Systemic Hypertension |
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Alcohol Consumption and Heart Failure in Hypertensive US Male Physicians
13 June 2008
Although alcohol drinking increases blood pressure and heavy drinking has been associated with alcoholic cardiomyopathy, little is known about the association between light to moderate drinking and ri...
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Luc Djoussé,
J. Michael Gaziano
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pages 593-597
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| Heart Failure |
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Measures of Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony and the Correlation to Clinical and Echocardiographic Response After Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
20 June 2008
There is still no standardized measure of left ventricular (LV) dyssynchrony or definition of response in candidates of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Recipients of CRT underwent echocardiog...
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Raed Abdelhadi,
Evan Adelstein,
Andrew Voigt,
John Gorcsan,
Samir Saba
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pages 598-601
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Relation of Left Ventricular Systolic Dyssynchrony in Patients With Heart Failure to Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and to QRS Duration
13 June 2008
Left ventricular (LV) systolic dyssynchrony is an important pathologic mechanism in patients with heart failure (HF). However, the prevalence of intraventricular dyssynchrony in patients with differen...
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Chin-Pang Chan,
Qing Zhang,
Gabriel Wai-Kwok Yip,
Jeffery Wing-Hong Fung,
Yat-Yin Lam,
Pui-Wai Lee,
Eugene B. Wu,
Qing Shang,
Yujia Liang,
Cheuk-Man Yu
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pages 602-605
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Relation of Serum Heat Shock Protein 60 Level to Severity and Prognosis in Chronic Heart Failure Secondary to Ischemic or Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy
13 June 2008
Heat shock protein (HSP) 60 is induced by a variety of stressors, including oxidative stress and inflammation, and it plays a protective role against stress-induced cardiomyocyte injury. Recently, it ...
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Takeshi Niizeki,
Yasuchika Takeishi,
Tetsu Watanabe,
Joji Nitobe,
Takehiko Miyashita,
Takuya Miyamoto,
Tatsuro Kitahara,
Satoshi Suzuki,
Toshiki Sasaki,
Olga Bilim,
Mitsunori Ishino,
Isao Kubota
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pages 606-610
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| Valvular Heart Disease |
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Effect of Beta-Blocker Therapy on Survival in Patients With Severe Mitral Regurgitation and Normal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
19 June 2008
Chronic volume overload from chronic severe mitral regurgitation (MR) results in neuroendocrine activation similar to the heart failure syndrome despite normal left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction ...
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Padmini Varadarajan,
Nirav Joshi,
David Appel,
Lavanya Duvvuri,
Ramdas G. Pai
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pages 611-615
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| Cardiomyopathy |
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Differentiation of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy from Other Forms of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy by Means of Three-Dimensional Echocardiography
13 June 2008
In clinical practice, differential diagnosis among different forms of left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy is not always easy, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) can be misdiagnosed. In this study, it ...
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Stefano Caselli,
Antonio Pelliccia,
Martin Maron,
Daria Santini,
Danilo Puccio,
Andrea Marcantonio,
Natesa G. Pandian,
Stefano De Castro
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pages 616-620
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Effect of Alcohol Septal Ablation in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy on the Electrocardiographic Pattern
20 June 2008
Alcohol septal ablation (ASA) of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) allows study of the electrocardiographic effects of myocardial necrosis confined to the base of the interventricular sep...
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Erin Coakley,
Daniel H. Steinberg,
Amit Tibrewala,
Federico Asch,
Augusto D. Pichard,
Kenneth M. Kent,
Joseph Lindsay
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pages 621-624
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| Congenital Heart Disease |
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Prevalence and Determinants of Anemia in Adults With Complex Congenital Heart Disease and Ventricular Dysfunction (Subaortic Right Ventricle and Single Ventricle Physiology)
19 June 2008
Anemia is well recognized as a marker of poor prognosis in patients with acquired heart disease and heart failure. Adults with complex congenital heart disease and ventricular dysfunction (subaortic r...
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Nicholas Collins,
Sanaz Piran,
Jeanine Harrison,
Eduardo Azevedo,
Erwin Oechslin,
Candice K. Silversides
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pages 625-628
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Absence of TGFBR1 and TGFBR2 Mutations in Patients With Bicuspid Aortic Valve and Aortic Dilation
01 July 2008
Mutations in the genes encoding transforming growth factor–β receptor types I and II (TGFBR1 and TGFBR2, respectively) are commonly identified in patients with Loeys-Dietz syndrome, as well as some pa...
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Cammon B. Arrington,
C. Todd Sower,
Naomi Chuckwuk,
Jeff Stevens,
Mark F. Leppert,
Anji T. Yetman,
Neil E. Bowles
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pages 629-631
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Relation of Cardiac Troponin I Levels With In-Hospital Mortality in Patients With Ischemic Stroke, Intracerebral Hemorrhage, and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
13 June 2008
Troponin I levels were drawn within 24 hours of stroke in 161 of 175 patients (92%) with ischemic stroke, 94 of 107 patients (88%) with intracerebral hemorrhage, and 96 of 96 patients (100%) with suba...
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Rasham Sandhu,
Wilbert S. Aronow,
Archana Rajdev,
Rishi Sukhija,
Harshad Amin,
Katharine D'aquila,
Amandeep Sangha
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pages 632-634
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| Review |
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Cardiovascular Manifestations in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patients
19 June 2008
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is now a pandemic. It afflicts multiple organs, including the cardiovascular system. This occurs by direct invasion as well as opportunistic infections complicating ...
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Chotikorn Khunnawat,
Siddharth Mukerji,
Daniel Havlichek,
Rabih Touma,
George S. Abela
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pages 635-642
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| Case Report |
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Hepatocellular Carcinoma With Intracavitary Cardiac Involvement: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
14 July 2008
A 71-year-old man with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) presented with intracavitary cardiac involvement detected incidentally on surveillance computed tomography. Tumor with associated thrombus was fou...
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Anthony D. Sung,
Susan Cheng,
Javid Moslehi,
Eileen P. Scully,
Jason M. Prior,
Joseph Loscalzo
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Short communication
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pages 643-645
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Effects of Intravenous Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 on Glucose Control and Hemodynamics After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
We read with interest the report by Sokos et al on better glycemic control and comparable hemodynamic recovery without the requirement for high-dose insulin or inotrope due to the perioperative use of...
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Karsten Müssig,
Arzu Öncü,
Philipp Lindauer,
Alexandra Heininger,
Hermann Aebert,
Klaus Unertl,
Gerhard Ziemer,
Hans-Ulrich Häring,
Baptist Gallwitz,
Jens J. Holst
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Correspondence
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pages 646-647
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Psoriasis, Inflammation, and Atrial Fibrillation
We read with great interest the recent Editor's Roundtable titled “Psoriasis, Inflammation, and Coronary Artery Disease,” in which it was proposed that systemic inflammation manifested by elevated C-r...
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Tong Liu,
Guangping Li
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Correspondence
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page 647
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Editorial Board
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