JACC -- Table of Contents (43 [5])

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State-of-the-Art Paper:

Antonio M. Gotto Jr and Eliot A. Brinton
Assessing low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol as a risk factor in coronary heart disease: A working group report and update
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 717-724. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Viewpoint and commentary:

C. Tissa Kappagoda, Dianne A. Hyson, and Ezra A. Amsterdam
Low-carbohydrate–high-protein diets: Is there a place for them in clinical cardiology?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 725-730. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Sylvan Lee Weinberg
The diet–heart hypothesis: a critique
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 731-733. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Clinical research: interventional cardiology:

Adnan Kastrati, Julinda Mehilli, Stefan Nekolla, Hildegard Bollwein, Stefan Martinoff, Jürgen Pache, Helmut Schühlen, Melchior Seyfarth, Meinrad Gawaz, Franz-Josef Neumann, Josef Dirschinger, Markus Schwaiger, Albert Schömig STOPAMI-3 Study Investigators
A randomized trial comparing myocardial salvage achieved by coronary stenting versus balloon angioplasty in patients with acute myocardial infarction considered ineligible for reperfusion therapy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 734-741. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Clinical research: complications of bypass surgery:

Rollo P. Villareal, Ramesh Hariharan, Brant C. Liu, Biswajit Kar, Vei-Vei Lee, MacArthur Elayda, J. Alberto Lopez, Abdi Rasekh, James M. Wilson, and Ali Massumi
Postoperative atrial fibrillation and mortality after coronary artery bypass surgery
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 742-748. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Clinical research: complications of bypass surgery: editorial comment:

Daniel Levy and William B. Kannel
Postoperative atrial fibrillation and mortality: do the risks merit changes in clinical practice?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 749-751. [Full Text] [PDF]

Clinical research: complications of bypass surgery:

Garrett K. Peel, Sotiris C. Stamou, Mercedes K. C. Dullum, Peter C. Hill, Kathleen A. Jablonski, Ammar S. Bafi, Steven W. Boyce, Kathleen R. Petro, and Paul J. Corso
Chronologic distribution of stroke after minimally invasive versus conventional coronary artery bypass
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 752-756. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Clinical research: biomarkers:

Jari M. Tapanainen, Kai S. Lindgren, Timo H. Mäkikallio, Olli Vuolteenaho, Juhani Leppäluoto, and Heikki V. Huikuri
Natriuretic peptides as predictors of non-sudden and sudden cardiac death after acute myocardial infarction in the beta-blocking era
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 757-763. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Hanno H. Leuchte, Michael Holzapfel, Rainer A. Baumgartner, Isabelle Ding, Claus Neurohr, Michael Vogeser, Tilman Kolbe, Martin Schwaiblmair, and Jürgen Behr
Clinical significance of brain natriuretic peptide in primary pulmonary hypertension
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 764-770. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Clinical research: heart failure:

Ida Gustafsson, Bente Brendorp, Marie Seibæk, Hans Burchardt, Per Hildebrandt, Lars Køber, Christian Torp-Pedersen DIAMOND Study Group
Influence of diabetes and diabetes-gender interaction on the risk of death in patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 771-777. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Anita Deswal, Nancy J. Petersen, Julianne Souchek, Carol M. Ashton, and Nelda P. Wray
Impact of race on health care utilization and outcomes in veterans with congestive heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 778-784. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Clinical research: heart failure: editorial comment:

Jonathan D. Sackner-Bernstein and Hal A. Skopicki
Racing away from bias
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 785-786. [Full Text] [PDF]

Clinical research: heart transplantation:

Javed Butler, Ghazanfar Khadim, Kimberly M. Paul, Stacy F. Davis, Marvin W. Kronenberg, Don B. Chomsky, Richard N. Pierson III, and John R. Wilson
Selection of patients for heart transplantationin the current era of heart failure therapy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 787-793. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Eldrin F. Lewis, Sui W. Tsang, James C. Fang, Gilbert H. Mudge, John A. Jarcho, Carol M. Flavell, Anju Nohria, Michael M. Givertz, Gregory S. Couper, John G. Byrne, and Lynne Warner Stevenson
Frequency and impact of delayed decisions regarding heart transplantation on long-term outcomes in patients with advanced heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 794-802. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Clinical research: heart transplantation: editorial comment:

