Vol 4, No 1 (February 27, 2014): Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy

Editorial

The potential value of discordant studies
Mark Doyle
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Original Article

Predictive value of exercise myocardial perfusion imaging in the Medicare population: the impact of the ability to exercise
Deborah H. Kwon, Venu Menon, Penny Houghtaling, Elizabeth Lieber, Richard C. Brunken, Manuel D. Cerqueira, Wael A. Jaber
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Compliance of pharmacological treatment for non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes with contemporary guidelines: influence on outcomes
Hélder Dores, Carlos Aguiar, Jorge Ferreira, Jorge Mimoso, Sílvia Monteiro, Filipe Seixo, José Ferreira Santos, On behalf of Portuguese Registry on Acute Coronary Syndromes (ProACS) Investigators
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Utility of balloon assisted technique in trans catheter closure of very large (≥35 mm) atrial septal defects
Ajith Ananthakrishna Pillai, Vidhyakar Rangaswamy Balasubramanian, Raja Selvaraj, Maheshkumar Saktheeswaran, Santhosh Satheesh, Balachander Jayaraman
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Effect of carvedilol on atrial remodeling in canine model of atrial fibrillation
Jun Kishihara, Shinichi Niwano, Hiroe Niwano, Yuya Aoyama, Akira Satoh, Jun Oikawa, Michiro Kiryu, Hidehira Fukaya, Yoshihiko Masaki, Hideaki Tamaki, Tohru Izumi, Junya Ako
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Mini-Review

Treatment of hypertension in patients with renal artery stenosis due to fibromuscular dysplasia of the renal arteries
Steven G. Chrysant, George S. Chrysant
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Case Report

4D-flow MRI of double aortic arch in a 14-year-old patient
Nadya Al-Wakeel, Sebastian Kelle, Mustafa Yigitbasi, Felix Berger, Titus Kuehne
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A case of a fibroelastoma and patent foramen ovale in a patient with prior stroke
Laura Vaskelyte, Petar Risteski, Stefan Bertog, Ilona Hofmann, Sylvia Hartmann, Horst Sievert
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Very large left atrial myxoma: an unusual differential diagnosis of bronchial hyper-reactivity
Christina Grothusen, Jan Schöttler, Jochen Cremer, Norbert Frey, Christoph Langer
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Arts and Medicine1

Cardiac Chaos
Lori Shocket, Siegfried Knop
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Disclosure:

1. The series “Arts and Medicine” was commissioned by the editorial office, Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy without any sponsorship or funding.