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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 36 JULY 2000 VOLUME 36 NUMBER 1 REVIEW ARTICLES 75 Occurrence and Clinical Significance of The Long QT Syndromes: Genetic Basis and Clinical Pseudothrombocytopenia During Abciximab Therapy Implications Chern-En Chiang, Dan M. Roden David C. Sane, Lakshmi V. Damaraju, Eric J. Topol, 13 Techniques Characterizing the Coronary Catherine F. Cabot, Mary Ann Mascelli, Robert A. Harrington, Maarten L. Simoons, Robert M. Califf Atherosclerotic Plaque: Influence on Clinical Decision Making? Gerard Pasterkamp, Erling Falk, Hein Woutman, PI* Polymorphism of Glycoprotein IIIa and Risk of Cornelius Borst Adverse Events After Coronary Stent Placement Adnan Kastrati, Werner Koch, Meinrad Gawaz, Julinda BRIEF REVIEW . Mehilli, Corinna Béttiger, Kathrin Schémig, Nicolas von 22 Coronary Microembolization Raimund Erbel, Beckerath, Albert Schimig Gerd Heusch 90 Editorial Comment P14, a Variant of GPIIIa Implicated in Coronary Thromboembolic Complications Pascal J. CLINICAL STUDIES Goldschmidt-Clermont, Glen E. Cooke, Gregory M. Eaton, Philip F. Binkley CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE 25 Sildenafil Citrate Potentiates the Hypotensive Effects of Nitric Oxide Donor Drugs in Male Patients With ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION Stable Angina David J. Webb, Gary J. Muirhead, Maria 94 Vitamin E Supplementation Improves Endothelial Function in Type I Diabetes Mellitus: A Randomized, Wulf, J. Andrew Sutton, Roberto Levt, Placebo-Controlled Study R. Andrew P. Skyrme-Jones, Wallace W. Dinsmore 32 Exercise Testing and Electron Beam Computed Richard C. O’Brien, Karen L. Berry, Ian T. Meredith Tomography in the Evaluation of Coronary Artery 103 Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction in Hypercholesterolemia Disease David M. Shavelle, Matthew J. Budoff; Daniel H. LaMont, Robert M. Shavelle, John M. Kennedy, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Tomaso Gnecchi-Ruscone, Klaus P. Bruce H. Brundage Schafers, Thomas F. Lischer, Paolo G. Camici 39 Lack of Association of C-Reactive Protein and Coronary Calcium by Electron Beam Computed UNSTABLE ANGINA Tomography in Postmenopausal Women: Implications 110 Effects of Various Anticoagulant Treatments on von for Coronary Artery Disease Screening Rita F. Redberg, Willebrand Factor Release in Unstable Angina Gilles Nader Rifat, Lauren Gee, Paul M. Ridker Montalescot, Jean Philippe Collet, Linda Lison, Rémi Noninvasive Detection of Coronary Artery Stenosis Choussat, Annick Ankri, Eric Vicaut, Katy Perlemuter, Using Contrast-Enhanced Three-Dimensional Breath- Frangois Philippe, Gérard Drobinski, Daniel Thomas Hold Magnetic Resonance Coronary Angiography MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION Matthias Regenfus, Dieter Ropers, Stephan Achenbach, Winfried Kessler, Gerhard Laub, Werner G. Daniel, 115 Enhanced Secretion of Cardiac Hepatocyte Growth Werner Moshage Factor from an Infarct Region Is Associated With Less Severe Ventricular Enlargement and Improved Cardiac INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY Function Satoshi Yasuda, Yoichi Goto, Takeshi Baba, Toru 51 Ten-Year Experience With Early Angioplasty in 759 Satoh, Hitoshi Sumida, Shunicht Miyazaki, Hiroshi Nonogt Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Frits Bar, 122 Vascular Adhesion Protein-1, Intercellular Adhesion Jindra Vainer, Jeroen Stevenhagen, Kars Neven, Rob Molecule-1 and P-Selectin Mediate Leukocyte Binding Aalbregt, Ton Oude Ophuts, Vincent van Ommen, Hans de to Ischemic Heart in Humans Kimmo Jaakkola, Sirpa Swart, Ebo de Muinck, Willem Dassen, Hein Wellens Jalkanen, Katja Kaunismaki, Esko Vanttinen, Pekka Saukko, 59 The Effects of Intracoronary Brachytherapy on the Kalle Alanen, Markku Kallajoki, Litsa-Maria Votpio-Pulkkt, Natural History of Postangioplasty Dissections David Marko Salmi : Meerkin, Jean-Claude Tardif, Olivier F. Bertrand, Joanne Vincent, Frangots Harel, Raoul Bonan RISK FACTORS 65 Late Total Occlusion After Intracoronary 130 Pulse Pressure and Risk for Myocardial Infarction and Brachytherapy for Patients With In-Stent Restenosis Heart Failure in the Elderly Viola Vaccarino, Theodore R. Ron Waksman, Balram Bhargava, Gary S. Mintz, Roxana Holford, Harlan M. Krumholz Mehran, Alexandra J. Lansky, Lowell F. Satler, Augusto D. Pichard, Kenneth M. Kent, Martin B. Leon ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY 69 Six-Month Clinical and Angiographic Outcome After 139 Use of Metoprolol CR/XL to Maintain Sinus Rhythm Successful Excimer Laser Angioplasty for In-Stent Re- After Conversion from Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study stenosis Ralf Késter, Jan Kahler, Wolfram Terres, Jacobus Reimers, Stephan Baldus, Dirk Hartig, Jirgen Berger, Volker Kithlkamp, Alexander Schirdewan, Karl Stangl, Thomas Meinertz, Christian W. Hamm Michael Homberg, Matthias Ploch, Otto A. Beck 147 Editorial Comment Beta-Blockers for Atrial Fibrillation: Roberto Corti, Christian Binggeh, Thomas F. Liischer, Must We Consider Asymptomatic Arrhythmias? Georg Noll Richard L. Page 151 Increased Sympathetic Activity After Atrioventricular CARDIAC METABOLISM Junction Ablation in Patients With Chronic Atrial 219 Effects of Insulin-Glucose Infusion on Left Ventricular 2§ Function at Rest and During Dynamic Exercise in Fibrillation Mohamed H. Hamdan, Richard L. Page, Healthy Subjects and Noninsulin Dependent Diabetic Clifford J. Sheehan, Jason D. Zagrodzky, Stephen L. Patients: A Radionuclide Ventriculographic Study Wasmund, Karthik Ramaswamy, Jose A. Joglar, Ferdinando Carlo Sasso, Ornella Carbonara, Domenico Michael L. Smith Cozzolino, Pterfrancesco Rambaldi, Luigi Mansi, Daniele 159 Limited Posterior Left Atrial Cryoablation in Patients Torella, Sandro Gentile, Salvatore Turco, Roberto Torella, With Chronic Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Valvular 28 Teresa Salvatore Heart Surgery Fiorenzo Gaita, Roberto Gallotti, Leonardo Calo, Eric Manasse, Riccardo Riccardi, Lucia Garberogho, MYOCARDITIS Francesco Nicolini, Marco Scaghone, Paolo Di Donna, 227 Echocardiographic Findings in Fulminant and Acute Domenico Caponi, Giorgio Franciost Myocarditis G. Michael Felker, John P. Boehmer, Ralph H. 167 Electrical Behavior of T-Wave Polarity Alternans in Hruban, Grover M. Hutchins, Edward K. Kasper, Kenneth Patients With Congenital Long QT Syndrome L. Baughman, Joshua M. Hare Fernando E. §. Cruz Filho, Ivan G. Maia, Marcio L. A. Fagundes, Rosa Celia P. Barbosa, Paulo A. G. Alves, HEART FAILURE Roberto M. S. 84, Silvia H. Boghossian, Jose Carlos Ribeiro 233 Is Myocardial Na*/Ca”* Exchanger Transcription a 29 Marker for Different Stages of Myocardial SYNCOPE Dysfunction? Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction 174 Provocation of Neurocardiogenic Syncope by of the Messenger RNA in Endomyocardial Biopsies of Clomipramine Administration During the Head-Up Patients with Heart Failure Cornelia Piper, Johannes Tilt Test in Vasovagal Syndrome George N. Theodorakis, Bilger, Eva-Maria Henrichs, Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Dieter Manolis Markianos, Elias Zarvalis, Efthimios G. Livanis, Horstkotte, Andrea Doerner Panagiota Flevari, Dimitrios Th. Kremastinos 242 End-tidal CO, Pressure Decreases During Exercise in 179 Editorial Comment Tilt Methodology in Reflex Syncope: Cardiac Patients: Association With Severity of Heart Emerging Evidence Adam P. Fitzpatrick, Amir Zaidi Failure and Cardiac Output Reserve Akihiro Matsumoto, 181 Misdiagnosis of Epilepsy: Many Seizure-Like Attacks Haruki Itoh, Yoko Eto, Toshto Kobayashi, Makoto Kato, Masao Omata, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kazuzo Kato, Have a Cardiovascular Cause Amir Zaidi, Peter Clough, 35 Shin-icht Momomura Paul Cooper, Bruce Scheepers, Adam P. Fitzpatrick HEART TRANSPLANT HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY 185 How the Left and Right Sides of the Heart, as Well as 250 The Medium-Term Findings in Coronary Arteries by Pulmonary Venous Drainage, Adapt to an Increasing Intravascular Ultrasound in Infants and Children After Heart Transplantation Micheal A. Kuhn, Kenneth R. Degree of Head-Up Tilting in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Differences from the Normal Heart Jutzy, Douglas D. Deming, Constance E. Cephus, 36 Richard E. Chinnock, Joyce Johnston, Leonard L. Bailey, Marco Guazzi, Anna Maltaghati, Gloria Tamborini, Ranae L. Larsen Fabrizio Celeste, Mauro Pept, Manuela Muratori, Marco Berti, Maurizio D. Guazzi PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY 255 Long-Term Outcome in Congenitally Corrected EXERCISE 37 Transposition of the Great Arteries: A Multi- 194 Oxygen Uptake Efficiency Slope: An Index of Exercise Performance and Cardiopulmonary Reserve Requiring Institutional Study Thomas P. Graham, Jr., Yvonne D. Bernard, Beverly G. Mellen, David Celermayer, Helmut Only Submaximal Exercise Milton Hollenberg, Ira B. Tager Baumgartner, Frank Cetta, Hetdi M. Connolly, Wilham R. Davidson, Mikael Dellborg, Elyse Foster, Welton M. 38 202 Differential Effects of High-Frequency Versus Gersony, Ira H. Gessner, Roger A. Hurwitz, Harald Low-Frequency Exercise Training in Rehabilitation Kaemmerer, John D. Kugler, Daniel J. Murphy, Jacqueline of Patients With Coronary Artery Disease Wybe A. Noonan, Cynthia Morris, Joseph K. Perloff; Stephen P. Nieuwland, Martke A. Berkhuysen, Dirk J. van Veldhuisen, Sanders, James L. Sutherland Johan Brigemann, Martin L. J. Landsman, Eric van Sonderen, K. I. Lie, Harry J. G. M. Cryns, Piet Rispens 262 Isolated Ductus Arteriosus Aneurysm in the Fetus and 38 Infant: A Multi-Institutional Experience Umesh VALVE DISEASE 208 Elevated Circulating Levels of Serum Tumor Necrosis Dyamenahalh, Jeffrey F. Smallhorn, Tal Geva, Jean-Claude Factor-alpha in Patients With Hemodynamically Fouron, Patricia Cairns, Luc Jutras, Victoria Hughes, Significant Pressure and Volume Overload Samir R. Marlene Rabinovitch, Catherine A. E. Mason, Lisa K. Hornberger 39: Kapadia, Khalid Yakoob, Simone Nader, James D. Thomas, Douglas L. Mann, Brian P. Griffin 270 Long-Term Effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme CARDIAC PHYSIOLOGY Inhibitor in Volume Overloaded Heart During 213 Baroreceptor Dysfunction Induced by Nitric Oxide Growth: A Controlled Pilot Study Yoshiki Mori, Makoto 40. Synthase Inhibition in Humans Lukas E. Spieker, Nakazawa, Hirohumi Tomimatsu, Kazuo Momma EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES SPECIAL SECTIONS 276 Effect of Carvedilol in Comparison With Metoprolol ACC News on Myocardial Collagen Postinfarction Shan Wei, Louis 295 President’s Page: The Human Genome Project: T. C. Chow, John E. Sanderson Implications for Cardiologists and Their Patients 282 Signaling and Expression for Mitochondrial Membrane George A. Beller Proteins During Left Ventricular Remodeling and Contractile Failure After Myocardial Infarction Xue- 299 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Han Ning, Jianyi Zhang, Jingbo Liu, Yun Ye, Shi-Han Chen, Arthur H. L. From, Robert J. Bache, LATE-BREAKING CLINICAL TRIALS Michael A. Portman 310 Results From Late-Breaking Clinical Trials Sessions at 288 8-Chloro-cAMP Inhibits Smooth Muscle Cell ACCIS 2000 and ACC 2000 Neal S. Kleiman, Proliferation In Vitro and Neointima Formation Robert M. Califf Induced by Balloon Injury In Vivo Ciro Indolfi, Emilio Di Lorenzo, Antonio Rapacctuolo, Angela Maria Stingone, ACC/AHA EXPERT CONSENSUS DOCUMENT Eugenio Stabile, Antonio Leccia, Daniele Torella, Rosa 326 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Caputo, Fortunato Ciardiello, Gianpaolo Tortora, Association Expert Consensus Document on Electron- Massimo Chiariello Beam Computed Tomography for the Diagnosis and ~ Prognosis of Coronary Artery Disease EDITOR’S PAGE Robert A. O’Rourke, Chair 294 The Fellowship Match Selection Process: Where Has Collegiality