Clinical study: cardiac catheterization and intervention:

Michael Billinger, Patrik Kloos, Franz R. Eberli, Stephan Windecker, Bernhard Meier, and Christian Seiler

Physiologically assessed coronary collateral flow and adverse cardiac ischemic events: a follow-up study in 403 patients with coronary artery disease
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1545-1550. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

James L. Orford, Ryan Lennon, Steven Melby, Panayotis Fasseas, Malcolm R. Bell, Charanjit S. Rihal, David R. Holmes, and Peter B. Berger

Frequency and correlates of coronary stent thrombosis in the modern era: Analysis of a single center registry
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1567-1572. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ivan P. Casserly, Herbert D. Aronow, Paul Schoenhagen, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Jennifer Popovich, Marlene Goormastic, Jeffrey J. Popma, Steven E. Nissen, and E. Murat Tuzcu

Relationship between residual atheroma burden and neointimal growth in patients undergoing stenting: Analysis of the atherectomy before MULTI-LINK improves lumen gain and clinical outcomes trial intravascular ultrasound substudy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1573-1578. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Editorial comment:

Habib Samady, Michael Ragosta, and George A. Beller

Coronary collaterals, stenoses, and stents: Is a new era of physiologic-guided percutaneous revascularization emerging?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1551-1554. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical Study:

Steven P. Sedlis, Douglass A. Morrison, Jeffrey D. Lorin, Rick Esposito, Gulshan Sethi, Jerome Sacks, William Henderson, Frederick Grover, K. B. Ramanathan, Darryl Weiman, Jorge Saucedo, Tamim Antakli, Venki Paramesh, Stuart Pett, Sarah Vernon, Vladimir Birjiniuk, Frederick Welt, Mitchell Krucoff, Walter Wolfe, John C. Lucke, Sundeep Mediratta, David Booth, Edward Murphy, Herbert Ward, LaWayne Miller, Stefan Kiesz, Charles Barbiere, Dan Lewis Investigators of the Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study #385, the Angina With Extremely Serious Operative Mortality Evaluation (AWESOME)

Percutaneous coronary intervention versus coronary bypass graft surgery for diabetic patients with unstable angina and risk factors for adverse outcomes with bypass: outcome of diabetic patients in the AWESOME randomized trial and registry
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1555-1566. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: acute myocardial infarction:

Luigi Giusto Spagnoli, Elena Bonanno, Alessandro Mauriello, Giampiero Palmieri, Antonietta Partenzi, Giuseppe Sangiorgi, and Filippo Crea

Multicentric inflammation in epicardial coronary arteries of patients dying of acute myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1579-1588. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Javed Butler, Patrick G. Arbogast, Rhonda BeLue, James Daugherty, Manoj K. Jain, Wayne A. Ray, and Marie R. Griffin

Outpatient adherence to beta-blocker therapy after acute myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1589-1595. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: congestive heart failure:

Michel F. Rousseau, Olivier Gurné, Daniel Duprez, Walter Van Mieghem, Annie Robert, Sylvie Ahn, Laurence Galanti, Jean-Marie Ketelslegers Belgian RALES Investigators

Beneficial neurohormonal profile of spironolactone in severe congestive heart failure: Results from the RALES neurohormonal substudy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1596-1601. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ainat Beniaminovitz, Chim C. Lang, John LaManca, and Donna M. Mancini

Selective low-level leg muscle training alleviates dyspnea in patients with heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1602-1608. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Mandeep R. Mehra, Patricia A. Uber, Krishnamoorthy Vivekananthan, Sergio Solis, Robert L. Scott, Myung H. Park, Richard V. Milani, and Carl J. Lavie

Comparative beneficial effects of simvastatin and pravastatin on cardiac allograft rejection and survival
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1609-1614. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: clinical application of echocardiographic findings:

Maria Vittoria Pitzalis, Massimo Iacoviello, Roberta Romito, Francesco Massari, Brian Rizzon, Giovanni Luzzi, Pietro Guida, Andrea Andriani, Filippo Mastropasqua, and Paolo Rizzon

Cardiac resynchronization therapy tailored by echocardiographic evaluation of ventricular asynchrony
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1615-1622. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Abdou Elhendy, Douglas W. Mahoney, Bijoy K. Khandheria, Timothy E. Paterick, Kelli N. Burger, and Patricia A. Pellikka

