| Coronary Artery Disease |
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Prognostic Impact of Types of Atrial Fibrillation in Acute Coronary Syndromes
28 September 2009
Atrial fibrillation (AF) has been established as an independent predictor of long-term mortality after acute myocardial infarction. However, this is less well defined across the whole spectrum of acut...
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Dennis H. Lau,
Luan T. Huynh,
Derek P. Chew,
Carolyn M. Astley,
Ashish Soman,
Prashanthan Sanders
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pages 1317-1323
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Relation of Patient Age and Mortality to Reported Contraindications to Early Beta-Blocker Use for Non–ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome
28 September 2009
We evaluated the reported contraindications to early β-blocker use and associated mortality within and across patient age groups. Contraindications to early β-blocker use were evaluated in patients wi...
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Nancy M. Allen LaPointe,
Anita Y. Chen,
Matthew T. Roe,
David J. Cohen,
Deborah B. Diercks,
James W. Hoekstra,
Francis M. Fesmire,
W. Brian Gibler,
E. Magnus Ohman,
Eric D. Peterson
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pages 1324-1329
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Comparison of Site-Reported and Core Laboratory-Reported Creatine Kinase-MB Values in Non–ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome (from the International Trial SYNERGY)
28 September 2009
The effect of nonstandardized creatine kinase (CK)-MB assays on the assessment of myocardial infarction (MI) end points in multicenter international trials has not been evaluated. We compared the site...
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Jason P. Linefsky,
Min Lin,
Karen S. Pieper,
Craig J. Reist,
Lisa G. Berdan,
Elliott M. Antman,
Shaun G. Goodman,
John K. French,
Sema Guneri,
Matthew T. Roe,
L. Kristin Newby,
Robert A. Harrington,
James J. Ferguson,
Robert M. Califf,
Kenneth W. Mahaffey
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pages 1330-1335
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Effect of Intracoronary Injection of Mononuclear Bone Marrow Stem Cells on Left Ventricular Function in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction
28 September 2009
To investigate the effect of intracoronary injection of autologous mononuclear bone marrow stem cells (BMSCs) in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) on left ventricular (LV) systo...
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Michał Plewka,
Maria Krzemińska-Pakuła,
Piotr Lipiec,
Jan Zbigniew Peruga,
Tomasz Jeżewski,
Michał Kidawa,
Karina Wierzbowska-Drabik,
Anna Korycka,
Tadeusz Robak,
Jarosław Damian Kasprzak
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pages 1336-1342
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Comparison of Image Quality and Radiation Dose of Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography Between Conventional Helical Scanning and a Strategy Incorporating Sequential Scanning
28 September 2009
Radiation dose from coronary computed tomographic angiography may be decreased using a sequential scanning protocol rather than a conventional helical scanning protocol. We compared radiation dose and...
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Andrew J. Einstein,
Steven D. Wolff,
Eric D. Manheimer,
James Thompson,
Sylvia Terry,
Seth Uretsky,
Adalbert Pilip,
M. Robert Peters
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pages 1343-1350
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Comparison of Dual Source Computed Tomography Versus Intravascular Ultrasound for Evaluation of Coronary Arteries at Least One Year After Cardiac Transplantation
This study evaluated the ability of dual-source computed tomography (DSCT) to detect coronary allograft vasculopathy (CAV) in heart transplant recipients using intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) as the s...
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Tiziano Schepis,
Stephan Achenbach,
Michael Weyand,
Philip Raum,
Mohamed Marwan,
Tobias Pflederer,
Werner G. Daniel,
Rene Tandler,
Markus Kondruweit,
Dieter Ropers
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pages 1351-1356
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Effectiveness of Two-Year Clopidogrel + Aspirin in Abolishing the Risk of Very Late Thrombosis After Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation (from the TYCOON [Two-Year ClOpidOgrel Need] Study)
28 September 2009
It remains unclear whether dual antiplatelet therapy >12 months might carry a better prognosis after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents (DESs). To address the hypothe...
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Gaetano Tanzilli,
Cesare Greco,
Francesco Pelliccia,
Vincenzo Pasceri,
Francesco Barillà,
Vincenzo Paravati,
Gaetano Pannitteri,
Carlo Gaudio,
Enrico Mangieri
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pages 1357-1361
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Clinical Outcomes After Sirolimus-Eluting, Paclitaxel-Eluting, and Bare Metal Stents (from the First Phase of the Prospective Multicenter German DES.DE Registry)
28 September 2009
The prospective multicenter German Drug-Eluting Stent (DES.DE) registry is an observational study to analyze and evaluate the therapeutic principle of the differential drug-eluting stents (sirolimus- ...
