Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine

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• The Need to Test the Theories Behind the Polypill: Rationale Behind the Indian Polycap Study
  Cardiovascular polypill rationale in the setting of primary prevention is discussed as are drug combinations used in The Indian Polycap study.

  February 12, 2009

• Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy and Sleep-Disordered Breathing: An Under-Recognized and Unfavorable Association
  Could obstructive sleep apnea be the reason cardiomyopathy symptoms remain for some patients, despite medical therapy?

  January 02, 2009

• The Relevance of Prosthesis-patient Mismatch After Aortic Valve Replacement
  Patient-prosthesis mismatch after aortic valve replacement is associated with a high rate of events and increased mortality. The authors highlight the importance of identifying susceptible patients.

  December 17, 2008

• Public Access Defibrillation: Advances From Japan
  New strategies that are increasing the use of automatic external defibrillators in Japan are presented. Learn more about these innovative initiatives.

  November 10, 2008

• Play an ADAGIO With a STRADIVARIUS: The Right Patient for CB1 Receptor Antagonists?
  Results of the STRADIVARIUS and ADAGIO-Lipids trials have fueled debate about the use of the CB1 receptor antagonist rimonabant. Learn more here.

  October 22, 2008

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2009 - 6 (3)

• Concurrent upregulation of endogenous proapoptotic and antiapoptotic factors in failing human hearts. 

  March 01, 2009

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• Use of arginine-glycine-aspartic acid adhesion peptides coupled with a new collagen scaffold to engineer a myocardium-like tissue graft. 

  March 01, 2009

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• Longitudinal cohort study on the effectiveness of lipid apheresis treatment to reduce high lipoprotein(a) levels and prevent major adverse coronary events. 

  March 01, 2009

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• Noninvasive imaging of atheromatous carotid plaques. 

  March 01, 2009

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• The role of interleukin 18 in the pathogenesis of hypertension-induced vascular disease. 

  March 01, 2009

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• Diagnosis and management of atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis: improving patient selection and outcomes. 

  March 01, 2009

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• How important are health systems in the prevention of cardiovascular and other noncommunicable diseases? 

  March 01, 2009

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• JUPITER strikes earth. 

  March 01, 2009

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• Coronary venous pressure elevation 'risks and benefit'. 

  March 01, 2009

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• Mild increase in coronary sinus pressure with coronary sinus reducer stent for treatment of refractory angina. 

  March 01, 2009

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• C-reactive protein and severity of coronary allograft vasculopathy. 

  March 01, 2009

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• Emergency surgical treatment of advanced endomyocardial fibrosis in Mozambique. 

  March 01, 2009

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• Cross-sectional, prospective study of MRI reproducibility in the assessment of plaque burden of the carotid arteries and aorta. 

  March 01, 2009

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• Primary prevention of cardiovascular events in diabetes: is there a role for aspirin? 

  March 01, 2009

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• Is intravenous recombinant plasminogen activator effective up to 4.5 h after onset of ischemic stroke? 

  March 01, 2009

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• The Marfan aortic root: time to refine surgical guidelines. 

  March 01, 2009

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• Antiphospholipid antibodies from a patient with primary antiphospholipid syndrome enhance experimental atherosclerosis. 

  March 01, 2009

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• The emerging role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in refining the diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. 

  March 01, 2009

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