Mario C. Deng
Heart transplantation: the increasing challenges of evidence-based decision-making
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 803-805. [Full Text] [PDF]

Clinical research: heart transplantation:

Mandeep R. Mehra, Patricia A. Uber, Hector O. Ventura, Robert L. Scott, and Myung H. Park
The impact of mode of donor brain death on cardiac allograft vasculopathy: An intravascular ultrasound study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 806-810. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Matteo Vatta, Sonny J. Stetson, Shinawe Jimenez, Mark L. Entman, George P. Noon, Neil E. Bowles, Jeffrey A. Towbin, and Guillermo Torre-Amione
Molecular normalization of dystrophin in the failing left and right ventricle of patients treated with either pulsatile or continuous flow-type ventricular assist devices
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 811-817. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Clinical research: electrophysiology:

Yukiko Nakano, Shumpei Niida, Keigo Dote, Sou Takenaka, Hidekazu Hirao, Fumiharu Miura, Mari Ishida, Tetsuji Shingu, Taijiro Sueda, Masao Yoshizumi, and Kazuaki Chayama
Matrix metalloproteinase-9 contributes to human atrial remodeling during atrial fibrillation
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 818-825. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Jean-Marc Lupoglazoff, Isabelle Denjoy, Elisabeth Villain, Véronique Fressart, Françoise Simon, André Bozio, Myriam Berthet, Nawal Benammar, Bernard Hainque, and Pascale Guicheney
Long QT syndrome in neonates: Conduction disorders associated with HERG mutations and sinus bradycardia with KCNQ1 mutations
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 826-830. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Clinical research: cardiac imaging:

Axel Kuettner, Andreas F. Kopp, Stephen Schroeder, Thilo Rieger, Juergen Brunn, Christoph Meisner, Martin Heuschmid, Tobias Trabold, Christof Burgstahler, Jens Martensen, Wolfgang Schoebel, Hans-Konrad Selbmann, and Claus D. Claussen
Diagnostic accuracy of multidetector computed tomography coronary angiography in patients with angiographically proven coronary artery disease
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 831-839. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Clinical research: cardiac imaging: editorial comment:

Stephan Achenbach
Detection of coronary stenoses by multidetector computed tomography: it's all about resolution
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 840-841. [Full Text] [PDF]

Clinical research: cardiac imaging:

Stephan Achenbach, Dieter Ropers, Udo Hoffmann, Briain MacNeill, Ulrich Baum, Karsten Pohle, Tom J. Brady, Eugene Pomerantsev, Josef Ludwig, Frank A. Flachskampf, Stephan Wicky, Ik-kyung Jang, and Werner G. Daniel
assessment of coronary remodeling in stenotic and nonstenotic coronary atherosclerotic lesions by multidetector spiral computed tomography
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 842-847. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Clinical research: stress testing:

Philip M. Mottram, Brian Haluska, Satoshi Yuda, Rodel Leano, and Thomas H. Marwick
Patients with a hypertensive response to exercise have impaired systolic function without diastolic dysfunction or left ventricular hypertrophy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 848-853. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Clinical research: genetics and cardiovascular disease:

Greetje J. de Grooth, Kim E. Zerba, Shu-Pang Huang, Zenta Tsuchihashi, Todd Kirchgessner, René Belder, Priya Vishnupad, Beihong Hu, Anke H. E. M. Klerkx, Aeilko H. Zwinderman, J. Wouter Jukema, Frank M. Sacks, John J. P. Kastelein, and Jan Albert Kuivenhoven
The cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) TaqIB polymorphism in the cholesterol and recurrent events study: no interaction with the response to pravastatin therapy and no effects on cardiovascular outcome: A prospective analysis of the CETP TaqIB polymorphism on cardiovascular outcome and interaction with cholesterol-lowering therapy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 854-857. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Preclinical investigation:

