Planning the specialized care of adult congenital heart disease patients: from numbers to guidelines; an epidemiologic approach, 17 November 2008
Ariane J. Marelli, Judith Therrien, Andrew S. Mackie, Raluca Ionescu-Ittu, Louise Pilote
pages 1-8
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Prognostic impact of Chagas disease in the United States, 30 October 2008
José Milei, Roberto Andrés Guerri-Guttenberg, Daniel Rodolfo Grana, Rubén Storino
pages 22-29
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Rationale and design of a trial of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition in infants with single ventricle
Daphne T. Hsu, Seema Mital, Chitra Ravishankar, Renee Margossian, Jennifer S. Li, Lynn A. Sleeper, Richard V. Williams, Jami C. Levine, Brian W. McCrindle, Andrew M. Atz, Darlene Servedio, Lynn Mahony, for the Pediatric Heart Network Investigators
pages 37-45
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Association between language and risk factor levels among Hispanic adults with hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, or diabetes
Pracha P. Eamranond, Anna T.R. Legedza, Ana V. Diez-Roux, Namratha R. Kandula, Walter Palmas, David S. Siscovick, Kenneth J. Mukamal
pages 53-59
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Acute coronary syndrome emergency treatment strategies: Improved treatment and reduced mortality in patients with acute coronary syndrome using guideline-based critical care pathways, 29 October 2008
John C. Corbelli, David M. Janicke, Mark J. Cziraky, Tracey A. Hoy, Jennifer A. Corbelli
pages 61-68
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Ethnic differences in the treatment of depression in patients with ischemic heart disease, 22 October 2008
Silvina V. Waldman, James A. Blumenthal, Michael A. Babyak, Andrew Sherwood, Michael Sketch, Jonathan Davidson, Lana L. Watkins
pages 77-83
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Erythropoietin levels in heart failure after an acute myocardial infarction: Determinants, prognostic value, and the effects of captopril versus losartan, 29 October 2008
Anne M.S. Belonje, B. Daan Westenbrink, Adriaan A. Voors, Stephan von Haehling, Pjotr Ponikowski, Stefan D. Anker, Dirk J. van Veldhuisen, Kenneth Dickstein
pages 91-96
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Use of myocardial strain to assess global left ventricular function: A comparison with cardiac magnetic resonance and 3-dimensional echocardiography
Joseph Brown, Carly Jenkins, Thomas H. Marwick
pages 102.e1-102.e5
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Lipid levels in patients hospitalized with coronary artery disease: An analysis of 136,905 hospitalizations in Get With The Guidelines, 23 October 2008
Amit Sachdeva, Christopher P. Cannon, Prakash C. Deedwania, Kenneth A. LaBresh, Sidney C. Smith, David Dai, Adrian Hernandez, Gregg C. Fonarow, on behalf of the GWTG Steering Committee and Hospitals
pages 111-117.e2
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The use of intravenous enoxaparin in elective percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with renal impairment: Results from the SafeTy and Efficacy of Enoxaparin in PCI patients, an internationaL randomized Evaluation (STEEPLE) trial, 13 November 2008
Harvey D. White, Richard Gallo, Marc Cohen, Ph. Gabriel Steg, Philip E. Aylward, Christoph Bode, Steve Steinhubl, Gilles Montalescot
pages 125-131
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Gender differences among patients with acute coronary syndromes undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention in the American College of Cardiology-National Cardiovascular Data Registry (ACC-NCDR)
Nausheen Akhter, Sarah Milford-Beland, Matthew T. Roe, Robert N. Piana, John Kao, Adhir Shroff, on behalf of the American College of Cardiology-National Cardiovascular Data Registry Investigators
pages 141-148
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Three-year clinical outcome after primary stenting of totally occluded native coronary arteries: A randomized comparison of bare-metal stent implantation with sirolimus-eluting stent implantation for the treatment of total coronary occlusions (Primary Stenting of Totally Occluded Native Coronary Arteries [PRISON] II study), 07 November 2008
Braim M. Rahel, Gerrit J. Laarman, Johannes C. Kelder, Juriën M. ten Berg, Maarten J. Suttorp
pages 149-155
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Incidence, predictors, and clinical impact of bleeding after transradial coronary stenting and maximal antiplatelet therapy, 07 November 2008
Olivier F. Bertrand, Éric Larose, Josep Rodés-Cabau, Onil Gleeton, Isabelle Taillon, Louis Roy, Paul Poirier, Olivier Costerousse, Robert De Larochellière
pages 164-169
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Prognostic importance of hemoglobin in hypertensive patients with electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy: The Losartan Intervention For End point reduction in hypertension (LIFE) study, 20 October 2008
Michael Hecht Olsen, Kristian Wachtell, Gareth Beevers, Björn Dahlöf, Richard B. Devereux, Ulf de Faire, Frej Fyhrquist, Hans Ibsen, Sverre E. Kjeldsen, Ole Lederballe-Pedersen, Lars H. Lindholm, Puneet Narayan, Markku S. Nieminen, Per Omvik, Suzanne Oparil, Hans Wedel
pages 177-184
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Efficacy and safety of ABT-335 (fenofibric acid) in combination with simvastatin in patients with mixed dyslipidemia: A phase 3, randomized, controlled study, 20 November 2008
Syed M. Mohiuddin, Carl J. Pepine, Maureen T. Kelly, Susan M. Buttler, Carolyn M. Setze, Darryl J. Sleep, James C. Stolzenbach
pages 195-203
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Editorial Board
page A5
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