American Heart Journal

1

Rationale and design of a double-blind, multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of early administration of intravenous β-blockers in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction before primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Roolvink, Vincent, Rasoul, Saman, Ottervanger, Jan Paul, Dambrink, Jan-Henk E., Lipsic, Erik, van der Horst, Iwan C.C., de Smet, Bart, Kedhi, Elvin, Marcel Gosselink, A.T., Piek, Jan J., Sanchez-Brune

Journal:

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 321 KB

english, 2014

2

Antiplatelet and anticoagulation agents in acute coronary syndromes: What is the current status and what does the future hold?

Huber, Kurt, Bates, Eric R., Valgimigli, Marco, Wallentin, Lars, Kristensen, Steen Dalby, Anderson, Jeffrey L., Lopez Sendon, Jose Luis, Tubaro, Marco, Granger, Christopher B., Bode, Christoph, Ohman,

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 373 KB

english, 2014

3

Early high-dose rosuvastatin and cardioprotection in the Protective effect of Rosuvastatin and Antiplatelet Therapy On contrast-induced acute kidney injury and myocardial damage in patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome (PRATO-ACS) study

Leoncini, Mario, Toso, Anna, Maioli, Mauro, Tropeano, Francesco, Badia, Toni, Villani, Simona, Bellandi, Francesco

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 213 KB

english, 2014

4

Routine invasive management early after fibrinolysis: Relationship between baseline risk and treatment effects in a pooled patient-level analysis of 7 randomized controlled trials

Bagai, Akshay, Tan, Mary, Di Mario, Carlo, Halvorsen, Sigrun, Cantor, Warren J., Le May, Michel R., Fernandez-Aviles, Francisco, Scheller, Bruno, Armstrong, Paul W., Borgia, Francesco, Piscione, Feder

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 630 KB

english, 2014

5

Rationale and Design for PACE: Patients with Intermittent Claudication Injected with ALDH Bright Cells

Perin, Emerson C., Murphy, Michael, Cooke, John P., Moyé, Lem, Henry, Timothy D., Bettencourt, Judy, Gahremanpour, Amir, Leeper, Nicholas, Anderson, R. David, Hiatt, William R., Lima, Joao A., Venkate

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 339 KB

english, 2014

6

Information for Readers

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 171 KB

english, 2014

7

Outcomes in patients with heart failure with preserved, borderline, and reduced ejection fraction in the Medicare population

Cheng, Richard K., Cox, Margueritte, Neely, Megan L., Heidenreich, Paul A., Bhatt, Deepak L., Eapen, Zubin J., Hernandez, Adrian F., Butler, Javed, Yancy, Clyde W., Fonarow, Gregg C.

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 490 KB

english, 2014

8

Transesophageal echocardiography in patients with cryptogenic ischemic stroke: A systematic review

McGrath, Emer R., Paikin, Jeremy S., Motlagh, Bahareh, Salehian, Omid, Kapral, Moira K., O'Donnell, Martin J.

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 273 KB

english, 2014

9

APPOSITION V: STENTYS coronary stent system clinical trial in subjects with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction—Rationale and design

Grundeken, Maik J., Lu, Huangling, Mehran, Roxana, Cutlip, Donald E., Leon, Martin B., Yeung, Alan, Koch, Karel T., Montalescot, Gilles, van Geuns, Robert-Jan, Spaargaren, René, Buchbinder, Maurice

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 822 KB

english, 2014

10

Mechanisms of sex and age differences in ventricular repolarization in humans

Vicente, Jose, Johannesen, Lars, Galeotti, Loriano, Strauss, David G.

