Review article:

Lukas E. Spieker, Georg Noll, Frank T. Ruschitzka, and Thomas F. Lüscher

Endothelin receptor antagonists in congestive heart failure: a new therapeutic principle for the future?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1493-1505. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: risk factors:

Harvey S. Hecht and H. Robert Superko

Electron beam tomography and national cholesterol education program guidelines in asymptomatic women
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1506-1511. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Amir Snapir, Paula Heinonen, Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen, Pia Alhopuro, Matti K. Karvonen, Timo A. Lakka, Kristiina Nyyssönen, Riitta Salonen, Jussi Kauhanen, Veli-Pekka Valkonen, Ullamari Pesonen, Markku Koulu, Mika Scheinin, and Jukka T. Salonen

An insertion/deletion polymorphism in the _2b-adrenergic receptor gene is a novel genetic risk factor for acute coronary events
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1516-1522. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jassim Al Suwaidi, Stuart T. Higano, David R. Holmes Jr., Ryan Lennon, and Amir Lerman

Obesity is independently associated with coronary endothelial dysfunction in patients with normal or mildly diseased coronary arteries
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1523-1528. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Mitsuhiro Sanada, Yukihito Higashi, Keigo Nakagawa, Shota Sasaki, Ichiro Kodama, Mikio Tsuda, Nobutaka Nagai, and Koso Ohama

Relationship between the angiotensin-converting enzyme genotype and the forearm vasodilator response to estrogen replacement therapy in postmenopausal women
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1529-1535. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

José C. Rodríguez-Pérez, Francisco Rodríguez-Esparragón, Octavio Hernández-Perera, Aránzazu Anabitarte, Antonio Losada, Alfonso Medina, Enrique Hernández, Dolores Fiuza, Octavio Avalos, Carla Yunis, Carlos M. Ferrario for the PROCAGENE Study Investigators

Association of angiotensinogen m235t and a(-6)g gene polymorphisms with coronary heart disease with independence of essential hypertension: the procagene study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1536-1542. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

François Ledru, Pierre Ducimetière, Salvatore Battaglia, Dominique Courbon, Fabrice Beverelli, Louis Guize, Jean-L.éon Guermonprez, and Benoît Diébold

New diagnostic criteria for diabetes and coronary artery disease: insights from an angiographic study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1543-1550. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Editorial comment:

Scott M. Grundy

Coronary calcium as a risk factor: role in global risk assessment
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1512-1515. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Sleight

Overutilization and underutilization of thrombolysis in routine clinical practice
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1588-1589. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susanne Mohr-Kahaly

Aortic intramural hematoma: from observation to therapeutic strategies
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1611-1613. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ihor Gussak, Preben Bjerregaard, and Stephen C. Hammill

Clinical diagnosis and risk stratification in patients with brugada syndrome
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1635-1638. [Full Text] [PDF]  

James Lightwood, Kirsten E. Fleischmann, and Stanton A. Glantz

Smoking cessation in heart failure: it is never too late
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1683-1684. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clinical study: stress testing:

Abdou Elhendy, Adelaide M. Arruda, Douglas W. Mahoney, and Patricia A. Pellikka

Prognostic stratification of diabetic patients by exercise echocardiography
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1551-1557. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Lazaro A. Diaz, Richard C. Brunken, Eugene H. Blackstone, Claire E. Snader, and Michael S. Lauer

Independent contribution of myocardial perfusion defects to exercise capacity and heart rate recovery for prediction of all-cause mortality in patients with known or suspected coronary heart disease
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1558-1564. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: coronary artery disease:

Kazuo Minai, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Hajime Horie, Naoto Ohira, Hiroyuki Takashima, Hiroshi Yokohama, and Masahiko Kinoshita

Bradykinin stimulates the release of tissue plasminogen activator in human coronary circulation: effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1565-1570. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: myocardial infarction:

Mark I. Furman, Harold L. Dauerman, Robert J. Goldberg, Jorge Yarzbeski, Darleen Lessard, and Joel M. Gore

