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DAN | ‘i | CONTENTS INDEX 2000 THROUG PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY JANUARY 1, 2000, VOL. 85, NO. 1 High Carbohydrate Diets, Triglyceride-Rich Lipoproteins, onae ge 4H eart veerees Rsk 45 CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE Effects of the Repeated Administration of Adenosine and searai1q Heparin on Myocardial Perfusion in Patients With Chronic Stable Angina ee * Correlation of Homocysteine Levels With the Extent of Hal V. Barron, Maria G. Pax _~ ka | | cl: ' Coronary Atherosclerosis in Patients With Low Andrew D. Michaels, and Elias H Cardiovascular Risk Profiles 49 “ - a n =~ hor ANA n-- G-33A Mutation in the Promoter Region of Thrombomodulin Gene and Its Association With Coronary Artery Disease and Plasma Soluble Thrombomodulin Effect of Combined Fluvastatin-Fenofibrate Therapy IE siescscsssinczcvans Bee ead ee Compared with Fenofibrate Monotherapy in Severe Yirleng Li, Jyn-Hong Chen ‘Hualin 1 Wu, Guey-Yueh Shi pron Hypercholesterolemia 53 HLiuaenyg--CMihiunn TsHauia ngH,o w-TRi. nagn- H| sGiungo \Ca W)h Aea no- ShWiaLnefn iWu, aSIe nsnc nQ aQ lzZ hih- VcS ItVuQdcO Yh e 7W SIrOGoAQUi riLnr i e5ro T CUaNG ndO YSI VI}a oE DejaVeg|AG ANA the Franch F laa om Chemg nen VALVULAR HEART DISEASE Role of Cine-Fluoroscopy, Transthoracic, and Benefit of Coronary Reperfusion Before Intervention on Transesophageal Echocardiography in Patients With Outcomes After Primary ee for Acute ee ree Valve Thrombosis 58 Myocardial Infarction . Francesca~C A DL/ e Ber I nar] a an Bruce R. Brodie ThomasD . Stuckey VOlO W c)u|i ra Pi an Denise Muncy Serial Changes and Prognostic Implications of a Doppler- METHODS Derived Index of Combined Left Ventricular Systolic and Defining Left Ventricular Segmental and Global Function Diastolic Myocardial Performance in Acute Myocardial by Echocardiographic Intraventricular Contrast Flow Infarction ............... igi peiou cee . Steen H. Poulsen, SvendE . Jensen, Jens C. Nielsen, Jacob nigQaarraa e—oa mn h r snnath RB E Maller and Kenneth Egstrup CARDIOVASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY Myocardial Ischemia Due to Coronary Artery Spasm During Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography ............26 Effect of Phenylephrine With And Without Atropine on QT Hiroaki Kawano, Hiromi Fujii Hirani Motoyama, Kiyotaka Dispersion in— — Normotensive 69 Kugiyama, Hisao Ogawa, and Hirot ymi Yasue Kok “Meng Yoo Pit m Simor ctayn Alll an iD) trutners Viability of Q-Wave Infarcted Myocardium With Restored HISTORICAL STUDY Positive and Persistent Negative T Waves After Optimal To Die in One’s Prime: The eg of Paul Wood Revascularization Compared With Dobutamine Stress MVA q rk CE. OSCN VEe rm Qa n and | Al] tar SJOa mer Echocardiography ............... se Shintaro Watanabe, Yutaka Kawan nura,1 Yaas ushi Wat tanabe Kimio Tanaka, Kazushi Tanaka, Yasuhiko Takei, Nariaki Ejiri EDITORIAL and Kazuyuki Shimada Cardiologist ii n theD ugout jJoOhNNn VU. \Y Caa ntw e] Pathologic Validation of a New Method to Quantify Coronary Calcific Deposits In Vivo Using Intravascular BRIEF REPORTS Ultrasound Douglas S. Scott, Umesh K. Arora, Andrew Farb, Renu Predictive Value of C-Reactive Protein in Patients With Virmani, and Neil J. Weissman Unstable Angina Pectoris Undergoing —" Artery Stent Implantation .. Prognostic Value of Negative Transesophageal Francesco | Versaci Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in Men at High Risk Filijl ippoen Crea, Luilian g for Coronary Artery Disease Mascor Kamalesh, Stephen Sawada, Aaron Humphreys, Ten-Year Clinical and since Follow-t ieso f Mouaz Tawam, Rene Blessent, and Lewis Winter Coronary Wallstent CONTENTS INDEX Pil S0002-9149(00)001033-X DDPi;d Ai;e r C"agrrrei e y, Phili ppe eCanoti e Micheal A. Kuhn, Ranae L. Larsen Neda F. Mulla, Joyce K |dell| e cF ourcade, and Jacque johnston Richard EG hinnock and Leonard L. Bailey Difference in Fibrinolytic Activity Between Multivessel Late Onset of Pulmonary Hypertension After Successful — mage and One- Vessel Coronary Spasm 98 Mustard Surgery for d-n ena of the Great Arteries Hisao Ogaw Hisak KAZ Suetuii Keiji Takazoe, Hirofumi Sakamoto, Shinzo Miyamoto, Koich Fr C ) Five iets ene A. Hura ca 7 an limura, Kiyotaka Kugiyama, ana INTERACTIVE GRAND ROUNDS Case 1. A Patient With Elevated ee nae ST-Segment Elevation in Leads | and aVL Predicts Short- Cholesterol 131 Term Prognosis in Acute Anterior Wall Myocardial Vincent E Friedewal d, i ana | Antonin M. G aes lr. Infarction | eaki Yosnino, Cisel tcenikiira nA KVIAZ falas READERS’ COMMENTS .132 Association of Diabetes Mellitus Using Old and New Diagnostic Criteria With Incidence of New Coronary VOL. 85, NO. 2 JANUARY 15, 2000 Events in Older Men and Women Wilbert S. Aronow and Chul Ahn CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE Obesity Does Not Influence ian Three-Dimensional Intravascular Ultrasonic Volumetric Parameters in ae Patients . Quantification of Stent Recoil and Neointimal Formation A | ] Atsunobu Nomura, Wojciech Zareb of Two New Generation Tubular Stents .................. 