Clinical study: coronary disease in the young:

Jason H. Cole, Joseph I. Miller III, Laurence S. Sperling, and William S. Weintraub

Long-term follow-up of coronary artery disease presenting in young adults
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 521-528. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Editorial comment:

Lloyd W. Klein and Sandeep Nathan

Coronary artery disease in young adults
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 529-531. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ralph Shabetai

Monitoring heart failure hemodynamics with an implanted device:its potential to improve outcome
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 572-573. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joseph S. Alpert

The thrombosed prosthetic valve: Current recommendations based on evidence from the literature^,*
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 659-660. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clinical study: myocardial infarction:

Philipp K. Haager, Philipp Christott, Nicole Heussen, Wolfgang Lepper, Peter Hanrath, and Rainer Hoffmann

Prediction of clinical outcome after mechanical revascularization in acute myocardial infarction by markers of myocardial reperfusion
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 532-538. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Shun-ichi Koide, Kiyotaka Kugiyama, Seigo Sugiyama, Shin-ichi Nakamura, Hironobu Fukushima, Osamu Honda, Michihiro Yoshimura, and Hisao Ogawa

Association of polymorphism in glutamate-cysteine ligase catalytic subunit gene with coronary vasomotor dysfunction and myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 539-545. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: unstable angina:

Dominick J. Angiolillo, Giovanna Liuzzo, Simona Pelliccioni, Erica De Candia, Raffaele Landolfi, Filippo Crea, Attilio Maseri, and Luigi M. Biasucci

Combined role of the Lewis antigenic system, Chlamydia pneumoniae, and C-reactive protein in unstable angina
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 546-550. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clinical study: interventional cardiology:

Andrew E. Ajani, Ron Waksman, Edouard Cheneau, Dong-Hun Cha, Scott McGlynn, Marco Castagna, Rosanna C. Chan, Lowell F. Satler, Kenneth M. Kent, Augusto D. Pichard, Ellen Pinnow, and Joe Lindsay

The outcome of percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with In-Stentrestenosis who failed intracoronary radiation therapy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 551-556. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: antithrombotic therapy:

Troy C. Sarich, Michael Wolzt, Ulf G. Eriksson, Christer Mattsson, Alice Schmidt, Susanne Elg, Magnus Andersson, Maria Wollbratt, Gunnar Fager, and David Gustafsson

Effects of ximelagatran, an oral direct thrombin inhibitor, r-hirudin and enoxaparin on thrombin generation and platelet activation in healthy male subjects
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 557-564. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: heart failure:

Philip B. Adamson, Anthony Magalski, Frieder Braunschweig, Michael Böhm, Dwight Reynolds, David Steinhaus, Allyson Luby, Cecilia Linde, Lars Ryden, Bodo Cremers, Teri Takle, and Tom Bennett

Ongoing right ventricular hemodynamics in heart failure: clinical value of measurements derived from an implantable monitoring system
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 565-571. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Shu Kasama, Takuji Toyama, Hisao Kumakura, Yoshiaki Takayama, Shuichi Ichikawa, Tadashi Suzuki, and Masahiko Kurabayashi

Effect of spironolactone on cardiacsympathetic nerve activity and left ventricular remodeling in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 574-581. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: biventricular pacing:

Chetan Varma, Sanjay Sharma, Sam Firoozi, William J. McKenna, Jean-Claude Daubert Multisite Stimulation in Cardiomyopathy (MUSTIC) Study Group

Atriobiventricular pacing improves exercise capacity in patients with heart failure and intraventricular conduction delay
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 582-588. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: stress echocardiography:

Rosa Sicari, Emilio Pasanisi, Lucia Venneri, Patrizia Landi, Lauro Cortigiani, Eugenio Picano Echo Persantine International Cooperative (EPIC) and Echo Dobutamine International Cooperative (EDIC) Study Groups

Stress echo results predict mortality: a large-scale multicenter prospective international study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 589-595. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clincal study: stress echocardiography:

Radha Bholasingh, Jan Hein Cornel, Otto Kamp, Jan P. van Straalen, Gerard T. Sanders, Jan G. P. Tijssen, Victor A. W. M. Umans, Cees A. Visser, and Robbert J. de Winter

Prognostic value of predischarge dobutamine stress echocardiography in chest pain patients with a negative cardiac troponin T
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 596-602. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: cardiovascular imaging:

Raymonda Rastegar, David J. Harnick, Peter Weidemann, Valentin Fuster, Barry Coller, Juan J. Badimon, James Chesebro, and Martin E. Goldman

