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Decade: 2010-2019

Year: 2012

Issue: Vol 154 | No. 3 | 09 February 2012 | Pages 243-386

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Double right coronary artery or split right coronary artery?

11 November 2011

Ying-Fu Chen, Tsu-Ming Chien, Chih-Wei Chen, Ching-Cheng Lin, Chee-Siong Lee et al. 243-245
Review
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Ultrafiltration for acute decompensated heart failure: Financial implications

03 June 2011

Amir Kazory, Frank B. Bellamy, Edward A. Ross 246-249
Original Articles
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The relationship between early left ventricular myocardial alterations and reduced coronary flow reserve in non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients with microvascular angina

01 November 2010

Antonello D'Andrea, Stefano Nistri, Francesca Castaldo, Maurizio Galderisi, Donato Mele, Eustachio Agricola, Maria Angela Losi, Sergio Mondillo, Paolo Nicola Marino, on behalf of the Working Group Nucleus on Echocardiography of the Italian Society of Cardiology et al. 250-255
Clinical impact of screening for sleep related breathing disorders in atrial fibrillation

14 October 2010

David R. Altmann, Elke Ullmer, Hans Rickli, Micha T. Maeder, Christian Sticherling, Beat A. Schaer, Stefan Osswald, Peter Ammann et al. 256-258
Right ventricular–left ventricular interaction in adults with Tetralogy of Fallot: A combined cardiac magnetic resonance and echocardiographic speckle tracking study

11 October 2010

Aleksander Kempny, Gerhard-Paul Diller, Stefan Orwat, Gerrit Kaleschke, Gregor Kerckhoff, Alexander Ch. Bunck, David Maintz, Helmut Baumgartner et al. 259-264
Minor symptoms of depression in patients with congenital heart disease have a larger impact on quality of life than limited exercise capacity

06 October 2010

Jan Müller, John Hess, Alfred Hager 265-269
Outcome of direct current cardioversion for atrial arrhythmias in adults with congenital heart disease

11 October 2010

Naser M. Ammash, Sabrina D. Phillips, David O. Hodge, Heidi M. Connolly, Martha A. Grogan, Paul A. Friedman, Carole A. Warnes, Samuel J. Asirvatham et al. 270-274
Timing of events in STEMI patients treated with immediate PCI or standard medical therapy: Implications on optimisation of timing of treatment from the CARESS-in-AMI trial

21 October 2010

Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Dariusz Dudek, Federico Piscione, Waldemar Mielecki, Stefano Savonitto, Francesco Borgia, Ernesto Murena, Antonio Manari, Achille Gaspardone, Andrzej Ochala, Krzysztof Zmudka, Leonardo Bolognese, Philippe Gabriel Steg, Marcus Flather, Carlo Di Mario, on behalf of the CARESS-in-AMI (Combined Abciximab RE-teplase Stent Study in Acute Myocardial Infarction) Investigators (All Investigators and Committees are listed in the Appendix) et al. 275-281
Clinical and genetic determinants of anthracycline-induced cardiac iron accumulation

25 October 2010

Almudena Cascales, Beatriz Sánchez-Vega, Noelia Navarro, Francisco Pastor-Quirante, Javier Corral, Vicente Vicente, Francisco Ayala de la Peña et al. 282-286
Inflammatory markers and plaque morphology: An optical coherence tomography study

25 October 2010

Konstantina P. Bouki, Mihail G. Katsafados, Dionissios N. Chatzopoulos, Stavroula N. Psychari, Konstantinos P. Toutouzas, Athanasios F. Charalampopoulos, Eleni N. Sakkali, Antonia A. Koudouri, Georgios K. Liakos, Thomas S. Apostolou et al. 287-292
Intra-aortic balloon pumping recruits graft flow reserve by lowering coronary resistances

25 October 2010

Antonino S. Rubino, Francesco Onorati, Cristian Scalas, Giuseppe F. Serraino, Roberto Marsico, Sandro Gelsomino, Roberto Lorusso, Attilio Renzulli et al. 293-298
Randomised trial of ramipril in repaired tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary regurgitation: The APPROPRIATE study (Ace inhibitors for Potential PRevention Of the deleterious effects of Pulmonary Regurgitation In Adults with repaired TEtralogy of Fallot)

