Sommaire

• • ·Contents

    Page :iii

    
• • ·Contents contd.

    Page :v

    
• • ·Sympathetic Neurobiology of Orthostatic Intolerance: A systematic Biochemical and Molecular Analysis of Patients with Vasovagal Syncope, Low Supine Systolic Blood Pressure and Postural Tachycardia Syndrome

    Page :S2

    Gautam Vaddadi, Elisabeth Lambert, Ling Guo, Nina Eikelis, Florentia Socratous, Garry Jennings, Gavin Lambert, Murray Esler

    
• • ·The Anti-inflammatory Capacity of Human High Density Lipoproteins (HDL) is Significantly Enhanced after Infusion of Reconstituted HDL “In Vivo”

    Page :S2

    Sanjay Patel, Brian Drew, Shirley Nakhla, Philip Barter, Kerry-Anne Rye, Bronwyn Kingwell, David Celermajer

     
• • ·Late Onset Antibody-mediated Rejection and Endothelial Localisation of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor are Associated with Development of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy

    Page :S3

    Julianne Bayliss, Michael Bailey, Angeline Leet, Napier Thomson, Catriona McLean

    
• • ·Rescue of Diabetes-related Impairment of Angiogenesis by Gene Silencing of Thioredoxin-interacting Protein

    Page :S3

    Louise Dunn, Andrew Buckle, Martin K.C. Ng

     
• • ·A Novel Role for Androgens in Angiogenesis and Endothelial Progenitor Cell Mobilisation

    Page :S4

    Daniel Sieveking, Patrick Lim, Martin Ng, David Celermajer

    
• • ·A Novel Index of Pulmonary Flow Reserve Detects Pulmonary Microvascular Destruction Prior to the Development of Pulmonary Hypertension—Implications for Diagnosis of Early Pulmonary Vascular Disease

    Page :S4

    Rahn Ilsar, Chirapan Chawantanpipat, Kim Hoe Chan, Richard Waugh, Annemarie Hennessy, David Stephen Celermajer, Martin K.C. Ng

     
• • ·Heart Failure Patient Depression Predicted by Both Partner Depression and Caregiving Insensitivity: The Two Hearts Study

    Page :S5

    Andrew Stewart, Paul Dudgeon, David Hare

    
• • ·Delayed Termination after Electrical Cardioversion: Insights into Mechanisms Maintaining Atrial Fibrillation

    Page :S6

    Christopher X. Wong, Anthony G. Brooks, Martin K. Stiles, Bobby John, Dennis H. Lau, Hany Dimitri, Ross L. Roberts-Thomson, Pawel Kuklik, Lorraine Mackenzie, Scott R. Willoughby, Glenn D. Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Is Your Job Killing You? : Demographic and Risk Factor Differences in Cardiac Patients based on Occupation

    Page :S6

    Robert Zecchin, Yeng Chai, Gail Lindsay, Julie Hungerford, Justine Thelander, Mary Owen, A. Robert Denniss

    
• • ·High Blood Pressure in the Australian Population: Results of a National Blood Pressure Screening Day

    Page :S7

    Melinda Carrington, Garry Jennings, Simon Stewart

    
• • ·Thermochromic Myocardial Phantom Provides High Spatial and Temporal Resolution of RF Ablations

    Page :S7

    Sujitha Thavapalachandran, M.A. Barry, Toon-wei Lim, Karen Byth, David Ross, Pramesh Kovoor, Aravinda Thiagalingam

     
• • ·Anchoring of Spiral Waves by Inhomogeneity of Anisotropic Conduction

    Page :S7

    Pawel Kuklik, Jan Jacek Zebrowski, Lukasz Szumowski, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Spiral Wave Breakup in Excitable Media Induced by Inhomogeneity of Anisotropic Conduction

    Page :S8

    Pawel Kuklik, Jan Jacek Zebrowski, Lukasz Szumowski, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Restoration of Sinus Rhythm by Cardioversion is Associated With Increased Arterial Stiffness: Implications for Thrombogenesis

    Page :S8

    Anisha Prabhu, Christopher Wong, Ross Roberts-Thomson, Matthew Worthley, Lorraine Mackenzie, Dennis Lau, Bobby John, Martin Stiles, Anthony Brooks, Glenn Young, Prashanthan Sanders, Scott Willoughby

     
• • ·Effects of Short-term High Blood Pressure on Atrial Remodelling in an Ovine Model of Hypertension

    Page :S9

    Dennis H. Lau, Lorraine Mackenzie, Michael Worthington, Darren J. Kelly, Pawel Kuklik, David A. Saint, James Edwards, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Noncontact Catheter Mapping in an Ovine Model of Acute Ischaemic Ventricular Fibrillation

    Page :S9

    Anand Ganesan, Gary Wu, Kevin Liou, Stuart Thomas

    
• • ·Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: A Life Saving Therapy for Some, a Hazard for Others

    Page :S9

    John Betts, Robert England, Jeffrey Wright, Shaun Holden, Daniel Wright, James Lindemann, Russell Denman

    
• • ·Index

    Page :S10

    
• • ·Out-of-phase Vs. Unipolar Ablation using Multiple Electrode Cardiac Catheters for Creating Continuous Lesions

    Page :S10

    James Panos

     
• • ·Bipolar Voltage in the Human Atrium: Is it Rate Dependent?

    Page :S10

    Caroline Medi, Jonathan Kalman, Archer Broughton, Peter Kistler

    
• • ·Electrophysiological Relationship of the Inferior Left Atrium and Coronary Sinus in the Normal Heart

    Page :S11

    Lorraine Mackenzie, Douglas Kelly, Dennis Lau, Anthony Brooks, Pawel Kuklik, Martin Stiles, Glenn Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Electrophysiological Characterization of the Inferior Left Atrium and Coronary Sinus Following Prolonged AF

    Page :S11

    Lorraine Mackenzie, Douglas Kelly, Dennis Lau, Anthony Brooks, Martin Stiles, Glenn Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Impact of Coronary Sinus Flow on Lesion Morphology during RF Ablations

    Page :S12

    Sujitha Thavapalachandran, M.A. Tony Barry, Toon-Wei Lim, Karen Byth, David Ross, Pramesh Kovoor, Aravinda Thiagalingam

     
• • ·The Clinical Spectrum of Clozapine-induced Myocarditis

    Page :S12

    Kathlyn Ronaldson, John McNeil, Andrew Taylor, Paul Fitzgerald, Duncan Topliss

    
• • ·LV Dysplasia in the Absence of Complex Congenital Heart Disease: A New Entity?

    Page :S12

    Tanya Wood, James Challen, Wendy Strugnell, Mark Hansen, Richard Slaughter

    
• • ·Long Axis Left Ventricular Systolic and Diastolic Excursion in Thalassaemia Major—Divergent Relations with Iron Overload

    Page :S13

    Bon Chou, Lesley Donelan, Don K. Bowden, Roger E. Peverill

    
• • ·Insights into Mitral Annular Early Diastolic Motion by Simultaneous Assessment of the Extent, Peak Velocity (E′) and Duration of Excursion

    Page :S13

    Bon Chou, Lesley Donelan, Philip M. Mottram, Stuart Moir, John S. Gelman, Roger E. Peverill

    
• • ·Determinants of Myocardial Release of Stromal Derived Factor-1 and Stem Cell Factor

    Page :S14

    Justin Mariani, Tanneale Marshall, Samara Finch, David Kaye

    
• • ·Cellular and Molecular Effects of Atrial Fibrillation on the Ventricular Myocardium

    Page :S14

    Fatemah Amirahmadi, Tanneale Marshall, Yinan Zhang, David Kaye

    
• • ·Is Fibrosis an Important Contributor to Clozapine-induced Cardiomyopathy?

    Page :S14

    Rachel Denver, Bing Wang, Jennifer Cooke, Paul Katz, Gish New, Gary Gordon, Henry Krum

    
• • ·Isovolumic Acceleration Reflects Changes in Isovolumic but not Ejection Intraventricular Pressure Gradients in a Lamb Model of Cardio-pulmonary Bypass

    Page :S15

    Paul Brooks, Poongundran Namachivayam, Lara Shekerdemian, Stephen Horton, Andrew Cochrane, Michael Cheung, Daniel Penny, Joseph Smolich

    
• • ·ACE Inhibition in Experimental Chronic Renal Failure Improves Renal Function but not Cardiac Fibrosis or Function

    Page :S15

    Luke J. Burchill, Elena Velksoka, Rachael Dean, Karen Griggs, Louise Burrell

    
• • ·Reconstituted High-density Lipoproteins (rHDL), Lipid-free Apolipoprotein A-I (lipid-free apoA-I) and Plasma HDL Inhibit Tubulogenesis in an Endothelial Cell-specific Model of Angiogenesis

    Page :S16

    Sanjay Patel, Daniel Sieveking, Philip Barter, Kerry-Anne Rye, David Celermajer, Martin Ng

    
• • ·Minimum Number of Cardiac Cycles Required to assess Endothelial Function in Subjects with Atrial Fibrillation

    Page :S16

    Christopher X. Wong, Adam J. Nelson, Matthew I. Worthley, Sean D. Jolly, Ben K. Dundon, Anisha Prabhu, Stephen G. Worthley, Prashanthan Sanders, Scott R. Willoughby

    
• • ·Arterial Stiffness Evaluation by SphygmoCor and Arteriograph

    Page :S16

    Margareta Ring, Maria J. Eriksson, Parastou Farahnak, Lars-Ove Farnebo, Inga-Lena Nilsson, Kenneth Caidahl

    
• • ·The Role of MRI in Diagnosis and Assessment of Chronic Thrombo-embolic Pulmonary Hypertension

    Page :S17

    James Challen, Wendy Strugnell, Tanya Wood, Leanne Du, Richard Slaughter

    
• • ·The Role of Kynurenine as a Vasodilator in Septic Shock in Humans

    Page :S17

    Dechaboon (Bernie) Changsiri, David Celermajer, Yutang Wang, Clive Woolfe, Dorrilyn Rajbhandari, Anne Stirling, Roland Stocker

     
• • ·Infusion of Reconstituted HDL leads to Acute Changes in Human Atherosclerotic Plaque In Vivo

    Page :S18

    James Shaw, Alex Bobik, Peter Blombery, Dmitri Sviridov, Stuart Lyon, Anthony Dart

    
• • ·Radial, but not Carotid, Salbutamol: GTN Index is related to Endothelial Function

    Page :S18

    Kevin Cheng, Sarah Hope, Phillip Mottram, Ian Meredith, James Cameron

    
• • ·Digital Reactive Hyperaemia Response is related with Central Pulse Wave Velocity

    Page :S18

    Kevin Cheng, Sarah Hope, Phillip Mottram, Ian Meredith, James Cameron

    
• • ·Electrospun Elastin-based Vascular Grafts

    Page :S19

    Steven Wise, Michael Byrom, Paul Bannon, Anthony Weiss, Martin Ng

     
• • ·Elastin-coated ePTFE Vascular Conduit

    Page :S19

    Michael Byrom, Steve Wise, Paul Bannon, Anthony Weiss, Martin Ng

    
• • ·Index

    Page :S19

    
• • ·Dysfunctional AT2R in Radial Arteries of Diabetic Patients

    Page :S19

    Anthony Zulli, Robert Widdop, Simon Moten, Alex Rosalion, George Matalanis, Brian Buxton, David Hare

     
• • ·Strikingly Different Angiogenic Properties of Endothelial Progenitor Cell Subpopulations: Insights from a Novel Human Angiogenesis Assay

    Page :S20

    Daniel Sieveking, Andrew Buckle, David Celermajer, Martin Ng

    
• • ·Percutaneous Treatment of Iliac and Superficial Femoral Artery Stenoses is a Safe and Effective Way of Treating Patients with Symptom Limiting Claudication and Lower Limb Ischaemia

    Page :S20

    Rahul Sharma, Peter Blombery, Stuart Lyon, James Shaw

    
• • ·Altered Angiotensin II Receptor Expression and Disposition of Circulating Progenitor Cells in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm

    Page :S21

    Malcolm West, M. Sata, D. Fukuda, Jennifer West, Maria Nataatmadja

    
• • ·Over-expression of Matrix Metalloproteinase-10 is Associated with Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell loss in Marfan Syndrome and Bicuspid Aortic Valve Aneurysm

    Page :S21

    Hong Lien Do, Maria Nataatmadja, Malcolm West

    
• • ·Sex-based Differences in the Pattern of Hypertension-related Heart Disease in a Black African Urban Community: The Heart of Soweto Study

    Page :S21

    Simon Stewart, Elena Libhaber, Melinda Carrington, Karen Sliwa

    
• • ·Prevalence of Obesity and Hypertension in Urban and Rural Communities: A Comparison of South African and Australian Risk Factor Prevalence Data

    Page :S22

    Melinda Carrington, Simon Stewart, Kemi Tibazarwa, Karen Sliwa

    
• • ·A Broad Spectrum of Heart Disease and Risk Factors in a Black Urban Population in South Africa: The Heart of Soweto Study

    Page :S22

    Simon Stewart, Lucas Ntyintyane, Kemi Tibazarwa, Anthony Becker, Karen Sliwa

    
• • ·Hospital Length of Stay in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Page :S22

    Nick Andrianopoulos, Stephen J. Duffy, Angela L. Brennan, Gishel New, Andrew E. Ajani, David J. Clark, Nino Hay, Douglas Wong, Zahide Yildirim, Christopher Reid

    
• • ·CARDIAC-ARIA: Measuring the Accessibility to Cardiovascular Services in Rural and Remote Australia Via Applied Geographical Spatial Technology (GIS)

    Page :S23

    Robyn Clark, Andrew Tonkin, David Wilkinson, Kerena Eckert, Neil Coffee, Peter Astles, Marianne Milligan, Simon Stewart

    
• • ·Acute Effects of Red Bull on Platelet and Endothelial Function

    Page :S23

    Paolo DeSciscio, Anisha Prabhu, Matthew Worthley, Ross Roberts-Thomson, Prashanthan Sanders, Scott Willoughby

     
• • ·Healthy Hearts-Beyond City Limits: Results of a Pilot Screening Program to Identify the Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Regional Victoria

    Page :S24

    Melinda Carrington, Geraldine Lee, Garry Jennings, Simon Stewart

    
• • ·Depression Scale-Short Form: Validation of a New 60 Second Depression Screening Tool for Cardiac Patients

    Page :S24

    William Shi, Nibo Wu, Andrew Stewart, Deidre Toia, David Hare

    
• • ·Can Indigenous Cardiac Health be Enhanced Through a State-Wide Capacity Building Approach?

    Page :S25

    Rohan Corpus, David Tibby, Joyce Holley

    
• • ·Gender Differences in Quality of Life Indices Amongst Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

    Page :S25

    Rosanna Tavella, Natalie Cutri, Robert Adams, John Francis Beltrame

    
• • ·Gender Differences Amongst Patients with Chest Pain and Non-Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease

    Page :S25

    Rosanna Tavella, Natalie Cutri, Robert Adams, John Francis Beltrame

    
• • ·Rapid Normalisation Following Percutaneous Secundum Atrial Septal Defect Device Closure. A Study Using The Relative Atrial Index (RAI)

    Page :S26

    Natalie Kelly, Darren Walters, Lisa Walters, Darryl Burstow, Gregory Scalia

     
• • ·How Should Strain Rate Imaging be Evaluated in the Sequential Follow-Up of Myocardial Performance?

    Page :S26

    Rodel Leano, Tony Stanton, Thomas Marwick

    
• • ·Assessment of Left Atrial Volume, Indexed Left Atrial Volume and Left Ventricular Mass Index Post Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement

    Page :S27

    Emma Ivens, Robert Moss, Bradley Munt, Christopher Thompson, Sanjeevan Pasuputi

    
• • ·Moderate Statin Therapy Does Not Change Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery Wall Thickness as Measured by High Resolution Transthoracic Echocardiography

    Page :S27

    Rebecca Perry, Majo Joseph, Derek Chew, Philip Aylward, Carmine De Pasquale

     
• • ·Effectiveness of Two-Dimensional Speckle Tracking Strain for Evaluation of Left Ventricular Systolic Function: A Comparison Against Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and 3D Echocardiography

    Page :S28

    Rae Duncan, Adam Nelson, Ben Dundon, Matthew Worthley, Cynthia Piantadosi, Michael Leung, Kerry Williams, Emilie Rasheed, Azfar Zaman, Stephen Worthley

    
• • ·The 17-Segment Regional Wall Motion Scoring Index may be Superior to Simpson’s Rule for the Calculation of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction

    Page :S28

    Rae Duncan, Ben Dundon, Adam Nelson, Patrick Disney, Kerry Williams, Emilie Rasheed, Michael Leung, Cynthia Piantadosi, Barry Cumberledge, Antoinette Kenny, Matthew Worthley, Azfar Zaman, Stephen Worthley

    
• • ·Can Speckle Tracking Assist in the Detection of Subclinical Myocardial Changes in Hypertensive Patients?