Gone? William W. Parmley 341 ACC COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS AUGUST 2000 VOLUME 36 NUMBER 2 REVIEW ARTICLE by Coronary Velocity Reserve and Quantitative 355 Management of Coronary Artery Disease: Therapeutic Coronary Angiography Antoine Lafont, Jean L. Dubots- Options in Patients With Diabetes Talal Hammoud, Randé, Philippe G. Steg, Patrick Dupouy, Didier Carrié, Jean-Frangois Tanguay, Martial G. Bourassa Pierre Coste, Alain Furber, Farzin Beygui, Laurent J. Feldman, Saliha Rahal, Christophe Tron, Martial Hamon, Gilles Grolier, Philippe Commeau, Pascal Richard, Patrice CLINICAL STUDIES Colin, Christophe Bauters, Gaetan Karrillon, Frangois Ledru, MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION Bernard Citron, Frangois Noel Marié, Morton Kern, for the 366 Thrombolytic Therapy in Older Patients Alan K. F.R.O.8.T. Study Group Berger, Martha J. Radford, Yun Wang, Harlan M. Krumholz ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION 410 Atorvastatin But Not L-Arginine Improves Endothelial INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY Function in Type I Diabetes Mellitus: A Double-Blind 375 Massive Pulmonary Embolism: Percutaneous Study Michael J. Mullen, David Wright, Ann E. Donald, Emergency Treatment by Pigtail Rotation Catheter Sara Thorne, Hyeyoung Thomson, John E. Deanfield Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Uwe Janssens, Stephan H. Duda, 417 Enhanced Peripheral Vasodilation in Humans After a Christiane M. Erley, Rolf W. Giinther Fatty Meal O//i T: Raitakari, Nicole Lai, Kaye Griffiths, 381 Clinical Benefit of Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Blockade Robyn McCredie, David Sullivan, David S. Celermajer With Abciximab Is Independent of Gender: Pooled Analysis from EPIC, EPILOG and EPISTENT Trials 423 Plasma Concentration of Soluble Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 and Subsequent Cardiovascular Leshe Cho, Eric J. Topol, Craig Balog, Joanne M. Foody, Joan E. Booth, Catherine Cabot, Neil S. Kleiman, James E. Risk James A. de Lemos, Charles H. Hennekens, Tcheng, Robert Calif, A. Michael Lincoff Paul M. Ridker 387 Long-Term Clinical Outcome After Endoluminal _ Reconstruction of Diffusely Degenerated Saphenous CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE Vein Grafts With Less-Shortening Wallstents 427 Simvastatin Inhibits the Monocyte Expression of Remi Choussat, Alexander J. R. Black, Irene Bossi, Thierry Proinflammatory Cytokines in Patients With Joseph, Jean Fajadet, Jean Marco Hypercholesterolemia Domenico Ferro, Sandro Parrotto, 395 A Comparison of Short- and Long-Term Outcomes Stefania Basili, Cesare Alessandri, Francesco Viol for Balloon Angioplasty and Coronary Stent Placement 432 Diffuse Intimal Thickening of Coronary Arteries in Edward L. Hannan, Michael J. Racz, Djavad T. Arani, Patients With Coronary Spastic Angina Yuji Miyao, Ben D. McCallister, Gary Walford, Thomas J. Ryan Kiyotaka Kugiyama, Hiroaki Kawano, Takeshi Motoyama, 404 The French Randomized Optimal Stenting Trial: A Hisao Ogawa, Michthiro Yoshimura, Tomohiro Sakamoto, Prospective Evaluation of Provisional Stenting Guided Hirofumi Yasue 438 Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of the Kennedy, Philip F. Binkley, Melvin L. Moeschberger, Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor, Ramipril, Carl V. Leter in Patients With Coronary or Other Occlusive Arterial 517 Left Ventricular Dysfunction Predicted by Early Disease Stephen MacMahon, Norman Sharpe, Greg Troponin I Release After High Dose Chemotherapy Gamble, Alison Clague, Chona Ni Mhurchu, Taane Clark, Dantela Cardinale, Maria Teresa Sandri, Alessandro Hamish Hart, John Scott, Harvey White, for the PART-2 Martinont, Alessio Tricca, Maurizio Crivelli, Giuseppina Collaborative Research Group Lamantia, Saverio Cinieri, Giovanni Martinelli, Carlo M. Regional Diastolic Function by Pulsed Doppler Cipolla, Cesare Fiorentini Myocardial Mapping for the Detection of Left 523 The Relationship of the Erythrocyte Sedimentation Ventricular Ischemia During Pharmacologic Stress Rate to Inflammatory Cytokines and Survival in Testing: A Comparison With Stress Echocardiography Patients With Chronic Heart Failure Treated With and Perfusion Scintigraphy He/ene von Bibra, Anja Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors Rakesh Tuchnitz, Annegret Klein, Jan Schneider-Etcke, Albert Sharma, Mathias Rauchhaus, Piotr P. Ponikowski, Susan Schémig, Markus Schwaiger Varney, Philip A. Poole-Wilson, Douglas L. Mann, Andrew 453 Acute Effects of Urinary Bladder Distention on the J. S. Coats, Stefan D. Anker Coronary Circulation in Patients With Early 529 Estrogen Is Associated With Improved Survival in Atherosclerosis Tsung-Ming Lee, Sheng-Fang Su, Aging Women With Congestive Heart Failure: Ming-Fong Chen, Chang-Her Tsai Analysis of the Vesnarinone Studies Steven E. Reis, Richard Holubkov, James B. Young, B. G. White, Jay N. VALVE DISEASE Cohn, Arthur M. Feldman 461 Prevalence and Correlates of Aortic Regurgitation in American Indians: The Strong Heart Study Nathaniel 534 Sarcolemmal Na*/H* Exchanger Activity and Expression in Human Ventricular Myocardium E. Lebowitz, Jonathan N. Bella, Mary J. Roman, Jennifer E. Liu, Dawn P. Fishman, Mary Paranicas, Elsa T. Lee, Hiroyuki Yokoyama, Suba Gunasegaram, Sian E. Harding, Richard R. Fabsitz, Thomas K. Welty, Barbara V. Howard, Metin Avkiran Richard B. Devereux 541 Circadian Rhythm and Sudden Death in Heart Failure: 468 Surgical Left Atrial Appendage Ligation Is Frequently Results from Prospective Randomized Amlodipine Incomplete: A Transesophageal Echocardiographic Survival Trial Peter A. Carson, Christopher M. O’Connor, Study Edward S. Katz, Theofanis Tsiamtstouris, Robert Alan B. Miller, Susan Anderson, Robert Belkin, Gerald W. M. Applebaum, Arthur Schwartzbard, Paul A. Tunick, Neuberg, John H. Wertheimer, David Frid, Anne Cropp, Itzhak Kronzon Milton Packer 472 Quantification of Tricuspid Regurgitation by