Review article:

Bozena Stobierska-Dzierzek, Hamdy Awad, and Robert E. Michler

The evolving management of acute right-sided heart failure in cardiac transplant recipients
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 923-931. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clinical Study:

Sidney Goldstein, Björn Fagerberg, Åke Hjalmarson, John Kjekshus, Finn Waagstein, Hans Wedel, John Wikstrand for the MERIT-HF Study Group

Metoprolol controlled release/extended release in patients with severe heart failure: Analysis of the experience in the MERIT-HF study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 932-938. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Christoph Maack, Thomas Elter, Georg Nickenig, Karl LaRosee, Marina Crivaro, Alexander Stäblein, Henrike Wuttke, and Michael Böhm

Prospective crossover comparison of carvedilol and metoprolol in patients with chronic heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 939-946. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Bertrand Mettauer, Joffrey Zoll, Hervé Sanchez, Eliane Lampert, Florence Ribera, Vladimir Veksler, Xavier Bigard, Philippe Mateo, Eric Epailly, Jean Lonsdorfer, and Renée Ventura-Clapier

Oxidative capacity of skeletal muscle in heart failure patients versus sedentary or active control subjects
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 947-954. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Amin Al-Ahmad, William M. Rand, Guruprasad Manjunath, Marvin A. Konstam, Deeb N. Salem, Andrew S. Levey, and Mark J. Sarnak

Reduced kidney function and anemia as risk factors for mortality in patients with left ventricular dysfunction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 955-962. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

GianCarlo Marenzi, Gianfranco Lauri, Marco Grazi, Emilio Assanelli, Jeness Campodonico, and PierGiuseppe Agostoni

Circulatory response to fluid overload removal by extracorporeal ultrafiltration in refractory congestive heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 963-968. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Daniel H. Solomon, Peter H. Stone, Robert J. Glynn, David A. Ganz, C. Michael Gibson, Russell Tracy, and Jerry Avorn

Use of risk stratification to identify patients with unstable angina likeliest to benefit from an invasive versus conservative management strategy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 969-976. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Bertil Lindahl, Erik Diderholm, Bo Lagerqvist, Per Venge, Lars Wallentin the FRISC II Investigators

Mechanisms behind the prognostic value of troponin T in unstable coronary artery disease: a FRISC II substudy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 979-986. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ijaz A. Khan, Norrapol Wattanasuwan, Nirav J. Mehta, Aung Tun, Narpinder Singh, Harinder K. Singh, Balendu C. Vasavada, and Terrence J. Sacchi

Prognostic value of serum cardiac troponin I in ambulatory patients with chronic renal failure undergoing long-term hemodialysis: A two-year outcome analysis
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 991-998. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Mark I. Furman, Marc R. Barnard, Lori A. Krueger, Marsha L. Fox, Elizabeth A. Shilale, Darleen M. Lessard, Peter Marchese, A. L. Frelinger III, Robert J. Goldberg, and Alan D. Michelson

Circulating monocyte-platelet aggregates are an early marker of acute myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1002-1006. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Masaharu Ishihara, Ichiro Inoue, Takuji Kawagoe, Yuji Shimatani, Satoshi Kurisu, Kenji Nishioka, Yasuyuki Kouno, Takashi Umemura, Syuji Nakamura, and Hikaru Sato

Diabetes mellitus prevents ischemic preconditioning in patients with a first acute anterior wall myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1007-1011. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Lee Goldman, Kathryn A. Phillips, Pamela Coxson, Paula A. Goldman, Lawrence Williams, M. G. Myriam Hunink, and Milton C. Weinstein

The effect of risk factor reductions between 1981 and 1990 on coronary heart disease incidence, prevalence, mortality and cost
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1012-1017. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Christian Meisel, Vahid Afshar-Kharghan, Ingolf Cascorbi, Michael Laule, Verena Stangl, Stefan B. Felix, Gert Baumann, José A. López, Ivar Roots, and Karl Stangl

Role of Kozak sequence polymorphism of platelet glycoprotein Ib as a risk factor for coronary artery disease and catheter interventions
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1023-1027. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Daniel Burkhoff, James W. Jones, and Lewis C. Becker

Variability of myocardial perfusion defects assessed by thallium-201 scintigraphy in patients with coronary artery disease not amenable to angioplasty or bypass surgery
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1033-1039. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Marcus H. Howell, Neil Strickman, Ali Mortazavi, Charles H. Hallman, and Zvonimir Krajcer

