November 2007

CAD and Imaging

Cardiac magnetic resonance stress tests in coronary heart disease

by Cosima Jahnke, MD • Eckart Fleck, MD • Ingo Paetsch, MD

From the Department of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, German Heart Institute, Berlin, Germany.

Commentary

Choice of imaging modality for evaluation of myocardial ischemia—what is the bottom line?

by Tasneem Z. Naqvi, MD

Arrhythmias and Hypertension

Cardiovascular morbidity in hypertensive patients with persistent atrial fibrillation

by Michiel Rienstra, MD • Isabelle C. Van Gelder, MD, for the RACE investigators

From the Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Case Report

Acceptance of atrial fibrillation in a hypertensive patient

Commentary

So when should sinus rhythm be restored?

by Joseph T. Dell'Orfano, MD

Arrhythmias

Anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation—trends in the United States

by Robert J. Anderson, MD

From the Department of Medicine, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado.

Case Report

An elderly man at risk for embolic stroke

Commentary

Atrial fibrillation and anticoagulation: reading between the trend lines

by Ernst A. Raeder, MD

CAD

Creatine kinase-MB elevation after coronary artery bypass graft surgery in acute coronary syndromes

by Kenneth W. Mahaffey, MD

From Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina.

Case Report

Increased creatine-kinase MB level after bypass surgery

Commentary

Creatine kinase-MB elevation following coronary artery bypass graft surgery: what is its significance and should it be measured in all patients?

by Harold L. Lazar, MD

Departments

	Editor's Page
	Drug therapies and atrial fibrillation


	Newsbeat
	News from the Heart Failure Society of America's Annual Scientific Meeting, September 16-19, 2007, Washington, DC.


	News from the ABC
	New horizons for the Association of Black Cardiologists


	CME Questions