    Page :S29

    Amy Penhall, Rebecca Perry, Arduino Mangoni, Carmine De Pasquale, Derek Chew, Majo Joseph

    
• • ·Left Ventricular Torsion Parameters are Affected by Acute Changes in Preload and Afterload

    Page :S29

    Andrew T. Burns, Andre LaGerche, Don Mooney, David Prior, Andrew MacIsaac

    
• • ·Left Ventricular Untwisting is a Determinant of Early Diastolic Function

    Page :S29

    Andrew T. Burns, Andre LaGerche, Don Mooney, David Prior, Andrew MacIsaac

    
• • ·Myocardial Tissue Velocities Measured By Tissue Doppler Imaging and Two-Dimensional Speckle Tracking Are Not Comparable

    Page :S30

    Arnold C.T. Ng, Da T. Tran, Mark Newman, Christine Allman, Jane Vidaic, Krishna K. Kadappu, Anita Boyd, Liza Thomas, Dominic Y. Leung

     
• • ·Left Ventricular Systolic and Diastolic Function Determines Longitudinal Synchrony but not Radial Synchrony by Two-Dimensional Speckle Tracking Strain Imaging

    Page :S31

    Arnold C.T. Ng, Da T. Tran, Mark Newman, Jane Vidaic, Christine Allman, Sidney T. Lo, Andrew P. Hopkins, Dominic Y. Leung

    
• • ·Two-Dimensional Speckle Tracking is Superior to Tissue Doppler Imaging in Identifying Systolic Dyssynchrony After Myocardial Infarction

    Page :S31

    Arnold C.T. Ng, Da T. Tran, Mark Newman, Christine Allman, Jane Vidaic, Liza Thomas, Dominic Y. Leung

    
• • ·Evaluation of Possible Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia Using Cardiac MRI—A Single Centre Experience

    Page :S31

    Khang-Li Looi, Colin Edwards, Guy Armstrong, Hitesh Patel, Tony Scott, Hamish Hart, Jonathan Christiansen

    
• • ·Measurement of Temporal Heterogeneity as a Marker of Ischemia at Exercise Stress Echocardiography: Use of Contraction Front Mapping of Real-time 3D Echo

    Page :S32

    Carly Jenkins, Brian Haluska, Thomas H. Marwick

    
• • ·Hand-Held Ultrasound is Comparable to Lab-Based Ultrasound for the Assessment of Carotid Intima–media Thickness: A New Tool to Increase Cardiovascular Risk Assessment

    Page :S32

    Brian A. Haluska, Joseph Brown, Thomas H. Marwick

    
• • ·Independent Prognostic Values of Maximum Left Atrial Volume in a Large Consecutive Series of Patients Over a Long Follow-Up Period

    Page :S32

    Dominic Y. Leung, Cecilia Chi, Arnold C.T. Ng, Christine J. Allman, Jane Vidaic, Sidey T. Lo, Liza Thomas

    
• • ·Echocardiographic E/E_m is a Reproducible Measure of Left-Ventricular Filling Pressure

    Page :S33

    David Holland, James Sharman, Joseph Brown, Rodel Leano, Thomas Marwick

     
• • ·Peak Systolic Strain Rate During Stress Echocardiography is a Predictor of Mortality Independent of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Myocardial Ischaemia

    Page :S33

    Tony Stanton, Charlotte Bjork Ingul, James Hare, Rodel Leano, Thomas Marwick

    
• • ·The Effect of Age on the Correlation Between Coronary Calcium Score and Cardiac Computed Tomography Derived Conventional Atheroma Scores

    Page :S34

    Andy Yong, Austin Ng, Lloyd Ridley, Ben Freedman, Leonard Kritharides

    
• • ·An Acute Change in Blood Rheology Significantly Increases Myocardial Deformation

    Page :S34

    Joseph Brown, James Sharman, David Holland, Karam Kostner, Helen Fairweather, Thomas Marwick

    
• • ·Left Ventricular Hypertrophy is an Important Determinant of Myocardial Strain Response During Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography

    Page :S35

    Tony Stanton, Charlotte Bjork Ingul, James Hare, Rodel Leano, Thomas Marwick

    
• • ·Myocardial Strain as a Possible Marker of Subendocardial Ischaemia During Hypertensive Response to Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography

    Page :S35

    Tony Stanton, James Hare, Brian Haluska, Thomas Marwick

    
• • ·Microvascular Obstruction on Cardiac MRI after ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction Correlates with Biomarker Elevation

    Page :S35

    James Weaver, David Rees, Ananth Prasan, Jane McCrohon

    
• • ·Serial Doppler Echocardiography and Tissue Doppler Imaging Measurements can Accurately Detect Elevated Directly Measured Left Atrial Pressure in Chronic Heart Failure

    Page :S36

    Jay Ritzema, Mark Richards, Ian Crozier, Nicola Gardiner, Iain Melton, Robert Doughty, Neal Eigler, James Whiting, William T. Abraham, Richard Troughton

    
• • ·The Use of Transoesophageal Echocardiography to Determine Management in Stroke

    Page :S36

    Tanya Stewart, Keyvan Karimi Galougahi, Jessica Stewart, Chris Choong, Geoff Tofler

    
• • ·Can 3D Echocardiography be Used to Estimate the Power of Cardiac Function? A Functional Data Analysis

    Page :S37

    Katrina Poppe, Gillian Whalley, Helen Walsh, Rob Doughty, Chris Triggs

     
• • ·Three-Dimensional Transoesophageal Echocardiography is Superior to Conventional Mitral Valve Mapping for Location of Valve Pathology

    Page :S37

    Amy Penhall, Rebecca Perry, Cameron Bridgman, Majo Joseph

    
• • ·Subclinical Decline in Left Ventricular Systolic and Diastolic Function with Increasing Doses of Doxorubicin is Detectable Only by Tissue Doppler Imaging

    Page :S38

    Christine Allman, Arnold Ng, Liza Thomas, Dominic Leung

     
• • ·Can Tissue Doppler Derived Global S′ Velocity be Used as a Surrogate Marker of LV Systolic Function?

    Page :S38

    Paul Stoodley, Anne-Marie Seve, David Richards, Liza Thomas

    
• • ·Rotational Acquisition as Compared Normal Acquisition Reduces the Ionisizing Radiation and Contrast Dosage During Elective Diagnostic Coronary Angiography

    Page :S39

    Margaret Arstall, Joe Valente, Mark Corkill

    
• • ·Clinical outcomes following stress echocardiography within an open-access referral system in Australia

    Page :S39

    Jennifer Coller, Alex Adel, Celia Ting, Louise Roberts, Gishel New, Jennifer Cooke, P.M. Srivastava

    
• • ·The Clinical Utility of Tissue Velocity Imaging in the Assessment of Systolic Left Ventricular Function by the Novice Reporter in Critically Ill Patients

    Page :S39

    Darryl Leong, Dennis Wong, Rishi Puri, Suchi Khurana, Stephen Worthley, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·The Clinical Importance of Angle of Insonation with Respect to the Timing and Magnitude of Peak Systolic Mitral Annular Tissue Velocity

    Page :S40

    Darryl Leong, Dennis Wong, Rishi Puri, Suchi Khurana, Stephen Worthley, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Comparison of Cardiac MRI with TOE for the Assessment of Periaortic Pathology

    Page :S40

    Russell Anscombe, Wendy Strugnell, Jodie Harker, Emma Ivens, Darryl Burstow, Richard Slaughter

    
• • ·Does normal ageing alter right ventricular size and function?

    Page :S41

    Joseph Chiha, Anita Boyd, Liza Thomas

    
• • ·Accuracy of Non-Invasive Assessment of Pulmonary Vascular Resistance and Pulmonary Artery Systolic Pressure in Suspected Pulmonary Hypertension

    Page :S41

    Christine Jellis, Jamie Layland, Wendy Stevens, David Prior

    
• • ·Medium-Term Comparison of Atrial Size and Function Between Two Pulmonary Vein Isolation Ablation Patterns

    Page :S41

    Valerie A. See, Toon-Wei Lim, Stuart P. Thomas, David L. Ross, Liza Thomas

    
• • ·Does atrial size and function vary in paroxysmal versus chronic atrial fibrillation?

    Page :S42

    Angela Worthington, Liza Thomas

    
• • ·Chronological Physiological Alterations in Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy as Determined by PET

    Page :S42

    Calvin Hsieh, Socrates Angelides, Scott Evans, Ee-May Chia, John Jagger, Grayson Geary, Norman Sadick, Pramesh Kovoor

    
• • ·Myocardial Viability Studies in Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Page :S43

    Calvin Hsieh, Socrates Angelides, Scott Evans, Ee-May Chia, Norman Sadick, Pramesh Kovoor

    
• • ·Initial Clinical Experience with a Second Generation Echocardiographic Contrast Agent in Enhancing Left Ventricular Opacification and Evaluating Left Ventricular Morphology

    Page :S43

    David Platts, Russell Anscombe, Cathy West, Natalie Kelly, Darryl Burstow

    
• • ·Computerised Tomography Coronary Angiography in Patients with Chest Pain and Intermediate Pre-test Probability: Correlations with Stress Echocardiography

    Page :S43

    Dominic Y. Leung, Ramesh Paramsothy, Arnold C.T. Ng, Sidney T. Lo, Daniel Moses

    
• • ·Initial Experience with Automated Echocardiographic Tissue Tracking of the Mitral Annulus in Normal Subjects

    Page :S44

    Adèle Pope, Katrina Poppe, Helen Walsh, Andrew Yeadon, Georgina Dew, Rob Doughty, Gillian Whalley

     
• • ·Echocardiographic Left Atrial Volumes are Optimally Indexed to Lean Body Mass to Adjust for Differences in Body Size

    Page :S45

    Gillian Whalley, Greg Gamble, Helen Walsh, Philippa Cross, James Aoina, Aidan Gill, Jith Somaratne, Rob Doughty

     
• • ·Progression of Diastolic Dysfunction in Type II Diabetes is Associated with Blood Pressure, Weight Gain and Increasing LV Mass

    Page :S45

    James L. Hare, Rodel Leano, Leanne Jeffries, Melodie Downey, Matthew Hordern, Thomas H. Marwick

    
• • ·Pre-Clinical Myocardial Dysfunction is Detected by Strain/Strain Rate Before Conventional Measures in Patients Undergoing Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatment With Trastuzumab (Herceptin™)

    Page :S46

    James L. Hare, Rodel Leano, Carly Jenkins, Thomas H. Marwick

    
• • ·Exercise Strain Rate Response is Abnormal in Apparently Healthy Diabetic Hearts

    Page :S46

    Matthew D. Hordern, Rodel L. Leano, Brian A. Haluska, Thomas H. Marwick

    
• • ·Masked Hypertension is Common in Patients with a Hypertensive Response to Exercise and may Help to Explain Increased Cardiovascular Risk in this Population

    Page :S47

    James L. Hare, James Sharman, Scott Thomas, Rodel Leano, Thomas H. Marwick

    
• • ·Reproducibility of Adenosine Stress Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Normalised Upslope Analysis in Patients with Severe Coronary Artery Disease

    Page :S47

    Sharon Chih, Peter Macdonald, Michael Fenely, Matthew Law, Robert Graham, Jane McCrohon

    
• • ·Assessment of Right Ventricular Function by Cardiac MRI: A Comparison of Multiple Techniques

    Page :S48

    Leighton Kearney, Gerard Smith, Bryan Wai, Emma Hornsey, Nagesh Anavekar, Piyush Srivastava, Maurice Molan

    
• • ·Cardiac CT Angiography for Detection of Coronary Artery Disease—Prevalence of Incidental Findings

    Page :S48

    A. Moynagh, J. Lainchbury, S. Macdonald, R. Keenan, R. Troughton

    
• • ·Multimodality Imaging—Its use in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Biventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction in a Patient with LEOPARD Syndrome

    Page :S48

    A. Moynagh, C. O’Donnell, K. Finucane, I. Crozier

    
• • ·Accurate and Reproducible Quantification of Global and Regional LV Function with Tissue Tracking based Automated Function Imaging (AFI) in Echocardiography

    Page :S49

    Alexander Sasse, Alexander Schuh

    
• • ·Impact of Symptom to Reperfusion Time on Left Ventricular Diastolic Properties after Primary Angioplasty for Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Page :S49

    Sandhir Prasad, Valerie See, Paula Brown, Tanya McKay, Karen Byth, Pramesh Kovoor, Liza Thomas

    
• • ·Assessment of Long-Term Consequences of Composite Bentall and Aortic Valve Replacement using Dual-source 64-slice Multi-detector Computed Tomography

    Page :S50

    Austin Chin Chwan Ng, Lloyd Ridley, Andy Sze Chiang Yong, Paul Bannon, Leonard Kritharides, John Yiannikas

    
• • ·Magnetic Resonance Imaging Pulmonary Flows Versus Nuclear Medicine Perfusion Scanning: Are Both Necessary?

    Page :S50

    T. Glenie, B. Cowan, M. Rutland, T. Hornung, C. Occleshaw

    
• • ·Diastolic Dysfunction during Acute Myocardial Infarction—A Quantitative Tissue Doppler Assessment

    Page :S50

    Sandhir Prasad, Valerie See, Paula Brown, Tanya McKay, Karen Byth, Pramesh Kovoor, Liza Thomas

    
• • ·Optimal Reconstruction Phase For Demonstration of Maximal Coronary Sinus Area by Cardiac Computed Tomography

    Page :S51

    Rohan Poulter, Camilla Wainwright, John F. Younger, Melanie Fuentes

     
• • ·Increase in Left Atrial Volume in Mitral Regurgitation is mediated by an Increase in Passive Emptying with no Increase in Conduit or Active Emptying Volumes

    Page :S51

    Jane Vidaic, Ee-May Chia, Anita Boyd, Liza Thomas, Dominic Y. Leung

    
• • ·Diagnostic Features of Endomyocardial Fibrosis by Cardiac MRI

    Page :S52

    Christian Hamilton-Craig, Jodi Harker, Wendy Strugnell, Richard Slaughter

    
• • ·The Role of Statistical Process Control in Cardiac Catheterisation to Influence Operator Performance

    Page :S52

    John Rivers, James Cameron, Ian Smith

    
• • ·Left Atrial Contraction in Thalassaemia Major—Relation with Iron overload

    Page :S53

    Bon Chou, Lesley Donelan, Don K. Bowden, Roger E. Peverill

    
• • ·Myocardial T2* Estimation Techniques in Iron Overload Disease: Relationship with Left Ventricular Function

    Page :S53

    Michael Leung, Angelo Carbone, Greg Brown, Stephen Worthley

    
• • ·Echocardiography Velocity Vector Imaging for Assessing Right Ventricular Function and its Relation to MRI Volumetric and Visual Assessment

    Page :S53

    Chiew Wong, Michelle Butler, Heinz Pluger, Andrew Taylor

    
• • ·Echocardiographic Values in Healthy Elderly People

    Page :S54

    Josephine Harris, Ting Ting Wang, Sharon Mackintosh, Joanna Spry, Christine Rudd, Andrew Russell

    
• • ·Cardiac Magnetic Resonance—The Gold Standard Investigation for Mitral Regurgitation Severity?

    Page :S54

    Andrew To, Andrew Kerr, Chris Occleshaw, Ruvin Gabriel, Irene Zeng, Brett Cowan, Alistair Young, Gillian Whalley, Ralph Stewart

    
• • ·Optimisation of Left Ventricular Mass Assessment in a Population of Diverse Body Habitus

    Page :S55

    Helen Walsh, Robert Doughty, Greg Gamble, James Aoina, Phillipa Cross, Aidan Gill, Gillian Whalley

    
• • ·Systematic Error in Aortic Regurgitant Fraction Measurements by Velocity-encoded Cine Imaging in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance

    Page :S55

    Andrew To, Andrew Kerr, Irene Zeng, Alistair Young, Brett Cowan, Ralph Stewart

    
• • ·MRI Findings in Acute Myopericarditis

    Page :S55

    Jonathan Ginns, Richard Slaughter, Mark Hansen

    
• • ·Angiographic Assessment of Right Ventricular Morphology

    Page :S56

    Jamil Ahmed, Warren Smith, Christopher Occleshaw, Peter Ruygrok, Margaret Hood, Nigel Lever

    
• • ·Evaluation of Left Ventricular Strain and Dyssynchrony in Patients with Fabry Disease

    Page :S56

    Anita Boyd, Norman Sadick, David Sillence, Liza Thomas

    
• • ·Velocity Encoded Cine MRI for the Assessment of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function

    Page :S57

    Rae F. Duncan, Benjamin K. Dundon, Adam J. Nelson, Matthew I. Worthley, Kerry Williams, Michael C. Leung, Cynthia Piantadosi, Gary Y. Liew, Payman Molaee, Stephen G. Worthley

     
• • ·Left Atrial Size and Function in a NSTEMI Cohort Immediately after Presentation

    Page :S58

    Anita Boyd, Arnold Ng, Thao Tran, Dominic Leung, Liza Thomas

    
• • ·Embolic Tendency of Non-Calcified Plaques During Saphenous Vein Graft Intervention: Utility of Multi-Detector Computed Tomography

    Page :S58

    Gary Liew, Christopher Hammett, Benjamin Dundon, Karen Teo, Matthew Worthley, Anthony Thomas, Stephen Worthley

     
• • ·Can Left Atrial Size be a Potential Marker for Ischaemic Burden in Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarctions (NSTEMI)?

