Clinical Study:

David P. Faxon, Raymond J. Gibbons, Nicolas A. F. Chronos, Paul A. Gurbel, Florence Sheehan HALT-MI Investigators

The effect of blockade of the CD11/CD18 integrin receptor on infarct size in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with direct angioplasty: the results of the HALT-MI study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1199-1204. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Paolo Voci, Enrica Mariano, Francesco Pizzuto, Paolo Emilio Puddu, and Francesco Romeo

Coronary recanalization in anterior myocardial infarction: The open perforator hypothesis
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1205-1213. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Nicos Spyrou, Stuart D. Rosen, Farzin Fath-Ordoubadi, Rohan Jagathesan, Rodney Foale, Jaspal S. Kooner, and Paolo G. Camici

Myocardial beta-adrenoceptor densityone month after acute myocardial infarctionpredicts left ventricular volumes at six months
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1216-1224. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Bonni Syeda, Peter Siostrzonek, Rainer Schmid, Paul Wexberg, Christian Kirisits, Stefan Denk, Gilbert Beran, Ali Khorsand, Irene Lang, Boris Pokrajac, Richard Potter, and Dietmar Glogar

Geographical miss during intracoronary irradiation: impact on restenosis and determination of required safety margin length
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1225-1231. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Julian P. J. Halcox, Khaled R. A. Nour, Gloria Zalos, Rita Mincemoyer, Myron A. Waclawiw, Candido E. Rivera, Georgia Willie, Samer Ellahham, and Arshed A. Quyyumi

The effect of sildenafil on human vascular function, platelet activation, and myocardial ischemia
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1232-1240. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Hannu Päivä, Juha Laakso, Hanna Laine, Reijo Laaksonen, Juhani Knuuti, and Olli T. Raitakari

Plasma asymmetric dimethylarginine and hyperemic myocardial blood flow in young subjects with borderline hypertension or familial hypercholesterolemia
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1241-1247. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Marco Metra, Savina Nodari, Antonio D’Aloia, Claudio Muneretto, Alastair D. Robertson, Michael R. Bristow, and Livio Dei Cas

Beta-blocker therapy influences the hemodynamic response to inotropic agents in patients with heart failure: A randomized comparison of dobutamine and enoximone before and after chronic treatment with metoprolol or carvedilol
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1248-1258. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Soccorso Capomolla, Oreste Febo, Monica Ceresa, Angelo Caporotondi, Giampaolo Guazzotti, Maria Teresa La Rovere, Marina Ferrari, Francesca Lenta, Sonia Baldin, Chiara Vaccarini, Marco Gnemmi, GianDomenico Pinna, Roberto Maestri, Paola Abelli, Sandro Verdirosi, and Franco Cobelli

Cost/utility ratio in chronic heart failure: comparison between heart failure management program delivered by day-hospital and usual care
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1259-1266. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Meinrad Beer, Tobias Seyfarth, J.örn Sandstede, Wilfried Landschütz, Claudia Lipke, Herbert Köstler, Markus von Kienlin, Kerstin Harre, Dietbert Hahn, and Stefan Neubauer

Absolute concentrations of high-energy phosphate metabolites in normal, hypertrophied, and failing human myocardium measured noninvasively with ³¹P-SLOOP magnetic resonance spectroscopy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1267-1274. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Peter Molenaar, Glenn Rabnott, Ian Yang, Kwun M. Fong, Santiyagu M. Savarimuthu, Li Li, Malcolm J. West, and Fraser D. Russell

Conservation of the cardiostimulant effects of (–)-norepinephrine across Ser49Gly and Gly389Arg beta₁-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms in human right atrium in vitro
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1275-1282. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Riccardo Pini, M. Chiara Cavallini, Francesca Bencini, Gabriella Silvestrini, Elisabetta Tonon, Walter De Alfieri, Niccolò Marchionni, Mauro Di Bari, Richard B. Devereux, Giulio Masotti, and Mary J. Roman

Cardiovascular remodeling is greater in isolated systolic hypertension than in diastolic hypertension in older adults: the Insufficienza Cardiaca negli Anziani Residenti (ICARE) a Dicomano Study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1283-1289. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Luis C. L. Correia, Edward G. Lakatta, Frances C. O’Connor, Lewis C. Becker, Jon Clulow, Susan Townsend, Gary Gerstenblith, and Jerome L. Fleg

