Treating depression after myocardial infarction: Can selecting patients on the basis of genetic susceptibility improve psychiatric and medical outcomes?
Redford B. Williams
pages 617-619
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Design and methodology of the Occluded Artery Trial (OAT)
The Occluded Artery Trial (OAT) Research Group, Judith S. Hochman, Gervasio A. Lamas, Genell L. Knatterud, Christopher E. Buller, Vladimir Dzavik, Daniel B. Mark, Harmony R. Reynolds, Harvey D. White
pages 627-642
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Should we measure C-reactive protein levels to ascertain the adequacy of statin therapy in patients who are at very high risk for a coronary heart disease event?
Abhinav Goyal, Michael Blazing
pages 650-651
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Electrocardiographic infarct size assessment after thrombolysis: Insights from the Acute Myocardial Infarction STudy ADenosine (AMISTAD) trial
Alejandro Barbagelata, Marcelo F. Di Carli, Robert M. Califf, Jyotsna Garg, Yochai Birnbaum, Liliana Grinfeld, Raymond J. Gibbons, Christopher B. Granger, Shaun G. Goodman, Galen S. Wagner, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, for the AMISTAD Investigators
pages 659-665
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Outcomes in patients admitted for chest pain with renal failure and troponin I elevations
Michael C. Kontos, Rajat Garg, F. Philip Anderson, James L. Tatum, Joseph P. Ornato, Robert L. Jesse
pages 674-680
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Determinants of coronary events in patients with stable angina: Results from the Impact of Nicorandil in Angina Study
The IONA Study Group
pages 689.e1-689.e9
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Predictors and 1-year outcome of major bleeding in patients with non–ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: Insights from the Canadian Acute Coronary Syndrome Registries
Amit Segev, Bradley H. Strauss, Mary Tan, Christian Constance, Anatoly Langer, Shaun G. Goodman, for the Canadian Acute Coronary Syndromes Registries Investigators
pages 690-694
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Atrial fibrillation in heart failure: High mortality risk even if ventricular function is preserved
Ratika Parkash, William H. Maisel, F. Michael Toca, William G. Stevenson
pages 701-706
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Education by a dietitian in patients with heart failure results in improved adherence with a sodium-restricted diet: A randomized trial
Jo Anne L. Arcand, Sandra Brazel, Courtney Joliffe, Marlene Choleva, Frances Berkoff, Johane P. Allard, Gary E. Newton
pages 716.e1-716.e5
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Enhancing quality of heart failure care in managed Medicare and Medicaid in North Carolina: Results of the North Carolina Achieving Cardiac Excellence (NC ACE) Project
David C. Goff, Mark W. Massing, Alain G. Bertoni, Jennifer Davis, Walter T. Ambrosius, Jill McArdle, Vanessa Duren-Winfield, Carla A. Sueta, Janet B. Croft
pages 717-724
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Role of immunoglobulin G3 subclass in dilated cardiomyopathy: Results from protein A immunoadsorption
Alexander Staudt, Markus Dörr, Yvonne Staudt, Marko Böhm, Michael Probst, Klaus Empen, Sebastian Plötz, Hans E. Maschke, Astrid Hummel, Gert Baumann, Stephan B. Felix
pages 729-736
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Prognostic use of echocardiography 1 year after a myocardial infarction
Hicham Skali, Leonardo A.M. Zornoff, Marc A. Pfeffer, Malcolm O. Arnold, Gervasio A. Lamas, Lemuel A. Moyé, Ted Plappert, Jean L. Rouleau, Bruce A. Sussex, Martin St John Sutton, Eugene Braunwald, Scott D. Solomon, for the Survival and Ventricular Enlargement (SAVE) Investigators
pages 743-749
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Impaired tissue Doppler diastolic function in patients with coronary artery disease: Relationship to endothelial damage/dysfunction and platelet activation
Kaeng W. Lee, Andrew D. Blann, Gregory Y.H. Lip
pages 756-766
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Comprehensive assessment of patients after coronary artery bypass grafting by 16-detector-row computed tomography
Liesbeth P. Salm, Jeroen J. Bax, J. Wouter Jukema, Joanne D. Schuijf, Hubert W. Vliegen, Hildo J. Lamb, Ernst E. van der Wall, Albert de Roos
pages 775-781
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Protective effect of high diastolic blood pressure during exercise against exercise-induced myocardial ischemia
Hiroyuki Yamagishi, Minoru Yoshiyama, Naoya Shirai, Kaname Akioka, Kazuhide Takeuchi, Junichi Yoshikawa
pages 790-795
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Association between completeness of percutaneous coronary revascularization and postprocedure outcomes
Catherine S. McLellan, William A. Ghali, Marino Labinaz, Roger B. Davis, P. Diane Galbraith, Danielle A. Southern, Fiona M. Shrive, Merril L. Knudtson, for the Alberta Provincial Project for Outcomes Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease (APPROACH) Investigators
pages 800-806
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Acute hyperglycemia is associated with adverse outcome after acute myocardial infarction in the coronary intervention era
Masaharu Ishihara, Sunao Kojima, Tomohiro Sakamoto, Yujiro Asada, Chuwa Tei, Kazuo Kimura, Shunichi Miyazaki, Masahiro Sonoda, Kazufumi Tsuchihashi, Masakazu Yamagishi, Yoshihiko Ikeda, Mutsunori Shirai, Hisatoyo Hiraoka, Takeshi Inoue, Fumio Saito, Hisao Ogawa, on behalf of the Japanese Acute Coronary Syndrome Study (JACSS) Investigators Japan Hiroshima, Japan
pages 814-820
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Preprocedural Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) flow significantly affects the extent of ST-segment resolution and myocardial blush in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction treated by primary angioplasty
Giuseppe De Luca, Nicolette Ernst, Arnoud W.J. van't Hof, Jan Paul Ottervanger, Jan C.A. Hoorntje, Jan-Henk E. Dambrink, A.T. Marcel Gosslink, Menko-Jan de Boer, Harry Suryapranata
pages 827-831
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Decade-long changes in the use of combination evidence–based medical therapy at discharge for patients surviving acute myocardial infarction
Frederick A. Spencer, Darleen Lessard, Jorge Yarzebski, Joel M. Gore, Robert J. Goldberg
pages 838-844
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Evaluation of left ventricular outflow tract area after septal reduction in obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: A real-time 3-dimensional echocardiographic study
Marta Sitges, Jian Xin Qin, Harry M. Lever, Fabrice Bauer, Jeannie K. Drinko, Deborah A. Agler, Samir R. Kapadia, E. Murat Tuzcu, Nicholas G. Smedira, Bruce W. Lytle, James D. Thomas, Takahiro Shiota
pages 852-858
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Table of Contents
pages A2-A6
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Information for Authors
pages A8-A9
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