Twenty-two year (1975 to 1997) trends in the incidence, in-hospital and long-term case fatality rates from initial q-wave and non-q-wave myocardial infarction: a multi-hospital, community-wide perspective
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1571-1580. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Michael Mundt Ottesen, Lars Køber, Stig Jørgensen, Christian Torp-Pedersen on behalf of the TRACE Study Group

Consequences of overutilization and underutilization of thrombolytic therapy in clinical practice
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1581-1587. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Tamir Wolf, Lior Gepstein, Uzi Dror, Gal Hayam, Rona Shofti, Asaph Zaretzky, Gideon Uretzky, Uri Oron, and Shlomo A. Ben-Haim

Detailed endocardial mapping accurately predicts the transmural extent of myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1590-1597. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: interventional cardiology:

Ferdinand Kiemeneij, Patrick W. Serruys, Carlos Macaya, Wolfgang Rutsch, Guy Heyndrickx, Per Albertsson, Jean Fajadet, Victor Legrand, Pierre Materne, Jorge Belardi, Ulrich Sigwart, Antonio Colombo, Jean-Jacques Goy, Clemens M. C. Disco, Marie-Angèle Morel on behalf of the Benestent I Study Group

Continued benefit of coronary stenting versus balloon angioplasty: five-year clinical follow-up of Benestent-I trial
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1598-1603. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: aortic dissection:

Jae-Kwan Song, Hyun-Sook Kim, Duk-Hyun Kang, Tae-Hwan Lim, Meong-Gun Song, Seong-Wook Park, and Seung-Jung Park

Different clinical features of aortic intramural hematoma versus dissection involving the ascending aorta
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1604-1610. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: valve disease:

Neil J. Weissman, Julio A. Panza, John F. Tighe Jr., Susan T. Perras, Harvey Kushner, and John S. Gottdiener

Specificity of Doppler echocardiography for the assessment of changes in valvular regurgitation: comparison of side-by-side versus serial interpretation
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1614-1621. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Satoshi Yuda, Satoshi Nakatani, Yoshio Kosakai, Masakazu Yamagishi, and Kunio Miyatake

Long-term follow-up of atrial contraction after the maze procedure in patients with mitral valve disease
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1622-1627. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: electrophysiology:

Takanori Ikeda, Harumizu Sakurada, Koichi Sakabe, Takao Sakata, Mitsuaki Takami, Naoki Tezuka, Takeshi Nakae, Mahito Noro, Yoshihisa Enjoji, Tamotsu Tejima, Kaoru Sugi, and Tetsu Yamaguchi

Assessment of noninvasive markers in identifying patients at risk in the brugada syndrome: insight into risk stratification
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1628-1634. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Giuseppe Stabile, Antonio De Simone, Pietro Turco, Vincenzo La Rocca, Pasquale Nocerino, Costantino Astarita, Francesco Maresca, Carmine De Matteis, Tommaso Di Napoli, Eugenio Stabile, and Dino Franco Vitale

Response to flecainide infusion predicts long-term success of hybrid pharmacologic and ablation therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1639-1644. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Stephan Willems, Christian Weiss, Mohammad Shenasa, Rodolfo Ventura, Matthias Hoffmann, and Thomas Meinertz

Optimized mapping of slow pathway ablation guided by subthreshold stimulation: a randomized prospective study in patients with recurrent atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1645-1650. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ching-Tai Tai, Shih-Ann Chen, Jyh-Woei Tzeng, Benjamin I. Kuo, Yu-An Ding, Mau-Song Chang, and Liang-Yu Shyu

Prolonged fractionation of paced right atrial electrograms in patients with atrial flutter and fibrillation
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1651-1657. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Tse-Min Lu, Ching-Tai Tai, Ming-Hsiung Hsieh, Chin-Feng Tsai, Yung-Kuo Lin, Wen-Chung Yu, Hsuan-Ming Tsao, Shih-Huang Lee, Yu-An Ding, Mau-Song Chang, and Shih-Ann Chen

Electrophysiologic characteristics in initiation of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation from a focal area
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1658-1664. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Etienne Delacretaz, Leonard I. Ganz, Kyoko Soejima, Peter L. Friedman, Edward P. Walsh, John K. Triedman, Laurence J. Sloss, Michael J. Landzberg, and William G. Stevenson

