| Coronary Artery Disease |
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Cost-Efficiency of Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Chest Pain of Suspected Cardiac Origin and a Nondiagnostic Electrocardiogram
10 July 2008
Assessment of patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with suspected cardiac chest pain and a nondiagnostic electrocardiogram (ECG) is lengthy and costly. It was hypothesized that myocard...
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Jared J. Wyrick,
Saul Kalvaitis,
K. John McConnell,
Diana Rinkevich,
Sanjiv Kaul,
Kevin Wei
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pages 649-652
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Association Between Admission Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio and Outcomes in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome
01 July 2008
The neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) has recently been described as a predictor of mortality in patients who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention. The aim of this study was to investigate the u...
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Umesh U. Tamhane,
Sanjay Aneja,
Daniel Montgomery,
Eva-Kline Rogers,
Kim A. Eagle,
Hitinder S. Gurm
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pages 653-657
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Right Ventricular Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction of the Left Ventricular Wall
19 June 2008
Cardiac remodeling after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is characterized by molecular and cellular mechanisms involving both the left (LV) and right ventricular (RV) walls. Cardiomyoycte apoptosis ...
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Antonio Abbate,
Rossana Bussani,
Gianfranco Sinagra,
Elena Barresi,
Alberto Pivetta,
Andrea Perkan,
Nicholas H. Hoke,
Fadi N. Salloum,
Michael C. Kontos,
Giuseppe G.L. Biondi-Zoccai,
George W. Vetrovec,
Gastone Sabbadini,
Feliciano Baldi,
Furio Silvestri,
Rakesh C. Kukreja,
Alfonso Baldi
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pages 658-662
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Weekend/Holiday Versus Weekday Hospital Discharge and Guideline Adherence (from the American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines – Coronary Artery Disease Database)
01 July 2008
Most hospitals have reduced medical staff on weekends. Furthermore, a recent study on acute myocardial infarction suggested that weekend admissions were associated with higher mortality compared with ...
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Sumit Tickoo,
Gregg C. Fonarow,
Adrian F. Hernandez,
Li Liang,
Christopher P. Cannon
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pages 663-667
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Prognostic Significance of Troponin T Elevation in Patients Without Chest Pain
01 July 2008
Increased cardiac troponin with chest pain is important for the diagnosis, triage, and treatment of patients in the emergency department. However, the use of troponin for the diagnosis and triage of p...
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Erik R. Carlson,
Robert F. Percy,
Dominick J. Angiolillo,
Donald A. Conetta
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pages 668-671
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Costs and Clinical Outcomes in Individuals Without Known Coronary Artery Disease Undergoing Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography from an Analysis of Medicare Category III Transaction Codes
19 June 2008
Multidetector coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) demonstrates high accuracy for the detection and exclusion of coronary artery disease (CAD) and predicts adverse prognosis. To date, oppo...
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James K. Min,
Leslee J. Shaw,
Daniel S. Berman,
Amanda Gilmore,
Ning Kang
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pages 672-678
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Safety of Drug-Eluting Stents in Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
20 June 2008
Recent studies have reported a higher incidence of late stent thrombosis in patients undergoing drug-eluting stent (DES). Reduced left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) is considered a risk fact...
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Annunziata Nusca,
Michael J. Lipinski,
Amit Varma,
Darryn L. Appleton,
Evelyne Goudreau,
Michael J. Cowley,
Michael J. Wittkamp,
Germano Di Sciascio,
George W. Vetrovec,
Antonio Abbate
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pages 679-682
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Incidence of Coronary Stent Thrombosis Based on Academic Research Consortium Definitions
11 July 2008
Stent thrombosis occurs infrequently after drug-eluting stent (DES) placement, but concerns have surfaced that identification of stent thrombosis based solely on angiography may underestimate the true...
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Robert J. Applegate,
Matthew T. Sacrinty,
William C. Little,
Renato M. Santos,
Sanjay K. Gandhi,
Michael A. Kutcher
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pages 683-688
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| Preventive Cardiology |
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Relation of the Number of Metabolic Syndrome Risk Factors With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality
01 July 2008
The metabolic syndrome (MS) is a constellation of risk factors associated with diabetes and cardiovascular disease. This syndrome consists of at least 3 parameters assessing central obesity, hypertens...
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John S. Ho,
John J. Cannaday,
Carolyn E. Barlow,
Tedd L. Mitchell,
Kenneth H. Cooper,
Shannon J. FitzGerald
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pages 689-692
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Cardiovascular Risk in Women With Non-Specific Chest Pain (from the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Trials)†‡
07 July 2008
Women discharged with diagnoses of nonspecific chest pain (NSCP) may be at increased risk for subsequent coronary artery disease (CAD) events. The influence of hormone therapy on NSCP is unknown. The ...