135 Marco A. Costa, Manel Sabaté, |. Patrick Kay, Pim J. de Comparison of Results of an 8-mm Split-Tip Versus a 4- ozuma, Pedro Serrano, Vincent de Valk mm Tip Ablation Catheter to Perform Radiofrequency NV\ariano Albertal, Jurgen M.R. Ligthart, Clemens Disco Ablation of Type | Atrial Flutter 110 DAaUvViIUdL PI d Patrick W. Se fruys LuzMaria Rodriguez, Ashi sh Nabar, Carl limmermans ana Hein J.}.VVellens Effects of Total Pathogen Burden on Coronary Artery Disease Risk and C-Reactive Protein Levels Predictors of Conversion to Sinus Rhythm Using Ibutilide jianhui ZZ hu, Arshed A. Quyyumi mnierty Norman, Gyorgy AY é A“ for Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter .. Csako, Myron A. Waclawiw, Gene N Shades and Munir Zaqga, Hamid Afshar Abdi Rasekh Stephen E. Epstein yl] Vv 1 Al: AA - Khoshnevis. William k and Ali Massumi Clinical Trial (GUSTO-1 and INJECT) Evidence of Earlier Effect of Rhythm Regularization on Left Ventricular Death for Men than Women After Acute Myocardial Contractility in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation AA . | Infarction 147 Mohamed Effat, Edgar C. Schick, David T Martin, ana Dwaine Rieves, George Wright, Ghanshyam Gupta, and William H. Gaasch Emily Shacter Effect of Ethanol on Defibrillation tied wane” in Assessment of Coagulation and Platetlet Activation in Humans 117 Coronary Sinus Blood Induced by Transcatheter Coronary S. Adam Strickberger, Barry E. Bleske, Theresa Davidson Intervention for Narrowing of the Left Anterior Emmanuel N. Papasafakis, Frank Pelosi Descending Coronary Artery ... Gregory F. Michaud, Bradley P. Knight, and Fred Morady Osamy Mizuno, Yukihiro Hojo, Uichi Ikeda, Taka-aki Katsuki, Hiroshi Fukazawa, Kenji Kurosaki, Hideyuki Outcome of Men With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy, Fujikawa, and Kazuyuki Shimada Asymptomatic Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardia, and Negative Electrophysiologic Studies ...................... 119 Effect of Plasma Insulin Level on Myocardial Blood Flow Michael H. Kim, David Bruckman, Marvin M. Kirsh, and and Its Mechanism of Action William H. Kou Patrick H. McNulty, Steven Pfau, and Lawrence |. Deckelbaum Transesophageal Echocardiographic Findings in Subcortical and Cortical Stroke 2.00... 121 Relation of Coronary Artery Size to One-Year Clinical Rita A. Falcone EdwardP . Shapiro, Julie e CC.. Jangula, and Events After New Device Angioplasty of Native Coronary ConstanceJ . Johnson Arteries (A New Approach to Coronary Intervention [NACI] Registry Report) Outcome of Infants With Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Jorge F. Saucedo, Jeffrey J. Popma, Elizabeth D. Kennard, J. Who Undergo Atrial Septostomy Before Heart David Talley, Alexandra Lansky, Martin B. leon, and Donald Transplantation _. S. Baim, for the NACI Investigators 1544 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY® VOL. JUNE 15, 2000 Effect of Atenolol and Celiprolol on Acetylcholine-induced Coronary Vasomotion in Coronary Artery Disease .... 172 Wolfram Burger, ¢C hii stian Hampel, Martin Ke itenbach Andreas Hartmann Manfred Herrmann, Josef A HolaOtNtMmAoNan!n and Harald ce. CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY Homograft Insertion for Pulmonary Regurgitation After Effects of NK-104, a New Hydroxymethylglutaryl- Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot Improves Cardiorespiratory Coenzyme Reductase Inhibitor, on Low-Density Exercise Performance 221 Lipoprotein Cholesterol in — Familial RRne neaicte Evsk snc n avbro y an Raanart Hypercholesterolemia ntJy Ik SK A iat Kouji Kajinami, Junji Koizumi, Kosei |U eda ~~ | ay eee Miyamoto, Tadayoshi hs sh Mirosnt WMV\abduU Hokuriku NK-104 Study Group MISCELLANEOUS ARRHYTHMIAS AND CONDUCTION Progression of Atherosclerosis at One-Year Follow-Up DISTURBANCES