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February 2007 Volume 4 No 2

February's Special Supplement


This month's issue of Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine comes with a special supplement focusing on gene and stem cell therapy for heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases. Subscribers to the journal can view it now online.

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Editorial

AHA/ACC/ESC 2006 atrial fibrillation guidelines: looking towards the future

Bernard J Gersh and Douglas Packer

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0796 | Full Text | PDF (61K)

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Viewpoint

The next frontier in cardiovascular developmental biology—an integrated approach to adult disease?

Roger R Markwald and Jonathan T Butcher

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0775 | Full Text | PDF (90K)

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Research Highlights

Depressive symptoms worsen outcome after MI

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0747 | Full Text | PDF (71K)

Combined antithrombotic regimens confer a higher risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0749 | Full Text | PDF (71K)

Screening program reduces sudden cardiac death in young athletes

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0750 | Full Text | PDF (88K)

Peripheral arterial disease raises mortality risk after percutaneous coronary intervention

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0751 | Full Text | PDF (72K)

Prevention of vasovagal syncope with physical counterpressure maneuvers

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0752 | Full Text | PDF (90K)

CT angiography for detection of coronary artery disease before cardiac valve surgery

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0753 | Full Text | PDF (73K)

Inhaled treprostinil for pulmonary hypertension

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0754 | Full Text | PDF (90K)

Cardiac surgery outcomes for Jehovah's Witnesses

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0755 | Full Text | PDF (72K)

Incident statin use reduces the risk of death in patients with heart failure

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0756 | Full Text | PDF (72K)

Drug therapy combined with an LVAD can reverse heart failure

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0757 | Full Text | PDF (90K)

Clopidogrel benefits survivors of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0758 | Full Text | PDF (73K)

Aspirin discontinuation raises the risk of adverse events in patients with CAD

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0759 | Full Text | PDF (90K)

Cardiac resynchronization therapy lowers mortality in advanced heart failure

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0760 | Full Text | PDF (72K)

Symptoms of undiagnosed stroke are commonplace in the general population

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0761 | Full Text | PDF (72K)

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Practice Points

Should all patients with heart failure and left ventricular dysfunction receive combined CRT–ICD therapy?

Rainer Gradaus and Günter Breithardt

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0739 | Full Text | PDF (96K)

Does digoxin therapy affect outcome in patients with diastolic heart failure?

Dirk L Brutsaert

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0765 | Full Text | PDF (92K)

Is quality of anticoagulation a 'wild card' in the treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation?

Greg C Flaker

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0740 | Full Text | PDF (93K)

Should all patients with suspected coronary artery disease undergo coronary angiography with 16-row MDCT?

Daniel A Herzka and Ahmed M Gharib

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0777 | Full Text | PDF (95K)

Is elevated cystatin C a predictor of cardiovascular risk in elderly people without chronic kidney disease?

Wolfgang Koenig

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0769 | Full Text | PDF (94K)

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Reviews

Update on advances in atherothrombosis

Javier Sanz, Pedro R Moreno and Valentin Fuster

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0774 | Full Text | PDF (521K)

Cardiac resynchronization therapy or atrio-biventricular pacing—what should it be called?

John GF Cleland, Mansour Nasir and Ahmed Tageldien

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0794 | Full Text | PDF (338K)

Mechanisms of Disease: HDL metabolism as a target for novel therapies

Daniel J Rader

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0768 | Full Text | PDF (217K)

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Case Study

Continuing Medical Education

KATP channel mutation confers risk for vein of Marshall adrenergic atrial fibrillation

Timothy M Olson, Alexey E Alekseev, Christophe Moreau, Xiaoke K Liu, Leonid V Zingman, Takashi Miki, Susumu Seino, Samuel J Asirvatham, Arshad Jahangir and Andre Terzic

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doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0792 | Full Text | PDF (765K)

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