Preliminary results of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm exclusion with the AneuRx stent-graft
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1040-1046. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Luis Gruberg, Ron Waksman, Andrew E. Ajani, Han-Soo Kim, R. Larry White, Ellen Pinnow, Regina Deible, Lowell F. Satler, Augusto D. Pichard, Kenneth K. Kent, and Joseph Lindsay Jr

The effect of intracoronary radiation for the treatment of recurrent in-stent restenosis in patients with chronic renal failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1049-1053. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Seung-Jung Park, Myeong-Ki Hong, Cheol Whan Lee, Jae-Joong Kim, Jae-Kwan Song, Duk-Hyun Kang, Seong-Wook Park, and Gary S. Mintz

Elective stenting of unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis: Effect of debulking before stenting and intravascular ultrasound guidance
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1054-1060. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jurriën M. ten Berg, Johannes C. Kelder, Maarten Jan Suttorp, Freek W. A. Verheugt, and H. W. Thijs Plokker

Influence of planned six-month follow-up angiography on late outcome after percutaneous coronary intervention: A randomized study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1061-1069. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Karen Klatte, Bernard R. Chaitman, Pierre Theroux, Jeffrey A. Gavard, Karen Stocke, Steven Boyce, Claus Bartels, Birgit Keller, Andreas Jessel for the GUARDIAN Investigators

Increased mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery is associated with increased levels of postoperative creatine kinase-myocardial band isoenzyme release: Results from the GUARDIAN trial
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1070-1077. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Alberto Galante, Antonio Pietroiusti, Marina Vellini, Paola Piccolo, Gianfederico Possati, Michele De Bonis, Rita L. Grillo, Carla Fontana, and Cartesio Favalli

C-reactive protein is increased in patients with degenerative aortic valvular stenosis
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1078-1082. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masakazu Imamura, Sadatoshi Biro, Takashi Kihara, Shiro Yoshifuku, Kunitsugu Takasaki, Yutaka Otsuji, Shinichi Minagoe, Yoshifumi Toyama, and Chuwa Tei

Repeated thermal therapy improves impaired vascular endothelial function in patients with coronary risk factors
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1083-1088. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Abhiram Prasad, Julian P. J. Halcox, Myron A. Waclawiw, and Arshed A. Quyyumi

Angiotensin type 1 receptor antagonism reverses abnormal coronary vasomotion in atherosclerosis
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1089-1095. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Tommaso Gori, Susanna S. Mak, Susan Kelly, and John D. Parker

Evidence supporting abnormalities in nitric oxide synthase function induced by nitroglycerin in humans
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1096-1101. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Agostino Virdis, Lorenzo Ghiadoni, Heloise Cardinal, Stefania Favilla, Piero Duranti, Renzo Birindelli, Armando Magagna, Gianpaolo Bernini, Guido Salvetti, Stefano Taddei, and Antonio Salvetti

Mechanisms responsible for endothelial dysfunction induced by fasting hyperhomocystinemia in normotensive subjects and patients with essential hypertension
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1106-1115. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Abhiram Prasad, Rita Mincemoyer, and Arshed A. Quyyumi

Anti-ischemic effects of angiotensin- converting enzyme inhibition in hypertension
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1116-1122. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Walter J. Rogers, Yong-Lin Hu, Douglas Coast, Diane A. Vido, Christopher M. Kramer, Reed E. Pyeritz, and Nathaniel Reichek

Age-associated changes in regional aortic pulse wave velocity
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1123-1129. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ralph Wiedemann, H. Ardeschir Ghofrani, Norbert Weissmann, Ralph Schermuly, Karin Quanz, Friedrich Grimminger, Werner Seeger, and Horst Olschewski

Atrial natriuretic peptide in severe primary and nonprimary pulmonary hypertension: Response to iloprost inhalation
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1130-1136. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Arturo Gómez, David Bialostozky, Alan Zajarias, Efrén Santos, Andrés Palomar, María Luisa Martínez, and Julio Sandoval

Right ventricular ischemia in patients with primary pulmonary hypertension
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1137-1142. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Bernhard Zrenner, Gjin Ndrepepa, Martin R. Karch, Michael A. E. Schneider, J.ürgen Schreieck, Albert Schömig, and Claus Schmitt

