Review article:

Henry Krum and John J. McMurray

Statins and chronic heart failure: do we need a large-scale outcome trial?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1567-1573. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Historical vignette:

Mark E. Silverman and Charles B. Upshaw Jr

Walter gaskell and the understanding of atrioventricular conduction and block
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1574-1580. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: Transmyocardial revascularization:

Gregg W. Stone, Paul S. Teirstein, Ronald Rubenstein, Dwayne Schmidt, Patrick L. Whitlow, Edward J. Kosinski, Gregory Mishkel, and John A. Power

A prospective, multicenter, randomized trial of percutaneous transmyocardial laser revascularization in patients with nonrecanalizable chronic total occlusions
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1581-1587. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Lars Aaberge, Kjell Rootwelt, Svein Blomhoff, Kjell Saatvedt, Michel Abdelnoor, and Kolbjorn Forfang

Continued symptomatic improvement three to five years after transmyocardial revascularization with co₂ laser: A late clinical follow-up of the norwegian randomized trial with transmyocardial revascularization
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1588-1593. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: Myocardial infarction:

Francesco Mauri, Maria Grazia Franzosi, Aldo Pietro Maggioni, Eugenio Santoro, and Luigi Santoro

Clinical value of 12-lead electrocardiography to predict the long-term prognosis of gissi-1 patients
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1594-1600. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: Non-Q-wave myocardial infarction:

Abhinav Goyal, Frederick F. Samaha, William E. Boden, Michael J. Wade, and Stephen E. Kimmel

Stress test criteria used in the conservative arm of the frisc-ii trial underdetects surgical coronary artery disease whenapplied to patients in the vanqwish trial
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1601-1607. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: Interventional cardiology:

Alice K. Jacobs, Janet M. Johnston, Amelia Haviland, Maria Mori Brooks, Sheryl F. Kelsey, David R. Holmes Jr, David P. Faxon, David O. Williams, and Katherine M. Detre

Improved outcomes for women undergoing contemporary percutaneous coronary intervention: A report from the national heart, lung, and blood institute dynamic registry
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1608-1614. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: Heart failure:

Christian Zugck, Armin Haunstetter, Carsten Krüger, Robert Kell, Dieter Schellberg, Wolfgang Kübler, and Markus Haass

Impact of beta-blocker treatment on the prognostic value of currently used risk predictors in congestive heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1615-1622. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Wendy Johnson, Torbjørn Omland, Christian Hall, Caroline Lucas, Ole L. Myking, Caroline Collins, Marc Pfeffer, Jean-Lucien Rouleau, and Lynne W. Stevenson

Neurohormonal activation rapidly decreases after intravenous therapy withdiuretics and vasodilators for class IV heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1623-1629. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Coronary artery disease:

Koen M. J. Marques, Hugo J. Spruijt, Christa Boer, Nico Westerhof, Cees A. Visser, and Frans C. Visser

The diastolic flow-pressure gradient relation in coronary stenoses in humans
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1630-1636. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: Coronary artery disease:

James A. Shaw, Bronwyn A. Kingwell, Anthony S. Walton, James D. Cameron, Prakash Pillay, Christoph D. Gatzka, and Anthony M. Dart

Determinants of coronary artery compliance in subjects with and without angiographic coronary artery disease
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1637-1643. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: Atrial fibrillation:

Thomas Deneke, Krishna Khargi, Peter Hubert Grewe, Stefan von Dryander, Frank Kuschkowitz, Thomas Lawo, Klaus-Michael Müller, Axel Laczkovics, and Bernd Lemke

Left atrial versus bi-atrial maze operation using intraoperatively cooled-tip radiofrequency ablation in patients undergoing open-heart surgery: Safety and efficacy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1644-1650. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Yutaka Otsuji, Toshiro Kumanohoso, Shiro Yoshifuku, Keiko Matsukida, Chihaya Koriyama, Akira Kisanuki, Shinichi Minagoe, Robert A. Levine, and Chuwa Tei

