Clinical reserach: clinical trial:

Cindy L. Grines, Matthew W. Watkins, John J. Mahmarian, Ami E. Iskandrian, Jeffrey J. Rade, Pran Marrott, Craig Pratt, Neal Kleiman for the Angiogenic GENe Therapy (AGENT-2) Study Group

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of Ad5FGF-4 gene therapy and its effect on myocardial perfusion in patients with stable angina
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1339-1347. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical research: clinical trial:

Marc Cohen, Gian Franco Gensini, Frans Maritz, Enrique P. Gurfinkel, Kurt Huber, Ari Timerman, Maria Krzeminska-Pakula, Nicolas Danchin, Harvey D. White, Jose Santopinto, Frederique Bigonzi, Carole Hecquet, Luc Vittori TETAMI Investigators

The safety and efficacy of subcutaneous enoxaparin versus intravenous unfractionated heparin and tirofiban versus placebo in the treatment of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients ineligible for reperfusion (TETAMI): A randomized trial
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1348-1356. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Volker Schächinger, Christian W. Hamm, Thomas Münzel, Michael Haude, Stephan Baldus, Eberhard Grube, Tassilo Bonzel, Thomas Konorza, Ralf Köster, Roman Arnold, Jürgen Haase, Peter Probst, Jürgen vom Dahl, Franz-Josef Neumann, Harald Mudra, Benno Hennen, Ludger Thiele, Andreas M. Zeiher STING (STents IN Grafts) Investigators

A randomized trial of polytetrafluoroethylene-membrane-covered stents compared with conventional stents in aortocoronary saphenous vein grafts
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1360-1369. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Editorial comment:

Howard C. Herrmann

Optimizing outcomes in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1357-1359. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michel E. Bertrand and Eugene McFadden

Cardiogenic shock: is there light at the end of the tunnel?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1387-1388. [Full Text] [PDF]  

George Dangas

Interventional therapy for acute myocardial infarction: respect the microvasculature
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1403-1405. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brahmajee K. Nallamothu and Eric R. Bates

Periprocedural myocardial infarction and mortality: Causality versus association
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1412-1414. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mathew S. Maurer

Age: a nonmodifiable risk factor?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1427-1428. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lynne Warner Stevenson

The points for pacing
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1460-1462. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Jae K. Oh and Jamil Tajik

The return of cardiac time intervals: The Phoenix is rising
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1471-1474. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Myron C. Gerson

Reduction in dipyridamole-induced single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial defect size by beta-blockers: Time to re-examine the patient preparation protocol for pharmacologic stress testing
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1484-1486. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Donald S. Baim

Percutaneous treatment of saphenous vein graft disease: The ongoing challenge
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1370-1372. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clinical research: cardiogenic shock:

Timothy A. Sanborn, Lynn A. Sleeper, John G. Webb, John K. French, Geoffrey Bergman, Manish Parikh, S. Chiu Wong, Jean Boland, Matthias Pfisterer, James N. Slater, Samin Sharma, Judith S. Hochman SHOCK Investigators

Correlates of one-year survival inpatients with cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction: Angiographic findings from the SHOCK trial
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1373-1379. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

John G. Webb, April M. Lowe, Timothy A. Sanborn, Harvey D. White, Lynn A. Sleeper, Ronald G. Carere, Christopher E. Buller, S. Chiu Wong, Jean Boland, Vlad Dzavik, Mark Porway, Gordon Pate, Geoffrey Bergman, Judith S. Hochman for the SHOCK Investigators

Percutaneous coronary intervention for cardiogenic shock in the SHOCK trial
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1380-1386. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical research: acute myocardial infarction:

Tomohiro Sakamoto, Hisao Ogawa, Keiji Takazoe, Michihiro Yoshimura, Hideki Shimomura, Yasushi Moriyama, Hidekazu Arai, and Kenji Okajima

Effect of activated protein C on plasma plasminogen activator inhibitor activity in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with alteplase: Comparison with unfractionated heparin
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1389-1394. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Massimo Napodano, Giampaolo Pasquetto, Salvatore Saccà, Carlo Cernetti, Virginia Scarabeo, Pietro Pascotto, and Bernhard Reimers

Intracoronary thrombectomy improves myocardial reperfusion in patients undergoing direct angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1395-1402. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical research: interventional cardiology:

John P. A. Ioannidis, Evangelia Karvouni, and Demosthenes G. Katritsis

Mortality risk conferred by small elevations of creatine kinase-MB isoenzyme after percutaneous coronary intervention
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1406-1411. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Bruno Scheller, Ulrich Speck, Alexander Schmitt, Michael Böhm, and Georg Nickenig