Electrophysiologic characteristics of paroxysmal and chronic atrial fibrillation in human right atrium
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1143-1149. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Eric J. Rashba, Mary R. Olsovsky, Stephen R. Shorofsky, Malcolm M. Kirk, Robert W. Peters, and Michael R. Gold

Temporal decline in defibrillation thresholds with an active pectoral lead system
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1150-1155. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Luis A. Pires, Michael H. Lehmann, Alfred E. Buxton, Gail E. Hafley, Kerry L. Lee the Multicenter Unsustained Tachycardia Trial Investigators

Differences in inducibility and prognosis of in-hospital versus out-of-hospital identified nonsustained ventricular tachycardia in patients with coronary artery disease: clinical and trial design implications
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1156-1162. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Gregory F. Michaud, Hiroshi Tada, Steven Chough, Robert Baker, Kristina Wasmer, Christian Sticherling, Hakan Oral, Frank Pelosi Jr, Bradley P. Knight, S. Adam Strickberger, and Fred Morady

Differentiation of atypical atrioventricular node re-entrant tachycardia from orthodromic reciprocating tachycardia using a septal accessory pathway by the response to ventricular pacing
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1163-1167. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Amir Halkin, Arie Roth, Ido Lurie, Roman Fish, Bernard Belhassen, and Sami Viskin

Pause-dependent torsade de pointes following acute myocardial infarction: A variant of the acquired long QT syndrome
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1168-1174. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Do-Sun Lim, Robert Roberts, and Ali J. Marian

Expression profiling of cardiac genes in human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: insight into the pathogenesis of phenotypes
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1175-1180. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Pamela C. Jenkins, Michael F. Flanagan, James D. Sargent, Charles E. Canter, Richard E. Chinnock, Kathy J. Jenkins, Robert N. Vincent, Gerald T. O’Connor, and Anna N. A. Tosteson

A comparison of treatment strategies for hypoplastic left heart syndrome using decision analysis
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1181-1187. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Editorial comment:

William G. Kussmaul III

Should we catheterize all patients with unstable angina? No—only the ones with coronary artery disease
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 977-978. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Allan S. Jaffe

Testing the wrong hypothesis: the failure to recognize the limitations of troponin assays
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 999-1001. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martha L. Daviglus and Jeremiah Stamler

Major risk factors and coronary heart disease: much has been achieved but crucial challenges remain
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1018-1022. [Full Text] [PDF]  

David E. Kandzari and Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont

Platelet polymorphisms and ischemic heart disease: moving beyond traditional risk factors
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1028-1032. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Timothy A. M. Chuter

Endovascular aneurysm repair with the AneuRx stent-graft is safe, but is it effective?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1047-1048. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas Münzel

Does nitroglycerin therapy hit the endothelium?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1102-1105. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rainer Hoffmann and Peter Hanrath

Interaliasing distances to assess mitral regurgitation: dividing the rainbow of flow convergence
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1203-1206. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elliott M. Antman

Troponin measurements in ischemic heart disease: more than just a black and white picture
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 987-990. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Experimental Studies:

Yuji Oikawa, Kazuhira Maehara, Tomiyoshi Saito, Kazuaki Tamagawa, and Yukio Maruyama

Attenuation of angiotensin II-mediated coronary vasoconstriction and vasodilatory action of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor in pacing-induced heart failure in dogs
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1188-1194. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Marta Sitges, Michael Jones, Takahiro Shiota, David L. Prior, Jian Xin Qin, Hiroyuki Tsujino, Fabrice Bauer, Yong Jin Kim, Dimitri Deserranno, Neil L. Greenberg, Lisa A. Cardon, Arthur D. Zetts, Mario J. Garcia, and James D. Thomas

Interaliasing distance of the flow convergence surface for determining mitral regurgitant volume: a validation study in a chronic animal model
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1195-1202. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Cheuk-Man Yu, George L. Tipoe, Kevin Wing-Hon Lai, and Chu-Pak Lau

Effects of combination of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor and angiotensin receptor antagonist on inflammatory cellular infiltration and myocardial interstitial fibrosis after acute myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1207-1215. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jaime F. Vazquez-Jimenez, Ma Qing, Benita Hermanns, Bernd Klosterhalfen, Michael Wöltje, Raj Chakupurakal, Kathrin Schumacher, Bruno J. Messmer, G.ötz von Bernuth, and Marie-Christine Seghaye

