Sommario

• • ·Guest reviewers for 2003

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• • ·Cardiac society of Australia and New Zealand : 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia & New Zealand in conjunction with the XVII World Congress of the International Society for Heart Research 7–11 August 2004 Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre

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• • ·The Australasian society of cardiac and thoracic surgeons : The Australasian Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons Research Foundation

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• • ·National Heart Foundation of Australia : Heart Foundation Releases Updated ‘Stress’ and Coronary Heart Disease Position

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• • ·Forthcoming events

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• • ·Author index volume 12, 2003

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• • ·Subject index volume 12, 2003

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• • ·Volume 12, 2003 Contents

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• Editorial

  • ·Diastolic heart failure: Can we afford to be in diastole?

    Pagina :119-122

    Dominic Y. Leung

    
  • ·Off-pump coronary artery bypass: Where are we?

    Pagina :123-124

    Michael Gardner

    
  • ·Anticoagulation and mechanical heart valves: Extrapolation has its hazards

    Pagina :125-126

    Clifford F. Hughes

    

• Original article

  • ·Is ‘diastolic heart failure’ a diagnosis of exclusion? Echocardiographic parameters of diastolic dysfunction in patients with heart failure and normal systolic function

    Pagina :127-134

    Philip M. Mottram, Leanne Short, Terri Baglin, Thomas H. Marwick

    Riassunto Riassunto
  • ·Randomised double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of coenzyme Q₁₀ therapy in class II and III systolic heart failure

    Pagina :135-141

    Anne Keogh, Steve Fenton, Christina Leslie, Christina Aboyoun, Peter Macdonald, Michael Bailey, Franklin Rosenfeldt

    Riassunto Riassunto
  • ·Nitric oxide does not mediate the vasodilation of early human pregnancy

    Pagina :142-148

    Matthias R. Langenfeld, Lisa A. Simmons, Jane A. McCrohon, Olli T. Raitakari, Jo-Dee Lattimore, Annemarie Hennessy, David S. Celermajer

    Riassunto Riassunto

• Current review

  • ·Quantification of haemodynamic performance of stented and stentless aortic bioprostheses and potential influence on survival

    Pagina :149-156

    W.R. Eric Jamieson

    Riassunto Riassunto

• Book review

  • ·The cardiac catheterisation handbook, 4th edition. Edited by Morton J Kearn. Mosby, Philadelphia, 2003. 650 pp. ISBN 0-323-02247-2. RRP $108.90

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    Robert Denniss

    

• Original article

  • ·Five year clinical follow up of patients who have had off pump coronary artery bypass grafting

    Pagina :157-162

    Mark A. Newman, John M. Alvarez, Marlene L. Kolybaba

    Riassunto Riassunto
  • ·Five year clinical follow up of patients who have off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting

    Pagina :162-163

    Hugh Wolfenden

    
  • ·Lower anticoagulation for mechanical heart valves: Experience with the ATS bileaflet valve

    Pagina :164-171

    Guido J. Van Nooten, Yves Taeymans, Yves Van Belleghem, Katrien François, Hans Van Overbeke, Jan Poelaert, Frank Caes, Michel De Pauw

    Riassunto Riassunto
  • ·From classical sternotomy to truly endoscopic mitral valve surgery: A step by step procedure

    Pagina :172-177

    Filip P. Casselman, Sam Van Slycke, Francis Wellens, Raf De Geest, Ivan Degrieck, Yvette Vermeulen, Frank Van Praet, Hugo Vanermen

    Riassunto Riassunto

• Current review

  • ·Endogenous cardiac opioids: Enkephalins in adaptation and protection of the heart

    Pagina :178-187

    Olivier W.V. van den Brink, Lea M. Delbridge, Franklin L. Rosenfeldt, Daniel Penny, Donald S. Esmore, Deahne Quick, David M. Kaye, Salvatore Pepe

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• Cardiovascular images

  • ·Association of a double orifice mitral valve with a bicuspid aortic valve in an explanted heart with dilated cardiomyopathy

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    Ivor L. Gerber, A. Louise Calder, Peter N. Ruygrok, Sally C. Greaves, Helen C. Gibbs, Susan Long, H. Arthur Coverdale

    

• Case report

  • ·Salvage stenting for acute renal failure secondary to renal artery stenosis

    Pagina :189-192

    Jason C. Sharp, David W. Baron

    Riassunto Riassunto
  • ·AIDS and heart disease: Is cardiac surgery justified?

    Pagina :193-195

    Manish Agaskar, Nitin Ghorpade, Eugene Athan, Morteza Mohajeri

    Riassunto Riassunto

• Book review

  • ·Your questions answered: Stroke. Graeme J. Hankey. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 2002. 337 pp. Available through Harcourt, Australia. ISBN 443071462. RRP $A70.40

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    Paul Clouston

    

• Case report

  • ·Sudden death prevented in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :196-198

    Irandi Jayatilleke, Mark McGuire, Virginia Booth, David R. Richmond, Christopher Semsarian

    Riassunto Riassunto
  • ·Asymmetric myocardial thickening during acute myocarditis

    Pagina :199-200

    Paul G. Bridgman

    Riassunto Riassunto

• Book review

  • ·Manual of hypertension. Edited by Giuseppe Mancia, John Chalmers, Stevo Julius, Takao Saruta, Michael Weber, Alberto Ferrari and Ian Wilkinson. Churchill Livingstone, Harcourt Publishers Limited, London, 2002. ISBN 0 443 06195 5. RRP $A215.00

    Pagina :201-202

    Stephen N. Hunyor

    
  • ·Heart transplantation. Authors: James K. Kirklin, James B. Young and David C McGiffin. Churchill Livingstone, Philadelphia, 2002. 883 pp. ISBN 0 443 07655 3. RRP A$568 (inc. GST). Elsevier Science/Harcourt Australia, http://www.harcourt.com.au

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    Franklin Rosenfeldt

    

• Letter to the editor

  • ·Conflict of interest

    Pagina :204-205

    John Ichsan Tan