    Page :S59

    Anita Boyd, Ee may Chia, Arnold Ng, Thao Tran, Dominic Leung, Liza Thomas

    
• • ·Dual Source 64-Slice CT Coronary Angiography in the Assessment of Intermediate Risk Acute Chest Pain

    Page :S59

    Mark Hansen, Jonathan Ginns, Sujith Seneviratne, Hamabindu Samardhi, Nick Bett, Darren Walters, Richard Slaughter

    
• • ·Two-Dimensional Estimation of Left and Right Ventricular Size and Function—Comparison with Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Volumetric Analysis

    Page :S60

    Heinz Pfluger, Andre LaGerche, Micha Maeder, Andrew Taylor

    
• • ·Evaluation of Diffuse Myocardial Fibrosis in Heart Failure with Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Contrast-enhanced T₁ Mapping

    Page :S60

    Leah Iles, Heinz Pfluger, Arintaya Phrommintikul, Joshi Cherayath, Pelin Aksit, Sandeep Gupta, David Kaye, Andrew Taylor

    
• • ·Assessment of Pulmonary Vein Velocity in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Page :S61

    Payman Molaee, Pawel Kuklik, Darryl P. Leong, Benjamin K. Dundon, Michael Stokes, Bobby John, Martin K. Stiles, Dennis H. Lau, Hany Dimitri, Karen S.L. Teo, Glenn D. Young, Rae Duncan, Michael Leung, Angelo Carbone, Cynthia Piantadosi, Gary Liew, Prashanthan Sanders, Stephen G. Worthley

    
• • ·A Comparison of Left Atrial Volumes on Transthoracic Echo and Cardiac CT Angiography

    Page :S61

    Camilla Wainwright, Rohan Poulter, Melanie Fuentes, Ada Lo, Mark Dooris, John F. Younger

    
• • ·Reduction in Left Atrial Volume Following Percutaneous Transluminal Septal Myocardial Ablation for Severe Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy

    Page :S61

    Wai-ee Thai, Stuart Moir, Ian Meredith, Catherine Mylrea, Philip Mottram

    
• • ·Comparison of Dyssynchrony Assessment between MRI and Velocity Vector Imaging by Echocardiography

    Page :S62

    Michelle Butler, Heinz Pfluger, Andrew Taylor, Chiew Wong

    
• • ·Myocardial Fibrosis Assessed by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Predicts Future Ventricular Arrhythmia in Subjects with Cardiomyopathy

    Page :S62

    Leah Iles, Michelle Butler, Heinz Pfluger, Manoj Obeyesekere, David Kaye, Peter Kistler, Andrew Taylor

    
• • ·True Bicuspid Aortic Valves are Rare Compared with Functionally Bicuspid Aortic Valves

    Page :S63

    Samuel Hayman, Geraldine Wright, Cathy West, Darryl Burstow, Gregory M. Scalia

     
• • ·Light Activity Central End Systolic Pressure independently Predicts Left Ventricular Systolic Function in Patients with a Hypertensive Response to Exercise

    Page :S63

    James E. Sharman, James L. Hare, Scott B. Thomas, Rodel Leano, Thomas H. Marwick

     
• • ·Longitudinal Strain Detects Abnormal Systolic Function in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy which would otherwise be Missed

    Page :S64

    Anthony Benjamin, Darryl Burstow, Bonita Anderson, Susan Boucaut, Gregory Scalia

    
• • ·Ovine Validation of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance for the Assessment of Pericardial Adipose Tissue Volume

    Page :S64

    Adam Nelson, Angelo Carbone, Matthew Worthley, Peter Psaltis, Dennis Lau, Cynthia Piantadosi, Rae Duncan, Gary Wittert, Stephen Worthley

     
• • ·Assessment of Indeterminant Coronary Artery Stenosis: A comparison of CT Coronary Angiography with Intravascular Ultrasound

    Page :S64

    Jonathon Ginns, Mark Hansen, Matthew Pincus, Richard Slaughter

    
• • ·Index

    Page :S65

    
• • ·Index

    Page :S65

    
• • ·A Collaborative Cardiology/Radiology Approach to Multi-Slice Cardiac CT Scanning—Report of 1st Year Experience in Set-up, Scanning and Results

    Page :S65

    Gregory Szto, Andrew Watson, Vikki O’Shea, Lou Valerio

    
• • ·Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Evaluation of Cardiac Sarcoidosis

    Page :S65

    Vance Manins, Jonathon Habersberger, Andrew Taylor

    
• • ·Detection of ‘Occult’ Left Ventricular Thrombus Using Contrast-enhanced CMR in Patients with Impaired Ventricular Function Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

    Page :S66

    Tammy Pegg, Jane Francis, Theodoros Karamitsos, Stefan Neubauer, David Taggart, Joseph Selvanayagam

     
• • ·A Randomised Trial of On-pump Beating Heart Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery and Warm Blood Cardioplegia in Patients with Impaired Left Ventricular Function Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Biochemical Markers

    Page :S66

    Tammy Pegg, Theo Karamitsos, Zoe Mausell, Jane Francis, Stefan Neubauer, David Taggart, Joseph Selvanayagam

    
• • ·Preoperative Risk Prediction Model for 30-day Mortality Following Cardiac Surgery in Australia

    Page :S67

    Baki Billah, Diem T. Dinh, Gilbert C. Shardey, Christopher M. Reid

    
• • ·Successful Cardiac Reanimation for Donation after Cardiac Death

    Page :S67

    Stephen Emil Repse, Salvatore Pepe, James Anderson, Franklin Lawrence Rosenfeldt

    
• • ·ECMO Salvage for Primary Allograft Failure Following Cardiac Transplantation

    Page :S68

    Alasdair Watson, Paul Jansz, Andrew Jackson, Roger Pye, Andrew Jabbour, Emily Granger, David Winlaw, Peter Macdonald, Phillip Spratt

    
• • ·Late Outcomes After the Ross Procedure

    Page :S68

    Rajesh Puranik, Vivek Muthurangu, Andrew Broadley, Johannes Nordmeyer, Fiona Walker, Seamus Cullen, Phillip Bonhoeffer, Victor Tsang, Andrew M. Taylor

    
• • ·Gender, and Anxiety and Depression in Elective Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Patients While Waiting for, and After Postponement of Surgery

    Page :S68

    Amanda Scull, John Elliott, Sue Luty

    
• • ·Long-term Results Following Mitral Valve Repair for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation

    Page :S69

    Michael Gardner, Kenneth Hossack

    
• • ·Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: Experience with First Hundred Cases

    Page :S69

    Kaushalendra Rathore, Robert Stuklis, James Edwards

    
• • ·Predictors of 1-Year Mortality of Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) Compared to Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)—Insights From Two Large Multi-centre Australian Registries

    Page :S70

    Melanie Freeman, David Clark, Nick Andrianopoulos, Gil Shardey, Brian Buxton, Diem Dinh, Bryan Yan, Julian Smith, Peter Skillington, Andrew E. Ajani, Omar Farouque, Stephen J. Duffy, Chris Reid

    
• • ·Clinical Characteristics and Mortality of Patients with Multi-vessel Coronary Disease (MVD) Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) Compared with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)

    Page :S70

    David Clark, Melanie Freeman, Nick Andrianopoulos, Angela Brennan, Diem Dinh, Brian Buxton, Julian Smith, Omar Farouque, Gil Shardey, Stephen J. Duffy, Andrew E. Ajani, Chris Reid

    
• • ·Surgery in Octogenarians: Outcomes, Cost and Resource Utilization

    Page :S71

    Simon L. Rohde, Jayme S. Bennetts, John L. Knight, Robert A. Baker

    
• • ·Quality of Life and Long-term Survival in Octogenarians Undergoing Coronary Grafting and/or Aortic Valve Replacement

    Page :S71

    Hugh C. Cullen, Simon L. Rohde, Scott D. Graham, John L. Knight, Robert A. Baker

    
• • ·Index

    Page :S71

    
• • ·A Single-Hospital Experience with Da Vinci Robot-Assisted Mitral Valve Surgery

    Page :S71

    Alasdair Watson, Paul Jansz, Victoria Waghorn, Alyssa Scurrah, Andrew Dinale, Marty Shaw, Frank Junius, Phillip Spratt

    
• • ·Improved Risk Prediction Using Non-Invasive Methods—The Alternative Risk Markers in Coronary Artery Disease (ARM-CAD) Study

    Page :S72

    Dipak Kotecha, Henry Krum, Marcus Flather, Baki Billah, David Eccleston

    
• • ·Comparison of Intrathoracic Impedance with Direct Left Atrial Pressure in Chronic Heart Failure

    Page :S72

    R.E. Park, J.L.T. Ritzema, I.C. Melton, I.G. Crozier, A.M. Richards, R.W. Troughton

    
• • ·Enhancement of a Child Friendly Echocardiography Laboratory Reduces Sedation Requirements

    Page :S73

    Karen M. Anderson Weller, Sarah A. Hope

    
• • ·Mechanism of Failure of Low-Profile ICD Leads During Medium-Term Follow-up

    Page :S73

    Jeffrey Wright, Robert England, John Betts, Shawn Holden, Daniel Wright, James Lindemann, Russell Denman

    
• • ·Short Cardiac Educational Reading Improves Knowledge Base in Both Cardiac and Non-Cardiac Nursing Staff

    Page :S73

    Natalie Simpson, Daphne Perry, Rebecca Perry, Derek P. Chew

    
• • ·Diabetes: A Global and Local Epidemic and a Key Consideration for Cardiovascular Nurses

    Page :S74

    John Rolley, Patricia Davidson, Yenna Salamonson

    
• • ·A Comparison of Clinical Instruments that Measure Heart Failure Self-care

    Page :S74

    Jan Cameron, Andrea Driscoll, Linda Worrall-Carter, Simon Stewart

    
• • ·The Usefulness of a Short Stay Unit in Cardiology

    Page :S74

    Seshasayee Narasimhan, Katrina McKay, Lindsay Savage, John Attia, Gregory Bellamy

    
• • ·Incorporating a Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Placement into a Post Graduate Cardiac Nursing Course

    Page :S75

    Liz Scholes, Serina Cecchin, Kath Cowie, Maria Jolic

    
• • ·Do Heart Failure Patients Practice Self-management

    Page :S75

    Anne Sullivan, Robyn Cleary, Geraldine Gillies, Susan Hales, Robyn Gallagher, Vanessa Baker, Geoffrey Tofler

    
• • ·How Useful is an Educational Website to a 75 years old? Utilization of Information Technologies in Elderly Cardiovascular Patients Attending a Tertiary Hospital Clinic

    Page :S75

    John Maddison, Melanie Day, Jennifer Morran, Sepehr Shakib

    
• • ·Screening for Cardiac Abnormalities in a Regional Community Using a 12-Lead ECG

    Page :S76

    Geraldine Lee, Melinda Carrington, Simon Stewart

    
• • ·Diabetes and Cardiac Surgery: An Audit in a Metropolitan Hospital

    Page :S76

    Geraldine Lee, Serena Opie

    
• • ·Identifying the Onset of Depression Following an Acute Cardiac Event: Improvement of Health Outcomes Through Optimal Timing of Assessment and Interventions

    Page :S76

    Linda Worrall-Carter, Robert Cummins, Karen Page, David Thompson, Josh Allen, David Hare, Patricia Davidson

    
• • ·Prevalence and Onset of Depression in Women After an Acute Cardiac Event

    Page :S77

    Karen Page, Linda Worrall-Carter, Lisa Kuhn, Josh Allen, Patricia Davidson

    
• • ·Profile and Efficacy of the Rapid Cardiac Assessment Unit (RCAU) at Prince of Wales Hospital

    Page :S77

    Ross Proctor, Emma Devlin, Roger Huntington, Brooklyn Armit

    
• • ·Quality of Life is Significantly Better in Patients who Successfully Undergo Major Non-cardiac Surgery: A Stratify Study

    Page :S78

    Helen Branagan, Carly Jenkins, Brian A. Haluska, Thomas H. Marwick

    
• • ·Conscious Sedation Versus Anaesthesia for Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: The Patient Experience

    Page :S78

    Judith Hunt, Lauren Wilson, Anthony Brooks, Martin Stiles, Bobby John, Dennis Lau, Hany Dimitri, Christopher Wong, Ross Roberts-Thomson, Darryl Leong, Glenn Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Does More Equal Less: Development of a Heart Failure Management Program Complexity Score (HF-IS) (BENCH Study)

    Page :S78

    Andrea Driscoll, Linda Worrall-Carter, David Hare, Patricia Davidson, Barbara Riegel, Andrew Tonkin, Simon Stewart

    
• • ·Depressed Mood in Chronic Heart Failure Patients Predicts an Increase in Mortality and Hospital Admissions

    Page :S79

    Andrea Driscoll, David Hare, Linda Worrall-Carter, Patricia Davidson, Barbara Riegel, Andrew Tonkin, Simon Stewart

    
• • ·Can a Newly Commissioned Catheterisation Laboratory Safely Perform Interventional Procedures Without Completing a Period of Low Risk Cases?

    Page :S79

    Kathryn Hines, Bernadette Hoffmann, Wai Chan, Aaron Sverdlov, Sharon Taylor, Margaret Arstall, Christopher Zeitz

    
• • ·Code Blue/Medical Emergency Team (MET) Data Pre and Post a Nursing Cardiac Education Programme on a General Ward

    Page :S80

    Stephen Basso, Geoffrey Killington

    
• • ·Enrolled Nurses! Valuable Resource Or Waste Of Time In Cardiac Nursing

    Page :S80

    Geoffrey Killington, Stephen Basso

    
• • ·A Benchmarking Survey of the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory Nursing Workforce in Victoria

    Page :S80

    Carolyn Naismith

    
• • ·Butyrylcholinesterase K Variants Increase the Risk of Coronary Artery Disease in the Population of Western Iran

    Page :S81

    Asad Vaisiraygani, Aliakbar Vaisiraygani, Zohreh Rahimi, Hadi Kharrazi

    
• • ·The Presence of Apolipoprotein 4 and 2 Alleles Augments the Risk of Coronary Artery Disease in Type 2 Diabetic Patients

    Page :S81

    Aliakbar Vaisiraygani, Asad Vaisiraygani, Hadi Kharrazi, Zohreh Rahimi

    
• • ·The Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacodynamics of Clopidogrel Response: An Analysis From the PRINC (Plavix Response in Coronary Intervention) Trial

    Page :S82

    Patrick Gladding, Mark Webster, Irene Zeng, Helen Farrell, Jim Stewart, Peter Ruygrok, John Ormiston, Jo Perry, Arzu Gunes, Marja Liisa-Dahl

    
• • ·Management of Pregnancy in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: From Pre-pregnancy Genetic Counselling to Post-partem Follow-up

    Page :S82

    Laura Yeates, Christopher Semsarian

    
• • ·The National Genetic Heart Disease Registry

    Page :S83

    Jodie Ingles, Laura Yeates, Vanessa Connell, Julie McGaughran, Andrew Davis, Jitendra Vohra, Robert Weintraub, John Atherton, Chris Semsarian

    
• • ·Accurate and Accessible Genetic Testing for Long QT Syndrome

    Page :S83

    Lucas Eastaugh, Jitu Vohra, Ivan Macciocca, Dean Phelan, Vanessa Connell, Ingrid Winship, Agnes Bankier, Paul James, Desiree du Sart, Andrew Davis

    
• • ·Index

    Page :S83

    
• • ·The Impact of Folic Acid and Vitamin B12 Supplementation on Blood Pressure and Arterial Stiffness in Subjects with Subnormal Micronutrient Intake

    Page :S84

    K.S. Woo, P. Chook, L.L.T. Chan, D.S. Celermajer

    
• • ·Coronary Heart Disease in New Zealand 2001–2003: Estimates of Incidence and Prevalence Based on Routinely Collected Data

    Page :S84

    Martin Tobias, Wing-Cheuk Chan, Craig Wright, Rod Jackson, Stewart Mann, Li-Chia Yeh

    
• • ·Irukandji Syndrome, Cause for Troponin Leak and Stress Cardiomyopathy

    Page :S84

    Keith Tiong, Sang-Won Jin, Jamie Seymour, Peter Pereira

    
• • ·Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibition Reduces Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Diameter in Marfan Syndrome; Potential Role of Reduced Transforming Growth Factor-β Signalling

    Page :S85

    Anna Ahimastos, Anuradha Aggarwal, Kellie D’Orsa, Melissa Formosa, Anthony White, Ravi Savarirayan, Anthony Dart, Bronwyn Kingwell

    
• • ·Outcome & Prognostic Factors on 57 Cases Of Infective Endocarditis in a Single Center

    Page :S85

    Chi Wing Wong, Jonathan Tisch, Graeme Porter, Calum Young, Bryan Dwyer

     
• • ·The Prognostic Power of Mitral Filling Pattern: Is it the same in all Patients? Results From an Individual Patient Meta-Analysis (MeRGE)

    Page :S86

    Gillian Whalley, Frank Dini, Graham Hillis, Katrina Poppe, Kanchana Perera, David Prior, Cheuk-Man Yu, Miguel Quintana, Allan Klein, Pier Temporelli, Jacob Moller, Greg Gamble, Robert Doughty

     
• • ·Acute Ischaemic Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation—Does Time, Location and Severity Matter?

    Page :S86

    Martin Brown, William O’Brien, Tommy Wong, Maged Willaim, Scott Whyte, Jonathon Sturm, Dennis Crimmins

    
• • ·Restrictive Filling Pattern and Mortality: Comparison of Individual Patient Versus Literature Based Meta-Analyses

    Page :S87

    Katrina Poppe, Rob Doughty, C.M. Yu, Miguel Quintana, Jacob Moller, Allan Klein, Greg Gamble, Frank Dini, Gillian Whalley

    
• • ·Implantable Defibrillators for Primary Prevention: Validation of Randomised Clinical Trials

    Page :S87

    Manoj Obeyesekere, Sandeep Prabhu, Eliza P. Teo, Eli Kotler, Archer Broughton, Geoff Toogood, Peter Kistler

    
• • ·A Novel Comprehensive Area-Wide Approach to the Management of ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI)

    Page :S88

    Gopal Sivagangabalan, Arun Narayan, Sarah Zaman, Norman Sadick, Andrew Ong, David Ross, Pramesh Kovoor

    
• • ·Staphylococcus Aureus Infective Endocarditis: A Comparison of Right and Left Heart Disease

    Page :S88

    Alex Willson, Mark Nidorf, Brendan McQuillan, Cheryl Blanton

    
• • ·Neurocardiogenic Effects of Acute Ischaemic Stroke on Left Ventricular Function

    Page :S88

    Martin Brown, William O’Brien, Tommy Wong, Maged William, Jonathon Sturm, Scott Whyte, Dennis Crimmins

    
• • ·Peri-operative Management of Antiplatelet Agents

    Page :S89

    Samer Hermiz, Peter Larsen, Scott Harding

    
• • ·Facilitating the Use of Anticoagulant Therapy in Rural South Australia

    Page :S89

    Philip Tideman, Paul Simpson, Rosy Tirimacco

    
• • ·Tako-tsubo Cardiomyopathy: Do Myocardial Inflammation and Platelet Dysfunction Contribute to Pathogenesis?