Moderate hypothermia during cardiopulmonary bypass reduces myocardial cell damage and myocardial cell death related to cardiac surgery
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1216-1223. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Viewpoint:

Gregory F. Michaud and S. Adam Strickberger

Should an abnormal serum potassium concentration be considered a correctable cause of cardiac arrest?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1224-1225. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Editor's Page:

William W. Parmley

What is our contract with society?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1226-1227. [Full Text] [PDF]  

President's page:

Douglas P. Zipes

President's page: the future of print
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1228-1230. [Full Text] [PDF]  

ACC/AHA guideline:

Valentin Fuster, Lars E. Rydén, Richard W. Asinger, David S. Cannom, Harry J. Crijns, Robert L. Frye, Jonathan L. Halperin, G. Neal Kay, Werner W. Klein, Samuel Lévy, Robert L. McNamara, Eric N. Prystowsky, L. Samuel Wann, D. George Wyse, Raymond J. Gibbons, Elliott M. Antman, Joseph S. Alpert, David P. Faxon, Valentin Fuster, Gabriel Gregoratos, Loren F. Hiratzka, Alice K. Jacobs, Richard O. Russell, Sidney C. Smith Jr, Werner W. Klein, Angeles Alonso-Garcia, Carina Blomström-Lundqvist, Guy De Backer, Marcus Flather, Jaromir Hradec, Ali Oto, Alexander Parkhomenko, Sigmund Silber, and Adam Torbicki

ACC/AHA/ESC guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation: executive summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/ American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines and Policy Conferences (Committee to Develop Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation) Developed in Collaboration With the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1231-1265. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

ACC/AHA/ESC practice guideline:

Valentin Fuster, Lars E. Rydén, Richard W. Asinger, David S. Cannom, Harry J. Crijns, Robert L. Frye, Jonathan L. Halperin, G. Neal Kay, Werner W. Klein, Samuel Lévy, Robert L. McNamara, Eric N. Prystowsky, L. Samuel Wann, D. George Wyse, Raymond J. Gibbons, Elliott M. Antman, Joseph S. Alpert, David P. Faxon, Valentin Fuster, Gabriel Gregoratos, Loren F. Hiratzka, Alice K. Jacobs, Richard O. Russell, Sidney C. Smith Jr, Werner W. Klein, Angeles Alonso-Garcia, Carina Blomström-Lundqvist, Guy De Backer, Marcus Flather, Jaromir Hradec, Ali Oto, Alexander Parkhomenko, Sigmund Silber, and Adam Torbicki

ACC/AHA/ESC guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines and Policy Conferences (Committee to Develop Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation) Developed in Collaboration With the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1266. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Letters to the Editor:

Ivan M. Robbins, Robyn J. Barst, Richard N. Channick, and Lewis J. Rubin

Pulmonary vasoreactivity in PPH
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1267. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard A. Krasuski and Thomas M. Bashore

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1268. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul Khairy

Coronary artery revascularization in patients with sustained ventricular arrhythmias in the chronic phase of a myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1268-1269. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Colin K. L. Phoon

Management of anomalous coronary artery
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1269-1270. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Josep Brugada

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1269. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael A. Portman, Frank Cecchin, Thomas K. Jones, Julie A. Davis, and Flavian M. Lupinetti

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1270-1271. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexander Davidson and Tom R. Karl

Major coronary artery anomalies in the pediatric population
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1270. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rob S. Beanlands, Terrence D. Ruddy, Michael Freeman, and Graham Nichol

Patient management guided by viability imaging
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1271-1272. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kenneth J. Mukamal and Murray A. Mittleman

Acute ethanol exposure fails to elicit preconditioning-like protection in in situ rabbit hearts because of its continued presence during ischemia
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1271. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hans-Marc J. Siebelink, Paul K. Blanksma, Harry J. G. M. Crijns, Jeroen J. Bax, Ad J. van Boven, Tsjerk Kingma, D. Albertus Piers, Jan Pruim, Piet L. Jager, Willem Vaalburg, and Ernst E. van der Wall

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1272-1273. [Full Text] [PDF]  

William G. Christen, T. Howard Howell, and Paul M. Ridker

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1273-1274. [Full Text] [PDF]  

William H. Wehrmacher

Periodontal disease and risk of myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1273. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Correction:

Corrections
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1275. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Corrections
J Am Coll Cardiol 2001 38: 1275. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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