Seen With Volumetric Intravascular Ultrasound in sayy eam Arteries 226 Potential Risk of Vasovagal a for Motor Vehicle jiie<o be Hac } cima p Driving ine Krar NO *ndonk “ae5 pP ieatteor Cc (se Huagui Li, Marc Weitzel, Arthur Haymm Rbaarrrriinnogt nA Aan van ne and John Windle Comparison of Autonomic Withdrawal in Men With CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, Systemic Meta-Analysis of Observed Mortality Data from All- Hypertension, and Neither Condition — Controlled, Double-Blind, Multiple-Dose Studies of Losartan in Heart Failure 187 Divakar Sharma Marc Buyse Berta Pit Ey va Rucinsk« and the Losartan Heart |Fa ilure MVoIrOtFIoOlIi hT y A V\etaa--aannaallv sYiSIcS St yon \ofOUpD METHODS National Use of the Transesophageal Echocardiographic- VALVULAR HEART DISEASE Guided Approach to Cardioversion for Patients in Severe Mitral Regurgitation Due to Mitral Valve Prolapse: AtrialFibrillation 239 Risk Factors for Development, Progression, and Need for 2) Danie Artis < Sannaman Flizaheth Mitral Valve Surgery ... 193 Rampaul G. Singh, ps 9 Cappt Mary |.R oman, Paul Kligfield, Jeffr Hochreiter, O. Wayne Isom, anc Echocardiographic Quantification of Regional Left Ventricular Well wore With rw Kinesis 245 Effect of General Anesthesia on the Severity of Mitral AV in tgang Kran Sa0qrq Hoa} nN. ana Hartmut Regurgitation by pains Echocardiography SAAS ares Lok 199 EDITORIAL Karanvir S. Grewal, | Michael | Mca lkowski Amir R. Piracha Jeffrey C. Astbury, C faiskaghes M. Kramer Sinda Elevated Systolic Blood Pressure as a Cardiovascular Risk Dianzumba, and Nathaniel Reichek Factor 251 liam BR. Kanne Pulmonary Artery Hypertension in Adult Patients With Symptomatic Valvular Aortic Stenosis 204 BRIEF REPORTS Pompitio Faggiano, Francesco Antonini-Canterin, Flavio Ribichini, Antonio D’Aloia Vax8l eria Fc errero, cE ugenio- Comparison of Time Course of Target Lesion Cervesato, Daniela Pavan, Cl|a udio: Burelli,|. and 4 aGeian luig Revascularization Following Successful Saphenous Vein Nicolosi Graft Angioplasty Versus Successful Native Coronary — 256 Hong Roxa AA eennrraa n CARDIOMYOPATHY andreiale ) Echocardiographic Dimensions and Functions in Adults With Primary Growth Hormone Resistance (Laron Syndrome). Micha S. Feinberg, |Mi ckey Scheinowitz, and Zvi Laron Prognostic Value of Exercise Echocardiography in Women int he ey Setting 258 Indium-111 Monoclonal Antimyosin Cardiac Scintigraphy Charle G. ace ames E sedom. Susan in Men With Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy Gary G Koch Significance of Newly Acquired Negative T Waves After Interruption of Paroxysmal Reentrant Supraventricular Tachycardia With Narrow QRS Complex 261 ST-Segment Resolution and Infarct-Related Artery Patency and Flow After Thrombolytic Therapy 299 Early Repolarization: An Electrocardiographic Predictor of Enhanced Aerobic Fitness _ 264 Cyclosporine Versus Tacrolimus (FK 506) for Prevention of A Novel Telephone-Based System for Management of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy 266 Secondary Prevention to a Low-Density Lipoprotein ene irk =100 a: .. 305 Ss Kier sinniiee Bibinean Cin neous. veal Welllion Wie laaneadan Magnitude and Consequences of Error in Coronary rr iy ce racnery ae ACRE Study) . 309 Testosterone Enhances Flow-Mediated Brachial Artery riee, Angela N J. Rex Dawson, Adam Reactivity in Men With Coronary Artery Disease ......269 mm ) ING HarArY HeminaVwW a Cardiac Energy Metabolism in Patients With Chest Pain ond Normal Coronary ee 315 Py der Rc agger Anne 1SS and INTERACTIVE GRAND ROUNDS Case 2: A Patient With Systemic Hypertension and Ten-Year Outcome After Coronary Angioplasty in Patients Diabetes Mellitus With Single-Vessel Coronary Artery Disease and Comparison With the Results of the Coronary Artery — — (CASS) 321 Case 3: A Patient With Syncope Yinola-Klein. H FROM THE EDITOR Stenting the Stent: Initial Results and Long-Term Clinical Good Books in Cardiovascular Disease Appearing in and Angiographic Outcome of Coronary a for 1999 275 ienei sW ith - Stent Restonosis ae x READERS’ COMMENTS 280 VOL. 85,NO.3 FEBRUARY 1, 2000 Optimally Deployed Stents in the Treatment of Restenotic Versus De igre aes it ; 1K. Hong Ga z, Roxana CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE angas, Kenneth M Evaluation of Chest Pain in Patients With Low to r, Alexandra J. Lansky Intermediate Pretest Probability of Coronary Artery oSttoonnee,. aanndd M/aV\ratr in BD.. Lelce on Disease " Recon poem oe ee .. 