Prognostic significance of the location of wall motion abnormalities during exercise echocardiography
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1623-1629. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Liza Thomas, Kate Levett, Anita Boyd, Dominic Y. C. Leung, Nelson B. Schiller, and David L. Ross

Compensatory changes in atrial volumes with normal aging: is atrial enlargement inevitable?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1630-1635. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Teresa S. M. Tsang, Bernard J. Gersh, Christopher P. Appleton, A. Jamil Tajik, Marion E. Barnes, Kent R. Bailey, Jae K. Oh, Cynthia Leibson, Samantha C. Montgomery, and James B. Seward

Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction as a predictor of the first diagnosed nonvalvular atrial fibrillation in 840 elderly men and women
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1636-1644. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: arrhythmias:

Arnaud Lazarus, Jean Varin, Dominique Babuty, Frédéric Anselme, Joel Coste, and Denis Duboc

Long-term follow-up of arrhythmias in patients with myotonic dystrophy treated by pacing: A multicenter diagnostic pacemaker study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1645-1652. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Anne M. Gillis, Christina Unterberg-Buchwald, Herwig Schmidinger, Santini Massimo, Kevin Wolfe, Deborah J. Kavaney, Mary F. Otterness, Stefan H. Hohnloser GEM III AT Worldwide Investigators

Safety and efficacy of advanced atrial pacing therapies for atrial tachyarrhythmias in patients with a new implantable dual chamber cardioverter-defibrillator
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1653-1659. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: pulmonary embolism:

Gabriel Thabut, Dominique Thabut, Robert P. Myers, Brigitte Bernard-Chabert, Rolana Marrash-Chahla, Hervé Mal, and Michel Fournier

Thrombolytic therapy of pulmonary embolism: A meta-analysis
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1660-1667. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: infiltrative myopathy:

Christoph Kampmann, Frank Baehner, Catharina Whybra, Claudia Martin, Christiane M. Wiethoff, Markus Ries, Andreas Gal, and Michael Beck

Cardiac manifestations of Anderson–Fabry disease in heterozygous females
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1668-1674. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: congenital heart disease:

Akash Ghai, Candice Silversides, Louise Harris, Gary D. Webb, Samuel C. Siu, and Judith Therrien

Left ventricular dysfunction is a risk factor for sudden cardiac death in adults late after repair of tetralogy of fallot
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1675-1680. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Karen L. Booth, Stephen J. Roth, Stanton B. Perry, Pedro J. del Nido, David L. Wessel, and Peter C. Laussen

Cardiac catheterization of patients supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1681-1686. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Experimental Studies:

Laurent M. Riou, Mirta Ruiz, Jayson M. Rieger, Timothy L. Macdonald, Denny D. Watson, Joel Linden, George A. Beller, and David K. Glover

Influence of propranolol, enalaprilat, verapamil, and caffeine on adenosine A_2A-receptor–mediated coronary vasodilation
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1687-1694. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Matthias Nahrendorf, Kai Hu, Karl-Heinz Hiller, Paolo Galuppo, Daniela Fraccarollo, German Schweizer, Axel Haase, Georg Ertl, Wolfgang R. Bauer, and Johann Bauersachs

Impact of hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme a reductase inhibition on left ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction: An experimental serial cardiac magnetic resonance imaging study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1695-1700. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Editor's Page:

Anthony N. DeMaria

International cardiology
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1701-1702. [Full Text] [PDF]  

ACC/AHA practice guidelines:

Committee Members, Gabriel Gregoratos, Jonathan Abrams, Andrew E. Epstein, Roger A. Freedman, David L. Hayes, Mark A. Hlatky, Richard E. Kerber, Gerald V. Naccarelli, Mark H. Schoenfeld, Michael J. Silka, Stephen L. Winters, Task Force Members, Raymond J. Gibbons, Elliott M. Antman, Joseph S. Alpert, Gabriel Gregoratos, Loren F. Hiratzka, David P. Faxon, Alice K. Jacobs, Valentin Fuster, and Sidney C. Smith Jr.

ACC/AHA/NASPE 2002 Guideline Update for Implantation of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrhythmia Devices—Summary Article: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/NASPE Committee to Update the 1998 Pacemaker Guidelines)
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1703-1719. [Full Text] [PDF]  

ACC News:

Newly elected members of the College
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002 40: 1720-1721. [PDF]  

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