Moshe Swissa, Shengmei Zhou, Ignacio Gonzalez-Gomez, Che-Ming Chang, Angela C. Lai, Adam W. Cates, Michael C. Fishbein, Hrayr S. Karagueuzian, Peng-Sheng Chen, and Lan S. Chen
Long-term subthreshold electrical stimulation of the left stellate ganglion and a canine model of sudden cardiac death
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 858-864. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Tiziano M. Scarabelli, Anastasis Stephanou, Evasio Pasini, Gianluca Gitti, Paul Townsend, Kevin Lawrence, Carol Chen-Scarabelli, Louis Saravolatz, David Latchman, Richard Knight, and Julius Gardin
Minocycline inhibits caspase activation and reactivation, increases the ratio of XIAP to smac/DIABLO, and reduces the mitochondrial leakage of cytochrome C and smac/DIABLO
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 865-874. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Year in cardiology series:

William W. O'Neill and Simon R. Dixon
The year in interventional cardiology
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 875-890. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

ACC News:

Carl J. Pepine
President's page: fellow physicians: read, respond, repeat: Thoughts on our obligations relative to the media
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 891-892. [Full Text] [PDF]

ACC-CathKIT:

Gregory J. Dehmer, John W. Hirshfeld, William J. Oetgen, Kristi Mitchell, April Wells Simon, MaryAnne Elma, Mirle A. Kellett Jr, Ralph G. Brindis, on behalf of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Task Force to Develop the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Continuous Quality Improvement Toolkit, CathKIT Task Force Members, Richard A. Chazal, Gregory J. Dehmer, Ralph G. Brindis, Charles E. Chambers, Mary Heisler, Frederick A. Heupler Jr, John W. Hirshfeld, Mirle A. Kellett Jr, Thomas D. Lane, William J. Oetgen, Roger Siegfried, April Wells Simon, and C. Michael Valentine
CathKIT: improving quality in the cardiac catheterization laboratory
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 893-899. [Full Text] [PDF]

Evidence-Based Guidelines:

Expert Panel/Writing Group, Lori Mosca, Lawrence J. Appel, Emelia J. Benjamin, Kathy Berra, Nisha Chandra-Strobos, Rosalind P. Fabunmi, Deborah Grady, Constance K. Haan, Sharonne N. Hayes, Debra R. Judelson, Nora L. Keenan, Patrick McBride, Suzanne Oparil, Pamela Ouyang, Mehmet C. Oz, Michael E. Mendelsohn, Richard C. Pasternak, Vivian W. Pinn, Rose Marie Robertson, Karin Schenck-Gustafsson, Cathy A. Sila, Sidney C. Smith Jr, George Sopko, Anne L. Taylor, Brian W. Walsh, Nanette K. Wenger, and Christine L. Williams
Evidence-based guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention in women
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 900-921. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [View Revised Document]

Announcement:

Newly elected members of the college
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 922-923. [Full Text] [PDF]

Letters to the Editor:

Ajay Manhapra
Why is chronic kidney disease the "spoiler" for cardiovascular outcomes: an alternate take from a generalist
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 924. [Full Text] [PDF]

Peter A. McCullough
Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 924-925. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]

Stephane Arques and Emmanuel Roux
Pulmonary venous flow by Doppler echocardiography: usefulness of diastolic wave deceleration time in predicting filling pressures
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 925-926. [Full Text] [PDF]

Nicola Gaibazzi
Heart rate recovery after exercise is not demonstrated as a predictor of mortality: maybe after treadmill-exercise
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 925. [Full Text] [PDF]

Michael S. Lauer
Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 925. [Full Text] [PDF]

Tomotsugu Tabata and Allan L. Klein
Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 926. [Full Text] [PDF]

Neil L. Coplan
Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors and the guidelines for treatment of non–ST-elevation myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 926-927. [Full Text] [PDF]

Eric David Peterson
Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 927-928. [Full Text] [PDF]

Michael Henein and Patrick O'Callaghan
"From bedside to bench"
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 928. [Full Text] [PDF]

William C. Little
Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 43: 928. [Full Text] [PDF]


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