Sommario

• • ·Angiotensin II: A proven therapeutic target with some mechanistic mysteries

    Pagina :45-47

    Lea M.D. Delbridge

    
• • ·Low serum S100β protein levels following coronary artery surgery with or without cardiopulmonary bypass

    Pagina :48-52

    Neville M. Gibbs, Barry D. Mahon, Mark A.J. Newman, Alex Prins, William M. Weightman

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Transcatheter embolisation of coronary artery fistulae

    Pagina :53-57

    Robert N. Justo, Richard E. Slaughter, Christopher M. Whight, Dorothy J. Radford

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Intravascular ultrasound assessment of ambiguous coronary lesions

    Pagina :58-62

    Philip M. Mottram, Ian T. Meredith

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation: A new catheter-based therapy for patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :63-67

    H.M. Omar Farouque, Stephen G. Worthley, R.Andrew P. Skyrme-Jones, Sarah A. Hope, Ian T. Meredith

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Anti-Thrombotic, anti-platelet and fibrinolytic therapy: Current management of acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :68-74

    Gérard Helft, Stephen G. Worthley

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Echocardiographic aspects of percutaneous atrial septal defect closure in adults

    Pagina :75-78

    Richard Graham, John Gelman

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Does unprotected left main-stem stenting have a role in current interventional practice?

    Pagina :79-82

    R. Andrew, P. Skyrme-Jones, H.M.Omar Farouque, C.H. Ang, Ian T. Meredith

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Balloon mitral valvuloplasty at Monash Medical Centre: Follow up of 201 procedures over an 11-year period

    Pagina :83-85

    Lynette A. Yates, Richard W. Harper, Roger E. Peverill, Joseph J. Smolich

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Combination thrombolytic therapy and percutaneous coronary intervention: the future for revascularisation for acute myocardial infarction?

    Pagina :86-89

    Stephen G. Worthley, H.M.Omar Farouque, Azfar G. Zaman, Ian T. Meredith

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Angiotensin II and cardiac excitation-contraction coupling: Questions and controversies

    Pagina :90-98

    Martín G. Vila Petroff, Alicia R. Mattiazzi

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Reperfusion therapy for acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :99-104

    Philip Aylward, David Hunt

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Papillary fibroelastoma, a rare but potentially treatable cause of embolic stroke: Report of three cases

    Pagina :105-107

    Wilfred Saw, Stephen Nicholls, Geoffrey Trim, Duncan Thomson, Clifford Hughes, Stewart Mitchell, James Leitch

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Cardiac society of Australia and New Zealand

    Pagina :108

    
• • ·Australasian society of cardiac and Thoracic surgeons

    Pagina :109

    
• • ·Forthcoming events

    Pagina :110

    
• • ·Cardiology : Edited by Michael J. Crawford & John P Di Marco. Mosby, London, 2001. (Available through Harcourt Australia.) ISBN 02723431388

    Pagina :111

    Robert Denniss

    
• • ·Corrigenda

    Pagina :112

    
• • ·Congress organisational structure

    Pagina :A3

    
• • ·Message from the chairman of the organising committee

    Pagina :A4

    
• • ·Report on the fifth China international congress on thoracic and cardiovascular surgery

    Pagina :A4

    
• • ·Millennium lecture: A personal experience of cardiothoracic surgery from Dawn to Zenith (1944–2001)

    Pagina :A6

    Juro J. Wada

    
• • ·Review of coronary artery surgery in China

    Pagina :A7

    Wu Qingyu

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Present status and future of cardiopulmonary bypass in China

    Pagina :A9

    Hu Xiaogin

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Heart valve surgery in China: Yesterday and today

    Pagina :A11

    Zhang Baoren

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Status of paediatric cardiac surgery in China

    Pagina :A16

    Ding Wenxiang

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Trends in beating heart coronary artery bypass grafting with the octopus: Experience from 300 cases

    Pagina :A20

    Erik Jansen, Jaap Lahpor, Paul Grundeman, Jan Diephuis, Arno Nierich

    
• • ·Result of heart transplantation waiting list under extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support: Experience in National Taiwan University Hospital

    Pagina :A21

    Ta Chungshen, Yih Shangchen, Shu Chienhuang, Wen Jeko, Nai Kaunchou, Ron Binhsu, Sheei Shenwang, Fang Yuelin, Shu Hsunchu

    
• • ·Current status of minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting in China

    Pagina :A22

    Hu Shengshou

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Historical evolution of minimally invasive coronary surgery

    Pagina :A24

    Federico Benetti

    
• • ·Recent advances in heart transplantation: experience at Cheng Hsin General Hospital

    Pagina :A25

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Current perspectives in surgical treatment for lung cancer in China

    Pagina :A27

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Thirty-four years of experience and advances in surgical treatment of carcinoma of the oesophagus and gastric cardia

    Pagina :A31

    
• • ·Thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection: Surgical results and experience of 428 cases

    Pagina :A32

    Sun Yanqing

    
• • ·Video-assisted lobectomy: Indications and technique

    Pagina :A33

    Anthony P.C. Yim