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American Heart Hospital Journal 2008 Le Jacq
Volume 6 Issue 1 (Winter 2008)



Accountability and Transparency in Medical Publishing: Position and Policies of Le Jacq on Authorship, Acknowledgments, Conflicts of Interest, and Secondary and Redundant Publication (p 5-8)
Gene P. Snyder, Elizabeth B. Ferretti, Nanette K. Wenger, John E. Strobeck, Marc A. Silver, James R. Sowers, Marguerite M. Engler, Ezra A. Amsterdam, Sylvan Lee Weinberg, Lawrence Charles Parish, Marvin Moser

An Affordable Physician- and Consumer-Friendly Health Care System: 2008 Democratic and Republican Presidential Candidates' Views (p 9-11)
Regina E. Herzlinger

Specialized Centers and Systems for Heart Attack Care (p 14-20)
Dean J. Kereiakes

Drug-Eluting Stents for Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis: Case Selection and Technical Issues (p 21-29)
Seung-Jung Park, Duk-Woo Park

In New York State, Do More Percutaneous Coronary Interventions Mean Fewer or More Complex Referrals to Cardiac Surgeons? (p 30-36)
Thomas R. McLean

Clinical Correlates of Very High Brain Natriuretic Peptide Levels in Hospitalized Patients (p 37-41)
Florim Cuculi, Brigitte Walz, Michel Zuber, Markus Roos, Paul Erne

Differences in Echocardiographic Indices Between Patients With Partial and Advanced Interatrial Conduction Delay (p 42-47)
Vignendra Ariyarajah, Jaxon Fernandes, Sirin Apiyasawat, David H. Spodick

William Osler, Maude Abbott, Paul Dudley White, and Helen Taussig: The Origins of Congenital Heart Disease in North America (p 51-56)
Charles F. Wooley, Pamela J. Miller

Incidental Finding on Computed Tomography of a Large Hiatal Hernia Causing Hypotension (p 57-59)
Edward Passen, Samuel Wann

Situs Inversus With Dextrocardia in the Nuclear Lab (p 60-62)
Gregory S. Thomas, David T. Kawanishi

How Many Leaflets Does That Valve Have? Diagnosis and Significance in Congenital Aortic Valve Disease (p 63-67)
Karen K. Stout, Alan S. Pearlman

Effects of Severe Hyperkalemia (p 68-68)
David H. Spodick