Measuring the Width of the Vena Contracta With PULMONARY HYPERTENSION Doppler Color Flow Imaging: A Clinical Study 547 Responses to Constant Work Rate Bicycle Ergometry Christophe M. Tribouilloy, Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, Kent Exercise in Primary Pulmonary Hypertension: The R. Bailey, A. Jamil Tajik, James B. Seward Effect of Inhaled Nitric Oxide Marshall S. Riley, Janos Poérszasz, Mariélle P. K. J. Engelen, Shelley M. Shapiro, HEART FAILURE Bruce H. Brundage, Karlman Wasserman 479 The Clinical, Cardiac, Renal, Arterial and Neurohormonal Effects of Omapatrilat, a ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY Vasopeptidase Inhibitor, in Patients With Chronic 557 Ventricular Tachycardias Above the Initially Heart Failure Dougal R. McClean, Hamid Ikram, Amanda Programmed Tachycardia Detection Interval in 6¢ H. Garlick, A. Mark Richards, M. Gary Nicholls, Patients With Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: Ian G. Crozter Incidence, Prediction and Significance Dietmar Bansch, 487 High Dose Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibition Marco Castrucci, Dirk Bécker, Ginter Breithardt, Prevents Fluid Volume Expansion in Heart Transplant Michael Block 6€ Recipients Randy W. Braith, Roger M. Mills, Christopher 566 Clusters of Ventricular Tachycardias Signify Impaired S. Wilcox, Matthew J. Mitchell, James A. Hill, | Survival in Patients With Idiopathic Dilated Charles E. Wood Cardiomyopathy and Implantable Cardioverter 493 Long-Term Follow-up of 34 Adults With Isolated Left Defibrillators Dietmar Bansch, Dirk Bécker, Jiirgen Brunn, Ventricular Noncompaction: A Distinct Max Weber, Giinter Breithardt, Michael Block Cardiomyopathy With Poor Prognosis Erwin N. 574 Diagnostic Value of Tachycardia Features and Pacing Oechshin, Christine H. Attenhofer Jost, Jerry R. Rojas, Maneuvers During Paroxysmal Supraventricular 67 Philipp A. Kaufmann, Rolf Jenni Tachycardia Bradley P. Knight, Matthew Ebinger, Hakan 501 Low-Dose Enoximone Improves Exercise Capacity in Oral, Michael H. Kim, Christian Sticherling, Frank Pelosi, Chronic Heart Failure Brian D. Lowes, Michael Gregory F. Michaud, §. Adam Strickberger, Fred Morady Higginbotham, Lawrence Petrovich, Marcus A. DeWood, Mark A. Greenberg, Peter 8. Rahko, G. Wilham Dec, 67 CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE Thierry H. LeJemtel, Robert L. Roden, Margo M. Schleman, 583 Results of Transvenous Occlusion of Secundum Atrial Alastair D. Robertson, Richard J. Gorczynski, Michael R. Septal Defects With the Fourth Generation Buttoned Bristow, for the Enoximone Study Group Device: Comparison With First, Second and Third 509 Plasma Atherogenic Markers in Congestive Heart Generation Devices P. Syamasundar Rao, Felix Berger, 68 Failure and Posttransplant (Heart) Patients Glen E. Christian Rey, Jorge Haddad, Bernhard Meier, Kevin P. Cooke, Gregory M. Eaton, Gretchen Whitby, Ruth Ann Walsh, Jay S. Chandar, Thomas R. Lloyd, Jose Suarez de Lezo, Rolando Zamora, Eleftherios B. Sideris, for the 628 Effects of a Nitrate-Free Interval on Tolerance, International Buttoned Device Trial Group Vasoconstrictor Sensitivity and Vascular Superoxide Production Thomas Minzel, Hanke Mollnau, PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY pre Hartmann, Carolin Geiger, Mathias Oelze, 593 Atrioventricular Sevtal Defects Di sed in Fetal scan Warnholtz, Abdullah Hay Yehia, Ulrich Férstermann, P 2, tare Thomas Meinertz Life: Associated Cardiac and Extra-Cardiac Abnormalities and Outcome Jan C. Huggon, 635 Modulation of In Vivo Cardiac Hypertrophy With Andrew C. Cook, Nigel C. Smeeton, Alan G. Magee, Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 and Angiotensin- Cir bith R OStienil Converting Enzyme Inhibitor: Relationship Between Change in Myosin Isoform and Progression of Left 602 P Wave Signal-Averaged Electrocardiogram as a New Ventricular Dysfunction Yoshitaka Iwanaga, Yasuki Marker for Atrial Tachyarrhythmias in Postoperative Kihara, Takeshi Yoneda, Takeshi Aoyama, Fontan Patients Volkan Tuzcu, Bulent Ozkan, Nancy Shigetake Sasayama siti Medeaictllerce, santo Ieiaace ad milks nical 643 Exercise Training Restores Ischemic Preconditioning in the Aging Heart Pasquale Abete, Claudio Calabrese, UREMIA Nicola Ferrara, Angelo Cioppa, Paolo Pisanelli, 608 Cardiac Beta-Adrenoceptors in Chronic Uremia: Francesco Cacciatore, Giancarlo Longobardi, Claudio Napoli, Studies in Humans and Rats Stefan Dhein, Franco Rengo Peter Rohnert, Silke Markau, Emanuel Kotchi-Kotchi, Karin Becker, Ulrike Poller, Bernd Osten, Otto-Erich Brodde EDITOR’S PAGE 651 Do No Harm Wiliam W. Parmley SPECIAL SECTIONS EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ACC News aad 618 Coronary Collateral Development During Chronic 652 President's Page: Geographic Variations in Delivery of Ischemia: Serial Assessment Using Harmonic Cardiovascular Care: An Issue of Great Importance to Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography James D. Mills, Cardiovascular Specialists GeorgeA .B eller David Fischer, Flordeliza §. Villanueva 656 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 625 Editorial Comment The Bubbles and the Source of Life Paolo Voci 660 CORRECTIONS SEPTEMBER 2000 VOLUME 36 NUMBER 3 REVIEW ARTICLES David Hasdai, Robert A. Harrington, Judith S. Hochman, 661 A Perspective: The New Millennium Dawns On a Robert M. Calif; Alexander Battler, James W. Box, New Paradigm for Cardiology—Molecular Genetics Maarten L. Simoons, Jaap Deckers, Eric J. Topol, Robert Roberts David R. Holmes, Jr. aan Phar Therapy Versus Coepnsty Angioplasty ” 693 Randomized Trial of Low Molecular Weight Heparin table Coronary Artery Disease: A Critical Review of E a) V. Unfract; dH “af the Literature Roger S. Blumenthal, Gregory Cohn, (Enquaparin) Versus Un Semana eceengstiengl Yai ensa N pe Unstable Coronary Artery Disease: One-Year Results of the ESSENCE Study Shaun G. Goodman, Marc Cohen, Frederique Bigonzi, Enrique P. Gurfinkel, David R. CLINICAL