SPECIAL ARTICLE:

Jeffrey S. Borer

Development of cardiovascular drugs: The U.S. regulatory milieu from the perspective of a participating nonregulator
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2285-2292. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

STATE-OF-THE-ART PAPER:

Pedro R. Moreno and Valentin Fuster

New aspects in the pathogenesis of diabetic atherothrombosis
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2293-2300. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY:

Gerald S. Werner, Andreas Krack, Gero Schwarz, Dirk Prochnau, Stefan Betge, and Hans R. Figulla

Prevention of lesion recurrence in chronic total coronary occlusions by paclitaxel-eluting stents
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2301-2306. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

CLINICAL RESEARCH:

Interventional Cardiology:

Andrew J. Feiring, Amy A. Wesolowski, and Susan Lade

Primary stent-supported angioplasty for treatment of below-knee critical limb ischemia and severe claudication: Early and one-year outcomes
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2307-2314. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy:

Jens Mogensen, Ross T. Murphy, Toru Kubo, Ajay Bahl, James C. Moon, Ib C. Klausen, Perry M. Elliott, and William J. McKenna

Frequency and clinical expression of cardiac troponin I mutations in 748 consecutive families with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2315-2325. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY:

Editorial comment:

Calum A. MacRae and Patrick T. Ellinor

Genetic screening and risk assessment in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2326-2328. [Full Text] [PDF]  

CLINICAL RESEARCH:

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy:

Deepak R. Talreja, Rick A. Nishimura, William D. Edwards, Uma S. Valeti, Steve R. Ommen, A. Jamil Tajik, Joseph A. Dearani, Hartzell V. Schaff, and David R. Holmes Jr

Alcohol septal ablation versus surgical septal myectomy: Comparison of effects on atrioventricular conduction tissue
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2329-2332. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Heart failure:

Edward P. Havranek, John A. Spertus, Frederick A. Masoudi, Philip G. Jones, and John S. Rumsfeld

Predictors of the onset of depressive symptoms in patients with heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2333-2338. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Marco Guazzi, Gabriele Tumminello, Fabio Di Marco, Cesare Fiorentini, and Maurizio D. Guazzi

The effects of phosphodiesterase-5 inhibition with sildenafil on pulmonary hemodynamics and diffusion capacity, exercise ventilatory efficiency, and oxygen uptake kinetics in chronic heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2339-2348. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Marc Vanderheyden, Marc Goethals, Sofie Verstreken, Bernard De Bruyne, Kristin Muller, Eddy Van Schuerbeeck, and Jozef Bartunek

Wall stress modulates brain natriuretic peptide production in pressure overload cardiomyopathy
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2349-2354. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Cardiac rhythm disturbances:

Denis Roy, Brian H. Rowe, Ian G. Stiell, Benoit Coutu, John H. Ip, Denis Phaneuf, Jacques Lee, Humberto Vidaillet, Garth Dickinson, Sheila Grant, Alan M. Ezrin, Gregory N. Beatch for the CRAFT Investigators

A randomized, controlled trial of RSD1235, a novel anti-arrhythmic agent, in the treatment of recent onset atrial fibrillation
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2355-2361. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Dominic A.M.J. Theuns, A. Peter J. Klootwijk, Dick M. Goedhart, and Luc J.L.M. Jordaens

Prevention of inappropriate therapy in implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: Results of a prospective, randomized study of tachyarrhythmia detection algorithms
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2362-2367. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Diabetes and the heart:

Rodica Pop-Busui, Ian Kirkwood, Helena Schmid, Victor Marinescu, Justin Schroeder, Dennis Larkin, Elina Yamada, David M. Raffel, and Martin J. Stevens

Sympathetic dysfunction in type 1 diabetes: Association with impaired myocardial blood flow reserve and diastolic dysfunction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2368-2374. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Exercise and cardiovascular function:

Jason M.R. Gill, Ali Al-Mamari, William R. Ferrell, Stephen J. Cleland, Chris J. Packard, Naveed Sattar, John R. Petrie, and Muriel J. Caslake

Effects of prior moderate exercise on postprandial metabolism and vascular function in lean and centrally obese men
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2375-2382. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

PRECLINICAL RESEARCH:

Luciano C. Amado, Bernhard L. Gerber, Sandeep N. Gupta, Dan W. Rettmann, Gilberto Szarf, Robert Schock, Khurram Nasir, Dara L. Kraitchman, and João A.C. Lima

Accurate and objective infarct sizing by contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in a canine myocardial infarction model
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2383-2389. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Maike Krenz and Jeffrey Robbins

Impact of beta-myosin heavy chain expression on cardiac function during stress
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2390-2397. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

YEAR IN CARDIOLOGY SERIES:

John J.V. McMurray and Marc A. Pfeffer

The year in heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2398-2405. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

EDITOR'S PAGE:

Anthony N. DeMaria

Open access, open archives, and enhanced public access to National Institutes of Health Research
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2406-2407. [Full Text] [PDF]  

ACC NEWS:

Michael J. Wolk, Alan Brown, and James T. Dove

President's page: The practice of medicine: Many hands, light work
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2408-2409. [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRESPONDENCE:

Research correspondence:

Leslie T. Cooper, Tak Sun Tse, Michael A. Mikhail, Robert D. McBane, Anthony W. Stanson, and Karla V. Ballman

Long-term survival and amputation risk in thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease)
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2410-2411. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Christopher J.K. Hammett, Helen C. Oxenham, J. Chris Baldi, Robert N. Doughty, Rohan Ameratunga, John K. French, Harvey D. White, and Ralph A.H. Stewart

Effect of six months' exercise training on C-reactive protein levels in healthy elderly subjects
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2411-2413. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Elke Lehmkuhl, Berthold Hocher, Detlef Goesmann, Hans B. Lehmkuhl, Harald Hausmann, and Roland Hetzer

Gender as a risk factor in young, not in old, women undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2413-2414. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Letters to the Editor:

Robert H. Habib, Anoar Zacharias, Thomas A. Schwann, and Christopher J. Riordan

Excess long-term mortality in patients with new-onset atrial fibrillation following coronary artery bypass grafting
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2415. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rollo P. Villareal, Vei-Vei Lee, MacArthur Elayda, James M. Wilson, and Ali Massumi

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2415-2416. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fernando Alfonso

Should we use the cutting balloon in patients with in-stent restenosis?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2416. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Remo Albiero, Sigmund Silber, Carlo Di Mario, and Antonio Colombo

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2417. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Isabelle C. Van Gelder, Michiel Rienstra, Maarten P. Van den Berg, and Dirk J. Van Veldhuisen

Rate control in atrial fibrillation
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2417-2418. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rhidian J. Shelton

The AFFIRM study: Approaches to control rate in atrial fibrillation
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2418. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brian Olshansky, Lynda Rosenfeld, Alberta Warner, Allen Solomon, Gearoid O'Neill, Arjun Sharma, Edward Platia, Gregory Feld, Toshio Akiyama, Michael Brodsky, H. Leon Greene The AFFIRM Investigators

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2418-2419. [Full Text] [PDF]  

INDEXES:

Author index
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2420-2426. [PDF]  

Subject index
J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44: 2427-2448. [PDF]  

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