283 > Raa } Influence of Patient Age on Acute and Late Clinical le ray, and Randcolnh FF Pottercon Outcomes Following Palmaz-Schatz Coronary Stent Implantation eesti ‘i Significance of R-en-T Phenomenon in Early Ventricular Andrea S. Abizaid, Gary S. Mintz, Alexandre Abizaid Tachyarrhythmia Susceptibility After Acute amen rJIaGe F Saucedo, Roxana Mehran, Augusto D. Picr eer d Infarction in the Thrombolytic Era Kent, Lov vell1 ] F. Satler and MA artin B. Leon niladakis. Georag e Karapoar Clinical Predictors of Morbidity and Mortality in Patients With Myocardial Infarction or Revascularization Who Underwent Cardiac Rehabilitation, and Importance of Intracranial Hemorrhage Rates and Effect of Immediate Diabetes Mellitus and Exercise Capacity Beta-Blocker Use in Patients With Acute Myocardial Cheuk-Man Yu, Chu-Pak Lau, Bernard Man-Y ung Cheung Infarction Treated With Tissue Plasminogen Yee-Man Fong, Yin-Yu Ho, Kam-Bik Lam, and Leonard Activator |. Sheung-Wai Li 1546 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY? PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY Major Complications During Spasm Provocation Tests With an Intracoronary Injection of Acetylcholine 391 Effect of Atorvastatin on Hemorheologic-Hemostatic Parameters and Serum Fibrinogen Levels in rat iy gecee grerd UNOS UU err Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain in a Chest Pain ARRHYTHMIAS AND CONDUCTION Center ; DISTURBANCES IUSO = Usefuiness of Left Atrial Abnormality for Predicting Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in the Presence of Left Bundle — ware ; 354 Temporal Response of Brachial Artery Dilation After —— - _— Usefulness of Clinical Factors in Predicting Outcomes of Memoirs of My Practice . Pensive TiltT ests iin Potlents With Syncope 360 R \D ell Oo AIC CVE . $ aInNdC Vary lLouO U K KOSN nmoarN n INTERACTIVE GRAND ROUNDS CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE Case 2. A Patient With Low Levels of High-Density Impact of a Home-Based Walking and Resistance Lipoprotein Cholesterol Training Program on Quality of Life in Patients With Vincent E. Friedewald, |r Antor Heart Failure . ' 365 Roberta K. Oka, Teresa De Marco, William L. Haske READERS’ COMMENTS ; M Dae, Karen Bolen VALVULAR HEART DISEASE FEBRUARY 10, 2000 VOL. 85 (3A) Immediate Effect of Balloon Valvuloplasty on Hemostatic A Symposium: Lipid Management Summit on Improving Changes in Mitral Stenosis 370 Practice Outcome VOL. 85, NO. 4 FEBRUARY 15, 2000 CARDIOMYOPATHY CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE Changes in Cardiac Function at Rest Before and After Treatment in Primary Hypothyroidism 376 Relation Between Myocardial Viability and Abnormalities on the Signal-Averaged Electrocardiogram in Patients with Low (<40%) Ejection Fraction and Coronary Artery Disease 405 MISCELLANEOUS Resistance Vessel Endothelial Function in Humans During bare Postprandial hig« Pi ang org: 381 Usefulness of the Severity and Extent of Wall Motion ae ee| = GU Wualeml unansd sonN n sStTIiNnEe OSjI NKE¢ Y Q > A Abnormalities as Prognostic Markers of an Adverse — henara©rrda VU|I S J Stumbo ana VViili am EWow . bhMay nes Outcome After a First Myocardial Infarction Treated With Thrombolytic Therapy EDITORIAL LIVDEMOW Electron-Beam Computed aati in the Evaluation of Patients With Chest Pain ....... .. 386 ThoOmMaQss ( WY AA na\ rew Maximal Exercise Systolic Pressure, Exercise Training, and Mortality in Myocardial Infarction Patients 416 BRIEF REPORTS Serial Automated Three-Dimensional Intravascular Ultrasound — of the Self-Expanding Radius Comparison of Troponin T Versus Creatine Kinase-MB in | re a — Ore: mag set 421 Akio Oshima Mas hike Oc hie Satoshi Tokechai ta, Na Yokoyama, HHia ruo Mitani, Koji Eto, Takaaki Isshiki, and Tomohide Sato Timing of and Risk Factors for Myocardial Ischemic Events CARDIOMYOPATHY After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Impact of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction on (IMPACT- It) Maximal Treadmill Performance in Normotensive Subjects Aark ¢ With Well-Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus .........473 Paul Poirier, Caroline Garneau, Peter ey André ouis Marois Clat idette Brochu, C écile Gingras Qain d Q | | jleeaa!n -G>.. UDuummeessnii l Efficacy of Abciximab Readministration in Coronary MISCELLANEOUS Intervention 435 iermiller Usefulness of Hypotension During Dobutamine aad in seein Perioperative Cardiac Events 478 ( Sharlenee M. Day Johin GY ounger Dean Karavite, Dewd Bach, William F. Armstrono and Kim A. Eagle Intravascular Ultrasonic Predictors of Angiographic Restenosis Aftera Coronary Stenting 44) EDITORIAL eong-Ki ) ng-VVook Park, Gary S. Mintz, Nae Treating Isolated Low High-Density Lipoprotein VVhan Lee, Jae-loong Kim, and Seung-jung ig Prescient or Premature? ...................... 