STUDIES Radley, Veronique Le Iouer, Gregg J. Fromell, Christine ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES Demers, Alexander G. G. Turpie, Robert M. Calif; Keith 674 Improving Outcome Over Time of Percutaneous A. A. Fox, Anatoly Langer, for the Efficacy and Safety of Coronary Interventions in Unstable Angina Mandeep Subcutaneous Enoxaparin in Non—Q Wave Coronary Events Singh,.Charanjit §. Rihal, PeterB . Berger, Malcolm R. Bell, (ESSENCE) Study Group Diane E. Grill, Kirk N. Garratt, Gregory W. Barseness, David R. Holmes, Jr. 679 Risks Associated With Renal Dysfunction in Patients PLATELET INHIBITORS in the Coronary Care Unit Peter A. McCullough, 699 Antiplatelet Effects of Clopidogrel Compared With Sandeep S. Soman, Shalin S. Shah, Stephen T. Smith, Aspirin After Myocardial Infarction: Enhanced Keisha R. Marks, Jerry Yee, Steven Borzak Inhibitory Effects of Combination Therapy Khatereh 685 Platelet Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Blockade and Outcome Moshfegh, Maurice Redondo, Friedgard Julmy, Walter A. of Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Acute Coronary Wuillemin, Mathias U. Gebauer, André Haeberh, Syndromes Without Persistent ST-Segment Elevation Beat J. Meyer MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION 773 Editorial Comment Prevention of Recurrent Life- 706 Treatment and Outcomes of Left Bundle-Branch Threatening Arrhythmias: Will Lipid-Lowering Block Patients With Myocardial Infarction Who Therapy Make a Difference? Stefan H. Hohniloser Present Without Chest Pain Michael G. Shlipak, Alan S. Go, Paul D. Frederick, Judith Malmgren, Hal V. Barron, John G. Canto, for the National Registry of Myocardial CARDIAC ARREST Infarction 2 Investigators 776 Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation Using Emergency Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Coronary 713 Editorial Comment Old Age, Left Bundle Branch Block Reperfusion Therapy and Mild Hypothermia in and Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Vexing and Lethal Patients With Cardiac Arrest Outside the Hospital Combination Gottlieb C. Freisinger I, Raphael F. Smith Ken Nagao, Nartyuki Hayashi, Katsuo Kanmatsuse, Ken 717 Prevalence of Factor V Leiden and Prothrombin 85 Arima, Jyojt Ohtsuki, Kimio Kikushima, Ikuyoshi Watanabe Variant G20210A in Patients Age <50 Years With No Significant Stenoses at Angiography Three to Four Weeks After Myocardial Infarction Ne7/ S. Van de ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY Water, John K. French, Mayanna Lund, Thomas A. Hyde, 784 Treatment of Underlying Atrial Fibrillation: Paced 8! Harvey D. White, Peter J. Browett Rhythm Obscures Recognition Archana M. Patel, Douglas C. Westveer, K. Ching Man, James R. Stewart, Howard I. Frumin INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY 788 Effect of Phenylephrine on Focal Atrial Fibrillation 723 Contemporary Outcome Trends in the Elderly Originating in the Pulmonary Veins and Superior Vena Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: Cava Ching-Tai Tai, Chuen-Wang Chiou, Zu-Chi Wen, Results in 7,472 Octogenarians Wayne B. Batchelor, Ming-Hsiung Hsieh, Chin-Feng Tsai, Wei-Shiang Lin, aea te Kevin J. Anstrom, Lawrence H. Muhlbater, Ralph Chien-Cheng Chen, Yung-Kuo Lin, Wen-Chung Yu, Yu-An Grosswald, William S. Weintraub, Wiliam W. O'Neill, Eric Ding, Mau-Song Chang, Shin-Ann Chen D. Peterson, for the National Cardiovascular Network 794 Antiarrhythmic Effects of Azimilide in Atrial Collaboration Fibrillation: Efficacy and Dose-Response Edward L. C. 731 Hyperinsulinemia During Oral Glucose Tolerance Pritchett, Richard L. Page, Stuart J. Connolly, Stephen R. Test Is Associated With Increased Neointimal Tissue Marcello, Daniel J. Schnell, William E. Wilkinson, and the Proliferation After Coronary Stent Implantation in Azimilide Supraventricular Arrhythmia Program 3 (SVA-3) Nondiabetic Patients: A Serial Intravascular Investigators Ultrasound Study Tsutomu Takagi, Kiyoshi Yoshida, 803 Adenosine-5'-Triphosphate Test for the Noninvasive . Takashi Akasaka, Shuichiro Kaji, Takahiro Kawamoto, Diagnosis of Concealed Accessory Pathway Bernard Yasuhiro Honda, Atsushi Yamamuro, Takeshi Hozumiti, Belhassen, Roman Fish, Sami Viskin, Aharon Glick, Michael Shigefumi Morioka Ghkson, Michael Eldar 811 Demonstration of Diastolic and Presystolic Purkinje Potentials as Critical Potentials in a Macroreentry CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE Circuit of Verapamil-Sensitive Idiopathic Left 739 Prognostic Implications of Tc-99m Sestamibi Viability Ventricular Tachycardia Akihiko Nogami, Shigeto Naito, Imaging and Subsequent Therapeutic Strategy in Hiroshi Tada, Koichi Taniguchi, Yoshihiro Okamoto, Patients With Chronic Coronary Artery Disease and Shigeyuki Nishimura, Yasuteru Yamauchi, Kazutaka Left Ventricular Dysfunction Roberto Sciagra, Marco Aonuma, Masahiko Goya, Yoshito Iesaka, Michiaki Hiroe Pellegri, Alberto Pupi, Leonardo Bolognese, Gianni Busi, Vito Carnovale, Giovanni M. Santoro HEART FAILURE 746 Increased Expression of Peripheral Benzodiazepine 824 Biventricular Pacing Diminishes the Need for Receptors on Leukocytes in Silent Myocardial Isch- Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Therapy Steven emia Antonino Mazzone, Iolanda Mazzucchelh, Monia L. Higgins, Patrick Yong, Donald Scheck, Martin McDaniel, Vezzoh, Elena Ottini, Carla Auguadro, Alessandra Serio, Florence Bollinger, Mona Vadecha, Shoma Desai, David B. Colomba Falcone Meyer, for the Ventak CHF Investigators 751 Low Apolipoprotein A-IV Plasma Concentrations in 828 Editorial Comment Implantable Defibrillators in the Third Men With Coronary Artery Disease Florian Kronenberg, Millennium: Increasingly Relegated to a Standby Role? Markus Stihlinger, Evi Trenkwalder, F. S. 