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Christoph A. Nienaber,
Ibrahim Akin,
Steffen Schneider,
Jochen Senges,
Thomas Fetsch,
Ulrich Tebbe,
Stefan N. Willich,
Jürgen Stumpf,
Georg V. Sabin,
Sigmund Silber,
Gert Richardt,
Karl-Heinz Kuck,
DES.DE Study Group
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pages 1362-1369
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Comparison of the Efficacy and Safety of Zotarolimus-, Sirolimus-, and Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents in Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
28 September 2009
Drug-eluting stents (DESs) are increasingly used for treatment of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), but there are few comparisons of outcomes of various types of DES. We compar...
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Cheol Whan Lee,
Duk-Woo Park,
Seung-Hwan Lee,
Young-Hak Kim,
Myeong-Ki Hong,
Jae-Joong Kim,
Seong-Wook Park,
Sung-Cheol Yun,
In-Whan Seong,
Jae-Hwan Lee,
Nae-Hee Lee,
Yoon Haeng Cho,
Sang-Sig Cheong,
Do-Sun Lim,
Joo-Young Yang,
Sang-Gon Lee,
Kee-Sik Kim,
Junghan Yoon,
Myung-Ho Jeong,
Ki Bae Seung,
Taeg Jong Hong,
Seung-Jung Park,
ZEST-AMI Investigators
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pages 1370-1376
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Comparison of Two-Year Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting With and Without Peripheral Artery Disease
28 September 2009
We aimed to evaluate the long-term clinical outcomes among patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) after coronary artery bypass grafting. We studied 589 consecutive patients who had undergone ...
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Batric Popovic,
Marc Antoine Arnould,
Christine Selton-Suty,
Clotilde Latarche,
Michael Angioi,
Jean Pierre Carteaux,
Jean Pierre Villemot,
Etienne Aliot
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pages 1377-1382
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Screening for Subclinical Coronary Artery Disease Measuring Carotid Intima Media Thickness
28 September 2009
Traditional coronary risk assessment is based on major cardiovascular risk factors using the Framingham risk score. Carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) measured by ultrasonography is a noninvasive t...
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Hien-Tu Nguyen-Thanh,
Bruno S. Benzaquen
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Review article
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pages 1383-1388
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| Preventive Cardiology |
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Impact of Worksite Wellness Intervention on Cardiac Risk Factors and One-Year Health Care Costs
28 September 2009
Cardiac rehabilitation and exercise training (CRET) provides health risk intervention in cardiac patients over a relatively short time frame. Worksite health programs offer a unique opportunity for he...
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Richard V. Milani,
Carl J. Lavie
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pages 1389-1392
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Usefulness of Triglycerides-to–High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Ratio for Predicting the First Coronary Event in Men
Overweight and obesity potentiate the development of cardiovascular risk factors but many doubts have arisen recently regarding their role in coronary events. We evaluated the predictive value of a su...
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Alberto Cordero,
Eva Andrés,
Beatriz Ordoñez,
Montserrat León,
Martín Laclaustra,
Alberto Grima,
Emilio Luengo,
José Moreno,
María Bes,
Isaac Pascual,
Fernando Civeira,
Miguel Pocoví,
Eduardo Alegría,
José A. Casasnovas,
MESYAS (MEtabolic Syndrome Active Subjects) Study Investigators
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pages 1393-1397
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Findings from Left Ventricular Strain and Strain Rate Imaging in Asymptomatic Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
28 September 2009
Regional left ventricular (LV) myocardial functional changes in early diabetic cardiomyopathy have not been well documented. LV multidirectional strain and strain rate analyses by 2-dimensional speckl...
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Arnold C.T. Ng,
Victoria Delgado,
Matteo Bertini,
Rutger W. van der Meer,
Luuk J. Rijzewijk,
Miriam Shanks,
Gaetano Nucifora,
Johannes W.A. Smit,
Michaela Diamant,
Johannes A. Romijn,
Albert de Roos,
Dominic Y. Leung,
Hildo J. Lamb,
Jeroen J. Bax
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pages 1398-1401
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| Arrhythmias and Conduction Disturbances |
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Ability of Terminal QRS Notching to Distinguish Benign from Malignant Electrocardiographic Forms of Early Repolarization
28 September 2009
Recent studies have suggested that early repolarization (ER) might be associated with up to 1/3 of idiopathic ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation (VT/VF) cases (“malignant” ER). We sought...