Addition of paclitaxel to contrast media prevents restenosis after coronary stent implantation
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1415-1420. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical research: cardiac surgery:

Darcy Green Conaway, John House, Kathleen Bandt, Lauren Hayden, A. Michael Borkon, and John A. Spertus

The elderly: health status benefits and recovery of function one year after coronary artery bypass surgery
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1421-1426. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical research: gene polymorphisms and CAD:

Akihiro Hirashiki, Yoshiji Yamada, Yosuke Murase, Yoriyasu Suzuki, Hiroki Kataoka, Yasutsugu Morimoto, Toru Tajika, Toyoaki Murohara, and Mitsuhiro Yokota

Association of gene polymorphisms with coronary artery disease in low- or high-risk subjects defined by conventional risk factors
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1429-1437. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clinical research: heart failure:

David Johnson, Yan Jin, Hude Quan, and Bibiana Cujec

Beta-blockers and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors/receptor blockers prescriptions after hospital discharge for heart failure are associated with decreased mortality in Alberta, Canada
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1438-1445. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eldrin F. Lewis, Lemuel A. Moye, Jean L. Rouleau, Frank M. Sacks, J. Malcolm O. Arnold, J. Wayne Warnica, Greg C. Flaker, Eugene Braunwald, and Marc A. Pfeffer

Predictors of late development of heart failure in stable survivors of myocardial infarction: The CARE study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1446-1453. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Steven L. Higgins, John D. Hummel, Imran K. Niazi, Michael C. Giudici, Seth J. Worley, Leslie A. Saxon, John P. Boehmer, Michael B. Higginbotham, Teresa De Marco, Elyse Foster, and Patrick G. Yong

Cardiac resynchronization therapy for the treatment of heart failure in patients with intraventricular conduction delay and malignant ventricular tachyarrhythmias
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1454-1459. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical research: cardiac imaging:

Carlos Rivas-Gotz, Dirar S. Khoury, Michael Manolios, Liyun Rao, Helen A. Kopelen, and Sherif F. Nagueh

Time interval between onset of mitral inflow and onset of early diastolic velocity by tissue Doppler: a novel index of left ventricular relaxation: Experimental studies and clinical application
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1463-1470. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Raymond Taillefer, Alan W. Ahlberg, Yasmin Masood, C. Michael White, Isabella Lamargese, Jeffrey F. Mather, Carol C. McGill, and Gary V. Heller

Acute beta-blockade reduces the extent and severity of myocardial perfusion defects with dipyridamole Tc-99m sestamibi SPECT imaging
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1475-1483. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Clinical research: aging and cardiac function:

Kirsten Leineweber, Stefan Klapproth, Anja Beilfuß, Rolf-Edgar Silber, Gerd Heusch, Thomas Philipp, and Otto-Erich Brodde

Unchanged G-protein-coupled receptor kinase activity in the aging human heart
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1487-1492. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

ACC/AHA/ESC practice guidelines:

Committee Members, Carina Blomström-Lundqvist, Melvin M. Scheinman, Etienne M. Aliot, Joseph S. Alpert, Hugh Calkins, A. John Camm, W. Barton Campbell, David E. Haines, Karl H. Kuck, Bruce B. Lerman, D. Douglas Miller, Charlie Willard Shaeffer Jr, William G. Stevenson, Gordon F. Tomaselli, Task Force Members, Elliott M. Antman, Sidney C. Smith Jr, Joseph S. Alpert, David P. Faxon, Valentin Fuster, Raymond J. Gibbons, Gabriel Gregoratos, Loren F. Hiratzka, Sharon Ann Hunt, Alice K. Jacobs, Richard O. Russell Jr, ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines Members, Silvia G. Priori, Jean-Jacques Blanc, Andzrej Budaj, Enrique Fernandez Burgos, Martin Cowie, Jaap Willem Deckers, Maria Angeles Alonso Garcia, Werner W. Klein, John Lekakis, Bertil Lindahl, Gianfranco Mazzotta, João Carlos Araujo Morais, Ali Oto, Otto Smiseth, and Hans-Joachim Trappe

ACC/AHA/ESC guidelines for the management of patients with supraventricular arrhythmias —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 (writing committee to develop guidelines for the management of patients with supraventricular arrhythmias) Developed in Collaboration with NASPE-Heart Rhythm Society
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1493-1531. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Letters to the Editor:

Scott D. Lick and Mohammed Saeed

Robot Schmobot ...
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1532. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joseph J. DeRose Jr, Robert C. Ashton Jr, and Jonathan S. Steinberg

Robot Schmobot ...: Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003 42: 1532-1533. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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