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Flamm, Richard D. White, Julio A. Panza, James D. Thomas With Sildenafil Enhances Flow-Mediated Vasodilation in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure Stuart D. Katz, Kujtim Balidemaj, Shunicht Homma, Henry PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY Wu, Jie Wang, Simon Maybaum 908 Outcomes of Left Atrial Isomerism Over a 28-Year Period at a Single Institution Thomas Gilljam, Brian W. HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY McCrindle, Jeffrey F. Smallhorn, Wiliam G. Williams, 852 Nonsurgical Septal Reduction Therapy for Robert M. Freedom Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy: One-Year Follow-up Nasser M. Lakkis, Sherif F. Nagueh, J. Kay EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES Dunn, Donna Killip, Wilham H. Spencer, III 917 Single Site Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Atrial 856 Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction During Exercise Fibrillation: Studies Guided by Simultaneous Multisite and Dobutamine Stress in Patients With Hypertrophic Mapping in the Canine Sterile Pericarditis Model Cardiomyopathy Kazuyasu Okeie, Masami Shimizu, Kotchiro Kumagai, Kikuya Uno, Celeen Khrestian, Fitroyuki Yoshio, Hidekaxu Ino, Masato Yamaguchi, Toru Albert L. Waldo Matsuyama, Toshihiko Yasuda, Junichi Takt, 924 Differences in Organization Between Acute and Hiroshi Mabuchi Chronic Atrial Fibrillation in Dogs Haris J. Sth, 864 Utility of Metabolic Exercise Testing in Distinguishing Douglas P. Zipes, Edward J. Berbari, David E. Adams, pat ek Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy from Physiologic Left Jeffrey E. Olgin Ventricular Hypertrophy in Athletes Sanjay Sharma, 932 Monophasic Versus Biphasic Transthoracic Perry M. Elhott, Greg Whyte, Niall Mahon, Mohan S. Countershock After Prolonged Ventricular Fibrillation Virdee, Brian Mist, William J. McKenna in a Swine Model James T. Niemann, Daniel Burian, Daniel Garner, Roger J. Lewis osahhiA N VALVE DISEASE 939 Electropharmacological Characterization of Cardiac 871 Postoperative Exercise Tolerance After Aortic Valve Repolarization in German Shepherd Dogs With an Replacement by Small-Size Prosthesis: Functional Inherited Syndrome of Sudden Death: Abnormal Consequence of Small-Size Aortic Prosthesis Pierre Response to Potassium Channel Blockers Joce/yn Meérot, Becassis, Maurice Hayot, Jean-Marc Frapier, Florence Vincent Probst, Michéle Debailleul, Uwe Gerlach, N. Sydney Leclercq, Lionel Beck, Jérome Brunet, Eric Arnaud, Christian Moise, Hervé Le Marec, Flavien Charpentier Prefaut, Paul-André Chaptal, J. M. Davy, Patrick Messner- 948 Low Concentrations of 17B-Estradiol Protect Single Pellenc, R. 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Beller, Lars Rydén NEW METHODS 891 Relation of Tissue Doppler Derived Myocardial 959 Myocardial Infarction Redefined—A Consensus Velocities to Myocardial Structure and Beta- Document of The Joint European Society of Adrenergic Receptor Density in Humans Kesavan Shan, Cardiology/American College of Cardiology Committee for the Redefinition of Myocardial Roger J. Bick, Brian J. Poindexter, Sarah Shimoni, George V. Letsou, Michael J. Reardon, Jimmy F. Howell, William Infarction The Joint European Society of Cardiology/American College of Cardiology Committee A. Zoghbi, Sherif F. Nagueh 897 Editorial Comment What Are We Actually Measuring by Doppler Tissue Imaging? Kar/ Isaaz ACC/AHA Practice Guidelines 900 Validation of Real-Time Three-Dimensional 970 ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Echocardiography for Quantifying Left Patients With Unstable Angina and Non-ST-Segment Ventricular Volumes in the Presence of a Left Elevation Myocardial Infarction Eugene Braunwald, Ventricular Aneurysm: In Vitro and In Vivo Studies Chair SEPTEMBER 2000 VOLUME 36 NUMBER 3, SUPPL A Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Acute 1097 Diabetes Mellitus in Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Myocardial Infarction: Results of the Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Report from the SHOCK Trial Registry SHOCK Trial Registry Daniel M. Shindler, Sebastian 1063 Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Acute Myocardial T. Palmert, Tracy A. Antonelh, Lynn A. Sleeper, Jean Boland, Thomas P. Cocke, Judith $8. Hochman, for the Infarction—Etiologies, Management and Outcome: A SHOCK Investigators Report from the SHOCK Trial Registry Judith S. Hochman, Christopher E. Buller, Lynn A. Sleeper, Jean 1104 Cardiogenic Shock Due to Acute Severe Mitral Boland, Vladimir Dzavik, Timothy A. Sanborn, Emitte Regurgitation Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarc- Godfrey, Harvey D. White, John Lim, Thierry LeJemtel, tion: A Report from the SHOCK Trial Registry for the SHOCK Investigators Christopher R. Thompson, Christopher E. Buller, 1071 The Clinical Profile of Patients With Suspected Lynn A. Sleeper, Tracy A. Antonelli, John G. Webb, Cardiogenic Shock Due to Predominant Left Wael A. Jaber, James G. Abel, Judith S. Hochman, Ventricular Failure: A Report from the SHOCK Trial for the SHOCK Investigators Registry Venu Menon, Harvey White, Thierry LeJemtel, 1110 Outcome and Profile of Ventricular Septal Rupture John G. Webb, Lynn A. Sleeper, Judith 8. Hochman, for the With Cardiogenic Shock After Myocardial Infarction: SHOCK Investigators A Report from the SHOCK Trial Registry Venu 1077 Angiographic Findings and Clinical Correlates in Menon, John G. Webb, L. David Hillis, Lynn A. Sleeper, Patients With Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Acute Rasha Abboud, Vladimir Dzavik, James N. Slater, Robert Myocardial Infarction: A Report from the SHOCK Forman, E. Scott Monrad, J. David Talley, Judith S. Trial Registry S. Chiu Wong, Timothy Sanborn, Hochman, for the SHOCK Investigators Lynn A. Sleeper, John G. Webb, Robert Pilchtk, David Hart, 1117 Cardiogenic Shock Due to Cardiac Free-wall Rupture Slawomir Mejnartowicz, Tracy A. Antonelli, Richard Lange, or Tamponade After Acute Myocardial Infarction: A John K. French, Geoffrey Bergman, Thierry LeJemtel, Report from the SHOCK Trial Registry