Spontaneous echo contrast videodensity isflow-related and is dependent on the relative concentrations of fibrinogen and red blood cells
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 603-610. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Zhi You Fang, Satoshi Yuda, Vinah Anderson, Leanne Short, Colin Case, and Thomas H. Marwick

Echocardiographic detection of early diabetic myocardial disease
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 611-617. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Miguel Hernandez-Pampaloni, Vivekanand Allada, Michael C. Fishbein, and Heinrich R. Schelbert

Myocardial perfusion and viability by positron emission tomography in infants and children with coronary abnormalities: correlation with echocardiography,coronary angiography, and histopathology
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 618-626. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: cardiac electrophysiology:

Antoni Martínez-Rubio, Nabil Kanaan, Martin Borggrefe, Michael Block, Markku Mäkijärvi, Francesco Fedele, Carlo Pappone, Wilhelm Haverkamp, José Luis Merino, Gonzalo Barón Esquivias, Juan Cinca European Powerheart Investigators

advances for treating in-hospital cardiac arrest: safety and effectiveness of a new automatic external cardioverter-defibrillator
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 627-632. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Wataru Shimizu, Takashi Noda, Hiroshi Takaki, Takashi Kurita, Noritoshi Nagaya, Kazuhiro Satomi, Kazuhiro Suyama, Naohiko Aihara, Shiro Kamakura, Kenji Sunagawa, Shigeyuki Echigo, Kazufumi Nakamura, Tohru Ohe, Jeffrey A. Towbin, Carlo Napolitano, and Silvia G. Priori

Epinephrine unmasks latent mutation carriers with LQT1 form of congenital long-QT syndrome
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 633-642. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Vincent Probst, Florence Kyndt, Franck Potet, Jean-Noel Trochu, Guy Mialet, Sophie Demolombe, Jean-Jacques Schott, Isabelle Baró, Denis Escande, and Hervé Le Marec

Haploinsufficiency in combination with aging causes SCN5A-linked hereditary Lenègre disease
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 643-652. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: prosthetic valve thrombosis:

Raymond Roudaut, S. téphane Lafitte, Marie-Françoise Roudaut, Carine Courtault, Jean-Marie Perron, Catherine Jaïs, Xavier Pillois, Pierre Coste, and Anthony DeMaria

Fibrinolysis of mechanical prosthetic valve thrombosis: A single-center study of 127 cases
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 653-658. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: vascular effects of diabetes in children:

Tajinder P. Singh, Harvey Groehn, and Andris Kazmers

Vascular function and carotid intimal-medial thickness in children with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 661-665. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: hypertension:

Teresa M. Seccia, Anna S. Belloni, Reinhold Kreutz, Martin Paul, Gastone G. Nussdorfer, Achille C. Pessina, and Gian Paolo Rossi

Cardiac fibrosis occurs early and involves endothelin and AT-1 receptors in hypertension due to endogenous angiotensin II
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 666-673. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: left atrial perfusion and function:

Emmanuel I. Skalidis, George E. Kochiadakis, Nikolaos E. Igoumenidis, Konstantinos E. Vardakis, and Panos E. Vardas

Phasic coronary blood flow velocity pattern and flow reserve in the atrium: regulation of left atrial myocardial perfusion
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 674-680. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical study: connexin and infarction:

Shigeto Kanno, Attila Kovacs, Kathryn A. Yamada, and Jeffrey E. Saffitz

Connexin43 as a determinant of myocardial infarct size following coronary occlusion in mice
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 681-686. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Special section: ACC/AHA clinical competence statement:

Miguel A. Quiñones, Pamela S. Douglas, Elyse Foster, John Gorcsan III, Jannet F. Lewis, Alan S. Pearlman, Jack Rychik, Ernesto E. Salcedo, James B. Seward, J. Geoffrey Stevenson, Daniel M. Thys, Howard H. Weitz, William A. Zoghbi, Mark A. Creager, William L. Winters Jr, Michael Elnicki, John W. Hirshfeld Jr, Beverly H. Lorell, George P. Rodgers, Cynthia M. Tracy, and Howard H. Weitz

ACC/AHA clinical competence statement on echocardiography : A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/American College of Physicians–American Society of Internal Medicine Task Force on Clinical Competence Developed in Collaboration with the American Society of Echocardiography, the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, and the Society of Pediatric Echocardiography
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 687-708. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters to the Editor:

Niall G. Mahon, Alida L. P. Caforio, and William J. McKenna

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 709. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Charles J. McKenna

Abnormal cellularity in asymptomatic relatives of patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 709. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cecilia Linde

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 709-710. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Reuven Moshenyat, Yizhak Y. Kupfer, and Sidney Tessler

Efficacy of biventricular pacing in congestive heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 41: 709. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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