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Cardiovascular Week

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . March 17th, 2003

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Atrial Fibrillation - AF not significant variable in post-stroke outcome

Bradycardia - Cardiovascular responses are due to withdrawal of sympathetic outflow to heart

Adverse Cardiac Events - Intracoronary ultrasound is cost-saving for percutaneous coronary intervention

Heart Disease Risk Factor - Disturbed glucose metabolic state is key risk factor for cardiovascular events

Hypertension - Algorithm shows general strategy to screen for secondary hypertension

Platelet Reactivity - Interaction between ATP and catecholamines suggests prothrombotic role for ATP

Angina - Inflammatory response is strongly associated with angina pectoris

Arterial Pressure - On-line noninvasive one-point measurements of pulse wave velocity are valid

Artificial Organs - Numerical analysis shows blood flow in the Korean artificial heart

Atherosclerosis - Statins limit inflammation, maintaining integrity of the fibrous cap

Cardiac Arrhythmias - Implications of gradient of action potential duration results in spiral wave drift

Cardiac Muscle - Creatine transport determined by content of plasma membrane isoform of CrT

Cardiac Surgery - Stroke risk factor studies should adopt neuroimaging evidence-based approach

Cardiology - Extracellular Ca2+ does not mask A-type K+ current in ventricular myocytes

Cardiology Research - Abstracts accepted for presentation at ACC conference

Cardiomyopathy - DNA defects often present in kids with cardiomyopathy, neurologic abnormalities

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - Update on cardiac resuscitation focuses on prehospital cardiac arrest

Cholesterol - Enzyme controls high-density lipoprotein level

Collaborations - Agreement signed for cardiac safety monitoring, related services

Coronary Artery Bypass - Wall thickening in SVGs is accompanied by compensatory vessel enlargement

Coronary Artery Constriction - Beta-adrenergic receptor blockade impairs NO-dependent CD dilation in exercise

Coronary Artery Disease - Cardiovascular therapy is retained best when delivered to pericardial space

Coronary Artery Disease - Placebo effect of myocardial laser revascularization is important

Heart Disease Risk Factor - Homocysteine monitoring identifies diabetic patients at risk for cardiac events

Heart Disease Therapy - Correcting diabetes-related cardiac metabolism is new approach to heart disease

Heart Failure - Diagnostics company automates test for BNP

Heart Transplantation - CMV-mediated upregulation of chemokine expression accelerates chronic rejection

Hypertension - Brain natriuretic peptide has no direct intrarenal hemodynamic effects

Intracardiac Pumps - Computational fluid dynamics analysis can predict hemolysis

Ischemia - ACh triggers preconditioning through PI3-kinase and a tyrosine kinase

Ischemic Vascular Events - Carriers of genetic polymorphism may be resistant to effects of aspirin

Minority Health - Startling health risks of California's black population addressed

Myocardial Infarction - Scavenging free oxyradicals reduces beneficial effect of preconditioning

Myocardium - Lbx1 gene function specifies subpopulation of cardiac neural crest

Nitroglycerin-Mediated Relaxation - K-Ca channel involvement fades after hypertension caused by aortic coarctation

Restenosis - Taxus paclitaxel-eluting stent system launched in Europe

Type 2 Diabetes Therapy - Intensive diabetes therapy lowers complication risks by half

Ventricular Tachycardia - Upregulation of currents underlies increased dispersion of repolarization

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