Multiple atrial macro–re-entry circuits in adults with repaired congenital heart disease: entrainment mapping combined with three-dimensional electroanatomic mapping
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1665-1676. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: heart failure:

Neville Suskin, Tej Sheth, Abdissa Negassa, and Salim Yusuf

Relationship of current and past smoking to mortality and morbidity in patients with left ventricular dysfunction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1677-1682. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ioannis A. Paraskevaidis, Stamatis Adamopoulos, and Dimitrios Th Kremastinos

Dobutamine echocardiographic study in patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy and prognostically borderline values of peak exercise oxygen consumption: 18-month follow-up study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1685-1691. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Michael B. Fowler, Montserrat Vera-Llonch, Gerry Oster, Michael R. Bristow, Jay N. Cohn, Wilson S. Colucci, Edward M. Gilbert, Mary Ann Lukas, Michael J. Lacey, Randel Richner, Sarah T. Young, Milton Packer for the U.S. Carvedilol Heart Failure Study Group

Influence of carvedilol on hospitalizations in heart failure: incidence, resource utilization and costs
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1692-1699. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: pediatric cardiology:

Antonio R. Mott, Charles D. Fraser Jr, Anita V. Kusnoor, N. Martin Giesecke, George J. Reul Jr, Kathy L. Drescher, Carmen H. Watrin, E. O.’Brian Smith, and Timothy F. Feltes

The effect of short-term prophylactic methylprednisolone on the incidence and severity of postpericardiotomy syndrome in children undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1700-1706. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roberto Formigari, Roberto M. Di Donato, Ennio Mazzera, Adriano Carotti, Gabriele Rinelli, Francesco Parisi, Luciano Pasquini, and Luigi Ballerini

Minimally invasive or interventional repair of atrial septal defects in children: experience in 171 cases and comparison with conventional strategies
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1707-1712. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Experimental Studies:

Tadashi Miyamoto, Akira Matsumori, Myung-Woo Hwang, Ryosuke Nishio, Haruyasu Ito, and Shigetake Sasayama

Therapeutic effects of FTY720, a new immunosuppressive agent, in a murine model of acute viral myocarditis
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1713-1718. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Julie A. Kovach, Bruce D. Nearing, and Richard L. Verrier

Angerlike behavioral state potentiates myocardial ischemia-induced T-wave alternans in canines
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1719-1725. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Shmuel Fuchs, Richard Baffour, Yi Fu Zhou, Matie Shou, Anthony Pierre, Fermin O. Tio, Neil J. Weissman, Martin B. Leon, Stephen E. Epstein, and Ran Kornowski

Transendocardial delivery of autologous bone marrow enhances collateral perfusion and regional function in pigs with chronic experimental myocardial ischemia
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1726-1732. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Boaz Avitall, Arvydas Urbonas, Scott Millard, Dalia Urboniene, and Ray Helms

Ablation of atrial fibrillation in the rapid pacing canine model using a multi-electrode loop catheter
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1733-1740. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Philip B. Adamson and Emilio Vanoli

Early autonomic and repolarization abnormalities contribute to lethal arrhythmias in chronic ischemic heart failure: Characteristics of a novel heart failure model in dogs with postmyocardial infarction left ventricular dysfunction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1741-1748. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Editor's Page:

William W. Parmley

Changing guidelines on conflict of interest
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1749-1750. [Full Text] [PDF]  

ACC News:

Douglas P. Zipes

President’s page: the need for the in(ter)dependent investigator
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1751-1752. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters to the Editor:

Shije Sun, Kada Klouche, Wanchun Tang, and Max Harry Weil

The effects of biphasic and conventional monophasic defibrillation on postresuscitation myocardial function
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1753. [Full Text] [PDF]  

James T. Niemann

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1753-1754. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alfred Sacchetti and Russell H. Harris

Effectiveness of BiPAP for congestive heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1754-1755. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ahuva Sharon, Isaac Shpirer, and Gad Cotter

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 37: 1755. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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