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 795 KB

english, 2014

11

Association between process quality measures for heart failure and mortality among US veterans

Wu, Wen-Chih, Jiang, Lan, Friedmann, Peter D., Trivedi, Amal

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 443 KB

english, 2014

12

The Palliative Care in Heart Failure Trial: Rationale and design

Mentz, Robert J., Tulsky, James A., Granger, Bradi B., Anstrom, Kevin J., Adams, Patricia A., Dodson, Gwen C., Fiuzat, Mona, Johnson, Kimberly S., Patel, Chetan B., Steinhauser, Karen E., Taylor, Dona

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 275 KB

english, 2014

13

Platelet function monitoring in elderly patients on prasugrel after stenting for an acute coronary syndrome: Design of the randomized antarctic study

Cayla, Guillaume, Cuisset, Thomas, Silvain, Johanne, Henry, Patrick, Leclercq, Florence, Carrié, Didier, Etienne, Christophe Saint, Belle, Loic, Rangé, Grégoire, Pouillot, Christophe, Varenne, Olivier

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 691 KB

english, 2014

14

How can we optimize the processes of care for acute coronary syndromes to improve outcomes?

Wallentin, Lars, Kristensen, Steen Dalby, Anderson, Jeffrey L., Tubaro, Marco, Sendon, José Luis Lopez, Granger, Christopher B., Bode, Christoph, Huber, Kurt, Bates, Eric R., Valgimigli, Marco, Steg,

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 676 KB

english, 2014

15

Individualizing treatment choices using quantitative methods

Pocock, Stuart J., Stone, Gregg W., Mehran, Roxana, Clayton, Tim C.

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 273 KB

english, 2014

16

Tradeoff between bleeding and stent thrombosis in different dual antiplatelet therapy regimes: Importance of case fatality rates and effective treatment durations

Jeger, Raban V., Pfisterer, Matthias E., Sørensen, Rikke, von Felten, Stefanie, Alber, Hannes, Bonetti, Piero O., Eberli, Franz, Erne, Paul, Pedrazzini, Giovanni, Rickli, Hans, Galatius, Søren, Kaiser

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 552 KB

english, 2014

17

Causes and timing of death during long-term follow-up after transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Saia, Francesco, Latib, Azeem, Ciuca, Cristina, Gasparetto, Valeria, Napodano, Massimo, Sticchi, Alessandro, Anderlucci, Laura, Marrozzini, Cinzia, Naganuma, Toru, Alfieri, Ottavio, Facchin, Michela,

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 485 KB

english, 2014

18

Frailty and other geriatric conditions for risk stratification of older patients with acute coronary syndrome

Sanchis, Juan, Bonanad, Clara, Ruiz, Vicente, Fernández, Julio, García-Blas, Sergio, Mainar, Luis, Ventura, Silvia, Rodríguez-Borja, Enrique, Chorro, Francisco J., Hermenegildo, Carlos, Bertomeu-Gonzá

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 380 KB

english, 2014

19

Rationale and design of a randomized controlled trial evaluating community health worker–based interventions for the secondary prevention of acute coronary syndromes in India (SPREAD)

Kamath, Deepak Y., Xavier, Denis, Gupta, Rajeev, Devereaux, P.J., Sigamani, Alben, Hussain, Tanvir, Umesh, Sowmya, Xavier, Freeda, Girish, Preeti, George, Nisha, Thomas, Tinku, Chidambaram, N., Joshi,

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 543 KB

english, 2014

20

Real-time use of instantaneous wave–free ratio: Results of the ADVISE in-practice: An international, multicenter evaluation of instantaneous wave–free ratio in clinical practice

Petraco, Ricardo, Al-Lamee, Rasha, Gotberg, Matthias, Sharp, Andrew, Hellig, Farrel, Nijjer, Sukhjinder S., Echavarria-Pinto, Mauro, van de Hoef, Tim P., Sen, Sayan, Tanaka, Nobuhiro, Van Belle, Eric,

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.43 MB

english, 2014

21

Effect of alirocumab, a monoclonal antibody to PCSK9, on long-term cardiovascular outcomes following acute coronary syndromes: Rationale and design of the ODYSSEY Outcomes trial

