Contents


Editorial


The Negative Effect of Obamacare on Health Care in Ohio Sylvan Lee Weinberg, MD, MACC


Five Years On Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery in 2011 and Beyond


Denton A Cooley, MD and Ross M Reul, MD A Look Back at “The Management of Heart Failure 5 Years Hence”


Carl V Leier, MD and Garrie J Haas, MD Original Contributions


Should a Cardiologist be the Principal Attending Physician or the Consultant to a Hospitalist or General Internist for Cardiovascular Disease Admissions?


George Everett, MD, MS and Nizam Uddin, PhD


Predisposing Factors, Demographics, Angiographic Features, and the Possible Role of Inflammation in Coronary Perforations—A 10-year Single-center Experience


Preeti Chandra, MD, Saurav Chatterjee, MD, Nishant Koradia, MD, Deepak Thekkoott, MD, Bilal Malik, MD, FACP, FACC, FSCAI, Robert Frankel, MD, FACC and Jacob Shani, MD, FACP, FACC, FSCAI


Urine Albumin to Creatinine Ratio and Echocardiographic Left Ventricular Structure and Function in Patients with Essential Hypertension


Rohola Hemmati, MD, Mojgan Gharipour, MSc, Hasan Shemirani, MD, Alireza Khosravi, MD and Elham Khosravi, MD


Protective Effect of Carvedilol in Cardiomyopathy Caused by Anthracyclines in Patients Suffering from Breast Cancer and Lymphoma


Rezvanie Salehi, MD, Bijan Zamani, MD, Ali Esfehani, MD, Samad Ghafari, MD, Mohsen Abasnezhad, MD and Mohamad Goldust, MD


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