484 Charles R. Harper and Terry A. Jacobson Outcomes Following Interventions in Small Coronary BRIEF REPORTS Arteries With the Use of Hand- we Palmaz-Schatz eed 446 Prediction of the Site of Total Occlusion in the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery Using Admission Electrocardiogram in Anterior Wall Acute Myocardial Infarction AA ilika Arbane an Increased Platelet Reactivity in Patients Given Orbofiban PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY After an Acute Coronary oe An OPUS-TIMI 16 Association Between Elevated Plasma Fibrinogen and the Substudy ...... 491 Small, Dense Low-Density Lipoprotein Phenotype Among Michael B. Holmes “Burt on E. Sobel, Chrirsi stopher Pp. Postmenopausal Women eer) Cannon, and David J. Schneider eVv In ( IV\OK) I Formation of Platelet Aggregates After Attacks Coronary Spastic Angina Pectoris ae 494 ARRHYTHMIAS AND CONDUCTION Shinzo Miyamoto, Hisao¢ e e Hirotumi Soejima, Keiji Takazoe, Tomohiro Sakamoto, Michihiro Yoshimura, DISTURBANCES Kiyotaka Kugiyama, and ie Yasue Clinical and Genetic Variables Associated With Acute Arousal and Nonarousal-Related Cardiac Events Among Frequency of Collateral Blood Flow in the Infarct-Related Subjects With the _ QT Syndrome lattes 457 AA Coronary Artery in Rupture of the Ventricular Septum Raef H Aaj Ali, Wojciech Zare ba Arthur J IVIOSS Peter 2 After Acute Myocardial Infarction ochwariz, jesaia Benki orin, G. Mic chael \V incent, Emanuela René Prétre, Hans Rickli, Qing Ye, Peter Benedikt, and H. Locati z » Napolitano, Jeffrey A. TToo wbin ne ae ee Viarko |. |urina W. Jackson Hall, Jenniter L. _—_ yn, Mark L Andrews, Li Z /7 nIanOaNgG KaOtMhE\ e rine) Tfri: r noiny ar id Ah aron M edina Serum Cholesterol Level, Cigarette Smoking, and Vasomotor Responses to L-Arginine in Narrowed Effectiveness of Amiodarone as a Single Oral Dose for Epicardial Coronary Arteries Recent-Onset Atrial Fibrillation 462 Costas Tentolouris, Dimitris Tousoulis, GrahamJ . Davies, Keijo Peuhkurinen, Matti Niemela Antti Ylitalo, N Narkku Christodoulos Stefanadis, and Pavlos Toutouzas Linnaluoto, Maun Lilia, and Jukka Juvonen Clinical and Cost Comparison of /butilide and Direct- SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION Current Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter Left Ventricular Filling Patterns in Patients With Systemic David K. Murdock, Glen T. Schumock, Jeffrey Kaliebe, — and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy (The LIFE Karen Olson, and AmyJ . Guenette Study) . 466 Kristian Wacth tell, Gunnar Smith, Eva Gunde. ‘Bid Dahlof Markku S. Nieminen, Vasilios Papademetriou, JonathanN Vasopressin in the Treatment of Milrinone-Induced Bella, Hans Ibsen Jens Reo kkedal, and Richard B. Devereux Hypotension in Severe Heart Failure 1548 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF JUNE 15, 2000 Jeffrey Gold, Suzanne Cullinane Jona than Chen Susan Seo, Mehmet C. Oz Juan A. ( liver, and D« onald W Landn, Beta-Blocker Titration Failure is Independent of Severity of Correlation of Myocardial Doppler Velocity Response to Heart Failure 509 Exercise With Independent Evidence of Myocardial Rutger | Anthonio, Dirk J. van Veldhuisen, A. Breekland Ischemia by Dual-lsotope Single-Photon Emission Harry J.G.M. Crijns ana VVie 1. VON list we ae 536 Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure in Mitral Stenosis Accurately Reflects Mean Left Atrial Pressure but Overestimates Transmitral Gradient Relation of Temporal Creatine Kinase-MB Release and David J.R. Hildick-Smith, John T YVs Valsh aenea Leonard |) /V Outcome After Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Shapiro Myocardial Infarction . 543 Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomographic Steohen Pe Myocardial Perfusion setae in Patients With Mitral ae wg Aehmet Ozkan, Citi nangir Kaymaz, Ha akan Din fea Nihal Ozdemir, Ihvas Akdemir in Quality of Life After Coronary Revascularization in the Biilent Mutlu, Veda t Sansoy, and Cetin Ons Unies States and Conade Comparison of Central Venous and Inferior Vena Caval Pressures . 