25 October 2010

Sonya V. Babu-Narayan, Anselm Uebing, Periklis A. Davlouros, Michael Kemp, Simon Davidson, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Stephanie Bayne, Dudley J. Pennell, Derek G. Gibson, Marcus Flather, Philip J. Kilner, Wei Li, Michael A. Gatzoulis et al. 299-305
A 14-year follow-up study of chest pain patients including stress hormones and mental stress at index event

21 October 2010

Inger Bengtsson, Björn W. Karlson, Johan Herlitz, Maria Haglid Evander, Peter Währborg et al. 306-311
“The heart is simply a muscle” and first description of the tetralogy of “Fallot”. Early contributions to cardiac anatomy and pathology by bishop and anatomist Niels Stensen (1638–1686)

21 October 2010

R. Shane Tubbs, Nicholas Gianaris, Mohammadali M. Shoja, Marios Loukas, Aaron A. Cohen Gadol et al. 312-315
Hyperuricemia and increased risk of ischemic heart disease in a large Chinese cohort

22 August 2011

Shao-Yuan Chuang, Jiunn-Horng Chen, Wen-Ting Yeh, Chih-Cheng Wu, Wen-Harn Pan et al. 316-321
Erythrocyte aggregation as a cause of slow flow in patients of acute coronary syndromes

25 July 2011

Yaron Arbel, Shmuel Banai, Jessia Benhorin, Ariel Finkelstein, Itzhak Herz, Amir Halkin, Gad Keren, Saul Yedgar, Gershon Barashtein, Shlomo Berliner et al. 322-327
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy has a unique cardiac biomarker profile: NT-proBNP/myoglobin and NT-proBNP/troponin T ratios for the differential diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes and stress induced cardiomyopathy

01 November 2011

Georg M. Fröhlich, Boris Schoch, Florian Schmid, Philipp Keller, Isabella Sudano, Thomas F. Lüscher, Georg Noll, Frank Ruschitzka, Frank Enseleit et al. 328-332
Letters to the Editor
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Variability and treatment of high on-prasugrel platelet reactivity in patients with initial high on-clopidogrel platelet reactivity

10 November 2011

Dimitrios Alexopoulos, Theodora-Eleni Plakomyti, Ioanna Xanthopoulou 333-334
Large and small artery endothelial dysfunction in chronic fatigue syndrome

14 November 2011

David J. Newton, Gwen Kennedy, Kenneth K.F. Chan, Chim C. Lang, Jill J.F. Belch, Faisel Khan et al. 335-336
Winning the war, far, in developing countries. Novel anticoagulants as a new weapon against stroke

16 November 2011

G.K. Bronzetti, A. Corzani, C. D'Angelo, M. Bonvicini, G.D. Gargiulo, G. Boriani et al. 336-337
Interaction of anemia and decrease in renal function on survival of patients with heart failure

21 November 2011

Márcia Olandoski, Raphael Rodrigues de Lima, Miguel Morita Fernandes da Silva, Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Angela Olandoski Barboza, Bruna Olandoski Erbano, Lidia Zytynski Moura, Paulo Roberto Slud Brofman, José Rocha Faria-Neto et al. 338-340
Myocardial infarction-stroke association

10 November 2011

Hesham R. Omar 340
Systemic administration of bevacizumab increases the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with metastatic cancer

11 November 2011

Christodoulos Stefanadis, Andreas Synetos, Dimitris Tousoulis, Eleftherios Tsiamis, Archontoula Michelongona, Flora Zagouri, Aristotle Bamias, Meletios Athanasios Dimopoulos, Stella Kyvelou, Ioannis Kapelakis, Konstantinos Toutouzas et al. 341-344
Relationship of aortic stiffness, central systolic blood pressure and left atrium enlargement in general middle and aged population

24 November 2011

Sheng Kang, Hui-min Fan, Jue Li, Lie-ying Fan, Ming Chen, Zhong-min Liu, Heart Failure Risk Factors Investigation Project collaborative group (HFRFIP collaborative group) et al. 344-347
No evidence for an association of AB0 blood group and manifestation of thrombotic microangiopathies

