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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Hearts and minds

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    Murray Esler

    
• • ·Myocardial energetics: Still only the tip of an iceberg

    Pagina :3-6

    Heinrich Taegtmeyer

    
• • ·Why publish hypothesis papers?

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    Franklin Rosenfeldt

    
• • ·Ischaemic preconditioning: Developing knowledge of a developing process

    Pagina :8-10

    Daniel J. Penny

    
• • ·Every heart beat is under neural command: An hypothesis relating to the cardiac rhythm

    Pagina :11-17

    Solomon Victor, Vijaya M. Nayak

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• • ·Alternative view on the mechanism of cardiac rhythmogenesis

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    Vladimir M. Pokrovskii

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• • ·Imaging cardiac metabolism in heart failure: The potential of NMR spectroscopy in the era of metabolism revisited

    Pagina :25-30

    Anne-Marie L. Seymour

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• • ·Evolving strategies for surgical management of patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction

    Pagina :31-38

    Patrick M. McCarthy, Mohammed A. Quader, Katherine J. Hoercher

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• • ·Absence of apparent cardioprotection following ischemic preconditioning in immature rabbit hearts

    Pagina :39-43

    Zhu Bin, Ye Tiehu, Min Su, Long Cun

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• • ·The streptozotocin-diabetic rat as a model of the chronic complications of human diabetes

    Pagina :44-50

    Michael Wei, Leslie Ong, Maree T. Smith, Fraser B. Ross, Katrina Schmid, Andrew J. Hoey, Darryl Burstow, Lindsay Brown

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• • ·Assessing experimental models in myocardial injury: Lack of activation of the proteases TACE and calpain in brief ischaemia and reperfusion

    Pagina :51-59

    Bernhard F. Becker, Stefanie Gilles, Vera Gonscherowski, Dusica Gabrijelcic-Geiger, Christian P. Sommerhoff, Ulrich Welsch, Stefan Zahler

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• • ·Myocardial heat shock protein changes in the failing heart following coronary artery ligation

    Pagina :60-65

    Kouichi Tanonaka, Wakako Toga, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Satoshi Takeo

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• • ·Coronary artery stent thrombosis associated with exercise testing

    Pagina :66-69

    Kim A. Connelly, Andrew Boyle, Andrew Wilson, Andrew MacIsaac, Patricia Fox, Robert Whitbourn

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• • ·Anomalous origin of the left anterior descending artery from the pulmonary artery associated with bicuspid aortic valve and aortic coarctation

    Pagina :70-72

    Andrew J.B. Clarke, Dorothy J. Radford, Homayoun Jalali

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• • ·Evidence-based management of the acute coronary syndrome : Edited by Roque Pifarre and Patrick J. Scanlon. Hanley & Belfus, Medical Publishers, Philadelphia, 2001. (Distributed by Harcourt Australia.) 477 pp. including bibliography. Black and white illustrations. ISBN 156053458-3. RRP $A131.80

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    Phil Aylward

    
• • ·Echocardiography for the neonatologist : Edited by Jonathan Skinner, Dale Alverson and Stewart Hunter. Churchill Livingstone, London, 2000. 243 pp. ISBN 0-443-05480-0. RRP $A119.95

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    Gary Sholler

    
• • ·Heart and lung transplantation, 2nd edition : Edited by William Baumgartner, Edward Kasper, Bruce Reotz and James Theodore. WB Saunders, Philadelphia, USA, 2002. 597 pp. Illustrations by Leon Schlossberg. ISBN 0-7216-7363-5. RRP $A400 (hardback)

    Pagina :74

    Graham McCrystal, Franklin L. Rosenfeldt

    
• • ·Thrombolysis for valve prosthesis

    Pagina :75-76

    Peter Kistler, Dominica Zentner, John G. Morgan, Leanne E. Grigg

    
• • ·The cardiothoracic surgery workforce

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    Kingsley Faulkner

    
• • ·Cardiac society of Australia and New Zealand

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• • ·Australasian society of cardiac and thoracic surgeons

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• • ·National heart foundation of Australia

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• • ·Forthcoming events

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• • ·Abstract of the Inaugural ASCTS Annual Scientific Meeting

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