518 LAs «bi lohn T. Walsh, Davi Martin D. Lowe Duwarakan K lLaeaOq!n olara rd IV \ Shapirc Coronary Morphologic atten After Stent sarge sed CASE REPORT Peter eneke JriqQeSr Life-Saving Needle Aspiration of a Cardiac-Compressing Pericardial Cyst eae 521 Kimie Okubo Masao Chino, Jun Fini Shisei Yo, and Comparison of Coronary Stent Expansion by Fumiaki Nishimura Intravascular Ultrasonic Imaging in Younger Versus Older hemary=5 With — Matias 2 559 7 Rob INTERACTIVE GRAND ROUNDS Case 3: A Patient With Systemic ne and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy ..522 Effectiveness of Rotational cements of Right Coronary Robert A. Kloner and Vincent E Artery Ostial Stenosis * 563 loseop n Y VIOItWwOa ni R\iUSs ccallF RO Ciaphing Bika racl Didar VOL. 85, NO. 5 MARCH 1, 2000 ARRHYTHMIAS AND CONDUCTION CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE DISTURBANCES Accentuated Remodeling on the a Side of Frequency of Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation and Atherosclerotic Lesions ......... . ce Reasons for its Non-Use at a Veterans Affairs Medical M ichaelR . Ward, Allen Jeremias He ike vegel Peter J. 568 Fitzgerald, and Alan C. Yeung Effect of Aspirin and Ticlopidine on Plasma Tissue Factor Levels in Stable and Unstable Angina Pectoris Familial Effort Polymorphic Ventricular Arrhythmias in Jean Marco, Robert A.S. Ariéns, Jean Fajadet, Irene M Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Map Bossi, Isabelle Marco, Monique Bernies, Salvatore M. to Chromosome 1q42-43 573 Romano, Francesco Donatelli, Gabri M. Brambilla Barbara Bauce, Andrea Nava, Alessandra Rampazzo Francesco Somalvico, Daniela Mari, and Luisa Gregorini Luciano Daliento , Michela Muriago, Cristina Bass Gaetano Thiene, and Gian Antonio Danieli Dipyridamole Adminisi: ation at the End of an Insufficient Exercise Tc-99m MIBI SPECT Improves Detection of Analysis of intracardiac Electrograms Showing Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease in Patients With Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients With Previous Myocardial Infarction .......................... .532 Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators 580 1549 y Mahapatra, Majd METHODS t Contreras, Craig ii iment Assessment of Coronary Plaque With Optical Coherence Estes Ill, and Paul Tomography and High-Frequency Ultrasound Parth Patwari, NeilJ .W eissman, Stephen A. Boppart, Christine Jesser, Debra Stamper, James G. Fujimoto, and Medical Device Tracking: Results of a Cose Study of the Mark E. Brezinski Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator 588 r A p) ied Is ‘4 Ronald G. Kaczmarek, Malia D. Beaulieu, and Larry G EDITORIAL Raising Low Levels of High-Density Lipoprotein Feasibility, Safety, and Determinants of Extraction Time of Cholesterol Is an Important Target of Therapy Percutaneous Extraction of Endocardial Implantable William E. Boden and Thomas A. Pearson Cardioverter Defibrillator Leads by Intravascular Countertraction Method . 593 Bharat K. Kantharia, Farooq A. Padder, Joseph S BRIEF REPORTS Pennington Sltie L. Wilbur, Fania L. Samuels March MMAAAi qaaqnuiiiiilaanr, aCCn da reo sfteavvee n i fF. Ki Kiutfaa ie| k Serial Volumetric Intravascular Ultrasound Analysis of the Efficacy of Beta Irradiation in Preventing Recurrent In- Stent Restenosis VALVULAR HEART DISEASE Balram Bhargava, Gary S. Mintz, Roxana Mehran Long-Term Survival After Valve nae With Bjérk- Ale xandra J.L ansky, Neil J. Weissman, Carol Walsh — cc Valves _ yr Rosanna C. Chan, and Ron Waksman jon Kalle Effects of Transcendental Meditation on Symptoms and Electrocardiographic Changes in Patients With Cardiac Syndrome X Structural Determinants of Aortic Regurgitation in Type A Charles Cunningham, Sue Brown, and Juan Carlos Kaski Dissection and the Role of Valvular Resuspension as Determined by Intraoperative manieniatatiiedit reeset neg a Plasma Adrenomedullin Levels in the Coronary Circulation Ma yr : K usaN eE iWa n c ars E an Yang Victe Or in Vasospastic Angina Pectoris ........................... .656 h E. Bavaria Hiroki Kamiya, Kenji Okumura, Takahito Sone, Hideyuki Tsuboi, Junichiro Kondo, Hiroaki Mukawa, Hideo Matsui, Flow Dynamics of Stenotic Aortic Valves Assessed by Yukio Toki, Takayuki Ito, and Tetsuo Hayakawa Signal Processing of Doppler Spectrograms 611 javier Bermejo, | Carlo s Antoranz, Miguel A. Garcia- tA KA AG Effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor \. IVAG reno, and Juan Luis De lean (Enalapril or Imidapril) on Ventilation During