    Page :S89

    Lalith Jesuthasan, Steven Unger, Yuliy Chirkov, Joseph Selvanayagam, John Beltrame, John Horowitz

    
• • ·Percutaneous Coronary Interventions in a Rural Australian Hospital Without Surgical Backup: First Year’s Experience

    Page :S90

    Jason Kaplan, David Amos, Ruth Arnold, Michael Ward, Sidney Lo, Craig Juergens, Harry Lowe, Mark Adams, Ghasson Charbel

    
• • ·Factors that Influence Patients’ Adherence to Medical Therapy Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Page :S90

    Mary-Anne Austin, Joshua Casan, Mauro Baldi, Ian Meredith, Sarah Hope

    
• • ·Effectiveness of an “On-line”, Evidence-based, Referral System for the Risk Stratification and Early Management of Patients Presenting with Acute Coronary Syndromes to Rural and Remote Hospitals Without On-site Angiography

    Page :S91

    Peter J. Larsen, Margaret Dahl, Brendan Bell, Darren Walters

    
• • ·Incidence of Radiocontrast-induced Nephropathy (RCIN) During Cardiac Catheterisation in Patients With Normal Serum Creatinine

    Page :S91

    Sonia Cherian, Namal Wijesinghe, Gerard Devlin

    
• • ·Creatinine Clearance (eGFR) and Radiocontrast-induced Nephropathy (RCIN) in Patients with Normal Serum Creatinine Levels

    Page :S91

    Sonia Cherian, Namal Wijesinghe, Gerard Devlin

    
• • ·Seasonal Variation and Presentation with of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarctions (STEMI)

    Page :S92

    Namal Wijesinghe, Janice Swampillai, Cherian Sebasian, Gerard Devlin

    
• • ·Association Between Severity of Anemia and Causative Organisms of Infective Endocarditis

    Page :S92

    Suresh Perera, Namal Wijesinghe, Vidya Mathavan, Audrey Robin, Gerard Devlin

    
• • ·Incidence and Implications of Aspirin Resistance in Patients Suspected to have Acute Coronary Syndrome

    Page :S93

    J.W. Chu, C.-K. Wong, J. Chambers, J. vant Wont, E.W. Tang

    
• • ·Incidence and Aetiology of Pericardial Disease Associated with Pulmonary Embolism

    Page :S93

    Namal Wijesinghe, Lai wan Chan, Cherian Sebastian, Hugh McAlister, Gerard Devlin

    
• • ·Pilot Study to Assess the Outcome of Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis

    Page :S93

    Suresh Perera, Namal Wijesinghe, Gerard Devlin, Sanjeevan Pasupati

    
• • ·Achieving Global Standards for LDL—Are We There Yet?

    Page :S94

    Sue-Ling Ching-Liew, Louise Roberts, Jennifer Margaret Coller, James Sapontis, Jennifer Cooke, Ciara Martin, Pavithra Naidu, Gishel New

    
• • ·The Role of Pulmonary Index of Microvascular Resistance in the Diagnosis of Early Pulmonary Microvascular Disease

    Page :S94

    Rahn Ilsar, Chirapan Chawantanpipat, Kim Hoe Chan, Richard Waugh, Annemarie Hennessy, David S. Celermajer, Martin K.C. Ng

     
• • ·Continuous ST/T Wave Monitoring During an Acute Coronary Syndrome Presentation in Patients with the Coronary Slow Flow Phenomenon (CSFP)

    Page :S95

    Natalie Cutri, Angela Marie Kucia, John Francis Beltrame

    
• • ·The Effect of Positional Changes on T Wave Amplitude in Healthy Subjects

    Page :S95

    Natalie Cutri, John Francis Beltrame, Angela Kucia

    
• • ·Discharging Low Risk Patient’s with a Negative Stress Test—What is the Risk of an ACS Event?

    Page :S95

    Philip Tideman, Rosy Tirimacco, Paul Simpson

    
• • ·A Service Improvement Project to Improve Cardiac Inter-hospital Transfers at Austin Health

    Page :S96

    Fraser Mcpherson, Cameron Goodyear, Vanessa Reid, Sarah McConchie, John Scott, Leanne Turner, Mark Garwood, Omar Farouque

    
• • ·Steady State Kinetics of Perhexiline is Independent of Renal Function

    Page :S96

    Paula Averbuj, Purendra Pati, William Chik, Han Ling, Ray Morris, Betty Sallustio, Aaron Sverdlov, John Horowitz

     
• • ·Clinical Outcomes Following Percutaneous Transluminal Septal Myocardial Ablation for Severe Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy

    Page :S97

    Wai-ee Thai, Yuvaraj Malaiapan, Wally Ahmar, Ian Meredith

    
• • ·Impact of Field Triage in the Setting of Cardiogenic Shock Complicating ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Page :S97

    Ajita Kanthan, Gopal Sivagangabalan, Arun Narayan, Ann-Marie Gerke, Andrew Ong, Norman Sadick, Pramesh Kovoor

    
• • ·Tako-tsubo Cardiomyopathy—A Differential Diagnosis for Chest Pain and ST Segment Elevation

    Page :S97

    Darach O. h-ici, Brian Zakhem, Ernesto Oqueli, Yean Lim

    
• • ·Index

    Page :S98

    
• • ·Perceptions of the Benefits of Statin Therapy and Coronary Intervention held by Primary Health Care Professionals: A Survey Using Audience Response Technology

    Page :S98

    Stewart Mann

    
• • ·Troponin T may be Elevated During Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

    Page :S98

    Ilya Kardailsky, Peter Beatty, Paul Quigley, Stewart Mann

    
• • ·Impaired Effectiveness of Clopidogrel Loading in Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Page :S98

    James Weaver, Ananth Prasan, David Rees, Jane McCrohon

    
• • ·Effect of Pharmacological Stress on N-Terminal Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide Concentrations in the Evaluation of Ischaemic Heart Disease

    Page :S99

    Peter Tually, Nat Lenzo, John Walker, Stephen Hinton, Rachel Moorin, Johan Janssen

    
• • ·Comparison of Cardiovascular Risk Factor Profile Amongst Younger (<50 years) Versus Older Age (≥50 years) Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights from a Large Multi-Centre Registry

    Page :S99

    Ali Al-Fiadh, Nick Andrianopoulos, Stephan Duffy, Omar Farouque, Mark Horrigan, Kerrie Charter, Angela Brennan, Andrew Ajani, Chris Reid, Surat Tongyoo, Robert Lew, David Clark

    
• • ·Improved 12-Year Survival after Definite Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI); Perth MONICA Cohort, 1984–2005

    Page :S100

    Tom Briffa, Siobhan Hickling, Michael Hobbs, Matthew Knuiman, Konrad Jamrozik, Peter Thompson

    
• • ·Persistent Angina Symptoms in Stable Angina Patients: The Coronary Artery Disease in gENeral practiCE (CADENCE)

    Page :S100

    John Beltrame, Rosanna Tavella, Andrew Weekes, Claire Morgan

    
• • ·Proteome Pattern Analysis in Urine: A Multi Biomarker Approach that may Enable Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease?

    Page :S101

    Constantin von zur Muhlen, Eric Schiffer, Belinda Smith, Christoph Bode, Harald Mischak, Karlheinz Peter

    
• • ·Selective Use of Drug Eluting Stents in Management of ST-Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction while Maintaining a Low Further Target Revascularisation Rate

    Page :S101

    Patrick Diu, Ibrahim Shugman, Akash Dhawan, J. Gohil, K. Kadappu, S. Lo, A.P. Hopkins, D. Leung, C.P. Juergens, J.K. French

    
• • ·Gender Differences Amongst Stable Angina Patients: The Coronary Artery Disease in gENeral practiCE (CADENCE)

    Page :S101

    Margaret Arstall, John Beltrame, Claire Morgan, Rosanna Tavella, Andrew Weekes

    
• • ·Quality of Life and Secondary Prevention in Elderly Patients with Chronic Stable Angina: Findings from the Coronary Artery Disease in gENeral practiCE (CADENCE) Study

    Page :S102

    Renuka Visvanathan, John Beltrame, Andrew Weekes, Claire Morgan, Rosanna Tavella

    
• • ·Significant Elevations in B-type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) During Maximal Exercise in Healthy Athletes Suggests Limited Diagnostic Utility in Low Risk Populations

    Page :S102

    Andre La Gerche, Andrew T. Burns, Donald J. Mooney, Andrew I. MacIsaac, David L. Prior

    
• • ·Thrombolysis of Peri Cardiac Catheterisation Strokes: A Single Centre Experience

    Page :S102

    Namal Wijesinghe, Peter Wright, Gerard Devlin

    
• • ·Premature Coronary Artery Disease in Australian Men: An Autopsy Study

    Page :S103

    Rajesh Puranik, Olivia J. Fox, Johan Duflou, Shisan Bao

    
• • ·Comparison of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Revascularisation of Patients with Diabetes Mellitus

    Page :S103

    Michelle Butler, Stephen Duffy, Diem Dinh, Julian Smith, Andrew Ajani, Nick Andrianopoulos, Gil Shardey, David Clark, Angela Brennan, Gishel New, Anthony Dart, Stephen Duffy

    
• • ·Immunoreactive BNP-Signal Peptide: A Potential Early Biomarker of AMI

    Page :S104

    Maithri Siriwardena, M. Gary Nicholls, Timothy G. Yandle, Christopher M. Frampton, A. Mark Richards, Christopher J. Pemberton

     
• • ·Implementing a Real-time Acute Coronary Syndrome (RACS) Database and Reporting System in South Auckland

    Page :S104

    Jithendra Somaratne, Andrew To, Andrew McLachlan, Estee Chan, Póuliváati Funaki, Andrew Kerr

    
• • ·Aspirin Responsiveness/Resistance and Diabetes in an Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Population

    Page :S105

    Suellen Mattschoss, David Eccleston, Darren Walters, David Brieger, Jamie Rankin, Carolyn Astley, Hazel Morrison, Luan Huynh, Derek Chew

    
• • ·Radial, but not Central Aortic, Augmentation Index is Associated with the Extent and Severity of Coronary Artery Disease

    Page :S105

    Sarah Hope, Paul Antonis, David Adam, Ian Meredith, James Cameron

    
• • ·Provision of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention on Patients Admitted with Acute Coronary Syndrome in a Regional Centre without a PCI Program: The Bendigo Experience

    Page :S106

    Karl Poon, Voltaire Nadurata

    
• • ·Increased Systemic and Local Neutrophil and Monocyte Degranulation in Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Page :S106

    Catriona Marshall, Tessa Mocatta, Judy McKenzie, Anthony Kettle, James Blake, John Elliott, David Smyth, Mark Richards, Dougal McClean

    
• • ·Reducing Risk in Coronary Heart Disease—Are Australian Patients Achieving Targets? : Findings from the Coronary Artery Disease in gENeral practiCE (CADENCE) Survey

    Page :S106

    Andrew Tonkin, John Beltrame, Alison Beuchamp, Lei Chen, Andrew Weekes, Claire Morgan

    
• • ·Quality of Patients with Chronic Stable Angina and Peripheral Arterial Disease: Insights from the Coronary Artery Disease in gENeral practiCE (CADENCE) Study

    Page :S107

    Robert Fitridge, John Beltrame, Andrew Weekes, Claire Morgan, Rosanna Tavella

    
• • ·Incidence of Contrast Induced Nephropathy in Patients with Pre-Existing Renal Dysfunction

    Page :S107

    Craig Lawlor, Ahmad Farshid, Jenny Coutts

    
• • ·Successfully Resuscitated Cardiac Arrest is Associated with Reduced In-hospital, but not Long-term Survival in Acute Coronary Syndrome

    Page :S108

    Benjamin K. Dundon, Luan T. Huynh, Stephen G. Worthley, Carolyn Astley, Ashish Soman, David B. Brieger, Derek P. Chew

    
• • ·The Impact of Gender on Door to Balloon Time of Patients with ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Page :S108

    Darach O. h-Ici, Ernesto Oqueli, Brian Zakhem, Robert Newman, Yean Lim

    
• • ·The Impact of Intra-Hospital Transfer and “Out-of-Hours” Presentation on Door to Balloon Times

    Page :S108

    Brian Zakhem, Darach O. h-Ici, Ernesto Oqueli, Robert Newman, Serina Cecchin, Yean Lim

    
• • ·Clinical Factors and Angiographic Features Associated with Very Premature Coronary Artery Disease (Age ≤35 years) in Northern Queensland: Risk Factors and Clinical Outcomes

    Page :S109

    Vishva A. Wijesekera, Ryan G. Schrale, Raibhan Yadav, Tony Lai

    
• • ·Acute Coronary Syndrome complicated by Haemodynamic Compromise: Improved Survival with an Invasive Management Strategy

    Page :S109

    Benjamin K. Dundon, Luan T. Huynh, Stephen G. Worthley, Carolyn Astley, Ashish Soman, David B. Brieger, Derek P. Chew

    
• • ·Web-based Referral and Triage System, Successfully Improves Access to Tertiary Cardiac Services within the Queensland Health Central Area Health District for Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)

    Page :S110

    Margaret Dahl, Darren Walters, Lisa Daly-Jelinek, Evon Greener

    
• • ·Effects of Self-presentation to Hospital on the Outcomes in Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Page :S110

    David Burgess, Gopal Sivagangabalan, Arun Narayan, Norman Sadick, Andrew Ong, David Ross, Pramesh Kovoor

    
• • ·Prevalence of Smoking and Adherence to Lipid-lowering Therapy in Patients Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Page :S111

    William Chan, Angela Brennan, Michelle J. Butler, Nick Andrianopoulos, David J. Clark, Christopher M. Reid, Andrew E. Ajani, Catherine Farrington, Anthony M. Dart, Stephen J. Duffy

    
• • ·Aspirin Resistance Predicts an Increased Risk of In-hospital Events in Australian Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes: Results from the CARS Study

    Page :S111

    David Eccleston, David Brieger, Darren Walters, Jamie Rankin, Suellen Mattschoss, Luan Huynh, Carolyn Astley, Derek Chew

    
• • ·Prognosis of Inducible Ventricular Tachycardia of Cycle Length 200–230 ms

    Page :S112

    Saurabh Kumar, Gopal Sivagangabalan, Man-Chun Choi, Vicki Eipper, Aravinda Thiagalingam, Pramesh Kovoor

    
• • ·Transoesophageal Echocardiography Prior to Catheter Ablation for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation—Treating the Patient or Treating the Doctor?

    Page :S112

    Andrew McGavigan, John Bower, Cameron Singleton

    
• • ·Single Ring Isolation for Atrial Fibrillation: The First 100 Cases

    Page :S112

    Toon Wei Lim, Choon Hiang Koay, Valerie A. See, Rebecca McCall, David L. Ross, Stuart P. Thomas

     
• • ·Mechanisms of Atrial Arrhythmias Following Single Ring Isolation of the Posterior Left Atrium and Pulmonary Veins

    Page :S113

    Toon Wei Lim, Choon Hiang Koay, Valerie A. See, Rebecca McCall, Stuart P. Thomas, David L. Ross

     
• • ·Late Onset High-grade Atrioventricular Block Post-Cardiac Transplantion: A Single Centre Experience

    Page :S113

    Andre Tay, Bruce Walker, Dennis Kuchar, Charles Thorburn, Allan Fansworth, Phillip Spratt, Paul Jansz, Emily Granger, Peter Macdonald, Chris Hayward, Eugene Kotlyar, Anne Keogh, Rajesh Subbiah

    
• • ·Time of Onset of Ventricular Arrhythmia in Acute Coronary Syndrome Determines its Long-term Prognostic Burden

    Page :S114

    Dennis H. Lau, Luan T. Huynh, Derek P. Chew, Carolyn M. Astley, Ashish Soman, Glenn D. Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Abnormal Substrate in Paroxysmal Atrial Flutter May Account for the Predisposition to Atrial Fibrillation

    Page :S114

    Martin Stiles, Christopher Wong, Pawel Kuklik, Bobby John, Anthony Brooks, Hany Dimitri, Dennis Lau, Lauren Wilson, Glenn Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Novel Form of Pacemaker Dysfunction with Intermittent Inhibition of Pacemaker Output

    Page :S115

    Hany Abed, James Leitch, Malcom Barlow

    
• • ·Incidence and Prognostic Impact of New Onset Atrial Fibrillation Varies with Acute Coronary Syndrome Severity

    Page :S115

    Dennis H. Lau, Luan T. Huynh, Derek P. Chew, Carolyn M. Astley, Ashish Soman, Glenn D. Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Incidence of Adenosine-Induced Pulmonary Vein Reconnection Following Catheter Ablation of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

    Page :S116

    Andrew McGavigan, John Bower, Cameron Singleton

    
• • ·Association of Senile Cardiac Amyloid due to Transthyretin Deposition with Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Block

    Page :S116

    William Wilson, Ronen Gurvitch, Joseph Morton

    
• • ·Left Ventricular Substrate in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Patients With and Without Ventricular Tachycardia

    Page :S116

    Haris Haqqani, Kurt Roberts-Thomson, Richard Snowdon, Caroline Medi, Richard Balasubramaniam, Paul Sparks, Jitendra Vohra, Jonathan Kalman, Joseph Morton

    
• • ·Left Ventricular Substrate in Dilated Cardiomyopathy Patients With and Without Ventricular Tachycardia

    Page :S117

    Haris Haqqani, Kurt Roberts-Thomson, Richard Snowdon, Caroline Medi, Richard Balasubramaniam, Paul Sparks, Jitendra Vohra, Jonathan Kalman, Joseph Morton

    
• • ·Impedance Mapping for Identification of Ventricular Scar during Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia

    Page :S117

    Andrew Liu, Magdy Basta, Ratika Parkash, Martin Gardner, Amir Abdelwahab, John Sapp

    
• • ·Optimisation and Validation of Noncontact Mapping of Scar in an Ovine Model of Chronic Myocardial Infarction (MI)

    Page :S117

    Jim Pouliopoulos, Gopal Sivagangabalan, Kaimin Huang, Tony Barry, Juntang Lu, Pramesh Kovoor

    
• • ·Characterisation of Direction-dependent Conduction Abnormalities Predisposing to Atrial Arrhythmias

    Page :S118

    Christopher X. Wong, Martin K. Stiles, Bobby John, Anthony G. Brooks, Pawel Kuklik, Dennis H. Lau, Hany Dimitri, Ross L. Roberts-Thomson, Scott R. Willoughby, Lorraine Mackenzie, Glenn D. Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Adenosine–Triphosphate Facilitates Visualisation of the Coronary Sinus during Non-selective Venography of the Low Right Atrium

    Page :S118

    Edmund Lee, Fiona Foo, Barry Mckeown, Pradyok Saklani, Andrew Liu

     
• • ·Does Radio-opaque Contrast Use During Biventricular Pacemaker Implantation (BiVI) Adversely Affect Renal Function?