18 November 2011

Christoph Sucker, Andreas Fusshoeller, Firuseh Dierkes, Bernd Grabensee, Rüdiger E. Scharf, Rainer B. Zotz, Jens Litmathe et al. 347-348
Very late stent thrombosis after drug eluting stent: Management therapy guided by intravascular ultrasound imaging

30 November 2011

Estelle Vautrin, Gilles Barone-Rochette, Benoit Berthoud, Stéphanie Marlière, Hélène Bouvaist, Bernard Bertrand, Olivier Ormezzano, Jacques Machecourt, Gérald Vanzetto et al. 349-351
Red Cell Distrubition Width (RDW): A novel risk factor for cardiovascular disease

21 November 2011

Huseyin Uyarel, Turgay Isik, Erkan Ayhan, Mehmet Ergelen 351-352
C-reactive protein and endothelial dysfunction: The clinicians should have in mind diurnal variations

21 November 2011

Alberto Dominguez-Rodriguez, Pedro Abreu-Gonzalez 353
Left ventricular functional recovery after intracoronary injection of autologous bone marrow-derived stem cells in patients with acute myocardial infarction: A dose–response pilot study

02 December 2011

Johanna A. Miettinen, Kari V. Ylitalo, Matti Niemelä, Kari Kervinen, Marjaana Säily, Pirjo Koistinen, Eeva-Riitta Savolainen, Timo H. Mäkikallio, Heikki V. Huikuri et al. 354-356
What is the acceptable rate of false positives for STEMI within a primary PCI network? Insights from a metropolitan system with direct ambulance-based access

02 December 2011

Enrica Perugini, Giuseppe Di Pasquale, Lara Di Diodoro, Paolo Ortolani, Gianni Casella, Nevio Taglieri, M. Letizia Bacchi Reggiani, Antonio Marzocchi, Massimiliano Lorenzini, Angelo Branzi, Claudio Rapezzi et al. 356-358
Decreased scale-specific heart rate variability after multiresolution wavelet analysis predicts sudden cardiac death in heart failure patients

02 December 2011

Petros Arsenos, Konstantinos Gatzoulis, George Manis, Theodoros Gialernios, Polychronis Dilaveris, Dimitrios Tsiachris, Stefanos Archontakis, Efstathios Kartsagoulis, Dimitrios Mytas, Christodoulos Stefanadis et al. 358-360
Thinking more before deciding to implant an ICD in LQT3 patients

28 November 2011

Zhong-le Bai, Sheng-hua Zhou, Qi-ming Liu 360-362
Impact of long-term Xuezhikang therapy on cardiovascular events in high-risk patients with nonspecific, preexisting abnormal liver tests: A post-hoc analysis from Chinese Coronary Secondary Prevention Study (CCSPS)

02 December 2011

Jian-Jun Li, Zong-Liang Lu, Wen-Rong Kou, Roberto Bolli, Zuo Chen, Yang-Feng Wu, Xue-Hai Yu, Yu-Cheng Zhao et al. 362-365
Normalization of ejection fraction in subjects with systolic heart failure. Is it really normal? A myocardial deformation study

19 December 2011

Bryan Wai, Leighton G. Kearney, Louise M. Burrell, Michelle Ord, Piyush M. Srivastava et al. 365-367
The role of Emergency Medical Services in the assessment and management of syncope

22 December 2011

Riyaz Somani, Adrian Baranchuk, Juan Camilo Guzman, Carlos A. Morillo 368-369
Disrupted circadian rhythm in night shift workers: What can we do?

22 December 2011

Weon Kim, Jong-Shin Woo, Wan Kim 369-370
Left ventricular dynamic gradient and pericardial effusion. A life threatening combination in patients with apical ballooning syndrome

22 December 2011

Josefa Cortadellas, Jaume Figueras, Cinta Llibre, José Rodriguez Palomares, Gerard Martí, Rosa M. Lidon, José A. Barrabés, David García Dorado et al. 370-372
Does hypoxia directly regulate the natriuretic peptide system?

21 December 2011

Olli Arjamaa, Mikko Nikinmaa 372
Response to the letter: How to manage coronary slow flow following PCI?