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Jennifer G. Robinson,
Robert Wallace,
Marian Limacher,
Hong Ren,
Barbara Cochrane,
Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller,
Judith K. Ockene,
Patricia L. Blanchette,
Marcia G. Ko
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pages 693-699
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Relation of Cardiorespiratory Fitness to Inflammatory Markers, Fibrinolytic Factors, and Lipoprotein(a) in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
01 July 2008
Increased inflammation, fibrinolytic factors, and lipoprotein(a) (LP[a]) were associated with increased cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes, whereas higher levels of cardiorespirato...
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Sae Young Jae,
Kevin S. Heffernan,
Moon-Kyu Lee,
Bo Fernhall,
Won Hah Park
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pages 700-703
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| Arrhythmias and Conduction Disturbances |
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Heart Rate Control in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Referred for Exercise Testing
01 July 2008
Clinical practice guidelines for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) recommended a heart rate (HR) of 60 to 80 beats/min at rest and 90 to 115 at moderate exercise. The degree to which HR control a...
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Anthony A. Hilliard,
Todd D. Miller,
David O. Hodge,
Raymond J. Gibbons
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pages 704-708
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Effect of Restoring Sinus Rhythm on Sleep Apnea in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter
07 July 2008
Sleep apnea (SA) is more prevalent in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), but the impact of cardioversion on disordered breathing is unknown. Thus, we investigated the influence of restoring sinus...
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Christoph Lissel,
Sabrina Hennigs,
Birgit Hoffmann-Castendiek,
Ajmal Gardiwal,
Hanno Oswald,
Tobias Welte,
Gunnar Klein
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pages 709-711
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| Heart Failure |
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Reproducibility of Peak Oxygen Uptake and Other Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Parameters in Patients With Heart Failure (from the Heart Failure and A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of exercise traiNing)
11 July 2008
Peak oxygen uptake (pVo2) is an important parameter in assessing the functional capacity and prognosis of patients with heart failure. In heart failure trials, change in pVo2 was often used to assess ...
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Daniel R. Bensimhon,
Eric S. Leifer,
Stephen J. Ellis,
Jerome L. Fleg,
Steven J. Keteyian,
Ileana L. Piña,
Dalane W. Kitzman,
Robert S. McKelvie,
William E. Kraus,
Daniel E. Forman,
Andrew J. Kao,
David J. Whellan,
Christopher M. O'Connor,
Stuart D. Russell,
HF-ACTION Trial Investigators
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pages 712-717
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Effects of Interruption of Long-Term Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy on Left Ventricular Function and Dyssynchrony
20 June 2008
Interruption of short-term cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has been shown to acutely worsen left ventricular (LV) function, mitral regurgitation, and LV dyssynchrony. The present study aims to...
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Claudia Ypenburg,
Rutger J. Van Bommel,
Nina Ajmone Marsan,
Victoria Delgado,
Gabe B. Bleeker,
Ernst E. van der Wall,
Martin J. Schalij,
Jeroen J. Bax
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pages 718-721
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Prognostic Value of Pulse-Wave Tissue Doppler Parameters in Patients With Systolic Heart Failure
07 August 2008
The aim was to study the prognostic value of left ventricular (LV) function using pulse-wave tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) in an ordinary population with heart failure (HF). One hundred fifty-six patie...
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Jens M. Olson,
Bassem A. Samad,
Mahbubul Alam
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pages 722-725
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Impact of β1-Adrenergic Receptor Polymorphisms on Susceptibility to Heart Failure, Arrhythmogenesis, Prognosis, and Response to Beta-Blocker Therapy
28 July 2008
Beta1-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms have been implicated with inconsistent results in the pathogenesis, clinical presentation, and prognosis of patients with heart failure (HF). The impact of 2 fu...
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Andréia Biolo,
Nadine Clausell,
Kátia G. Santos,
Roberto Salvaro,
Patrícia Ashton-Prolla,
Anibal Borges,
Luis E. Rohde
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pages 726-732
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Usefulness of N-Terminal Pro–Brain Natriuretic Peptide and Brain Natriuretic Peptide to Predict Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
10 July 2008
More than 40% of patients hospitalized with heart failure have preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (HF-PLVEF) and are at high risk for cardiovascular (CV) events. The purpose of this study wa...
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Jasmine Grewal,
Robert S. McKelvie,
Hans Persson,
Peter Tait,
Jonas Carlsson,
Karl Swedberg,
Jan Ostergren,
Eva Lonn
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pages 733-737
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| Valvular Heart Disease |
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Stage-Related Effect of Statin Treatment on the Progression of Aortic Valve Sclerosis and Stenosis
01 July 2008
It has been suggested that statins could slow the progression of aortic stenosis (AS), but this hypothesis is still debated and has not been validated in large series of patients by long-term follow-u...
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Francesco Antonini-Canterin,
Monica Hîrşu,
Bogdan Alexandru Popescu,
Elisa Leiballi,
Rita Piazza,
Daniela Pavan,
Carmen Ginghină,
Gian Luigi Nicolosi
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pages 738-742
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Prognosis and Risk Factors in Patients With Asymptomatic Aortic Stenosis and Their Modulation by Atorvastatin (20 mg)
07 July 2008
The aim of the prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled Tyrolean Aortic Stenosis Study (TASS) was to characterize the natural history and risk factors and their possible modulation by new-onset ato...