    Page :S119

    Hany Abed, Neva Bull, Robert Blake, Malcom Barlow, James Leitch, Stuart Turner

     
• • ·Effect of Electrical Cardioversion on Atrial Fibrillation Resistant to Termination

    Page :S119

    Christopher X. Wong, Anthony G. Brooks, Martin K. Stiles, Bobby John, Dennis H. Lau, Hany Dimitri, Ross L. Roberts-Thomson, Pawel Kuklik, Scott R. Willoughby, Lorraine Mackenzie, Glenn D. Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Paroxysmal Lone Atrial Fibrillation is Associated with an Abnormal Substrate: The “Second Factor”

    Page :S120

    Martin Stiles, Bobby John, Christopher Wong, Pawel Kuklik, Glenn Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·High-density Mapping of Atrial Fibrillation to Characterise the Relationship Between Dominant Frequency and Electrogram Fractionation

    Page :S120

    Martin Stiles, Anthony Brooks, Pawel Kuklik, Bobby John, Lauren Wilson, Hany Dimitri, Dennis Lau, Christopher Wong, Glenn Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·High-density Mapping of the Human Sinus Node: The Effect of Atrial Remodelling Due to Atrial Flutter

    Page :S121

    Martin Stiles, Anthony Brooks, Bobby John, Dennis Lau, Hany Dimitri, Lauren Wilson, Christopher Wong, Pawel Kuklik, Glenn Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Comparison of Electroanatomic Contact and Noncontact Mapping of Ventricular Scar in a Chronic Post-infarct Ovine Model

    Page :S121

    Gopal Sivagangabalan, Jim Pouliopoulos, Kaimin Huang, Juntang Lu, Michael Barry, Aravinda Thiagalingam, Pramesh Kovoor

    
• • ·Incidence and Time Course of Pulmonary Vein Conduction Recovery Following Electrical Isolation

    Page :S121

    Lauren Wilson, Anthony Brooks, Martin Stiles, Bobby John, Dennis Lau, Hany Dimitri, Glenn Young

    
• • ·Device therapy with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs) and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) in Heart Failure: Does Clinical Practice Match the Current Guidelines?

    Page :S122

    Brendan Bell, Russell Denman

    
• • ·Platelet Reactivity in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: Intracardiac verses Peripheral Measurements

    Page :S122

    Scott Willoughby, Ross Roberts-Thomson, Lorraine Mackenzie, Dennis Lau, Christopher Wong, Anthony Brooks, Bobby John, Martin Stiles, Hany Dimitri, Glenn Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Increased Platelet Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Expression Following Left Atrial Radiofrequency Ablation

    Page :S123

    Ross Roberts-Thomson, Christopher Wong, Paolo DeSciscio, Anthony Brooks, Lorraine Mackenzie, Dennis Lau, Hany Dimitri, Martin Stiles, Bobby John, Glenn Young, Prashanthan Sanders, Scott Willoughby

     
• • ·Left Atrial Reduction, a Novel Surgical Intervention for Chronic Valvular Atrial Fibrillation: A Long-term Follow-up Study

    Page :S123

    Jay Baumwol, Alasdair Watson, Yanjie Liu, Paul Jansz, Phillip Spratt, Alan Farnsworth, Michael Feneley

    
• • ·The Acute Improvement in Functional Capacity Following Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy Occurs Independently from Haemodynamic Changes

    Page :S123

    Sudhindra Vooturi, Tony Stanton, Rodel Leano, John N. Hill, James E. Sharman, Thomas H. Marwick

    
• • ·Role of Pulse Wave Analysis for the Optimisation of Inter-ventricular Delays in Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy

    Page :S124

    Sudhindra Vooturi, Manish Bansal, Rodel Leano, John N. Hill, James E. Sharman, Thomas H. Marwick

    
• • ·The Degree of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea may Predict Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

    Page :S124

    Hany Dimitri, Mathais Baumert, Alison Fitch, Andrew Thornton, Dennis Lau, Martin Stiles, Bobby John, Darryl Leong, Eugene Nalivaiko, Glenn Young, Ral Antic, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Heart Rate Variability as a Screening Tool for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea

    Page :S125

    Hany Dimitri, Mathais Baumert, Alison Fitch, Andrew Thornton, Dennis Lau, Martin Stiles, Bobby John, Darryl Leong, Eugene Nalivaiko, Glenn Young, Ral Antic, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Remodeling of the Pulmonary Veins due to Acute Stretch in Humans: Mechanism of Arrhythmogenesis in Pulmonary Veins

    Page :S125

    Bobby John, Martin Stiles, Dennis Lau, Hany Dimitri, Anthony Brooks, Lauren Wilson, Glenn Young, M. Hocini, Pierre Jais, Michelle Haissaguerre, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Reversal of Chronic Atrial Stretch in Humans: Implications for the Atrial Fibrillation Substrate

    Page :S126

    Bobby John, Martin Stiles, Sunil Chandy, Pawel Kuklik, Anthony Brooks, Dennis Lau, Hany Dimitri, Muyad Alasady, Daryl Leong, Glenn Young, Jonathan Kalman, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Acute Effect of Chronic Stretch Reversal on Pulmonary Vein Remodeling

    Page :S126

    Bobby John, Martin Stiles, Pawel Kuklik, Dennis Lau, Hany Dimitri, Anthony Brooks, Lauren Wilson, Glenn Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Clinical Evaluation of a New Technique to Monitor Skin Temperature at the Return Electrode during Radiofrequency Ablation

    Page :S127

    Siddharth Trivedi, Toon Wei Lim, Michael Barry, Karen Byth, Aravinda Thiagalingam, Pramesh Kovoor

     
• • ·Tachycardia-Mediated Cardiomyopathy (TCM) due to Focal Atrial Tachycardia: Electrophysiologic Characterisation and Clinical Outcome

    Page :S127

    Caroline Medi, Jonathan Kalman, Kurt Roberts-Thomson, Haris Haqqani, Jitu Vohra, Joseph Morton, Paul Sparks, Peter Kistler

    
• • ·Validation of CT Image Integration and Catheter Navigation using NavX Fusion

    Page :S127

    Anthony Brooks, Lauren Wilson, Pawel Kuklik, Martin Stiles, Bobby John, Shashi Dhar, Hany Dimitri, Dennis Lau, Ross Roberts-Thomson, Christopher Wong, Glenn Young, Prashanthan Sanders

     
• • ·NavX Fusion: Initial Clinical Experience

    Page :S128

    Anthony Brooks, Lauren Wilson, Pawel Kuklik, Martin Stiles, Bobby John, Shashi Dhar, Hany Dimitri, Dennis Lau, Ross Roberts-Thomson, Christopher Wong, Glenn Young, Prashanthan Sanders

     
• • ·Assessment of Regional Left Atrial Function Using Electro-Anatomic Mapping Data

    Page :S129

    Payman Molaee, Pawel Kuklik, Bobby John, Darryl P. Leong, Martin K. Stiles, Dennis H. Lau, Hany Dimitri, Karen S.L. Teo, Benjamin K. Dundon, Rae Duncan, Glenn D. Young, Angelo Carbone, Michael Leung, Stephen G. Worthley, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Regional Variation in Remodelling in an ASD Population: A Comparison of Patients with and without Late Atrial Arrhythmias

    Page :S129

    Caroline Medi, Kurt Roberts-Thomson, Steve Spence, Richard Balasubramaniam, Richard Snowden, Haris Haqqani, Joseph Morton, Paul Sparks, Prashanthan Sanders, Jonathan Kalman

    
• • ·Effect of Chronic Atrial Stretch on Pulmonary Vein Remodelling

    Page :S130

    Bobby John, Martin Stiles, Dennis Lau, Hany Dimitri, Pawel Kuklik, Anthony Brooks, Lauren Wilson, Daryl Leong, Glenn Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Septal Pacing: Long-Term Follow-Up of Ventricular Lead Performance

    Page :S130

    Caroline Medi, Harry Mond

    
• • ·Simultaneous Biventricular Noncontact Mapping (SBNM) of Ventricular Tachycardia (VT) in a Chronic Model of Ovine Myocardial Infarction (MI)

    Page :S131

    Jim Pouliopoulos, Gopal Sivagangabalan, Kaimin Huang, Tony Barry, Juntang Lu, Pramesh Kovoor

    
• • ·The Antiplatelet Effect of Higher Loading and Maintenance Dose Regimens of Clopidogrel: The Plavix Response in Coronary Intervention (PRINC) trial

    Page :S131

    Patrick Gladding, Mark Webster, Irene Zeng, Helen Farrell, Jim Stewart, Peter Ruygrok, John Ormiston, Seif El-Jack, Guy Armstrong, Patrick Kay, Douglas Scott

    
• • ·Primary Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death after ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction with Targeted Electrophysiological Study and Early Cardioverter-Defibrillator Implantation

    Page :S131

    Sarah Zaman, Gopal Sivagangabalan, Arun Narayan, David Ross, Pramesh Kovoor

    
• • ·Left Atrial Size and Mean Left Atrial Pressure are Reduced by Weight Loss in Obese Type 2 Diabetic Men

    Page :S132

    Rae Duncan, Cynthia Piantadosi, Adam Nelson, Gary Wittert, Ben Dundon, Matthew Worthley, Manny Noakes, Azfar Zaman, Stephen Worthley

    
• • ·Weight Loss in type 2 Diabetics Improves Vascular and Cardiac Contractile Function

    Page :S132

    Cynthia Piantadosi, Rae Duncan, Adam Nelson, Gary Wittert, Ben Dundon, Matthew Worthley, Manny Noakes, Azfar Zaman, Stephen Worthley

    
• • ·Sudden Unexplained Death in Young Australians with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Clinical and Genetic Analysis of dead in bed Cases

    Page :S133

    Emily Tu, Stephen M. Twigg, Johan Duflou, Christopher Semsarian

    
• • ·Should Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Diagnosed by Echocardiography be Incorporated into Cardiovascular Risk Assessment among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes?

    Page :S133

    Katrina Poppe, Gillian Whalley, Jithendra Somaratne, Warwick Bagg, Sue Wells, Rod Jackson, Rob Doughty

     
• • ·Diabetes is Associated with Paradoxically Low Plasma Concentrations of Asymmetric Dimethylarginine (ADMA)

    Page :S134

    Aaron Sverdlov, Doan Ngo, John McNeil, John Horowitz

    
• • ·RV Septal Pacing in a Patient with Persistent Left Sided Vena Cava (SVC) and Right Sided SVC Atresia

    Page :S134

    Pradyot Saklani, Alan Whelan, Edmund Lee, Fiona Foo, Andrew Liu

     
• • ·Is Decreased Myocardial Systolic Function in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Measured with Speckle Tracking Related to Severity of Diastolic Dysfunction?

    Page :S135

    Bryan Wai, Leighton G. Kearney, Michelle Ord, Cameron McCormack, Tracy Muir, Louise M. Burrell, Piyush M. Srivastava

    
• • ·Improvements in Arterial Function Following Weight Loss in Morbidly Obese Type 2 Diabetes is Predicted by Changes in Visceral Obesity and Reduced Activation of Circulating Monocytes

    Page :S135

    Ping Lee, Alex Viardot, Chris Hayward, Reginald Lord, Katherine Samaras

    
• • ·N-terminal Pro Brain Natriuretic Peptide is More Useful than Electrocardiograms for Detecting Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Asymptomatic Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus from Primary Care

    Page :S136

    Jithendra Somaratne, Gillian Whalley, Katrina Poppe, Mariska ter Bals, Helen Walsh, Gina Wadams, Ann Pearl, Warwick Bagg, Rob Doughty

    
• • ·Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Page :S136

    Sandhir Prasad, Farzan Fahrtash, Wai-ee Thai, Yuvaraj Malaiapan, James Cameron, Ian Meredith

    
• • ·Obesity, Impaired Fasting Glucose and the Metabolic Syndrome are Under-recognised and Under-treated in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Page :S136

    Farzan Fahrtash, Sandhir Prasad, Yuvaraj Malaiapan, James Cameron, Ian Meredith

    
• • ·Light Exercise Central Systolic Loading is Significantly Raised in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes but is Unchanged After Four Weeks of Exercise Training

    Page :S137

    Matthew D. Hordern, Julian A. Sacre, Thomas H. Marwick, Jeff S. Coombes, James E. Sharman

    
• • ·Diabetes Mellitus Predicts Mortality in Systolic Heart Failure

    Page :S137

    Leighton Kearney, Piyush Srivastava, Deidre Toia, Bryan Wau, Louise Burrell, David Hare

    
• • ·Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus is Associated with Impairment of Late Outgrowth Endothelial Progenitor Cell Function

    Page :S138

    Louise Dunn, Patrick Lim, Daniel Sieveking, Tim Gattorna, Martin M.K. Ng

     
• • ·Diet-Induced Weight Loss in Obese Males Reduces Pericardial Adipose Tissue Volume

    Page :S138

    Adam Nelson, Cynthia Piantadosi, Matthew Worthley, Rae Duncan, Gary Wittert, Stephen Worthley

     
• • ·Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy Improves Diastolic Function

    Page :S139

    Rae Duncan, Janet McComb, James Pemberton, Stephen Lord, Neil Grubb, Darryl Leong, Christopher Plummer, Guy MacGowan, Matthew Worthley, Michael Leung, Ben Dundon, Antoinette Kenny

    
• • ·Ejection Fraction and Non-Sustained VT Predicts Appropriate Defibrillator Therapy in the Primary Prevention Population

    Page :S139

    Manoj Obeyesekere, Sandeep Prabhu, E.P. Teo, Eli Kotler, Archer Broughton, Geoff Toogood, Peter Kistler

    
• • ·Evidence to Support the Emergence of New Forms of Heart Failure in Africa: The Heart of Soweto Study

    Page :S140

    Simon Stewart, Vinesh Vaghela, Robert Mvungi, John McMurray, Karen Sliwa

    
• • ·Has Heart Failure Become Less Malignant Than Cancer? : A Population-based Study of 770,485 Hospital Cases in Sweden

    Page :S140

    Simon Stewart, Inger Ekman, Annika Rosengren

    
• • ·Evaluation of Clinical Utility of NT-ProBNP Testing in Hospital Patients with Possible Cardiac Failure

    Page :S140

    Tanya Stewart, Lisa Koe, Geoff Tofler

    
• • ·Arterial Pressure Waveform Analysis in Systolic Heart Failure: A Cross-Sectional Study

    Page :S141

    Ping Nee Lee, Claire Coates, Robyn Walker, Peter Macdonald, Anne Keogh, Eugene Kotlyar, Chris Hayward

    
• • ·Systolic vs. Diastolic Overload Induces Differential Myocardial Gene Expression

    Page :S141

    Xiaoming Gao, Yinan Zhang, Ziqiu Ming, Xiao-Jun Du, David Kaye

    
• • ·Differences in Workloads Achieved at Exercise Testing in Patients with Moderate and Severe Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction Before and After Exercise Training

    Page :S141

    Robert Zecchin, Yeng Chai, Gail Lindsay, Julie Hungerford, Justine Thelander, Mary Owen, A. Robert Denniss

    
• • ·Potential for Optimizing Beta Blocker and Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor/Angiotensin Receptor Blockers Use in Patients with Moderate to Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction

    Page :S142

    Robert Zecchin, Patricia Davidson, A. Robert Denniss

    
• • ·Does Tricuspid Regurgitation Contribute to Renal Dysfunction in Patients With Heart Failure?

    Page :S142

    Micha T. Maeder, Di P. Holst, David M. Kaye

    
• • ·Preventing Perhexiline Toxicity: Advanced Age But Not Heart Failure as Determinants of Pharmacokinetics

    Page :S143

    Liang Ling, William Chik, Paula Averbuj, Purendra Pati, Aaron Sverdlov, Ray Morris, Betty Sallustio

    
• • ·What is the Prevalence of Left Ventricular Dysfunction in High Risk Subjects with an Elevated NT-proBNP? The Screen HF study

    Page :S143

    Michele McGrady, Louise Shiel, Christopher M. Reid, Umberto Boffa, Simon Stewart, Duncan J. Campbell, David Prior, Henry Krum

    
• • ·Assessment of Potential Recipients for Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT): Are Current Implantation Rates too Low?

    Page :S144

    Justin Ng, Brendan McQuillan, Cheryl Blanton

    
• • ·Effect of Statins on Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) Plasma Levels in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure (CHF)

    Page :S144

    Emma Ashton, Henry Krum

    
• • ·Hospital Initiated Post-Discharge Home Medication Reviews: Assessment of the Clinical Impact of an Individualised Co-Morbidity Focused Referral Process in a Predominately Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) Population

    Page :S144

    Suzanna Lövgren, Robyn Clark, Desmond Colley, Gunner Tobin, Sepehr Shakib

    
• • ·Evidence-based Management of Chronic Heart Failure (CHF): A Comparison of the Pre-admission and Post-hospital Treatment Features of Patients not Enrolled in Specialist Management Programs

    Page :S145

    Johanna Borgstedt, Robyn Clark, Desmond Colley, Gunner Tobin, Sepehr Shakib

    
• • ·Heart Failure and Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: An Analysis of the Melbourne Interventional Group (MIG) Registry

    Page :S145

    Ken Lu, Bryan Ya, Andrew Ajani, William Wilson, Ronen Gurvitch, Stephen Duffy, David Clark, Angela Brennan, Christopher Reid, Nick Andrianopoulos, Henry Krum

    
• • ·Development of an Algorithm for the Non-invasive Estimation of Left Ventricular Filling Pressure

    Page :S146

    Fiona Foo, David Playford, Kate Brown, Edmund Lee, Andrew Liu, Barry McKeown

    
• • ·Early Effects of Bosentan on Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in a Real World Setting

    Page :S146

    Christine Jellis, Jamie Layland, Wendy Stevens, David Prior

    
• • ·Normalization of Ejection Fraction in Subjects with Systolic Heart Failure : Is It Really Normal? A Myocardial Deformation Study

    Page :S146

    Bryan Wai, Leighton G. Kearney, Michelle Ord, Rebecca Reed, Cameron McCormack, Tracy Muir, Louise M. Burrell, Piyush M. Srivastava

    
• • ·The Use of the Electrocardiogram in Heart Failure Patients in the Heart of Soweto Study

    Page :S147

    Geraldine Lee, Karen Sliwa, Melinda Carrington, Simon Stewart

    
• • ·Does Restrictive Mitral Filling Pattern on Doppler Echocardiography Predict Readmission in Patients with Heart Failure?

