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March 2008




Images in Cardiology
Acute aortic occlusion: common presentation of an uncommon catastrophe
  by Brett A. Sealove, MD • Joseph Sweeny, MD • Marc A. Miller, MD
  The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York

CAD
Late mortality with sirolimus-eluting stents in diseased saphenous vein grafts
  by Pierfrancesco Agostoni, MD • Paul Vermeersch, MD • Stefan Verheye, MD, PhD • Paul van den Heuvel, MD • Carl Convens, MD • Frank van den Branden, MD • Glenn van Langenhove, MD, PhD for the DELAYED RRISC (Death and Events at Long-Term Follow-Up Analysis: Extended Duration of the Reduction of Restenosis in Saphenous Vein Grafts with Cypher Stent) Investigators
  From the Antwerp Cardiovascular Institute Middelheim, AZ Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium.
  Case Report
Two cases of very late thrombosis of sirolimus-eluting stents implanted in diseased saphenous vein grafts
  Commentary
Drug-eluting stents and diseased saphenous vein grafts: long-term risk in RRISC
  by Richard J. Katz, MD
Arrhythmias
Can corticosteroids prevent atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery?
  by Jari Halonen, MD1 • Tapio Hakala, MD, PhD2 • Juha Hartikainen, MD, PhD1
  From the 1Departments of Surgery and Internal Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio; and the 2Department of Surgery, North Karelia Central Hospital, Joensuu, Finland.
  Commentary
Prevention of postoperative atrial fibrillation
  by Eric J. Rashba, MD

In the Heart of Women
Nonfasting triglycerides and ischemic heart disease in men and women
  by Børge G. Nordestgaard, MD, DMSc
  From the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev University Hospital, and The Copenhagen City Heart Study, Bispebjerg University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  Case Report
A young man with premature myocardial infarction and hypertriglyceridemia
  Commentary
The fate of the fasting lipid profile
  by Sandeep Bansal, MD, MPH and Roger S. Blumenthal, MD
Heart Failure
Serial biomarker measurements in chronic heart failure
  by Wayne L. Miller, PhD, MD • Allan S. Jaffe, MD
  From the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
  Case Report
A patient with chronic heart failure and elevated biomarkers
  Commentary
Biomarkers in heart failure: work in progress
  by Sanjay Kaul, MD

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