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Faisal M. Merchant,
Peter A. Noseworthy,
Rory B. Weiner,
Sheldon M. Singh,
Jeremy N. Ruskin,
Vivek Y. Reddy
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pages 1402-1406
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| Heart Failure |
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Optimization of the Interventricular Delay in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Using the QRS Width
Optimization of the interventricular pacing delay (VV) in cardiac resynchronization therapy is time-consuming and not routinely performed. The aim of the present study was to compare the acute hemodyn...
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David Tamborero,
Lluís Mont,
Marta Sitges,
Etelvino Silva,
Antonio Berruezo,
Barbara Vidal,
Victoria Delgado,
Jose M. Tolosana,
Miguel Godoy,
Angeles Castel,
Josep Brugada
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pages 1407-1412
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Distribution of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction in Patients With Ischemic and Hypertensive Heart Disease and Chronic Heart Failure
The clinical manifestations and eventual outcomes of chronic heart failure (HF) are not closely related to the left ventricular ejection fraction (EF). This has contributed to the single syndrome hypo...
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William H. Gaasch,
Dennis E. Delorey,
Fred J. Kueffer,
Michael R. Zile
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pages 1413-1415
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Relation of Consistency With the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Diet and Incidence of Heart Failure in Men Aged 45 to 79 Years
28 September 2009
The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet reduces blood pressure, and consistency with the DASH diet has been associated with lower rates of heart failure (HF) in women. We examined the ...
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Emily B. Levitan,
Alicja Wolk,
Murray A. Mittleman
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pages 1416-1420
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| Valvular Heart Disease |
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Comparison of Cardiac Computed Tomographic Angiography to Transesophageal Echocardiography for Evaluation of Patients With Native Valvular Heart Disease
28 September 2009
Retrospectively gated helical cardiac computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) has been reported accurate in the evaluation of isolated valvular abnormalities, but its ability to provide comprehensive ...
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Troy M. LaBounty,
Sidney Glasofer,
Richard B. Devereux,
Fay Y. Lin,
Jonathan W. Weinsaft,
James K. Min
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pages 1421-1428
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Comparison of Safety of Subcutaneous Enoxaparin as Outpatient Anticoagulation Bridging Therapy in Patients With a Mechanical Heart Valve Versus Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation
28 September 2009
Patients with mechanical heart valves (MHVs) are at a higher risk for thromboembolic events than patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). This difference is observed in the higher maintenance internati...
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Hien Thuy Bui,
Ashok Krisnaswami,
Chieu-Uyen Le,
James Chan,
Bach-Nga Shenoy
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pages 1429-1433
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| Miscellaneous |
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Predisposing Factors and Consequences of Elevated Biomarker Levels in Long-Distance Runners Aged ≥55 Years
18 September 2009
Cardiac biomarkers play an important role in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. Elevated levels can be seen in the context of strenuous exercise. We studied this phenomenon in senior endurance r...
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Anders Sahlén,
Thomas P. Gustafsson,
Jan E. Svensson,
Tony Marklund,
Reidar Winter,
Cecilia Linde,
Frieder Braunschweig
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pages 1434-1440
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Impact of Excess Body Weight on Arterial Structure, Function, and Blood Pressure in Firefighters
28 September 2009
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among firefighters. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of excess body weight on arterial structure and function and blood p...
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Christopher A. Fahs,
Denise L. Smith,
Gavin P. Horn,
Stamatis Agiovlasitis,
Lindy M. Rossow,
George Echols,
Kevin S. Heffernan,
Bo Fernhall
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pages 1441-1445
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Combined Role of Reduced Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate and Microalbuminuria on the Prevalence of Peripheral Arterial Disease
Chronic kidney disease (CKD), defined by either microalbuminuria (MA) or a reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), is associated with an increased risk of peripheral arterial disease (PAD...
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Usman Baber,
Devin Mann,
Daichi Shimbo,
Mark Woodward,
Jeffrey W. Olin,
Paul Muntner
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pages 1446-1451
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Cardiovascular Complications of the Guillain-Barré Syndrome
28 September 2009
The Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is the most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis in young adults and the elderly and an important cause of admission to intensive care units. Manifestations of the...
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Siddharth Mukerji,
Feras Aloka,
Muhammad U. Farooq,
Mounzer Y. Kassab,
George S. Abela
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pages 1452-1455
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Editorial Board
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