James Slater, Judith S. Hochman, for the SHOCK Investigators Robert J. Brown, Tracy A. Antonelli, Venu Menon, Jean 1084 Implications of the Timing of Onset of Cardiogenic Boland, Jacques Col, Vladimir Dzavik, Mark Greenberg, Shock After Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Report Mark Menegus, Cliff Connery, Judith S. Hochman, for the from the SHOCK Trial Registry John G. Webb, Lynn A. SHOCK Investigators Sleeper, Christopher E. Buller, Jean Boland, Angela Palazzo, 1123 Impact of Thrombolysis, Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Elizabeth Buller, Harvey D. White, Judith 8. Hochman, Counterpulsation, and Their Combination in for the SHOCK Investigators Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Acute Myocardial 1091 Cardiogenic Shock With Non-ST-Segment Elevation Infarction: A Report from the SHOCK Trial Registry Myocardial Infarction: A Report from the SHOCK Timothy A. Sanborn, Lynn A. Sleeper, Eric R. Bates, Alice Trial Registry Alice K. Jacobs, John K. French, Jacques Col, K. Jacobs, Jean Boland, John K. French, Jo Dens, Vladimir Lynn A. Sleeper, James N. Slater, Louts Carnendran, Jean Dzavtk, Sebastian T. Palmeri, John G. Webb, Mark Boland, Xtanjiao Jiang, Thierry LeJemtel, Goldberger, Judith S. Hochman, for the SHOCK Judith S. Hochman, for the SHOCK Investigators Invest gators OCTOBER 2000 VOLUME 36 NUMBER 4 REVIEW ARTICLES CLINICAL STUDIES CARDIAC SURGERY 1131 Hemodynamic and Clinical Impact of 1152 Outcomes 15 Years After Valve Replacement With a Prosthesis—Patient Mismatch in the Aortic Valve Mechanical Versus a Bioprosthetic Valve: Final Report Position and Its Prevention Philippe Pibarot, of the Veterans Affairs Randomized Trial Kar/ Jean G. Dumesnil Hammermeister, Gulshan K. Sethi, William G. Henderson, Frederick L. Grover, Charles Oprian, 1142 Provisional Stenting Strategies: Systematic Overview Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola and Implications for Clinical Decision-Making Warren J. Cantor, Eric D. Peterson, Jeffrey J. Popma, James P. Zidar, Michael H. Sketch, Jr., James E. Tcheng, 1159 How Deadly Is the “Deadly Quartet”? A Post-CABG E. Magnus Ohman Evaluation Dennis L. Sprecher, Gregory L. Pearce 1166 Diabetes and Outcomes of Coronary Artery Bypass Barry J. Kneale, Philip J. Chowienczyk, Sally E. Brett, Graft Surgery in Patients With Severe Left Ventricular D. John Coltart, James M. Ritter Dysfunction: Results from The CABG Patch Trial Database William Whang, J. Thomas Bigger, Jr., for the CABG Patch Trial Investigators and Coordinators GENE THERAPY 1239 Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor in Patients With 1173 Up to Seven Years of Experience With the Ross Intermittent Claudication: Results of a Phase I Trial Procedure in Patients >60 Years of Age Claudia Daisy F. Lazarous, Elis F. Unger, Stephen E. Epstein, Schmidtke, J. F. Matthias Bechtel, Axel Noetzold, Annette Stine, Josefino L. Arevalo, Emily Y. Chew, Hans-Hinrich Sievers Arshed A. Quyyumi 1178 Survival Analysis and Risk Factors for Mortality in 1245 Editorial Comment Therapeutic Angiogenesis: Time for Transplantation and Staged Surgery for Hypoplastic the Next Phase George A. Pantely, John M. Porter Left Heart Syndrome Pamela C. Jenkins, Michael F. Flanagan, Kathy J. Jenkins, James D. Sargent, Charles E. Canter, Richard E. Chinnock, Robert N. Vincent, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE Anna N. A. Tosteson, Gerald T. O’Connor 1248 A Common Variant of the 4MPD1 Gene Predicts Improved Cardiovascular Survival in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease Jeffrey L. Anderson, Jessica INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY Habashi, John F. Carlquist, Joseph B. Muhlestein, Benjamin 1186 Influence of Diabetes Mellitus on Early and Late D. Horne, Tami L. Bair, Robert R. Pearson, Noal Hart Clinical Outcomes in Saphenous Vein Graft Stenting 1253 Prediction of Coronary Events With Electron Beam Javed M. Ahmed, Mun K. Hong, Roxana Mehran, Computed Tomography Yadon Arad, Louise A. Spadaro, George Dangas, Gary S. Mintz, Augusto D. Pichard, Ken Goodman, David Newstein, Alan D. Guerci Lowell F. Satler, Kenneth M. Kent, Hongsheng Wu, 1261 Editorial Comment The Challenge of Improving Risk Gregg W. Stone, Martin B. Leon Assessment in Asymptomatic Individuals: The 1194 Short- and Long-Term Mortality for Patients Additive Prognostic Value of Electron Beam Undergoing Primary Angioplasty for Acute Myocardial Tomography? Leslee J. Shaw, Robert A. O’Rourke Infarction Edward L. Hannan, Michael J. Racz, Dyavad T. Arani, Thomas J. Ryan, Gary Walford, Ben D. McCallister STRESS TESTING 1202 Angiographic No-Reflow Phenomenon as a Predictor 1265 Dobutamine-Atropine Stress Echocardiography and of Adverse Long-Term Outcome in Patients Treated Dipyridamole Sestamibi Scintigraphy for the Detection With Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary of Coronary Artery Disease: Limitations and Angioplasty for First Acute Myocardial Infarction Concordance Steven C. Smart, Aneeta Bhatia, Robert Itsuro Morishima, Takahito Sone, Kenji Okumura, Hideyuki Hellman, Thomas Stoiber, Arthur Krasnow, B. David Tsuboi, Junichiro Kondo, Hiroaki Mukawa, Hideo Matsut, Collier, Kiran B. Sagar Yukio Toki, Takayuki Ito, Tetsuo Hayakawa 1274 Statistical Methods to Improve the Precision of the Treadmill Exercise Test Ralph A. H. Stewart, John Kittelson, I. Patrick Kay ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES 1210 Evidence of Prolonged Inflammation in Unstable Angina and Non-Q wave Myocardial Infarction Nial/ HEART FAILURE T. Mulvihill, J. Brendan Foley, Ross Murphy, Peter Crean, 1280 Modulation of Beta,-Adrenoceptor Activity by Michael Walsh Domain-Specific Antibodies and Heart 1217 Elevated Homocysteine Levels Are Associated With Failure—Associated Autoantibodies Roland Jahns, Increased Ischemic Myocardial Injury in Acute Valérie Botvin, Thorsten Krapf, Gerd Wallukat, Fritz Boege, Coronary Syndromes Mohamed K. Al-Obaidi, Peter