Attenuated cardiovascular reserve during prolonged submaximal cycle exercise in healthy older subjects
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1290-1297. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Lisa A. Freed, Emelia J. Benjamin, Daniel Levy, Martin G. Larson, Jane C. Evans, Deborah L. Fuller, Birgitta Lehman, and Robert A. Levine

Mitral valve prolapse in the general population: the benign nature of echocardiographic features in the Framingham Heart Study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1298-1304. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Eugenio Picano, Annalisa Alaimo, Vlad Chubuchny, Edyta Plonska, Vittorio Baldo, Umberto Baldini, Marina Pauletti, Roberto Perticucci, Lucas Fonseca, Hector Ricardo Villarraga, Carlo Emanuelli, Gennaro Miracapillo, Enrico Hoffmann, and Maurizio De Nes

Noninvasive pacemaker stress echocardiography for diagnosis of coronary artery disease: A multicenter study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1305-1310. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Satoshi Yuda, Vincent Khoury, and Thomas H. Marwick

Influence of wall stress and left ventricular geometry on the accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1311-1319. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Fabrice Bauer, Michael Jones, Takahiro Shiota, Michael S. Firstenberg, Jian Xin Qin, Hiroyuki Tsujino, Yong Jin Kim, Marta Sitges, Lisa A. Cardon, Arthur D. Zetts, and James D. Thomas

Left ventricular outflow tract mean systolic acceleration as a surrogatefor the slope of the left ventricular end-systolic pressure-volume relationship
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1320-1327. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Utpal H. Pandya, Patricia A. Pellikka, Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, William D. Edwards, Hartzell V. Schaff, and Heidi M. Connolly

Metastatic carcinoid tumor to the heart: echocardiographic-pathologic study of 11 patients
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1328-1332. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Dror Harats, Niva Yacov, Boris Gilburd, Yehuda Shoenfeld, and Jacob George

Oral tolerance with heat shock protein 65 attenuates mycobacterium tuberculosis-inducedand high-fat-diet-driven atherosclerotic lesions
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1333-1338. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Satoshi Genda, Tetsuji Miura, Takayuki Miki, Yoshihiko Ichikawa, and Kazuaki Shimamoto

K_ATP channel opening is an endogenous mechanism of protection against the no-reflow phenomenon but its function is compromised by hypercholesterolemia
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1339-1346. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Yasuko Shimizu, Shinya Minatoguchi, Kazuaki Hashimoto, Yoshihiro Uno, Masazumi Arai, Ningyuan Wang, Xuehai Chen, Chuanjian Lu, Genzou Takemura, Masaaki Shimomura, Takako Fujiwara, and Hisayoshi Fujiwara

The role of serotonin in ischemic cellular damage and the infarct size-reducing effect of sarpogrelate, a 5-hydroxytryptamine-2 receptor blocker, in rabbit hearts
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1347-1355. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ascan Warnholtz, Hanke Mollnau, Thomas Heitzer, Anatol Kontush, Tobias Möller-Bertram, Dirk Lavall, Adel Giaid, Ulrike Beisiegel, Stefan L. Marklund, Ulrich Walter, Thomas Meinertz, and Thomas Munzel

Adverse effects of nitroglycerin treatment on endothelial function, vascular nitrotyrosine levels and cGMP-dependent protein kinase activity in hyperlipidemic Watanabe rabbits
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1356-1363. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Editorial comment:

Kiran Sagar and Jason Jurva

Open perforator hypothesis: Bridging epicardial and microvascular circulation
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1214-1215. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editor's Page:

Anthony N. DeMaria

Editorial board retreat: an interim report
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1364-1365. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Consensus document:

Eugene Braunwald, Elliott M. Antman, John W. Beasley, Robert M. Califf, Melvin D. Cheitlin, Judith S. Hochman, Robert H. Jones, Dean Kereiakes, Joel Kupersmith, Thomas N. Levin, Carl J. Pepine, John W. Schaeffer, Earl E. Smith III, David E. Steward, Pierre Theroux, Raymond J. Gibbons, Elliott M. Antman, Joseph S. Alpert, David P. Faxon, Valentin Fuster, Gabriel Gregoratos, Loren F. Hiratzka, Alice K. Jacobs, and Sidney C. Smith Jr

ACC/AHA 2002 guideline update for the management of patients with unstable angina and non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction—summary article: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association task force on practice guidelines (Committee on the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina)
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1366-1374. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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