Exercise in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure Secondary to CARDIOMYOPATHY Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy Long-Term Prognostic Value of Time Domain Analysis of Hiroaki Kitaoka, Jun Takata, Nobuhiko Hitomi, Signal-Averaged Electrocardiography in —_— Dilated Takashi Furuno, Hiromi Seo, Taishiro Chikamori, and Cardiomyopathy | 618 Yoshinori L. Doi Laurent Fauchier Domi que Babuty Pierre (C osnay, Phil ippe Poret, Philippe hee and Jean Pau | Fauchier Monitoring Gas Exchange During a Constant Work Rate Exercise in Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction Usefulness of Left Ventricular Mass in Predicting Recovery Treated With Carvedilol of Left Ventricular Systolic Function in Patients With Marco Guazzi and Pier Giuseppe Agostoni Symptomatic Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy ......624 Tasneem Z. Naqvi, Rishi K. Goel, James S. Forrester, Robert M. Davidson, and RobertJ Siegel Five or More Years of Survival in Patients With Primary Systemic Amyloidosis and Biopsy-Proven Cardiac Involvement CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE Martha Grogan, Morie A Gertz, Robert A. Kyle, and A. Transthoracic Three-Dimensional Echocardiography in the Jamil Tajik Preoperative Assessment of Atrioventricular Septal Defect Morphology ......... .630 Aleksanara Lange, Pankaj Mankad, Mohammed Walayat, Effect of Volume Reduction on Mitral Annular Diastolic Przemystaw Palka, Janet E. Burns, and MichaelJ .G odman Velocities in Hemodialysis Patients Yoram Agmon, Jae K. Oh, James T. McCarthy, Bijoy K. Khandheria, Kent R. Bailey, and James B. Seward Transcatheter Closure of Surgical Shunts in Patients With Congenital Heart Disease John W. Moore, Frank F. Ing, Danielle Drummond, Farhouch Stereophonic Stethoscope With Teaching Berdjis, Sandra K. Clapp, Ronald G. Grifka, Michael R. Attachment Nihill, and Charles E. Mullins Denis Abelson 1550 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY® VOL. 85 JUNE 15, 2000 Association of Mitral Annular Calcium With Prior A T7®°_,C Mutation in the 5’-Flanking Region of the Thromboembolic Stroke in Older White, African- Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Gene and Coronary American, and Hispanic Men and Women . Arterialn e Wilbert S. Aronow, Chul Ahn, Itzhak Kronzon, and Hal MAAVi: cni-Lh:hi roro \ YYoosshnL-ii: mmuurraa |K A l\aOss of umi Na KOaYmQ Gutstein Shi Maassoa k r| is Ss ac 1C laaQWWwaa, KKj IYOtTaOkKaa GK Ki ic ¥ INTERACTIVE GRAND ROUNDS Case 4: A Patient With Symptomatic Bradycardia .674 DanieJl. Newton Brian Olshansky, JosephP . Ornato, and Vincent E. Friedey wald YIP: Eosinophil Counts and Plasma Fibrinogen in Patients With Vasospastic Angina Pectoris 715 SC eiji U| mmeammoet o“,tn N| orikDoey SGeus zuki| MARCH 9, 2000 VOL. 85 (5A) mQKaQSkNeI ©| akanirc ates MAANc — A Symposium: The Acute Coronary Syndromes PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY VOL. 85, NO. 6 MARCH 15, 2000 The Cardiovascular Event Reduction Tool (CERT)—A Simplified Cardiac Risk Prediction Model Developed from CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study (WOSCOPS) Short- and Medium-Term Outcome Differences in Women Gilbert L ltalien. lan Ford Jonn Norrie and Men After Primary Percutaneous Transluminal Je= niter Ehreth JOSEsePoNO n JaOcC( kKScOolr aU n Mechanical Revascularization for Acute Myocardial —— RREISERAAE SINP U vedas Beran Ae ee 675 RabihR . Azar, David D. Waters, RaymondG . McKay ARRHYTHMIAS AND CONDUCTION Satyendra Giri, Jeffrey A. Hirst, Joses a F. Mitchell DISTURBANCES Daniel B. Fram, and Francis J. Kierna Comparison of Event Rates and Survival in Patients With Unexplained Syncope Without Documented Ventricular Comparison of Electrocardiographic-Gated Technetium- Tachyarrhythmias Versus Patients With Documented 99m Sestamibi Single-Photon Emission Computed Sustained Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias Both Treated Tomographic Imaging and Rest-Redistribution Thallium- With gay ee — Defibrillators 725 201 in the Prediction of Myocardial Viability 680 Luis A. Pires, Ly te M. /. Srinar Ra nomas Farr Brett H. Duncan, Alan W nis MichaelG . Levine V “ih K. Llaall, aann d nChaarlrecl |L .e NNlsiinn co Carol C.M cGill April Mann, Michael P. White, Jeff re F Mather, David D. Waters, and Gary V. Heller CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE Applying the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale to the Extracardiac Anomalies