J. Martin J. Lohse Stubbs, Paul Collinson, Ronan Conroy, Ian Graham, 1288 Expression of Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha— Mark I. M. Noble Converting Enzyme and Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha in Human Myocarditis Mamoru Satoh, Motoyuki Nakamura, Hidetoshi Satoh, Hidenori Saitoh, Ikuo Segawa, MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION Katsuhiko Hiramort 1223 Incidence and Predictors of Myocardial Infarction 1295 Prognostic Value of Pulmonary Venous Flow Doppler Among Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Pezer /. Signal in Left Ventricular Dysfunction: Contribution Zimetbaum, Mark E. Josephson, Mary Jane McDonald, Seth of the Difference in Duration of Pulmonary Venous McClennen, Victoria Korley, Kalon K. L. Ho, Panos and Mitral Flow at Atrial Contraction Frank Lloyd Papageorgiou, David J. Cohen Dini, Claudio Michelassi, Giovanni Micheli, Daniele Rovat ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY 1228 The Impact of Heavy Passive Smoking on Arterial 1303 The Impairment of Health-Related Quality of Life in Endothelial Function in Modernized Chinese Kam S. Patients With Intermittent Atrial Fibrillation: Woo, Ping Chook, Hok C. Leong, Xin S. Huang, Implications for the Assessment of Investigational David S. Celermajer Therapy Paul Dorian, Werner Jung, David Newman, 1233 Gender Differences in Sensitivity to Adrenergic Miney Paquette, Kathryn Wood, Gregory M. Ayers, Agonists of Forearm Resistance Vasculature John Camm, Masood Akhtar, Berndt Luderitz 1310 Marked Ventricular Repolarization Abnormalities in 1386 Editorial Comment Metabolism—The Lost Child of Highly Trained Athletes’ Electrocardiograms: Clinical Cardiology Heinrich Taegtmeyer and Prognostic Implications Ricard Serra-Grima, Montserrat Estorch, Ignasi Carrié, Matte Subirana, Lluis 1389 Vascular Repair After Balloon Overstretch Injury in Berna, Teresa Prat Porcine Model Effects of Intracoronary Radiation Yves Cottin, Marc Kollum, Rosanna Chan, Balram Bhargava, 1317 Glycoprotein IIIa PI“! Polymorphism and Sudden Yoram Vodovotz, Ron Waksman Cardiac Death Jussi Mikkelsson, Markus Perola, Pekka Latppala, Antti Penttila, Pekka J. Karhunen 1396 Endoluminal Reconstruction of the Arterial Wall With 1324 The Ligament of Marshall: A Structural Analysis in Endothelial Cell/Glue Matrix Reduces Restenosis in Human Hearts With Implications for Atrial an Atherosclerotic Rabbit Nicholas Kipshidze, James J. Arrhythmias Dave T: Kim, Angela C. Lai, Chun Hwang, Ferguson, III, Michael H. Keelan, Jr., Harry Sahota, Richard Komorowski, Latha Raja Shankar, Paramyith S. Ling-Tao Fan, Hyrar 8. Karagueuzian, Peng-Sheng Chen, Michael C. Fishbein Chawla, Christian C. Haudenschild, Victor Nikolaychtk, Jeffrey W. Moses SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE 1404 The Class III Antiarrhythmic Effect of Sotalol Exerts a 1328 Cardiac Troponin I Predicts Myocardial Dysfunction Reverse Use-Dependent Positive Inotropic Effect in in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Nilesh the Intact Canine Heart Adelqui O. Peralta, Roy M. Parekh, Bala Venkatesh, David Cross, Anne Leditschke, John John, Wiltam H. Gaasch, Peter I. Taggart, David T. Atherton, William Miles, Adam Winning, Alan Clague, Martin, Ferdinand J. Venditti Claire Rickard 1411 Endothelin-1 as a Protective Factor Against Beta- Adrenergic Agonist-Induced Apoptosis in Cardiac DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS 1336 Short- and Long-Term Results After Thrombolytic Myocytes Makoto Araki, Kojt Hasegawa, Ert Iwai-Kanat, Treatment of Deep Venous Thrombosis Johannes Masatoshi Fujita, Tatsuya Sawamura, Tsuyoshi Kakita, Hiromichi Wada, Tatsuya Morimoto, Shigetake Sasayama Schweizer, Wilhelm Kirch, Rainer Koch, Holger Elix, Grit Hellner, Lutz Forkmann, Andreas Graf HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY POINT OF VIEW 1344 Systolic Anterior Motion Begins at Low Left 1419 The Aggressive Low Density Lipoprotein Lowering Ventricular Outflow Tract Velocity in Obstructive Controversy James S. Forrester, C. Noel Bairey-Merz, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Mark V. Sherrid, David Sanjay Kaul Z. Gunsburg, Sonja Moldenhauer, Gretchen Pearle NEW METHODS EDITOR’S PAGE 1355 Improved Assessment of Mitral Valve Stenosis by 1426 OTC or not OTC—That Is the Question Volumetric Real-Time Three-Dimensional William W. Parmley Echocardiography Thomas M. Binder, Raphael Rosenhek, Gerold Porenta, Gerald Maurer, Helmut Baumgartner 1362 Editorial Comment The Fish Mouth and Three- 1. SPECIAL SECTIONS Dimensional Echocardiography: New Technology Catches an Old Problem Randolph P. Martin ACC News 1! 1428 President’s Page: Academic Health Centers: The PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY Making of a Crisis and Potential Remedies 1365 Myocardial Perfusion and Function of the Systemic George A. Beller Right Ventricle in Patients After Atrial Switch Procedure for Complete Transposition: Long-Term Follow-up Barbara Lubiszewska, Elzbieta Gosiewska, 1432 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Piotr Hoffman, Anna Teresinska, Jacek Rézanski, Walerian Piotrowski, Wanda Rydlewska-Sadowska, Krystyna Kubicka, ACC/AHA Clinical Competence Statement Witold Ruzytto 1441 American College of Cardiology/American Heart 1371 Coronary Echocardiography in Tetralogy of Fallot: Association Clinical Competence Statement on Stress 15 Diagnostic Accuracy, Resource Utilization and Surgical Testing: A Report of the American College of Implications Over 13 Years Laura R. Need, Andrew J. Cardiology/American Heart Association/American Powell, Pedro del Nido, Tal Geva College of Physicians—American Society of Internal Medicine Task Force on Clinical Competence EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES George P. Rodgers, Chair 1378 Dichloroacetate Improves Postischemic Function of Hypertrophied Rat Hearts Richard B. Wambolt, Gary D. 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