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• Placebo and nocebo in cardiovascular health: implications for healthcare, research, and the doctor-patient relationship.

  Despite treatments proven effective by sound study designs and robust end points, placebos remain integral to elicit effective medical care. The authe…

  Authors: Brian Olshansky

  Source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2007 Jan 30

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• Heart rate predicts outcomes in an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator population.

  BACKGROUND: Elevated heart rate (HR) is associated with adverse cardiovascular events and total mortality in the general population and in individuals…

  Authors: Mastaneh Ahmadi-Kashani, David J Kessler, John Day, T Jared Bunch, Kira Q Stolen, Scott Brown, Salam Sbaity, Brian Olshansky, INTRINSIC RV Study Investigators

  Source: Circulation. 2009 Nov 24

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• Is dual-chamber programming inferior to single-chamber programming in an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator? Results of the INTRINSIC RV (Inhibition of Unnecessary RV Pacing With AVSH in ICDs) study.

  BACKGROUND: The INTRINSIC RV (Inhibition of Unnecessary RV Pacing with AVSH in ICDs) study tested the hypothesis that dual-chamber rate-responsive (DD…

  Authors: Brian Olshansky, John D Day, Stephen Moore, Lawrence Gering, Murray Rosenbaum, Maureen McGuire, Scott Brown, Darin R Lerew

  Source: Circulation. 2007 Jan 2

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• Syncope predicts the outcome of cardiomyopathy patients: analysis of the SCD-HeFT study.

  OBJECTIVES: The outcome of congestive heart failure (CHF) patients with syncope is understood incompletely. BACKGROUND: We analyzed data from patients…

  Authors: Brian Olshansky, Jeanne E Poole, George Johnson, Jill Anderson, Anne S Hellkamp, Douglas Packer, Daniel B Mark, Kerry L Lee, Gust H Bardy, SCD-HeFT Investigators

  Source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2008 Apr 1

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• Heart failure and sudden death in patients with tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy and recurrent tachycardia.

  BACKGROUND: Tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy is a reversible cause of heart failure. We hypothesized that although left ventricular ejection fractio…

  Authors: Pamela Nerheim, Sally Birger-Botkin, Lubna Piracha, Brian Olshansky

  Source: Circulation. 2004 Jul 20

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• Sex differences in the relationship between amiodarone use and the need for permanent pacing in patients with atrial fibrillation.

  BACKGROUND: Amiodarone use was associated with an increased need for pacemaker insertion in a retrospective study of patients with atrial fibrillation…

  Authors: Vidal Essebag, Matthew R Reynolds, Tom Hadjis, Robert Lemery, Brian Olshansky, Alfred E Buxton, Mark E Josephson, Peter Zimetbaum

  Source: Archives of internal medicine. 2007 Aug 13-27

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• Reduction in ventricular tachyarrhythmias with statins in the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial (MADIT)-II.

  OBJECTIVES: We evaluated whether statins have anti-arrhythmic effects by exploring the association of statin use with appropriate implantable cardiove…

  Authors: Anant K Vyas, Hongsheng Guo, Arthur J Moss, Brian Olshansky, Scott A McNitt, W Jackson Hall, Wojciech Zareba, Jonathan S Steinberg, Avi Fischer, Jeremy Ruskin,…

  Source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2006 Feb 21

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• Wide QRS, narrow QRS: what's the difference?

  Authors: Brian Olshansky

  Source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2005 Jul 19

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• Interrelationships between the autonomic nervous system and atrial fibrillation.

  Mechanisms responsible for atrial fibrillation are not completely understood but the autonomic nervous system is a potentially potent modulator of the…

  Authors: Brian Olshansky

  Source: Progress in cardiovascular diseases. 2005 Jul-Aug

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• Are transthoracic echocardiographic parameters associated with atrial fibrillation recurrence or stroke? Results from the Atrial Fibrillation Follow-Up Investigation of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) study.

  OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the associations of transthoracic echocardiographic parameters with recurrent atrial fibrillatio…

  Authors: Brian Olshansky, Eliot N Heller, L Brent Mitchell, Mary Chandler, William Slater, Martin Green, Michael Brodsky, Patrick Barrell, H Leon Greene

  Source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2005 Jun 21

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