Isolated annular dilation does not usually cause important functional mitral regurgitation: Comparison between patients with lone atrial fibrillation and those with idiopathic or ischemic cardiomyopathy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1651-1656. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy:

Tomoki Nakamura, Kenzo Sakamoto, Tetsuhiro Yamano, Masayuki Kikkawa, Kan Zen, Takato Hikosaka, Takao Kubota, Akihiro Azuma, and Tsunehiko Nishimura

Increased plasma brain natriuretic peptide level as a guide for silent myocardial ischemia in patients with non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1657-1663. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: Pediatric cardiology:

Philipp Bonhoeffer, Younes Boudjemline, Shakeel A. Qureshi, Jerome Le Bidois, Laurence Iserin, Philippe Acar, Jacques Merckx, Jean Kachaner, and Daniel Sidi

Percutaneous insertion of the pulmonary valve
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1664-1669. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Piers E. F. Daubeney, David J. Delany, Robert H. Anderson, George G. S. Sandor, Zdenek Slavik, Barry R. Keeton, Steven A. Webber for the United Kingdom and Ireland Collaborative Study of Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum

Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum: Range of morphology in a population-based study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1670-1679. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Experimental Studies:

Eric Durand, Ziad Mallat, Faouzi Addad, Françoise Vilde, Michel Desnos, Claude Guérot, Alain Tedgui, and Antoine Lafont

Time courses of apoptosis and cell proliferation and their relationship to arterial remodeling and restenosis after angioplasty in an atherosclerotic rabbit model
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1680-1685. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Nicholas N. Kipshidze, Han-Soo Kim, Patrick Iversen, Hamid A. Yazdi, Balram Bhargava, Gishel New, Roxana Mehran, Fermin Tio, Christian Haudenschild, George Dangas, Gregg W. Stone, Sriram Iyer, Gary S. Roubin, Martin B. Leon, and Jeffrey W. Moses

Intramural coronary delivery of advanced antisense oligonucleotides reduces neointimal formation in the porcine stent restenosis model
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1686-1691. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Nathalie Lapointe, Charles Blais Jr, Albert Adam, Thomas Parker, Martin G. Sirois, Hugues Gosselin, Robert Clément, and Jean L. Rouleau

Comparison of the effects of an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor and a vasopeptidase inhibitor after myocardial infarction in the rat
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1692-1698. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

ACC News:

W. Bruce

President’s Page: The ACC and Advocacy: a strong voice for cardiovascular specialists
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1699-1700. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters to the Editor:

Pasquale Abete, Domenico de Santis, Mario Condorelli, Claudio Napoli, and Franco Rengo

A four-year-old rabbit cannot be considered the right model for investigating cardiac senescence
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1701. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karin Przyklenk and Peter Whittaker

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1701-1702. [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. K. Chugh

Revascularizing chronic total occlusions: what about the coronary collaterals and myocardial viability story?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1702-1703. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Steven P. Marso and Barry D. Rutherford

Is a high hematocrit level good for patients with heart failure?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1703-1704. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Steven P. Marso and Barry D. Rutherford

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1703. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark J. Sarnak, Amin Al-Ahmad, William M. Rand, Deeb Salem, and Andrew S. Levey

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1704-1705. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Guido Schnyder and Zoltan G. Turi

Complications of vascular closure devices—not yet evidence based
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1705-1706. [Full Text] [PDF]  

George Dangas, Roxana Mehran, Martin Fahy, Martin B. Leon, and Gregg W. Stone

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1706-1708. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dennis A. Calnon and George A. Beller

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1708-1709. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Regina S. Druz

Dobutamine stress testing revisited
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1708. [Full Text] [PDF]  

H. M. W. van der Velden, Ronald Wilders, and Habo J. Jongsma

Atrial fibrillation-induced gap junctional remodeling
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1709. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stefan Dhein, Ronald Wilders, Habo J. Jongsma, and Jaques-Antoine Haefliger

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1709-1710. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marc Ovadia

A paradigm shift in myocardial stunning
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 39: 1710-1711. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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