    Page :S147

    Jithendra Somaratne, Rob Doughty, Katrina Poppe, David Prior, Cheuk-Man Yu, Gillian Whalley, MeRGE HF Collaborators

     
• • ·The Nature and Duration of Worsening Heart Failure Symptoms and Contacts Made Prior to Hospitalisation

    Page :S148

    Robyn Gallagher, Anne Sullivan, Susan Hales, Geraldine Gillies, Vanessa Baker, Geoffrey Toffler

    
• • ·A Personalised Exercise Program for Patients with Both Systolic and Diastolic Heart Failure is Associated with Improved Functional Capacity and Quality of Life

    Page :S148

    Jeffrey Briggs, Matthew Sutton, Margaret Arstall

    
• • ·The Prognostic Implications of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Heart Failure: A Meta-Analysis

    Page :S149

    Adèle Pope, Cara Wasywich, Jith Somaratne, Katrina Poppe, Rob Doughty, Gillian Whalley

    
• • ·The Malignant Trajectory of Heart Failure

    Page :S149

    Phillip Newton, Patricia Davidson, Amy Abernethy, David Currow

    
• • ·Hot Weather and Heart Failure: Seasonal Variations in Morbidity and Mortality in South Australian Heart Failure Patients (1994–2005)

    Page :S149

    Sally Inglis, Robyn Clark, Sepehr Shakib, Denis Wong, Payman Molaee, David Wilkinson, Simon Stewart

    
• • ·Prevalence of Heart failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) in the Community

    Page :S150

    Gnanadevan Mahadavan, Lynne Williams, Giresh Dwiwedi, Rebekah Weaver, Anne Marie Marsh, Ross Campbell, Richard Hobbs, Michael Frenneaux

    
• • ·Beware of the Quiet Little Old Ladies: Demographics, Pharmacotherapy, Survival and Readmissions in a 10-Year Cohort (1994–2005) of Heart Failure Patients with Preserved Systolic Function

    Page :S150

    Dennis Wong, Robyn Clark, Sepehr Shakib

    
• • ·Does Hydralazine Potentiate the Physiological Effects of Organic Nitrate?

    Page :S150

    Michele De Sciscio, Aaron Sverdlov, Sue Leslie, Yuliy Chirkov, John Horowitz

    
• • ·Intermediate Term Effects of Continuous Flow Mechanical Circulatory Support on Right Ventricular Function

    Page :S151

    Angeline Leet, Andrew Ross, Donald Esmore, David Kaye

    
• • ·Eligibility for Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy in a Heart Failure Clinic Population

    Page :S151

    Logan Bittinger, Sarah Hope, Jeffrey Alison, Bruce Jackson, Alison Manning, Debbie Gascard, Ian T. Meredith

    
• • ·Symptomatic and Pharmacotherapeutic Impact of a 12-Month Heart Failure Program

    Page :S152

    Logan Bittinger, Sarah Hope, Jeffrey Alison, Bruce Jackson, Alison Manning, Debbie Gascard, Ian T. Meredith

    
• • ·Coronary Artery Anatomy in Apical Ballooning Syndrome

    Page :S153

    Andrew To, Patrick Kay, Ali Khan, Andrew Kerr

    
• • ·Do Baseline Collagen Markers Predict Outcomes in Chronic Heart Failure Patients with and Without Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy? Insights from the Triple R Study

    Page :S153

    Maros Elsik, Heinz Pfluger, Christopher Hayward, Bruce Walker, David Prior, Michael Yii, Peter Kistler, Archer Broughton, Geoff Toogood, Rory Wolfe, Andrew Taylor, Henry Krum

    
• • ·When the “multi-d” Team is MORE Powerful than Medical Therapy in the Management Chronic Heart Failure: Analysis of the Effect of Ageing on Outcomes for a Heart Failure Population

    Page :S153

    Sepehr Shakib, Robyn Clark, John Maddison, Josephine Thomas

    
• • ·Comparison of Direct Anti-Fibrotic Therapy with ACE Inhibition on Ventricular Function and Remodelling Following Myocardial Infarction

    Page :S154

    Maros Elsik, Yuan Zhang, Bing Wang, Richard Gilbert, Henry Krum, Darren J. Kelly

    
• • ·A Single-Hospital Experience with 29 Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices

    Page :S154

    Alasdair Watson, Paul Jansz, Emily Granger, Alan Farnsworth, Carmen Axisa, Eugene Kotlyer, Anne Keogh, Christopher Hayward, Peter Macdonald, Phillip Spratt

    
• • ·Experience with Ultrafiltration via Venous Access in Refractory Congestive Heart Failure

    Page :S154

    Christine Bourgault, Jay Baumwol, Peter MacDonald

    
• • ·Point of Care Biomarker Assays Are Superior to Clinical Assessment for Diagnosis of Heart Failure in Australian Emergency Departments: TRIAGED Study

    Page :S155

    David Eccleston, Christopher Reid, Angela Brennan, Jan Miels, Nick Andrianopoulos, Henry Krum

    
• • ·Continuous-Flow vs. Pulsatile-Flow LVADs Used as a Bridge-to-Transplantation

    Page :S155

    Alasdair Watson, Paul Jansz, Emily Granger, Alan Farnsworth, Carmen Axisa, Eugene Kotlyer, Anne Keogh, Christopher Hayward, Peter Macdonald, Phillip Spratt

    
• • ·Evaluation of the First 12 Months of a Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk Assessment and Treatment Program at Tāmaki Healthcare Primary Health Organisation, Auckland, New Zealand

    Page :S156

    David Peiris, Jonathan Murray, Doreen Scully, Virantha Tilakawardane, Lorraine Hetaraka-Stevens, Anushka Patel

    
• • ·Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction for Aboriginal Populations in Central Australia

    Page :S156

    Alex Brown, Iris Roberts, Joseph Fitz, Stacey Svenson, Zaimin Wang, Kevin Rowley

    
• • ·Cardiac Surgical Outcomes in Indigenous Australians: The Flinders Medical Centre Registry

    Page :S156

    Sam Lehman, Rob Baker, Philip Aylward, Hugh Cullen, Stephen Worthley, John Knight, Derek Chew

    
• • ·The Identification and Management of Vascular Diseases and Their Risk Factors in Eight Indigenous Primary Health Care Services—The Results of the Kanyini Vascular Collaboration Audit study

    Page :S157

    Alex Brown, Anushka Patel, Alan Cass, David Peiris, Michael Howard, Maria Tchan, Bernadette Rickards, Della Yarnold, Noel Hayman, Chris Lawrence, John Brady, Joanne De Vries, Nino Scuderi

    
• • ·Cardiovascular Disease and its Associated Risk Factors Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

    Page :S157

    Elizabeth Penm

    
• • ·Differentials in Patterns and Outcomes of Acute Coronary Syndromes in Aboriginal Australians: Data from the Central Australian Secondary Prevention of Acute Coronary Syndromes [CASPA] Study

    Page :S158

    Alex Brown, Simon Stewart, Warwick Beever, Bart Currie

    
• • ·Clinical Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions for Indigenous and Torres Straits Australians (ATSI) in Far North Queensland

    Page :S158

    Keith Tiong

    
• • ·Ultrasound-Guided Thrombin Injection for the Treatment of Iatrogenic Pseudoaneurysm of the Femoral Artery in 40 cases

    Page :S158

    Jincheng Guo, Changsheng Ma, Min Xu, Wenqing Sun, Pingping Wang

    
• • ·Improving the Door-to-Balloon Time for Patients with ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction Presenting to the Emergency Department of a Peripheral Metropolitan Hospital

    Page :S159

    Chris Finn, Paul Bailey, Victoria Lye, Cheryl Blanton, Michael Muhlmann

    
• • ·Safety and Efficacy of Trans-radial Approach Compared with Trans-femoral Approach for Coronary Angiography and Coronary Intervention: Real World Experience in Thai Patients

    Page :S159

    Nakarin Sansanayudh, Kitcha Champasri, Chumpol Piamsomboon, Prasart Laothavorn, Sopon Sanguanwong, Channarong Naksawadhi, Pachum Tasukon

    
• • ·Is Elevated Cardiac Troponin I After Elective Coronary Artery Stenting an Indicator of Future Adverse Cardiac Events ?

    Page :S160

    Thomas David, Raibhan Yadav, Arun Dahiya, Pradeep Narayanan, Sean Latouf, Prasad Challa, Leonie Jones

    
• • ·Ostial Oversize Behaviour of Drug Eluting Stents: Unexpected Results and Potential Improvements for Stent Design

    Page :S160

    Mark Pitney, Kate Pitney

    
• • ·Thrombolysis or Transport to a PCI Centre for ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Metropolitan Areas

    Page :S160

    Steven Faddy

    
• • ·Outcomes of Primary PCI without Preprocedural Clopidogrel

    Page :S161

    Alisdair Ryding, Gopal Sivaganabalan, Harshini Sivaramakrishnan, Arun Narayan, Andrew Ong, Pramesh Kovoor

    
• • ·Acute Retinal Arteriolar Emboli after Coronary Catheterisation in Cardiac Patients

    Page :S161

    Andreas Kreis, Ali Al-Fiadh, Melanie Freeman, Sophie Rogers, Jie Jin Wang, Alex Harper, David Clark, Tien Wong, Omar Farouque

    
• • ·Retinal Vascular Calibre is not Associated with Severity of Coronary Artery Disease in Symptomatic Cardiac Patients

    Page :S162

    Andreas Kreis, Ali Al-Fiadh, Melanie Freeman, Jei Jin Wang, Sophie Rogers, David Clark, Tien Wong, Omar Farouque

    
• • ·Contemporary Outcomes in Female Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) for Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)

    Page :S162

    Ali Al-Fiadh, George Proimos, Nick Andrianopoulos, Stephen Duffy, Omar Farouque, Surat Tongyoo, Angela Brennan, Andrew Ajani, Chris Reid, Alexander Black, Gishel New, Mark Horrigan, David Clark

    
• • ·Flow Impairment During Saphenous Vein Graft Intervention is Associated With Greater Plaque Embolization Despite Use of Distal Protection Device

    Page :S163

    Gary Liew, Michael Leung, Christopher Hammett, Matthew Worthley, Azfar Zaman, Stephen Worthley

    
• • ·Results in Complex Multivessel and Multilesion PCI in Patients Treated with a Combination of Drug Eluting Stents and Bare Metal Stents in Real World Practice

    Page :S163

    Ravinder Batra, Akshay Mishra, Rohan Jayasinghe, Sharmalar Rajendran, Naylin Bissessor, John Sedgwick

    
• • ·Unprotected Left Main Intervention: Procedural, in Hospital and Follow up Results in an Emergency Situation without on Site Surgery

    Page :S163

    Akshay Mishra, Ravinder Batra, Rohan Jayasinghe, Sharmalar Rajendran, Naylin Bissesor, John Sedgwick

    
• • ·Primary Percutaneous Coronary Interventions Without On-site Cardiac Surgery: Two Years’ Observational Experience and Follow-up

    Page :S164

    Akshay Mishra, Ravinder Batra, Rohan Jayasinghe, Sharmalar Rajendran, Naylin Bissesor, John Sedgwick

    
• • ·Outcomes with Targeted Use of Drug Eluting Stents in Patients with Acute ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI)

    Page :S164

    Calvin Hsieh, Harshini Sivaramakrishnan, Arun Narayan, Norman Sadick, Andrew Ong, Pramesh Kovoor

    
• • ·ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Strategies to Ensure that all Patients Receive Prompt Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Page :S164

    Wai Ping Alicia Chan, Aaron Sverdlov, Bernadette Hoffman, Kathryn Hines, Christopher Zeitz

    
• • ·Predictive Effect of Age in Elderly ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

    Page :S165

    Harshini Sivaramakrishnan, Arun Narayan, Gopal Sivagangabalan, Andrew T.L. Ong, Pramesh Kovoor

    
• • ·The Real Life Experience of Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent: “The Appliance of XIENCE”

    Page :S165

    Sally Aldous, James Blake, John Elliott, Dougal McClean, Mark Richards, David Smyth

    
• • ·Atrial Activation Rates During Atrial Fibrillation and Left Atrial Diameter are the Strongest Predictors of Cardioversion Success

    Page :S166

    Christopher X. Wong, Anthony G. Brooks, Martin K. Stiles, Bobby John, Hany Dimitri, Ross L. Roberts-Thomson, Pawel Kuklik, Scott R. Willoughby, Lorraine Mackenzie, Glenn D. Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillator Therapy in New Zealand

    Page :S166

    Praveen De Silva, Peter Larsen, Nigel Lever

    
• • ·Predictors of Long-Term Outcome after Saphenous Vein Graft Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Page :S166

    Rachel Cordina, Jens Kilian, David Celermajer, Mark Adams

    
• • ·Surgeons and Anaesthetists Require Education about the Appropriate Timing of Elective Surgery and the Perioperative Management of Antiplatelet Therapy in Patients with Drug Eluting Stents

    Page :S167

    Anil Ranchord, Patrick Kay, Helen Tanner, Wil Harrison, Manuprabha Ratnayeke, Janice Swampillai, Susan Plunkett, Scott Harding

    
• • ·Does Selective Abciximab use Influence Clinical Outcome in Patients with Acute STEMI Undergoing Primary PCI?

    Page :S167

    Chin Hiew, Trent Williams, Rohan Bhagwandeen, Suku Thambar, Simon Mylabathula, Bruce Bastian, Greg Bellamy, Nick Collins

    
• • ·Same Day Discharge can be Achieved Safely in the Majority of Elderly Patients Undergoing Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Page :S168

    Anil Ranchord, Sandir Prasad, Sujith Seneviratne, Russell Anscombe, Mark Simmonds, Phillip Matsis, Andrew Aitken, Scott Harding

    
• • ·Comparison of the Clinical Characteristics and Mortality of Patients with Cardiogenic Shock Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Compared with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention—Insights from Two Multi-centre Registries

    Page :S168

    Michael Wong, Christopher Reid, Nick Adrianopoulos, Siven Seevanayagam, Omar Farouque, Gishel New, Gil Shardey, Martin Sebastian, Han Lim, Julian Smith, Angela Brennan, Diem Dinh, Andrew Ajani, Stephen Duffy, David Clark

    
• • ·Failed Percutaneous Coronary Intervention is Associated with High Mortality and Adverse Clinical Event Rates in a Large Patient Cohort

    Page :S169

    Ronen Gurvitch, Andrew Ajani, Roderick Warren, Alexander Black, Stephen Duffy, Angela Brennan, David Clark, Greg Zsto, Nick Andrianopoulos, Jeffery Lefkovits

    
• • ·Clinical Outcomes of Drug-eluting Stent Use in Patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction—Insights from an Australian Registry

    Page :S169

    Ronen Gurvitch, Jeffery Lefkovits, Roderick J. Warren, Martin Sebastian, David J. Clark, Stephen J. Duffy, Angela Brennan, Nick Andrianopoulos, Christopher M. Reid, Andrew E. Ajani

    
• • ·Performing Primary PCI in a Newly Opened Catheterization Laboratory—Weighing Risk and Benefit

    Page :S170

    Aaron Sverdlov, Bernadette Hoffmann, Kathryn Hines, Wai Ping Alicia Chan, Sharon Taylor, Margaret Arstall, Christopher Zeitz

    
• • ·Emerging Trends in Interventional Cardiology—An Analysis of the Melbourne Interventional Group

    Page :S170

    Ronen Gurvitch, Roderick J. Warren, David Eccleston, Stephen J. Duffy, Angela Brennan, David J. Clark, Nick Andrianopoulos, Jeffery Lefkovits, Gishel New, Andrew E. Ajani

    
• • ·Long-term Outcomes of Percutaneous Therapy for True Bifurcation Lesions Treated with Drug-eluting Stents Using the “Shunt” Technique

    Page :S171

    Pratap Shetty, Nigel Jepson, Robert Giles, Daniel Friedman, Warren Walsh, Roger Allan, Mark Pitney

    
• • ·Sirolimus- and Paxlitaxel-eluting Stents Yield Similar Clinical Outcomes when used for Selected High Risk Indications Only: Results from a Large Australian Registry

    Page :S171

    Ronen Gurvitch, Jeffery Lefkovits, Roderick J. Warren, Stephen J. Duffy, Gishel New, Angela Brennan, Nick Andrianopoulos, Andew E. Ajani

    
• • ·In-Hospital and Follow-Up Clinical Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) in Octogenarians at Wellington Hospital

    Page :S171

    Darawan Chantad, Mark Simmonds

     
• • ·Early Results of a Randomised Trial of Bifurcation Stent Implantation with Cypher Stents Comparing “Shunt Stent” to the Provisional T Stent Technique: The REWIRE Trial

    Page :S172

    Joseph Matthews, Mark Pitney, Nigel Jepson, Robert Giles, Daniel Friedman, Roger Allan, Warren Walsh, Antony Lau

    
• • ·Eptifibatide Introduction into Australian Clinical Practice—Monitoring of its Initial Pattern of Use, Efficacy and Safety Using a Prospective Multicentre Registry

    Page :S172

    Ronen Gurvitch, William Wilson, Andrew E. Ajani, David Eccleston, James A. Shaw, Thomas Yip, Gishel New, Christopher M. Reid, Nick Andrianopoulos, Jeffery Lefkovits

    
• • ·A 2 × 2 Factorial Design Randomised Control Trial Assessing the Efficacy of High Pressure Coronary Stent Deployment and Post-dilation to Achieve Relative Oversize Compared to Nominal Stent Deployment and Sizing in Patients at High Risk for Re-stenosis Using the Endeavor Drug-eluting Stent Versus Bare Metal Stents: The HEADROOM trial—Report of the First 100 Patients

    Page :S173

    Joseph Matthews, Mark Pitney, Nigel Jepson, Robert Giles, Daniel Friedman, Roger Allan, Warren Walsh, Antony Lau, Sze-yuan Ooi

    
• • ·Feasibility and Safety of Erythropoietin (EPO) Administration in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction to Improve Cardiac Function and Remodelling: Pilot Study

    Page :S173

    Joseph Matthews, Mark Pitney, Jason Kovacic, Robert Lindeman, Eugene Loh, Nigel Jepson, Greg Cranney, Sze-yuan Ooi