in the Heterotaxy Syndromes Emory Angioplasty Versus Surgery Trial With Focus on Anomalies of Midline-Associated Edmund R. Becker, Patrick D. Mauldin, Steven reawe g Andrzej S. Kosinski, William S. Weintraub, and Spencer B. Bar King Ill Drrraagangnnh A Comparison of lonic Versus Nonionic Contrast Medium MISCELLANEOUS During Primary Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Reversal of Severe Late Left Ventricular Failure After Angioplasty for Acute Myocardial Infarction Pediatric Heart Transplantation and Possible Role of (GUSTO IIb) Plasmapheresis ....... Wayne B. Batchelor, Christopher B. Granger, Neil S Elfriede Pahl, Su san E. Crawford, Richard A. Cohn, Sherrie Kleiman, Harry R. Phillips, StephenG . Ellis, Amadeo Betriu RDoadwgeer.s, FDYa vid A \W/ ax, Carl | L. Doug A. Criger, Amanda L. Stebbins, EricJ .T opol, and pgs Mavroudis, and Samuel S. Gi Robert M. Calliff, for the GUSTO Ilb Investigators METHODS Early Mobilization After Protamine Reversal of Heparin Following Implantation of Phosphorylcholine-Coated Clinical Impact of Second Harmonic Imaging and Left Stents in Totally Occluded Coronary Arteries Heart Contrast in Echocardiographic Stress Testing 740 Karel K.J. Kuiper and Jan Erik Nordrehaug Robert S. Finkelhor, Mehdi Pajouh, Attila Kett, Richelle Stefanski, Georgene Bosich, Mojtaba E. Youseffi, and Effects of Surgery for Postinfarction Ventricular Robert C. Bahler Tachycardia on Parameters of Left Ventricular Function Use of Echocardiography for Predicting Myocardial John P. Bourke, Terry Hawkins, ColinJ .‘ Hilton, Pauline M. Viability in Patients With wn Anterior Wall Keavey, Stephen S. Furniss, and Ronald W.F. Campbell Myocardial Infarction 744 CONTENTS INDEX 1551 } Serum Profiles of Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony- Stimulating Factor and C-C Chemokines in Hypertensive Patients With or Without — ey al L Pp arissis, KOuIad F venelsanou Effect of Patient Obesity on the Accuracy of Thallium-201 ice ann ermuslon Imaging .. 749 = e= ans sé S>)h eil Q VVOO Influence of Aortopulmonary Rotation on the Anomalous Coronary Artery Pattern in Tomelogy of Fallot 780 ina-on Cniu Chiou-SeSne n VW u, Jloou - \OU V Vang M \ei-Hw an Hsun Chu, Chi-Rer Huna and Hyu ng|- Chn i LLUuCe BRIEF REPORTS Gender Differences in Triggering of Acute Myocardial Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor Type 1 in Adults With Infarction Down Syndrome and Protection Against Macrovascular Disease . : ..784 Villic Hopkins, Nac Fukagawa, Burton E. Sobel Schneider Frequency of Left Ventricular Free-Wall Rupture in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction TreatedW Primary Angioplasty Evidence of a Role of Endogenous Estrogen in the a of Autonomic Nervous System Acute Myocardial infarction and Vascular Impaired Glucose Tolerance as a Determinant of Early Remodeling Deterioration of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Middle-“ Aged Healthy Subjects OYUK Okura Hiroo Inove YOynNqIQ | axddaass hi YOoSsNhIiKkQaWw a oshikawa Preoperative Factors Predisposing to Early Postoperative Prognosis of Aortic Intramural Hemorrhage Compared Atrial Fibrillation After Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass With ere Aortic Dissection ee: 763 1S! Sh NiZ iaqeak Ett VVafanuki, Kone! Usefulness of Harmonic Imaging for Left Ventricular Usefulness of the QTc Interval in Predicting Myocardial Opacification and Endocardial Border Delineation by Ischemia in Patients Undergoing Exercise Stress Optison , 795 Testing 764 INTERACTIVE GRAND ROUNDS Accuracy of a Pretest Questionnaire in Exercise Test Protocol Selection 767 Case 5: Atrial Fibrillation Afters evens Artery ar VaVId oO. DAGe a rierce Ina . Ornato and Frequency of Superior Vena Cava Syndrome Following a Modification of the Sinus Node and Its Management .. M. Leonell Ern nio —_ 1 VOL. 85, NO. 7 APRIL 1, 2000 Ce ; }omassoni CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE Acute Complications of Permanent Pacemaker Comparison of Cardiac Troponin T Versus Creatine Implantation: Their Financial Implication and Relation to Kinase-MB for Risk Stratification in a Chest Pain Volume and Operator Experience Evaluation Unit Kenneth Tobin, James Stewart, Douglas Westveer, and L. Kristin Newby, Andrew L. Kaplan, Bradi B. Granger Howard Frumin Frank Sedor, Robert M. Calliff, and E. Magnus Ohman 1552 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY® JUNE 15, 2000

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