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International Journal of Cardiology
Volume 129, Issue 3, Pages 307-458 (13 October 2008)
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Cardiac risk of noncardiac surgery in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 04 July 2008
Tsung O. Cheng
pages 307-308
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Reviews


The role of the lymphatic circulation in the natural history and expression of cardiovascular disease, 18 June 2008
Kenta Nakamura, Stanley G. Rockson
pages 309-317
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Carcinoid heart disease, 20 June 2008
B.I. Gustafsson, O. Hauso, I. Drozdov, M. Kidd, I.M. Modlin
pages 318-324
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Original Articles


Lower mortality after prehospital recognition and treatment followed by fast tracking to coronary care compared with admittance via emergency department in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction, 12 November 2007
Angela Bång, Lars Grip, Johan Herlitz, Stefan Kihlgren, Thomas Karlsson, Kenneth Caidahl, Marianne Hartford
pages 325-332
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Aerosolized iloprost for postoperative pulmonary hypertensive crisis in children with congenital heart disease, 21 December 2007
Alisa Limsuwan, Suthep Wanitkul, Anant Khosithset, Sukasom Attanavanich, Piya Samankatiwat
pages 333-338
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Sildenafil therapy in complex pulmonary atresia with pulmonary arterial hypertension, 14 November 2007
Zek S. Lim, Joseph J. Vettukattill, Anthony P. Salmon, Gruschen R. Veldtman
pages 339-343
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Atrial stunning, inflammation and nutritional status after cardioversion from atrial fibrillation, 12 November 2007
Anna Vittoria Mattioli, Silvia Bonatti, Roberto Melotti, Giorgio Mattioli
pages 344-347
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Two-year outcome of the use of paclitaxel-eluting stents in aorto-ostial lesions, 22 November 2007
Keiichi Tsuchida, Joost Daemen, Shuzou Tanimoto, Héctor M. García-García, Neville Kukreja, Sophia Vaina, Andrew T.L. Ong, Georgios Sianos, Peter P.T. de Jaegere, Ron T. van Domburg, Patrick W. Serruys
pages 348-353
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Atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery: Risk factors and their temporal relationship in prophylactic drug strategy decision, 19 November 2007
Giovanni Mariscalco, Karl Gunnar Engström
pages 354-362
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Fibrinogen synthesis is increased in cachectic patients with chronic heart failure, 19 November 2007
Klaus K.A. Witte, Sarah J. Ford, Tom Preston, John D. Parker, Andrew L. Clark
pages 363-367
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Impact of periprocedural myonecrosis on clinical events after implantation of drug-eluting stents, 22 November 2007
Jae-Sik Jang, Myeong-Ki Hong, Duk-Woo Park, Seung-Whan Lee, Young-Hak Kim, Cheol Whan Lee, Jae-Joong Kim, Seong-Wook Park, Seung-Jung Park
pages 368-372
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Lack of decrease in plasma N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide identifies acute heart failure patients with very poor outcome, 05 December 2007
Piotr Kubler, Ewa A. Jankowska, Jacek Majda, Krzysztof Reczuch, Waldemar Banasiak, Piotr Ponikowski
pages 373-378
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Predictors of outcome in patients undergoing PCI. Results of the RIVIERA study, 06 December 2007
Gilles Montalescot, Zeki Öngen, Ramez Guindy, Amanda Sousa, Shu-Zheng Lu, Dev Pahlajani, André Pellois, Eric Vicaut, for the RIVIERA Investigators
pages 379-387
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Inflammatory markers in stable heart failure and their relationship with functional class, 19 November 2007
Ignacio J. Sánchez-Lázaro, Luis Almenar, Edelmiro Reganon, Virtudes Vila, Luis Martínez-Dolz, Vicenta Martínez-Sales, José Moro, Jaime Agüero, Víctor Ortiz-Martínez, Antonio Salvador
pages 388-393
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Low utilisation of cardiovascular risk reducing therapy in patients with acute coronary syndromes and non-obstructive coronary artery disease, 27 February 2008
Jeremy P. Dwyer, Julie Redfern, S. Benedict Freedman
pages 394-398
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Inducible nitric oxide synthase activity is increased in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and contributes to endothelial dysfunction, 20 June 2008
Kaisa M. Mäki-Petäjä, Joseph Cheriyan, Anthony D. Booth, Frances C. Hall, John Brown, Sharon M.L. Wallace, Mike J. Ashby, Carmel M. McEniery, Ian B. Wilkinson
pages 399-405
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South Asian men have different patterns of coronary artery disease when compared with European men, 19 November 2007
Therese Tillin, Harshil Dhutia, John Chambers, Iqbal Malik, Emma Coady, Jamil Mayet, Andrew R. Wright, Jaspal Kooner, Angela Shore, Simon Thom, Nish Chaturvedi, Alun Hughes
pages 406-413
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Candesartan improves myocardial damage in obese mice with viral myocarditis and induces cardiac adiponectin, 29 November 2007
Fei Yu, Rui Chen, Takashi Takahashi, Hiroyuki Sumino, Shigeto Morimoto, Takeshi Nakahashi, Kunimitsu Iwai, Masayuki Matsumoto, Tsugiyasu Kanda
pages 414-421
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Letters to the Editor


