| | Articles Ventricular Free Wall Rupture: Ten Year Survival After Surgical Repair Richard A Leff and Irwin Hoffman Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 1–2. Published online 2008 January 22. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010001.PMCID: PMC2570576 Acute and Chronic Impact of Dynamic Exercise on Arterial Stiffness in Older Hypertensives Kunihiko Aizawa and Robert J. Petrella Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 3–8. Published online 2008 February 12. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010003.PMCID: PMC2570577 Calculation of Left Ventricular Relaxation Time Constant-Tau in Humans by Continuous-Wave Doppler Xufang Bai Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 9–11. Published online 2008 April 25. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010009.PMCID: PMC2570574 The Prevalence of Incidental Findings at Cardiac MRI David A McKenna, Monish Laxpati, and Patrick M Colletti Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 20–25. Published online 2008 April 2. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010020.PMCID: PMC2570573 Left Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm Found by CT Scan Hitoshi Hirose, Iwao Matsunaga, and Michael D Strong, III Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 26–27. Published online 2008 April 7. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010026.PMCID: PMC2570575 Calculation of Left Ventricular Relaxation Time Constant-Tau in Patients With Aortic Regurgitation by Continuous-Wave Doppler Xufang Bai Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 28–30. Published online 2008 April 25. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010028.PMCID: PMC2570579 Expression of Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperones in Cardiac Develop-ment Sylvia Papp, Xiaochu Zhang, Eva Szabo, Marek Michalak, and Michal Opas Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 31–35. Published online 2008 May 21. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010031.PMCID: PMC2570582 The Ability of Heart Failure Specialists to Accurately Predict NT-proBNP Levels Based on Clinical Assessment and a Previous NT-proBNP Measurement Tara L Sedlak, Mann Chandavimol, Anna Calleja, Catherine Clark, Margaret Edmonds, Aihua Pu, Karin H Humphries, and Andrew Ignaszewski Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 36–40. Published online 2008 June 5. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010036.PMCID: PMC2570572 Aorta Remodeling Responses to Distinct Atherogenic Stimuli: Hyperten-sion, Hypercholesterolemia and Turbulent Flow/Low Wall Shear Stress Cibele M Prado and Marcos A Rossi Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 41–48. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010041.PMCID: PMC2570580 Surgical Implications of Coronary Arterial Anatomy in Adults with Congenital Cardiac Disease Ad J.J.C Bogers, Ismael Eralp, and A. Pieter Kappetein Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 49–51. Published online 2008 July 16. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010049.PMCID: PMC2570570 Low HDL Cholesterol, Smoking and IL-13 R130Q Polymorphism are Associated with Myocardial Infarction in Greek Cypriot Males. A Pilot Study Stavroulla Xenophontos, Marilena Hadjivassiliou, Alexandros Karagrigoriou, Nafsika Demetriou, George Miltiadous, Ioannis Marcou, Moses Elisaf, Dimitri P Mikhailidis, and Marios A Cariolou Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 52–59. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010052.PMCID: PMC2570578 Predicting In Vivo Efficacy of Potential Restenosis Therapies by Cell Culture Studies: Species-Dependent Susceptibility of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Epstein Hila, Laura Rabinovich, Shmuel Banai, Vicktoria Elazar, Jianchuan Gao, Michael Chorny, Haim D Danenebrg, and Gershon Golomb Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 60–69. Published online 2008 July 30. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010060.PMCID: PMC2570571 Oxidative Stress As A Common Mediator for Apoptosis Induced-Cardiac Damage in Diabetic Rats Mohammad M Dallak, Dimitri P Mikhailidis, Mohamed A Haidara, Ismaeel M Bin-Jaliah, Olaa M Tork, Moshira A Rateb, Hanaa Z Yassin, Zeinb A Al-refaie, Ibrahim M Ibrahim, Samy M Elawa, Laila A Rashed, and Noha A Afifi Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 70–78. Published online 2008 August 7. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010070.PMCID: PMC2570581 Influence of Coronary Artery Stenosis Severity and Coronary Collateralization on Extent of Chronic Myocardial Scar: Insights from Quantitative Coronary Angiography and Delayed-Enhancement MRI Daniel Bexell, Randolph M Setser, Paul Schoenhagen, Michael L Lieber, Sorin J Brener, Thomas B Ivanc, Eva M Balazs, Thomas P O`Donnell, Arthur E Stillman, Håkan Arheden, Galen S Wagner, and Richard D White Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 79–86. Published online 2008 September 10. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010079.PMCID: PMC2627523 Coronary Artery Calcium Scores: Current Thinking and Clinical Applications Anil George and Assad Movahed Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 87–92. Published online 2008 September 18. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010087.PMCID: PMC2627524 Management of Cardiac Involvement in NeuroMuscular Diseases: Review Rachida Bouhouch, Tarik Elhouari, Latifa Oukerraj, Ibtissam Fellat, Jamila Zarzur, Rajaa Bennani, and Mhamed Arharbi Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 93–96. Published online 2008 October 22. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010093.PMCID: PMC2627531 The Value of p-Value in Biomedical Research Demosthenes B Panagiotakos Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 97–99. Published online 2008 November 18. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010097.PMCID: PMC2627527 The Impact of Lower Extremity Venous Ulcers due to Chronic Venous Insufficiency on Quality of Life Sotirios A Koupidis, Kosmas I Paraskevas, Vassilios Stathopoulos, and Dimitri P Mikhailidis Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 105–109. Published online 2008 November 28. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010105.PMCID: PMC2627528 Stroke from A Large Left Atrial Myxoma Hitoshi Hirose, Benjamin A Youdelman, and John W. C Entwistle Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 115–117. Published online 2008 December 16. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010115.PMCID: PMC2627525 Stenosis and Aneurysm of Coronary Arteries in A Patient with Behcet’s Disease Hammami Sonia, Ben Hamda Khaldoun, Mahjoub Sylvia, Maatoug Faouzi, Gamra Habib, and Ben Farhat Mohamed Open Cardiovasc Med J. 2008; 2: 118–120. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.2174/1874192400802010118.PMCID: PMC2627529 |