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September 2007




Images in Cardiology
Congenital absence of right coronary artery without any other associated anomalies
  by Surender Malhotra, MD • Carolyn Landolfo, MD • Deepak Kapoor, MD
  From Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia

Lipids
Statins and cancer in the elderly
  by Soko Setoguchi, MD, DrPH
  From the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
  Commentary
Low cholesterol, statins, and cancer risk: déjà vu all over again
  by Peter H. Jones, MD
Arrhythmias
Antithrombotic treatment of high-risk elderly patients hospitalized with atrial fibrillation
  by Simona Monte, MScPharmChem1 • Alejandro Macchia, MD1 • Fabio Pellegrini, MStat1 • Marilena Romero, MScPharm1 • Antonio D'Ettorre, MScEngen1 • Luigi Tavazzi, MD2 • Gianni Tognoni, MD1
  From the 1Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Epidemiology, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Santa Maria Imbaro, Chieti; and 2Department of Cardiology, IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
  Case Report
Beginning antithrombotic therapy in an 84-year-old woman
  Commentary
Do we need to do a better job of undertaking antithrombotic therapy in the elderly?
  by Peter F. Cohn, MD
CAD and Lipids
Achieving LDL cholesterol goals in elderly patients with ACS
  by Lynnette D. Peterson • Kausik K. Ray, MD, MRCP
  From the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  Case Report
Statin therapy in an elderly man with ACS
  Commentary
Never too old for statins
  by Brian G. Kral, MD, MPH • Roger S. Blumenthal, MD

Heart Failure
Predicting survival in elderly patients with heart failure
  by Michael W. Rich, MD • Bao Huynh, MD • Aleksandr Rovner, MD
  From the Department of Medicine and Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
  Case Report
Should this patient receive an implantable cardioverter defibrillator?
  Commentary
Predicting heart failure survival: Value of a mortality risk score
  by Peter F. Cohn, MD

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