22 December 2011

Yaron Arbel, Shmuel Banai 373
Comparison of drug-eluting versus bare-metal stents after rotational atherectomy for the treatment of calcified coronary lesions

26 December 2011

Fabio Mangiacapra, Guy R. Heyndrickx, Etienne Puymirat, Aaron J. Peace, William Wijns, Bernard De Bruyne, Emanuele Barbato et al. 373-376
Serum copeptin/NT-proBNP ratio: A more reliable index of absolute endogenous stress and prognosis during the course of Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy?

28 December 2011

Kenan Yalta 376-377
Hyperglycemia in patients with hypertensive crisis: Response to “Hypertensive crisis: Comparison between diabetics and non-diabetics”

30 December 2011

Renan Oliveira Vaz-de-Melo, José Fernando Vilela-Martin 378
Marked lipomatous hypertrophy of the right ventricular wall: A distinct clinicopathological entity from arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy?

28 December 2011

Tadashi Nakajima, Yoshiaki Kaneko, Nobuaki Fukuda, Tadanobu Irie, Tatsuya Iso, Masahiko Kurabayashi et al. 379-380
Serum uric acid and ischemic heart disease incidence

22 December 2011

Tomoyuki Kawada 381
Safety and positive predictive value of high-dose dipyridamole stress-echocardiography with or without contrast flash-replenishment perfusion imaging in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease

14 December 2011

Nicola Gaibazzi, Lorena Silva, Claudio Reverberi 382-383
The relationship between minute ventilation and oxygen consumption in heart failure: Comparing peak VE/VO2 and the oxygen uptake efficiency slope

21 December 2011

Ross Arena, Marco Guazzi, Jonathan Myers, Paul Chase, Daniel Bensimhon, Lawrence P. Cahalin, Mary Ann Peberdy, Euan Ashley, Erin West, Daniel E. Forman et al. 384-385
Online Letters to the Editor
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Acute myocardial infarction and left bundle branch block with changing axis deviation

08 May 2009

Salvatore Patanè, Filippo Marte, Giuseppe Dattilo, Mauro Sturiale e47-e49
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Regression of non-compaction in left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy by cardiac contractility modulation

27 June 2011

Philip H.C. Wong, Jeffrey W.H. Fung e50-e51
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Usefulness of tissue characterization by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging as a complementary method for evaluation of cardiac malignant lymphoma

04 July 2011

Kei Sato, Tairo Kurita, Shiro Nakamori, Yasutaka Ichikawa, Koji Mastuoka, Takashi Tanigawa, Katsuya Onishi, Hajime Sakuma, Masaaki Ito et al. e52-e53
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Rescue extracorporeal life support as a bridge to reflection in fulminant stress-induced cardiomyopathy

27 June 2011

Dirk W. Donker, Elien Pragt, Patrick W. Weerwind, Johanna W.M. Holtkamp, Jindra Vainer, Bas Mochtar, Jos G. Maessen et al. e54-e56
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Repeated sudden cardiac death in coronary spasm: Is IVUS helpful to decide treatment strategy?

23 June 2011

Yae Min Park, Woong Chol Kang, Kwen-Chul Shin, Seung Hwan Han, Taehoon Ahn, In Suk Choi, Eak Kyun Shin et al. e57-e59
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Sinus venosus defect (SVD) identified in zebrafish Glut1 morphants by video imaging

15 July 2011

Ping-Pin Zheng, Peter J. van der Spek, Clemens M.F. Dirven, Rob Willemsen, Johan M. Kros et al. e60-e61
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Cardiac rupture in a patient with an acute myocardial infarction and extensive fatty infiltration of the heart (“adipositas cordis”)

30 June 2011

Victor H. Godinez-Valdez, Iris Cázares-Campos, Alberto Aranda-Fraustro, Francisco López-Jiménez, Manuel Cárdenas, Manlio F. Márquez et al. e62-e64
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Left ventricular noncompaction presenting as peripartum cardiomyopathy

08 July 2011

Brian Lea, Alison L. Bailey, Matthew E. Wiisanen, Anil Attili, Navin Rajagopalan et al. e65-e66
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