The panacea for cardiovascular diseases: The role of statins in the management of heart failure, 10 August 2007
Turgay Celik, Atila Iyisoy, U. Cagdas Yuksel, Ersoy Isik
pages 422-423
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Systolic eccentricity index identifies right ventricular dysfunction in pulmonary hypertension, 10 August 2007
Angel López-Candales, Navin Rajagopalan, Minisha Kochar, Beth Gulyasy, Kathy Edelman
pages 424-426
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Can kinetics of oxygen uptake at onset of exercise identify contractile reserve in patients with ischemic left ventricular dysfunction?, 10 August 2007
Massimo Baravelli, Cecilia Fantoni, Andrea Rossi, Paolo Cattaneo, Teresio Forzani, Giansiro Bargiggia, Claudio Anza'
pages 427-429
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Relationship between slightly elevated NT-proBNP and alterations in diastolic function detected by echocardiography in patients without structural heart disease, 22 August 2007
Antonio Barragán, Juan Lacalzada, Alejandro de la Rosa, Antonia María de Vera, Amelia Duque, César Perera, Antonio Lara, Ignacio Laynez
pages 430-432
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Early cardiac damage after subarachnoid hemorrhage in rats, 10 August 2007
Nai-Nu Lin, Jon-Son Kuo, Ching-Chang Cheng, Kwong-Chung Tung, Fu-Chou Cheng, Yung-Tsung Chiu
pages 433-437
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Arterial stiffness in offspring of hypertensive parents: A pilot study, 17 August 2007
Stella-Maria G. Kyvelou, Gregory P. Vyssoulis, Eva A. Karpanou, Dionysios N. Adamopoulos, Alexandros D. Deligeorgis, Dennis V. Cokkinos, Christodoulos I. Stefanadis
pages 438-440
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Adult-onset hypertrophic cardiomyopathy manifested as initial major presentation of mitochondrial disease with A-to-G 3243 tRNA Leu(UUR) point mutation, 15 August 2007
Po-Chao Hsu, Chih-Sheng Chu, Tsung-Hsien Lin, Ye-Hsu Lu, Chee-Siong Lee, Wen-Ter Lai, Sheng-Hsiung Sheu
pages 441-443
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Urgent balloon mitral valvotomy in acute refractory pulmonary edema, 28 July 2007
L. Oukerraj, T. El houari, N. El haitem, R. Bennani, N. Fellat, N. Fikri, R. Mesbahi, M. Benomar
pages 444-446
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When does an infarcted heart rupture? A pathological study of 148 out-of-hospital sudden death cases, 13 August 2007
Aya Takada, Kazuyuki Saito, Tomonori Nagai, Akihiko Hamamatsu, Tatsuya Murai
pages 447-448
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Cardiac troponins after a downhill marathon, 10 August 2007
Arnold Koller, Guenther Sumann, Andrea Griesmacher, Gerda Falkensammer, Anton Klingler, Georg Fliri, Sven Greie, Wolfgang Schobersberger
pages 449-452
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Gender difference in oxidative stress and its genesis by analysis of serum α-tocopherol concentrations in a Japanese population, 28 July 2007
Kunihisa Miwa, Masatoshi Fujita
pages 453-454
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Safety and efficacy of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor for patients with recent myocardial infarction: A meta-analysis, 15 August 2007
Lin Fan, Lianglong Chen, Fayuan Fu, Chaogui Lin
pages 455-457
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Online Letters to the Editor


Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography in transient left apical ballooning syndrome, 03 September 2007 Online Only
Marcin Grabowski, Radoslaw Piatkowski, Piotr Scislo, Janusz Kochanowski, Krzysztof J. Filipiak, Grzegorz Opolski
pages e69-e70
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Acute myocardial infarction due to right coronary artery occlusion in dextrocardia, 17 September 2007 Online Only
Salvatore Patanè, Filippo Marte, Gianluca Di Bella
pages e71-e73
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Three-year follow-up with cardiac magnetic resonance in a patient with biventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy, 14 September 2007 Online Only
Giovanni D. Aquaro, Gianluca Di Bella, Elisabetta Strata, Alessandro Pingitore, Massimo Lombardi
pages e74-e76
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Marked left ventricular hypertrophy in a patient with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes, 28 September 2007 Online Only
Nobuyuki Takahashi, Toshio Shimada, Yutaka Ishibashi, Hiroyuki Yoshitomi, Nobuyuki Oyake, Yo Murakami, Ichizo Nishino, Ikuya Nonaka, Yu-ichi Goto, Jun Kitamura
pages e77-e80
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Mobile pulmonary valve thrombus as a cause of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, 20 September 2007 Online Only
Angelos G. Rigopoulos, Costas Papadopoulos, Ignatios Ikonomidis, Chris Rokkas, John G. Panagiotides, Ioannis Rizos, Constantine E. Anagnostopoulos, Dimitrios Th. Kremastinos
pages e81-e83
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Biventricular non-compaction — The rare cause of stroke in a young boy, 20 September 2007 Online Only
Rajesh Vijayvergiya, Ashish Jha, Subha Narayan Panda, Anil Grover
pages e84-e85
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Delayed papillary muscle rupture following percutaneous mitral balloon valvotomy, 17 September 2007 Online Only
Socrates Korovesis, Anastasios Papadopoulos, Demosthenes G. Katritsis
pages e86-e87
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Mid-ventricular obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with apical aneurysm: Report of 2 cases, 21 September 2007 Online Only
Yuichi Sato, Naoya Matsumoto, Shunichi Yoda, Taeko Kunimasa, Shinro Matsuo, Sei Komatsu, Shigemasa Tani, Yuji Kasamaki, Satoshi Kunimoto, Stephan Achenbach, Satoshi Saito, Atsushi Hirayama
pages e88-e90
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Percutaneous treatment of aorto-pulmonary window in a one year old child, 17 September 2007 Online Only
Davide Marini, Giulio Calcagni, Phalla Ou, Damien Bonnet, Gabriella Agnoletti
pages e91-e93
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