STATE-OF-THE-ART PAPER:

Karen Okrainec, Robert Platt, Louise Pilote, and Mark J. Eisenberg

Cardiac medical therapy in patients after undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery: A review of randomized controlled trials
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 177-184. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rakesh S. Birjmohun, Barbara A. Hutten, John J.P. Kastelein, and Erik S.G. Stroes

Efficacy and safety of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol-increasing compounds: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 185-197. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CLINICAL RESEARCH:

Interventional Cardiology:

Mandeep Singh, Bernard J. Gersh, Robyn L. McClelland, Kalon K.L. Ho, James T. Willerson, William F. Penny, and David R. Holmes Jr

Predictive factors for ischemic target vessel revascularization in the Prevention of Restenosis with Tranilast and its Outcomes (PRESTO) trial
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 198-203. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amir-Ali Fassa, Kenji Wagatsuma, Stuart T. Higano, Verghese Mathew, Gregory W. Barsness, Ryan J. Lennon, David R. Holmes Jr, and Amir Lerman

Intravascular ultrasound-guided treatment for angiographically indeterminate left main coronary artery disease: A long-term follow-up study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 204-211. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Atsunori Okamura, Hiroshi Ito, Katsuomi Iwakura, Shigeo Kawano, Koichi Inoue, Yoshihiro Maekawa, Toshio Ogihara, and Kenshi Fujii

Detection of embolic particles with the Doppler guide wire during coronary intervention in patients with acute myocardial infarction: Efficacy of distal protection device
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 212-215. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Philip MacCarthy, Alexandre Berger, Ganesh Manoharan, Jozef Bartunek, Emanuele Barbato, William Wijns, Guy R. Heyndrickx, Nico H.J. Pijls, and Bernard De Bruyne

Pressure-derived measurement of coronary flow reserve
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 216-220. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Coronary artery disease:

Joseph Kim, Robert A. Henderson, Stuart J. Pocock, Tim Clayton, Mark J. Sculpher, Keith A.A. Fox RITA-3 Trial Investigators

Health-related quality of life after interventional or conservative strategy in patients with unstable angina or non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: One-year results of the third randomized intervention trial of unstable angina (RITA-3)
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 221-228. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Christopher Heeschen, Stefanie Dimmeler, Christian W. Hamm, Stephan Fichtlscherer, Maarten L. Simoons, Andreas M. Zeiher CAPTURE Study Investigators

Pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A levels in patients with acute coronary syndromes: Comparison with markers of systemic inflammation, platelet activation, and myocardial necrosis
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 229-237. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Claudia Monaco, Elisabetta Rossi, Diego Milazzo, Franco Citterio, Francesca Ginnetti, Giuseppe D'Onofrio, Domenico Cianflone, Filippo Crea, Luigi M. Biasucci, and Attilio Maseri

Persistent systemic inflammation in unstable angina is largely unrelated to the atherothrombotic burden
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 238-243. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Coronary artery disease: Editorial comment:

Marc S. Sabatine and Eugene Braunwald

Another look at the age-old question: Which came first, the elevated c-reactive protein or the atherothrombosis?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 244-245. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Antiplatelet therapy:

Victor L. Serebruany, Steven R. Steinhubl, Peter B. Berger, Alex I. Malinin, Deepak L. Bhatt, and Eric J. Topol

Variability in platelet responsiveness to clopidogrel among 544 individuals
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 246-251. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Heart failure:

Lars Gullestad, John Wikstrand, Prakash Deedwania, Åke Hjalmarson, Kenneth Egstrup, Uri Elkayam, Stephen Gottlieb, Andrew Rashkow, Hans Wedel, Georgina Bermann, John Kjekshus for the MERIT-HF Study Group

What resting heart rate should one aim for when treating patients with heart failure with a beta-blocker?: Experiences from the Metoprolol Controlled Release/Extended Release Randomized Intervention Trial in Chronic Heart Failure (MERIT-HF)
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 252-259. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Francesco Grigioni, Delphine Detaint, Jean-François Avierinos, Christopher Scott, Jamil Tajik, and Maurice Enriquez-Sarano

Contribution of ischemic mitral regurgitation to congestive heart failure after myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 260-267. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Michael G. Shlipak, Mark J. Sarnak, Ronit Katz, Linda Fried, Stephen Seliger, Anne Newman, David Siscovick, and Catherine Stehman-Breen

Cystatin-C and mortality in elderly persons with heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 268-271. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Echocardiography:

Mei Wang, Gabriel Yip, Cheuk-Man Yu, Qing Zhang, Yan Zhang, Deko Tse, Shun-Ling Kong, and John E. Sanderson

Independent and incremental prognostic value of early mitral annulus velocity in patients with impaired left ventricular systolic function
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 272-277. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Heart rhythm disturbances:

Saila Vikman, Kai Lindgren, Timo H. Mäkikallio, Sinikka Yli-Mäyry, K.E. Juhani Airaksinen, and Heikki V. Huikuri

Heart rate turbulence after atrial premature beats before spontaneous onset of atrial fibrillation
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 278-284. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Atul Verma, Oussama M. Wazni, Nassir F. Marrouche, David O. Martin, Fethi Kilicaslan, Stephen Minor, Robert A. Schweikert, Walid Saliba, Jennifer Cummings, J. David Burkhardt, Mandeep Bhargava, William A. Belden, Ahmad Abdul-Karim, and Andrea Natale

Pre-existent left atrial scarring in patients undergoing pulmonary vein antrum isolation: An independent predictor of procedural failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 285-292. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

PRECLINICAL RESEARCH:

José A. Barrabés, David Garcia-Dorado, Maribel Mirabet, Javier Inserte, Luis Agulló, Bernat Soriano, Anna Massaguer, Ferran Padilla, Rosa-Maria Lidón, and Jordi Soler-Soler

Antagonism of selectin function attenuates microvascular platelet deposition and platelet-mediated myocardial injury after transient ischemia
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 293-299. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Takeshi Aiba, Wataru Shimizu, Masashi Inagaki, Takashi Noda, Shunichiro Miyoshi, Wei-Guang Ding, Dimitar P. Zankov, Futoshi Toyoda, Hiroshi Matsuura, Minoru Horie, and Kenji Sunagawa

Cellular and ionic mechanism for drug-induced long QT syndrome and effectiveness of verapamil
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 300-307. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

EXPRESS PUBLICATION:

Jean-Jacques Goy, Jean-Christophe Stauffer, Manon Siegenthaler, Alain Benoît, and Charles Seydoux

A prospective randomized comparison between paclitaxel and sirolimus stents in the real world of interventional cardiology: The TAXi trial
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 308-311. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dierk Scheinert, Susanne Scheinert, Jacqueline Sax, Christopher Piorkowski, Sven Bräunlich, Matthias Ulrich, Giancarlo Biamino, and Andrej Schmidt

Prevalence and clinical impact of stent fractures after femoropopliteal stenting
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 312-315. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

ACC NEWS:

Michael J. Wolk

President's page: The future is now: ACC goes to Washington
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 316-317. [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRESPONDENCE:

Research correspondence:

Kenichi Sugioka, Takeshi Hozumi, Yasuhiko Takemoto, Keiji Ujino, Yoshiki Matsumura, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Kohei Fujimoto, Minoru Yoshiyama, and Junichi Yoshikawa

Early recovery of impaired coronary flow reserve by carvedilol therapy in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: A serial transthoracic Doppler echocardiographic study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 318-319. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Antonio Raviele, Franco Giada, and Gianni Gasparini

Efficacy of a patient-activated pharmacologic pump using phenylephrine as active drug and prodromal symptoms as a marker of imminent loss of consciousness to abort tilt-induced syncope
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 320-321. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ajay J. Kirtane, Pedro Martinezclark, Aref M. Rahman, Kausik K. Ray, Dimitrios Karmpaliotis, Sabina A. Murphy, Robert P. Giugliano, Christopher P. Cannon, Elliott M. Antman, Matthew T. Roe, Robert A. Harrington, E. Magnus Ohman, Eugene Braunwald, and C. Michael Gibson

Association of smoking with improved myocardial perfusion and the angiographic characterization of myocardial tissue perfusion after fibrinolytic therapy for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 321-323. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Pierfrancesco Agostoni, Giuseppe G.L. Biondi-Zoccai, and Antonio Abbate

Coronary stenting versus balloon angioplasty in small vessels
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 323-324. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Raúl Moreno, Cristina Fernandez, and Carlos Macaya

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 324-325. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maria Lengyel

Thrombolysis should be regarded as first-line therapy for prosthetic valve thrombosis in the absence of contraindications
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 325. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ann T. Tong, Raymond Roudaut, Mehmet Özkan, Alex Sagie, Maie S.A. Shahid, Sergio C. Pontes Jr, Francesc Carreras, Steven E. Girard, Samir Arnaout, Raymond F. Stainback, Ravi Thadani, William A. Zoghbi on behalf of the PRO–TEE Registry Investigators

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 326. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Grayson H. Wheatley III

Cardiologist in the carotids
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 326-327. [Full Text] [PDF]  

William A. Gray

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 327. [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Rott

Advantage of percutaneous coronary intervention over medical therapy in angina relief and the placebo effect
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 327-328. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Whady Hueb, Paulo R. Soares, and Eulógio Martinez

Reply
J Am Coll Cardiol 2005 45: 328. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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