Schwartz, Gregory G., Bessac, Laurence, Berdan, Lisa G., Bhatt, Deepak L., Bittner, Vera, Diaz, Rafael, Goodman, Shaun G., Hanotin, Corinne, Harrington, Robert A., Jukema, J. Wouter, Mahaffey, Kenneth

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 479 KB

english, 2014

22

Lack of association between chronic exposure to biomass fuel smoke and markers of right ventricular pressure overload at high altitude

Caravedo, Maria A., Painschab, Matthew S., Davila-Roman, Victor G., De Ferrari, Aldo, Gilman, Robert H., Vasquez-Villar, Angel D., Pollard, Suzanne L., Miranda, J. Jaime, Checkley, William

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 460 KB

english, 2014

23

Editorial Board

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 128 KB

english, 2014

25

Sevoflurane in acute myocardial infarction: A pilot randomized study

Lavi, Shahar, Bainbridge, Daniel, D'Alfonso, Sabrina, Diamantouros, Pantelis, Syed, Jaffer, Jablonsky, George, Lavi, Ronit

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 623 KB

english, 2014

26

The association of myocardial infarction process of care measures and in-hospital mortality: A report from the NCDR®

Kontos, Michael C., Rennyson, Stephen L., Chen, Anita Y., Alexander, Karen P., Peterson, Eric D., Roe, Matthew T.

Journal:

American Heart Journal

Year:

2014

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 575 KB

english, 2014

Volume 168; Issue 5

Rationale and design of a double-blind, multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of early administration of intravenous β-blockers in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction before primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Antiplatelet and anticoagulation agents in acute coronary syndromes: What is the current status and what does the future hold?

Early high-dose rosuvastatin and cardioprotection in the Protective effect of Rosuvastatin and Antiplatelet Therapy On contrast-induced acute kidney injury and myocardial damage in patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome (PRATO-ACS) study

Routine invasive management early after fibrinolysis: Relationship between baseline risk and treatment effects in a pooled patient-level analysis of 7 randomized controlled trials

Rationale and Design for PACE: Patients with Intermittent Claudication Injected with ALDH Bright Cells

Information for Readers

Outcomes in patients with heart failure with preserved, borderline, and reduced ejection fraction in the Medicare population

Transesophageal echocardiography in patients with cryptogenic ischemic stroke: A systematic review

APPOSITION V: STENTYS coronary stent system clinical trial in subjects with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction—Rationale and design

Mechanisms of sex and age differences in ventricular repolarization in humans

Association between process quality measures for heart failure and mortality among US veterans

The Palliative Care in Heart Failure Trial: Rationale and design

Platelet function monitoring in elderly patients on prasugrel after stenting for an acute coronary syndrome: Design of the randomized antarctic study

How can we optimize the processes of care for acute coronary syndromes to improve outcomes?

Individualizing treatment choices using quantitative methods

Tradeoff between bleeding and stent thrombosis in different dual antiplatelet therapy regimes: Importance of case fatality rates and effective treatment durations

Causes and timing of death during long-term follow-up after transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Frailty and other geriatric conditions for risk stratification of older patients with acute coronary syndrome

Rationale and design of a randomized controlled trial evaluating community health worker–based interventions for the secondary prevention of acute coronary syndromes in India (SPREAD)

Real-time use of instantaneous wave–free ratio: Results of the ADVISE in-practice: An international, multicenter evaluation of instantaneous wave–free ratio in clinical practice

Effect of alirocumab, a monoclonal antibody to PCSK9, on long-term cardiovascular outcomes following acute coronary syndromes: Rationale and design of the ODYSSEY Outcomes trial

Lack of association between chronic exposure to biomass fuel smoke and markers of right ventricular pressure overload at high altitude

Table of Contents

Editorial Board

Sevoflurane in acute myocardial infarction: A pilot randomized study

The association of myocardial infarction process of care measures and in-hospital mortality: A report from the NCDR®