Brief reports

• Usefulness of NT-ProBNP as a Biomarker of Clinical Status in Outpatients With Chronic Heart Failure

  Jesús M Casado, Ana Díaz, Carmen Suárez

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2008;61:206-10

• Current Surgical Treatment of Calcified Aortic Stenosis

  Francisco González-Vílchez, José A Vázquez de Prada, Francisco Nistal, Manuel Cobo, Cristina Ruisánchez, Miguel Casanova, Miguel Llano, José A Gutiérrez

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2008;61:84-7

• Transient Cortical Blindness Following Cardiac Catheterization: An Alarming but Infrequent Complication With a Good Prognosis

  Juan García de Lara, José M Vázquez-Rodríguez, Jorge Salgado-Fernández, Ramón Calviño-Santos, Nicolás Vázquez-González, Alfonso Castro-Beiras

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2008;61:88-90

• Late Failure of Left Ventricular Leads Stabilized Using the Retained Guidewire Technique in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

  Elena Arbelo, Antonio García-Quintana, Eduardo Caballero, Antonio Delgado, Celestina Amador, Javier Suárez de Lezo, Marta Díaz-Escofet, Alfonso Medina

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2008;61:91-4

• Nuclear Changes and p62 Expression in Ischemic and Dilated Cardiomyopathy

  Raquel Cortés, Manuel Portolés, Esther Roselló-Lletí, Luis Martínez-Dolz, Luis Almenar, Antonio Salvador, Miguel Rivera

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:1319-23

• Prognostic Significance of Creatinine Clearance Rate in Patients With Heart Failure and Normal Serum Creatinine

  Elisabet Zamora, Josep Lupón, Agustín Urrutia, Beatriz González, Dolores Mas, Crisanto Díez, Salvador Altimir, Vicente Valle

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:1315-8

• The Importance of Investigating the Internal Thoracic Artery Before Coronary Artery Surgery in Leriche's Syndrome

  María C Ferrer, Isabel Calvo, Juan Sánchez-Rubio, Gabriel Galache, José A Diarte, Antonela Lukic, Ana Portolés, Luis Placer

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:1198-201

• Microalbuminuria Accounts for the Increased Vascular Disease Risk in Diabetic Patients With Metabolic Syndrome

  José A Gimeno-Orna, Edmundo Molinero-Herguedas, Luis M Lou-Arnal, Beatriz Boned-Juliani, Tomás Labrador-Fuster, Miguel Guiu-Campos

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:1202-5

• Outcome of Pericardiectomy for Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis

  Ana M Peset, Vicens Martí, Montserrat Cardona, José Montiel, Josep Guindo, José M Domínguez de Rozas

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:1097-101

• Utility of the Minnesota Living With Heart Failure Questionnaire for Assessing Quality of Life in Heart Failure Patients

  Cèsar Morcillo, Ofelia Aguado, Jordi Delás, Francesc Rosell

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:1093-6

• Initial Experience With the Impella Left Ventricular Assist Device for Postcardiotomy Cardiogenic Shock and Unprotected Left Coronary Artery Angioplasty in Patients With a Low Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction

  Víctor Bautista-Hernández, Francisco Gutiérrez, Eduardo Pinar, Juan R Gimeno, José M Arribas, Julio García-Puente, Victor G Ray, Ramón Arcas, Mariano Valdés

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:984-7

• Safety of Diagnostic Transradial Catheterization in Patients Undergoing Long-Term Anticoagulation With Coumarin Derivatives

  Marcelo Sanmartín, Begoña Pereira, Rosana Rúa, Sofía Vázquez, Filiberto Hervert, José A Baz, Andrés Íñiguez

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:988-91

• Heart Failure Units in Spain: State of the Art

  Elisabet Zamora, Josep Lupón

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:874-7

• Clinical Experience With Levosimendan in the Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital

  Pere Llorens-Soriano, José Carbajosa-Dalmau, José Fernández-Cañadas, José Murcia-Zaragoza, Vicente Climent-Payá, Fadoua Laghzaoui, Santiago Diéguez-Zaragoza, Rafael Carrasco-Moreno

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:878-82

• Creatinine Clearance and Contrast Nephropathy in Patients With Normal Creatinine Levels

  José A de Agustín, Rocío Carda, María del C Manzano, Borja Ruiz-Mateos, Juan C García-Rubira, Antonio Fernández-Ortiz, Isidre Vilacosta, Carlos Macaya

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:772-6

• Interleukin-4 and Cardiac Fibrosis in Patients With Heart Failure

  Esther Roselló-Lletí, Miguel Rivera, Vicente Bertomeu, Raquel Cortés, Alejandro Jordán, Andrés González-Molina

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:777-80

• Reconstruction of the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Using a Medtronic Freestyle Aortic Root Bioprosthesis

  Víctor X Mosquera, Francisco Portela, Claudio Zavanella, Alberto Juffé, Inés Raposo, Beatriz Bouzas

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:656-9

• Comparison of the Degree of Right Atrial Opacification Seen on Intracardiac Echocardiography Following Femoral or Antecubital Injection of Saline Contrast

  Daniel Saura, Arcadi García-Alberola, Rafael Florenciano, Gonzalo de la Morena, Juan J Sánchez-Muñoz, Federico Soria, Belén Redondo-Bermejo, Mariano Valdés-Chávarri

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:660-3

• Predictive Value of Differential Pulse Pressure in the Diagnosis of Silent Myocardial Ischemia in Patients With Type-2 Diabetes

  Manuel J Gómez, Ildefonso Roldán, José L Díez, Katherine García, Darío Sanmiguel, Antonio Salvador, Adolfo Rincón de Arellano, Antonio Hernández-Mijares

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:543-7

• Transcatheter Closure of Postinfarction Ventricular Septal Defects Using Amplatzer Devices

  Jacek Bialkowski, Malgorzata Szkutnik, Jacek Kusa, Zbigniew Kalarus, Mariusz Gasior, Roman Przybylski, Pawel Banaszak, Marian Zembala

  Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007;60:548-51