    
• • ·Complications of Coronary Angiography in a Real-World Setting: 8-year Experience

    Page :S173

    Namal Wijeisnghe, Christopher Nunn, Cherian Sebastian, Spencer Heald, Hugh McAlister, Gerard Devlin

    
• • ·Percutaneous Septal Occluder Devices for the Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale

    Page :S174

    Naylin Bissessor, Rohan Jayasinghe, Lisa Hourigan, Greg Scalia, Darryl Burstow, Con Aroney, Darren Walters

    
• • ·Complications of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI) in the Real-World: The Waikato Hospital experience

    Page :S174

    Namal Wijesinghe, Christopher Nunn, Cherian Sebastian, Spencer Heald, Hugh McAlister, Gerard Devlin

    
• • ·Complications of Primary Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (PAMI) in a Real-World Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory: 8-Year Experience

    Page :S175

    Namal Wijesinghe, Christopher Nunn, Cherian Sebastian, Spencer Heald, Hugh McAlister, Gerard Devlin

    
• • ·Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque Burden Predicts Myocardial Infarction

    Page :S175

    Pallav Garg, Cathy Jeon, Michael Garshick, Manu Varma, Zheng Zhou, Laura Mauri

    
• • ·Twelve-month Outcomes for Sirolimus- and Palitaxel-Eluting Stents Compared to Bare-Metal Stents in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus

    Page :S176

    Michelle Butler, David Clark, Christopher Reid, Andrew Ajani, Angela Brennan, Bryan Yan, Nick Andrianopoulos, Anthony Walton, Anthony Dart, Stephen Duffy

    
• • ·Predictors and Outcomes of the No-Reflow Phenomenon

    Page :S176

    Michelle Butler, Andrew Ajani, Nick Andrianopoulos, David Clarke, Christopher Reid, James Shaw, Angela Brennan, Robert Lew, Anthony Dart, Stephen Duffy

    
• • ·Drug Eluting Stents (DES) Versus Bare Metal Stents (BMS) In Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Of Saphenous Vein Grafts (SVG)

    Page :S177

    Jairam Aithal, Alexander Black, Martin Sebastian, Antony Walton, Andrew E. Ajani, Tharien Du Plessis, Jeanette Dyson, Sahib Al-Dahar, Christopher Reid, Nick Andrianopoulos, Thomas Yip

    
• • ·Prognostic Implication of the Absolute Number of Platelets Not Inhibited by Clopidogrel Immediately Before Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Page :S177

    Ernesto Oqueli, Leonie Baker, Martin Hiscock, Ronald Dick

    
• • ·Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction Caused by Left Main Stem Thrombosis—A Two Centre Study

    Page :S178

    Sandhir Prasad, Robert Whitbourn, Yuvaraj Malaiapan, Walid Ahmar, Mauro Baldi, Andrew MacIsaac, Ian Meredith

    
• • ·Use of Export Aspiration Catheter in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI)

    Page :S178

    Jairam Aithal, Thomas Yip, Martin Sebastian, Robert Lew, David Eccleston, Tharien Du Plessis, Sahib Al-Dahar, Jeanette Dyson, Christopher Reid, Nick Andrianopoulos, Alexander Black

    
• • ·Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the Very Elderly: In Hospital Clinical Outcomes : Experience from a Single Private Institution

    Page :S179

    Ernesto Oqueli, Leonie Baker, Aaron carroll, Martin Hiscock, Ronald Dick

    
• • ·Analysis of Procedural and Clinical Outcomes of Contemporary Treatment of Chronic Total Occlusions

    Page :S179

    Wally Ahmar, Yuvaraj Malaiapan, Garry Barron, Sandahar Prasad, Thomas David, Maro Baldi

    
• • ·Comparison of Simple Versus Complex Stenting in Management of Coronary Bifurcation Lesions in the Era of Contemporary PCI

    Page :S179

    Wally Ahmar, Yuvaraj Malaiapan, Garry Barron, Thomas David, Sandahar Prasad, Maro Baldi, Ian Meredith

    
• • ·Results of Percutaneous intervention in patients with Transplant Coronary Artery Disease: A Retrospective Analysis

    Page :S180

    Imran Kassam, David Henderson, Anne Keogh, Peter Macdonald, David Muller, Christopher Hayward

    
• • ·Safety and Efficacy of Elective and Emergent Percutaneous Intervention with Off-Site Surgical Services

    Page :S180

    Jennifer M. Coller, James Sapontis, Sue-Ling Ching-Liew, Louise Roberts, Michael Rowe, Yew Mun Cheong, George Proimos, Dharsh Fernando, Christopher Goods, Maie Walsh, Miriam Tokhi, Gishel New

    
• • ·Clinical Outcomes of In-house and Transferred Patients After Primary PCI at a Tertiary Centre with Off-Site Surgical Back-Up

    Page :S180

    Jennifer M. Coller, Sue-Ling Ching-Liew, James Sapontis, Louise Roberts, Michael Rowe, Yew Mun Cheong, George Proimos, Christopher Goods, Maie Walsh, Miriam Tokhi, Nicholas Low, Gishel New

    
• • ·Percutaneous Revascularisation for Unprotected Left Main Disease in High-Risk Patients: A Single Centre Experience

    Page :S181

    Sze-Yuan Ooi, Mark Pitney, Joseph Matthews, Robert Giles, Daniel Friedman, Anthony Lau, Roger Allan, Warren Walsh, Nigel Jepson

    
• • ·Measurement of Platelet Inhibition with Ultegra-Rapid Platelet Function Analyser (RPFA) and Vasodilator-Stimulated Phosphoprotein (VASP) in Patients Undergoing Elective PCI

    Page :S181

    Andrew Morris, David Brieger

    
• • ·Door-to-Balloon Time—Results from a Multi-Centre Registry of Primary PCI in Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI)

    Page :S182

    Jennifer M. Coller, Louise Roberts, Nicholas Andrianopoulos, Christopher Reid, Greg Szto, Edward Mah, Angela Brennan, Bryan Yan, Gishel New

    
• • ·Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Stenting is Associated with Low In-Hospital MACE

    Page :S182

    Jamie Layland, Christine Jellis, Andrew McCann, Georg Leitl, Jack Gutman, Nilesh Mehta, Andrew MacIsaac, Robert Whitbourn

    
• • ·Clinical Outcome of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) using ≤2.5 mm Drug-Eluting Stents (DES): Insights from the Melbourne Interventional Group (MIG) Registry

    Page :S183

    William Chan, Andrew E. Ajani, David J. Clark, Nick Andrianopoulos, Michelle J. Butler, Angela Brennan, Gishel New, James A. Shaw, Anthony M. Dart, Stephen J. Duffy

    
• • ·Sequential Performance Monitoring in Interventional Cardiology Applied to a Single Site Database

    Page :S183

    James Cameron, John Rivers, Ian Smith, Kerrie Mengersen

    
• • ·Results of a Door to Balloon Time Audit for Patients Having a ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction at a Tertiary Australian Centre

    Page :S183

    Lorelle Martin, Omar Farouque, Mark Horrigan, David Clark, Andrew Tinney, Jayne Dicketts, Monica Nolen, Carolyn Naismith

    
• • ·Do Patients Transferred for Primary Angioplasty from a Peripheral Hospital Get Similar Benefits as their Local Counterparts?

    Page :S184

    Charles T. Itty, Ahmad Farshid, David Coles, Ian Jeffery, Darryl McGill, Simon O’Connor, Ren Tan

    
• • ·Predictors and Outcome of Stent Thrombosis in “Real-World” Patients in Australia

    Page :S184

    Ahmad Farshid, Charles T. Itty, David Coles, Ian Jeffery, Darryl McGill, Simon O’Connor, Ren Tan

    
• • ·Referral Demand for Amplatzer PFO Closure Dramatically Increases!

    Page :S184

    Natalie Kelly, Lisa Hourigan, Darren Walters, Darryl Burstow, Gregory Scalia

     
• • ·Stent Treatment for Coarctation of the Aorta in Adults: Procedural Success and Medium-term Outcome

    Page :S185

    Michael Leung, Claudio La Posta, Stephen Worthley, Patrick Disney, Ian Meredith, Geoff Lane

    
• • ·A Multi-centre Study of the Impact of Delayed STEMI Diagnosis in Emergency Departments on Door to Balloon Times

    Page :S185

    Bernadette Hoffmann, Wai Chan, Aaron Sverdlov, Kathryn Hines, Sharon Taylor, Margaret Arstall, Christopher Zeitz

    
• • ·Percutaneous Interventions for Atherosclerotic De-Novo Lesions in Saphenous Vein Grafts-In-Hospital and Medium term Clinical Outcomes

    Page :S186

    Thomas David, Yuvaraj Malaiapan, Sandhir Prasad, Wally Ahmar, Mauro Baldi, Ian Meredith

    
• • ·Trends in Drug Eluting Stent Use in the Elderly

    Page :S186

    M. Hudaverdi, M. Dahl, S. Seneviratne, A. Roati, M. Pincus, R. Chua, J.H.N. Bett, D.L. Walters

    
• • ·Stenting for Coarctation of the Aorta in Adolescents and Adults

    Page :S186

    Jonathan Ginns, Darren Walters, Robert Justo

    
• • ·Comparison of Field Triage Primary Angioplasty Parameters Determined by Normal Working Hours (NWH) or After Hours Hospital Admission

    Page :S187

    Amir Hadi Nojoumian, Ross Oliver McMahon, Tanya Stewart, Soon Y. Soo Hoo, Gregory Nelson

    
• • ·Field 12 Lead ECG to Triage STEMI Significantly Improves Door to Balloon Times: The Metropolitan Ambulance Service and MonashHEART Acute Myocardial Infarction 12 Lead Pilot (MonAMI-MAS) Project

    Page :S187

    Adam Hutchison, Bill Barger, Ian Jarvie, George Braitberg, Tony Kambourakis, Fiona Webster, James Cameron, Yuvaraj Malaiapan, Ian Meredith

    
• • ·Pericarditis is the Commonest Cause of Normal Coronary Angiography in Patients Referred for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Page :S188

    Sandhir Prasad, David Richards, Norman Sadick, Andrew Ong, Arun Narayan, Anne-Marie Gerke, Pramesh Kovoor

    
• • ·Primary PCI for Acute Myocardial Infarction due to Unprotected Total Left Main Artery Occlusion: A Single Centre Experience

    Page :S188

    Matthew Erickson, Eric Simillion, Sheryl Kannapin, Geoffrey Cope, Sharrad Shetty, Richard Clugston, Jamie Rankin

    
• • ·Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the Elderly Population—A Single Centre Experience

    Page :S188

    Siobhan Lockwood, Sarah Hope, Yuvaraj Malaiapan, Mauro Baldi, Herendra Wijesekera, Ian T. Meredith

    
• • ·Balloon Mitral Valvotomy—A Viable Option for Critically Sick Patients of Mitral Stenosis

    Page :S189

    Sanjeev Kumar Agarwal, Azan S. Binbrek

    
• • ·First Australian Experience of an Endothelial Progenitor Cell (EPC) Capture Stent: Insights from a Multicentre Registry

    Page :S189

    Jairam Aithal, Moyazur Rahman, Nick Andrianopoulos, Tharien Duplessis, Jeanette Dyson, Gishel New, David Eccleston, Robert Lew, Sahib Al-Daher, Thomas Yip, Alexander Black, Martin Sebastian

    
• • ·Falling Incidence of In-Stent Restenotic Lesions Treated in a High Volume Centre Over the Last Decade—Insight into the Changing Nature of Contemporary Interventional Practice

    Page :S190

    Krys Milburn, Nigel Jepson, Roger Allan, Mark Pitney, Warren Walsh, Daniel Friedman

    
• • ·Percutaneous Intervention in Coronary Bifurcation Lesions Using Radial Access—A Safety and Feasibility Study

    Page :S190

    Yuvaraj Malaiapan, Sandahar Prasad, Wally Ahmar, Michael Zhang, Maro Baldi, James Cameron, Ian Meredith

    
• • ·Transradial Percutaneous Intervention in the Elderly—A Safety and Feasibility Study

    Page :S191

    Yuvaraj Malaiapan, Sandahar Prasad, Wally Ahmar, Michael Zhang, Maro Baldi, James Cameron, Ian Meredith

    
• • ·Primary Infarct Angioplasty Using Radial Access—A Study on Safety, Feasibility and Door to Balloon Time Study

    Page :S191

    Yuvaraj Malaiapan, Sandahar Prasad, Wally Ahmar, Sujith Seneviretne, James Cameron, Ian Meredith

    
• • ·Clinical and Angiographic Correlates of Drug Eluting Stent Implantation in Primary PCI—A Real World Analysis

    Page :S191

    Wally Ahmar, Sandahar Prasad, Yuvaraj Malaiapan, Maro Baldi, Ian Meredith

    
• • ·Procedural and Clinical outcomes of PCI Treatment of Ostial Coronary Lesions—The MonashHEART Experience

    Page :S192

    Siobhan Lockwood, Wally Ahmar, Yuvaraj Malaiapan, Garry Barron, Mauro Baldi, Ian T. Meredith

    
• • ·National Trends in the Use of Drug-eluting Stents in Australian Private Hospitals: A State of Flux

    Page :S192

    Suzy McLean, Stephen Worthley, Gaik Twaddle, Joyce Restell, Stephen Cox, Tony Rafter, Rachael Briody, Ron Martin, Michelle Nederlof, Karen Parr, Jackie Wagstaff, Peter Thompson, David Clark

    
• • ·Long-term Safety of Drug-eluting Stent Implantation in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Page :S192

    Sandhir Prasad, Thormas David, Walid Ahmar, Yuvaraj Malaiapan, Ian Meredith

    
• • ·Long-term Outcomes of Primary Arterial Switch Operation

    Page :S193

    Dominica Zentner, Michael Cheung, Miriam Wheeler, Leeanne Grigg

    
• • ·Twin Pregnancies Discordant for Serious Cardiac Anomalies: A Review of Management Options

    Page :S193

    Atul Malhotra, Sam Menahem, Lynn Gillam, Paul Shekleton

    
• • ·Assessment of Left Ventricular Systolic Function Late After Anthracycline Administration in Childhood

    Page :S194

    Elske Sieswerda, Lyn Wilkinson, Jane Koleff, Yukari Newman, Suzanna Vidmar, Elizabeth Smibert, Gunnar Sjoberg, Micahel M.H. Cheung, Robert G. Weintraub

    
• • ·Childhood Left Ventricular Non-compaction: Clinical Features and Long-term Outcomes

    Page :S194

    Piers E.F. Daubeney, Alan Nugent, Patty Chondros, Michael M.H. Cheung, C.W. Chow, Gunnar Sjoberg, Ingrid King, Andrew M. Davis, James Ramsay, Robert G. Weintraub

    
• • ·Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Prior to Completion of Bidirectional Cavopulmonary Connection (BCPC) in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)

    Page :S195

    Bryn Jones, Daniel Penny, Yves d’Udekem, Christian Brizard, Michael Cheung

    
• • ·What Effect Does Prenatal Diagnosis of Significant Congenital Heart Disease Have on Maternal–Infant Attachment and Infant Development?

    Page :S195

    Jenny Re, Amichay Rotstein, Samuel Menahem, Andrew Cochrane, Suzanne Dean

    
• • ·Pitfalls and Limitations of Prenatal Cardiac Diagnosis and its Predictive Value on the Infant’s Outcome

    Page :S195

    Amichay Rotstein, Samuel Menahem, Paul Shekleton

    
• • ·Brain Injury on Magnetic Resonance Imaging is Common in Infants Undergoing Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease

    Page :S196

    Julia Gunn, Lara Shekerdemian, Lee Coleman, Rod Hunt, John Beca

    
• • ·Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators in Long-term Survivors of Atrial Switch Surgery

    Page :S196

    Miriam Wheeler, Leeanne Grigg, Domenica Zentner

    
• • ·The Relative Risk of Sudden Death in Children with Cardiomyopathy

    Page :S197

    Tara Bharucha, Andrew Davis, Alan Nugent, Piers Daubeney, Christian Turner, Terry Robertson, Jim Ramsay, Patty Chondros, Ingrid King, Robert Weintraub

    
• • ·Does Pregnancy Contribute to Systemic RV Dysfunction in Adults With the Atrial Switch Operation?