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Wolfgang Dichtl,
Hannes Franz Alber,
Gudrun Maria Feuchtner,
Florian Hintringer,
Markus Reinthaler,
Thomas Bartel,
Alois Süssenbacher,
Wilhelm Grander,
Hanno Ulmer,
Otmar Pachinger,
Silvana Müller
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pages 743-748
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Comparison of Brain Natriuretic Peptide Plasma Levels Versus Logistic EuroSCORE in Predicting In-Hospital and Late Postoperative Mortality in Patients Undergoing Aortic Valve Replacement for Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis
01 July 2008
The accuracy of the logistic EuroSCORE (logES), a widely used risk prediction algorithm for cardiac surgery including aortic valve surgery, usually overestimates observed perioperative mortality. Elev...
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Giovanni Battista Pedrazzini,
Serge Masson,
Roberto Latini,
Catherine Klersy,
Maria Grazia Rossi,
Elena Pasotti,
Francesco Fulvio Faletra,
Francesco Siclari,
Fabrizio Minervini,
Tiziano Moccetti,
Angelo Auricchio
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pages 749-754
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| Miscellaneous |
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C-Reactive Protein and Coronary Artery Calcium in Asymptomatic Women With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus or Rheumatoid Arthritis
01 July 2008
Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and those with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have increased risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. The aims of this study were to compare the pre...
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Amy H. Kao,
Mary Chester M. Wasko,
Shanthi Krishnaswami,
Joseph Wagner,
Daniel Edmundowicz,
Penny Shaw,
Amy Lynn Cunningham,
Natalya Danchenko,
Kim Sutton-Tyrrell,
Russell P. Tracy,
Lewis H. Kuller,
Susan Manzi
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pages 755-760
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Frequency of Elevations in Markers of Cardiomyocyte Damage in Otherwise Healthy Newborns
11 July 2008
Myocardial damage in infancy is a risk factor for eventual cardiac disease. Given that myocardial stress is greatest during the perinatal period and that the neonatal period is when most pediatric hea...
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Steven E. Lipshultz,
Valeriano C. Simbre,
Sema Hart,
Nader Rifai,
Stuart R. Lipsitz,
Linda Reubens,
Robert A. Sinkin
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pages 761-766
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Clinical Significance of Epicardial Fat Measured Using Cardiac Multislice Computed Tomography
07 July 2008
Cardiac adiposity defined as increased epicardial adipose tissue and massive deposits of fat within the atrial septum (lipomatous hypertrophy) is seen in overweight persons and is associated with coro...
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Sanjay Sarin,
Christopher Wenger,
Ajay Marwaha,
Anwer Qureshi,
Bernard D.M. Go,
Cathleen A. Woomert,
Karla Clark,
Louis A. Nassef,
Jamshid Shirani
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pages 767-771
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Continuous Quality Improvement Program and Major Morbidity After Cardiac Surgery
01 July 2008
The aim of this study was to investigate how a continuous quality improvement (CQI) program affected major morbidity and postoperative outcomes after cardiac surgery. Patients were divided into 2 grou...
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Sotiris C. Stamou,
Sara L. Camp,
Mark K. Reames,
Eric Skipper,
Robert M. Stiegel,
Marcy Nussbaum,
Rachel Geller,
Francis Robicsek,
Kevin W. Lobdell
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pages 772-777
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Accuracy and Reproducibility of Quantitation of Left Ventricular Function by Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography Versus Cardiac Magnetic Resonance
11 July 2008
The aim of this study was to investigate the accuracy and reproducibility of the quantification of left ventricular (LV) function by real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography (RT3DE) using current stat...
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Osama I.I. Soliman,
Sharon W. Kirschbaum,
Bas M. van Dalen,
Heleen B. van der Zwaan,
Babak Mahdavian Delavary,
Wim B. Vletter,
Robert-Jan M. van Geuns,
Folkert J. Ten Cate,
Marcel L. Geleijnse
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pages 778-783
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Comparison of Myocardial Tissue Velocities Measured by Two-Dimensional Speckle Tracking and Tissue Doppler Imaging
14 July 2008
Myocardial velocities have prognostic implications, and transmitral E wave to mitral annular early diastolic tissue velocity ratio (E/Em) is utilized to estimate left ventricular (LV) end-diastolic pr...
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Arnold C.T. Ng,
Da T. Tran,
Mark Newman,
Christine Allman,
Jane Vidaic,
Krishna Kishor Kadappu,
Anita Boyd,
Liza Thomas,
Dominic Y. Leung
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pages 784-789
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| Cardiovascular Pharmacology |
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Dynamics of Platelet Functional Recovery Following a Clopidogrel Loading Dose in Healthy Volunteers
07 July 2008
A clopidogrel loading dose before percutaneous coronary intervention may reduce ischemic events but can increase bleeding risk and result in delayed treatment in patients who subsequently require surg...
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Matthew J. Price,
Paul S. Teirstein
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pages 790-795
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Editorial Board
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