    Page :S197

    Dominica Zentner, Miriam Wheeler, Leeanne Grigg

    
• • ·Long-term MRI Follow-up of Repaired Coarctation of the Aorta

    Page :S198

    Rajesh Puranik, Smrithi Puranik, Rod Jones, Victor Tsang, Phillip Bonhoeffer, Marina Hughes, Andrew Taylor

    
• • ·The Impact of Chronic Pulmonary Regurgitation on the Right Ventricle: Pulmonary Stenosis vs. Tetralogy of Fallot

    Page :S198

    Rajesh Puranik, Phillip Lurz, Wendy Norman, Alessandra Frigiola, Phillip Bonhoeffer, Victor Tsang, Andrew M. Taylor

    
• • ·Amplatzer PDA Devices (apdad) in Symptomatic PDA Infants (SI)—An 8-year Experience

    Page :S198

    T.H. Goh

    
• • ·Balloon Angioplasty (BA) of Native Aortic Coarctation (AC) in Infancy—10-year Experience and Follow-up

    Page :S199

    T.H. Goh, Bryn Jones

    
• • ·Assessment and Management of Postoperative Coarctation

    Page :S199

    Chris Whight, Jonathan Ginns, Jason Wildschut, Richard Slaughter

    
• • ·Single Centre Experience with Bosentan in Eisenmenger’s Syndrome with Trisomy 21

    Page :S200

    Jonathan Ginns, Fiona Kermeen, Dorothy Radford

    
• • ·Risk Factors for Mortality in Paediatric Patients with Double Outlet Right Ventricle Based on Anatomic Features and Surgical Strategies

    Page :S200

    Lucas Eastaugh, Dan Penny, Christian Brizard, Yves d’Udekem, James Wilkinson

    
• • ·Baseline Features and Long-term Follow-up Post-transcatheter ASD Closure in Patients with Secundum ASD With and Without Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    Page :S200

    Gerald Yong, Maude Bergeron, Reda Ibrahim

    
• • ·Genetic Testing in Children with Familial Dilated or Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Page :S201

    Tara Bharucha, Belinda Chong, Ivan Macciocca, Andrew Davis, Maggie Soliman, Vanessa Connell, Ingrid King, Desirée du Sart, Robert Weintraub

    
• • ·Folic Acid and Vitamin B12 Supplementation Improves Arterial Function and Structure in Subjects with Subnormal Intake

    Page :S201

    K.S. Woo, P. Chook, T.W.C. Yip, S.K. Kwong, Y.J. Hu, X.S. Huang, G.G. Wang, M.J. Wu, Y.M. Liu, C.W.K. Lam, D.S. Celermajer

    
• • ·Patients Have a Positive Perception of Screening for Cardiovascular Risk

    Page :S202

    Courtney MacDonald, Helen Moriarty, Stewart Mann

    
• • ·The Decline in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality Since 1980 can be Attributed Largely to Falls in Blood Pressure, Total Cholesterol and Smoking

    Page :S202

    Martin Tobias, Richard Taylor, Li-Chia Yeh, Ken Huang, Stewart Mann, Norman Sharpe

    
• • ·The Coach Program Produces Sustained Improvements in Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Adherence to Recommended Medications—18-month Follow-up

    Page :S203

    Michael Jelinek, Margarite Vale, Anthony Dart, Leeanne Grigg, David Hare, James Best

    
• • ·NtproBNP predicts impaired submaximal cardiopulmonary exercise responses in chronic mixed and multiple valve disease (MVD)

    Page :S203

    Rohan Jayasinghe, Ralph Stewart, Irene Zeng, Andrew Kerr

    
• • ·Detection and Treatment of Hypertension in Rural Australia

    Page :S204

    Philip Tideman, Rosy Tirimacco, Edward Janus, Stephen Bunker, Annamari Kilkkinen, Kevin McNamara, Benjamin Philpot, Tiina Laatikainen, Sami Heistaro, James Dunbar

    
• • ·Efficacy of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Modifying Lipid Profiles in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

    Page :S204

    David Barrett, Robert Zecchin, Elizabeth Warner, A. Robert Denniss

    
• • ·Blood Pressure and HDL-cholesterol are Significant Determinants of Arterial Structure and Function in 8-year-old Children

    Page :S204

    Julian Ayer, Jason Harmer, Kitty Ng, Brett Toelle, Wei Xuan, Guy Marks, David Celermajer

    
• • ·Smoking Cessation Following Hospitalisation for Acute Coronary Syndrome or Cardiac Surgery

    Page :S205

    Robin May, Geoffrey Tofler, Ann Kirkness, Roger Bartrop, Vanessa Baker

    
• • ·Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) Risk Factor Knowledge in a Rural Population

    Page :S205

    Heather Pascoe, John Kotroulas, Alan Soward

    
• • ·Management of Lipids in Rural Australia—Are the Guidelines Being Followed?

    Page :S206

    Philip Tideman, Rosy Tirimacco, Edward Janus, Benjamin Philpot, Stephen Bunker, Kevin McNamara, Tiina Laatikainen, Annamari Kilkkinen, Sami Heistaro, James Dunbar

    
• • ·Preliminary Evaluation of a Self-administered, Modified Six Minute Walk Test

    Page :S206

    HuiYun Du, Patricia Davidson, Yenna Salamonson, Bronwyn Everett, Robert Zecchin, Phillip Newton

    
• • ·Impact of Medical Consultation Frequency on Change in Risk Factors After Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) in the Randomised Controlled Trial of a Modular Secondary Prevention Trial

    Page :S206

    Monique Menzies, Julie Redfern, Tom Briffa, S.B. Freedman

    
• • ·Intra-pulmonary Shunting Moderates Rises in Pulmonary Vascular Resistance with Exercise in Endurance Athletes—A Novel Description of Exercise Physiology

    Page :S207

    Andre La Gerche, Andrew T. Burns, Donald J. Mooney, Andrew I. MacIsaac, David L. Prior

    
• • ·Both Major and Minor Depression Can be Accurately Assessed Using the Cardiac Depression Scale

    Page :S207

    William Shi, Andrew Stewart, David Hare

    
• • ·Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease Have Impaired Quality of Life Compared to Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients

    Page :S208

    Rosanna Tavella, Natalie Cutri, Robert Adams, John Francis Beltrame

    
• • ·Core Depression Symptoms Related to Mortality in Systolic Heart Failure Patients

    Page :S208

    Andrew G.O. Stewart, Deidre Toia, David L. Hare

    
• • ·Cardiovascular Risk Factors Over 20 Years: The Baker Heart Risk Clinic

    Page :S208

    Melissa Barber, Garry Jennings, Simon Stewart

    
• • ·Simple Adjectives Can Measure Perceived Social Support and its Relationship to Both Anxiety and Depression

    Page :S209

    Andrew Stewart, David Hare

    
• • ·Clinical and Lifestyle Predictors of Progression of Angiographic Coronary Artery Disease

    Page :S209

    Daniel Sathianathan, Ahmad Farshid, Charles T. Itty, Lynette Divorty, Michelle McAlpin, Jenny Coutts

    
• • ·Author Index

    Page :S210

    
• • ·H₂S Preconditioning-Induced PKC Activation Regulates Intracellular Calcium Handling in Rat Cardiomyocytes

    Page :S220

    Ting Ting Pan, Jin Song Bian

    
• • ·Electrophysiological Characterization of the Gregg Effect in the Isolated Perfused Rat Right Ventricle

    Page :S220

    Douglas Kelly, Lorraine Mackenzie, David Saint

    
• • ·Markers of Endothelial Function and Inflammation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: A Comparison Between Peripheral and Intracardiac Blood Samples

    Page :S220

    Ross Roberts-Thomson, Scott Willoughby, Christopher Wong, Dennis Lau, Lorraine Mackenzie, Anthony Brooks, Glenn Young, Prashanthan Sanders

    
• • ·In-Hospital and Follow-Upclinical Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) in Octogenarians at Wellington Hospital

    Page :S221

    Darawan Chantad, Mark Simmonds

     
• • ·Riluzole Enhances Recovery from Ischaemia–Reperfusion Injury in the Isolated Rat Heart Model

    Page :S221

    Steven Weiss, Wang Teng, Amin Kouhpayeha, David Saint

     
• • ·Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase (P110⍺) [PI3K(P110⍺)] is Critical for the Maintenance of Cardiac Function and Survival in a Setting of Heart Failure

    Page :S222

    Lynette Pretorius, Lynette Pretorius, Helen Kiriazis, Ziqiu Ming, Junichi Sadoshima, Seigo Izumo, Garry L. Jennings, Xiao-Jun Du, Julie McMullen

    
• • ·The Protective Effects of Exercise and Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase(p110⍺) Activation in a Setting of Heart Failure

    Page :S222

    Kate Owen, Kate Owen, Xiao-Ming Gao, Helen Kiriazis, Ziqui Ming, Nelly Cemerlang, Joonwin Tan, Seigo Izumo, Elizabeth Woodcock, Xiao-Jun Du, Julie McMullen

    
• • ·Celecoxib but not Rofecoxib nor Naproxen Attenuates Renin-Angiotensin Aldosterone System-Induced Cardiac Hypertrophy and Fibrosis

    Page :S223

    Bing Wang, Michelle Bertucci, Anastasia Adrahtas, Andrew Kompa, Raymond Cheung, Henry Krum

    
• • ·Rho Kinase Inhibition Reduces AngiotensinII- and UrotensinII-Stimulated Cardiac Hypertrophy and Collagen Synthesis via Attenuation of Reactive Oxygen Species Production

    Page :S223

    Lavinia Tran, Bing Wang, Andrew Kompa, Anastasia Adrahtas, Michelle Bertucci, Rebecca Ritchie, Grant Drummond, Walter Thomas, Henry Krum

    
• • ·Blockade of the Urotensin II Receptor does not Attenuate Cardiac Remodelling in a Model of Pressure-Overload Hypertrophy: Functional and Histological Assessment

    Page :S224

    Andrew Kompa, Arintaya Phrommintikul, Stephen Douglas, Henry Krum

    
• • ·Reduced Levels of Activated ERK1/2 and p38 MAPK are Associated with Neonatal Cardiac and Cardiomyocyte Growth Restriction in the Hypertrophic Heart Rat (HHR)

    Page :S225

    Enzo Porrello, James Bell, Stephen Harrap, Walter Thomas, Lea Delbridge

    
• • ·In Vivo Cardiac Tissue Engineering in Vascularised Chambers

    Page :S225

    Rodney Dilley, Andrew Morrit, Sebastien Tourbach, Susan Bortolotto, Wayne Morrison

    
• • ·Hemodynamic Characteristics Underlying Post-Infarct Cardiac Rupture

    Page :S225

    Helen Kiriazis, Xiao-Ming Gao, Abhirup Lobo, Luisa La Greca, Geoffrey A. Head, Anthony M. Dart, Xiao-Jun Du

    
• • ·Increased MMP-9 Expression and Secretion by Circulating Mononuclear Cells in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Page :S226

    Lu Fang, Xiao-Jun Du, Donna Vizi, Yean Leng Lim, Anthony Dart

    
• • ·Evidence that Cardioprotection by Postconditioning Involves Preservation of Myocardial Opioid Content and Selective Opioid Receptor Activation

    Page :S226

    Amanda Zatta, Hajime Kin, Darice Yoshishige, Rong Jiang, Ningping Wang, James Reeves, James Mykytenko, Robert Guyton, Zhi-Qing Zhao, James Caffrey, Jakob Vinten-Johansen

    
• • ·Wave Intensity Analysis of Changes in Ventricular–Vascular Interaction with Incremental Dobutamine Infusion During Postnatal Growth in Lambs

    Page :S227

    Joe Smolich, Jonathan Mynard, Daniel Penny, Joe Smolich, Jonathan Mynard, Daniel Penny, Daniel Penny

    
• • ·Mitochondrial l-Arginine (l-Arg) Transport and the Failing Heart

    Page :S227

    Kylie Venardos, David Williams, David Kaye

    
• • ·Elevated Myocardial Superoxide Production Precedes the Cardiac Hypertrophic Response to a High Fructose Diet in Mice

    Page :S228

    Kimberley Mellor, Rebecca Ritchie, Margaret Morris, Lea Delbridge

    
• • ·Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy is Observed in the Mouse Following Ovariectomy

    Page :S228

    Claire Curl, Belinda Howard, Catherine Huggins, Lea Delbridge

    
• • ·Effect of Elevated Cardiac Angiotensin II and Omega-3 Diet in Modulating the Impact of Ovarian Hormone Withdrawal on Post-Ischemic Myocardial Function

    Page :S228

    Catherine E. Huggins, Claire L. Curl, Ruchi Patel, Peter L. McLennan, Mandy L. Theiss, Thierry Pedrazzini, Salvatore Pepe

    
• • ·Signalling Cross-Talk Between Cardiomyocyte δ-Opioid and Adenosine A₁ Receptors

    Page :S229

    Grant Williams-Pritchard, Jason Peart, Peter Johnson, John Headrick

    
• • ·Transcriptional Transregulation of Cardiomyocyte Adenosine and Opioid Receptors

    Page :S229

    Grant Williams-Pritchard, Kevin Ashton, Peter Johnson, John Headrick

    
• • ·Isopropylamine NONOate (IPA/NO) Prevents Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy via Nitroxyl (HNO)/cGMP-Dependent Signalling

    Page :S230

    Rebecca Ritchie, Swati Gossain, Jennifer Irvine, David Kaye, Barbara Kemp-Harper

    
• • ·Differential Activities of Cardiac Hypertrophic Signalling Pathways in Neonatal and Adult Hypertrophic Heart Rats (HHR)

    Page :S230

    James Bell, Enzo Porrello, Stephen Harrap, Walter Thomas, Lea Delbridge

    
• • ·Type 2 Diabetic Cardiomyopathy in db/db Mice is Associated with Progressive Cardiac Fibrosis, Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy and Oxidative Stress

    Page :S231

    Rebecca Ritchie, Tracey Julius, Keith Buxton, Qi Xu, Helen Kiriazis, Julie McMullen, Josephine Forbes, XiaoJun Du, David Kaye, Greg Tesch

    
• • ·Further Characterisation of Opioid-Mediated Sustained Ligand Preconditioning

    Page :S231

    Jason Peart, Garrett Gross, John Headrick

    
• • ·Analysis of Dihydropyridine and Ryanodine Receptor Clusters in Healthy and Failing Human Cardiac Myocytes

    Page :S232

    David Crossman, Christian Soeller, Peter Ruygrok, Mark Cannell

    
• • ·Reduced Expression of the Cardiomyocyte GLUT4 Transporter is Associated with Cardiac Hypertrophy and Disturbances in Excitation–Contraction Coupling

    Page :S232

    Vennetia Danes, Vennetia Danes, Claire Curl, Jenny Favaloro, Joseph Proietto, Lea Delbridge

    
• • ·Prevention of Cardiovascular Damage in Hypertensive Rats by Resveratrol

    Page :S232

    Rebecca Vella, Candice Bowen, Andrew Fenning

    
• • ·Pivotal Role of β-Adrenergic Stimulation-Evoked Oxidative Stress in Heart Failure

    Page :S233

    Qi Xu, Andrea Dalic, Helen Kiriazis, Ziqiu Ming, Xiaoming Gao, Rebecca H. Ritchie, Anthony M. Dart, Xiao-Jun Du

    
• • ·Importance of Calibrating Conductance Catheter Volume Signal for Assessment of Perinatal Changes in Left Ventricular Systolic Function Using End-Systolic Elastance

    Page :S233

    Andrew Hattam, Magdy Sourial, Jonathan Mynard, Daniel Penny, Joseph Smolich

    
• • ·Heart Rate Variability but not Corrected QT Interval has a Dose–Response Relationship with Dietary DHA Rich Fish Oil Supplementation in Overweight Humans

    Page :S234

    Nicholas Sjoberg, C. Milte, Alison Coates, Jon Buckley, Peter Howe, David Saint

    
• • ·Aortic Cross-Clamp and Release During on-Bypass Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Augments Plasma Methionine-Enkephalin

    Page :S234

    Olivier van den Brink, Michael Rowland, Silvana Marasco, Franklin Rosenfeldt, Don Esmore, Lea Delbridge, Salvatore Pepe

    
• • ·Plasma Proteomic Investigations in the Coronary Slow Flow Phenomenon: Exploring Mechanisms for the Acute Coronary Syndrome Presentation

    Page :S235

    Victoria Kopetz, Megan Penno, Peter Hoffmann, John Beltrame

    
• • ·Is Testosterone Protective Against Myocardial Ischemia?

    Page :S235

    Tak Wong, Sharon Tsang

    
• • ·Selenium Supplementation Down Regulates Monocyte Rolling and Adhesion via Metalloproteinase-Dependent l-Selectin Shedding from Monocytes

    Page :S236

    Ingo Ahrens, Christoph Ellwanger, Belinda Smith, Nicole Bassler, Yung Chih Chen, Irene Neudorfer, Andreas Ludwig, Christoph Bode, Karlheinz Peter

    
• • ·Pravastatin Inhibits Microvascular Constrictor Responses of Phenylepherine and Thromboxane Analogue, U46619, but not Endothelin-1

    Page :S236

    Nader Ghaffari, Jennifer Kennedy, John Beltrame

    
• • ·Inhibition of Vascular Constrictor Responses with Acute Statin Treatment is Independent of the Type of Statin, Species or Vascular Bed

    Page :S237

    Nader Ghaffari, James Edwards, Jennifer Kennedy, John Beltrame

    
• • ·The Minimum Net Energy Single-Point Method Overestimates Coronary Artery Wave Speed: A Computer Modelling Study

    Page :S237

    Jonathan P. Mynard, Daniel J. Penny, Joseph J. Smolich

    
• • ·Development of a New One-Dimensional Model of the Systemic Circulation Incorporating Ventricular Pressure, Aortic Valve and Coronary Flow

    Page :S237

    Jonathan Mynard, Perumal Nithiarasu

    
• • ·Acute Simvastatin Treatment Enhances the Efficacy of Rho Kinase Inhibitor Mediated Vasodilatation in Rat Caudal Arteries

    Page :S238

    Scott Copley, John Beltrame, David Wilson

    
• • ·Acute Pravastatin Attenuates ⍺₁ Agonist-Mediated Vasoconstriction Through an Endothelial Nitric Oxide-Dependant Mechanism

    Page :S238

    Jessica Dunn, Scott Copley, John Beltrame, David Wilson

    
• • ·Estrogen Suppresses the Ca²⁺/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II thus Conferring Cardioprotection

    Page :S239

    Yan Ma, Wing Cheng, Tak Wong

    
• • ·The Reduction of Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Obese, Type II Diabetic Patients Following Resistance Training

    Page :S239

    Andrew Fenning, Anna Voss, Faezeh Nabiollahi, Peter Reaburn

    
• • ·Interaction of CD40L with the Leukocyte Integrin Mac-1: A New Pathway for CD40L-Mediated Inflammation in Atherogenesis

    Page :S240

    Dennis Wolf, Andreas Zirlik, Christoph Maier, Juliana Soosairajah, Ingo Ahrens, Sandra Ernst, Nicole Bassler, Anna Missiou, Christoph Bode, Peter Libby, Karlheinz Peter

    
• • ·Proteomic Profiling and Differential Protein Expression Analysis of Myocardial Tissue in a Murine Model of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Page :S240

    Lien Lam, Jonathan Arthur, Christopher Semsarian

    
• • ·Systemic Urotensin II Infusion Induces Diastolic Dysfunction in Normal Rat Heart Independent of Blood Pressure: Contribution of Rho Kinase-Mediated Extracellular Matrix Production

    Page :S241

    Lavinia Tran, Andrew Kompa, William Kemp, Arintaya Phrommintikul, Bing Wang, Henry Krum

    
• • ·The Role of L- and T-Channels in the Large and Microvasculature

    Page :S241

    Christine Ball, David Saint, John Beltrame, David Wilson

    
• • ·Author Index

    Page :S242