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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·THE PHARMACOGENOMICS AND PHARMACODYNAMICS OF CLOPIDOGREL RESPONSE: AN ANALYSIS FROM THE PRINC (PLAVIX RESPONSE IN CORONARY INTERVENTION) TRIAL

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    PA Gladding, MWI Webster, I Zeng, J Stewart, P Ruygrok, J Ormiston, J Perry, A Gunes, M Dahl

    
• • ·INCREASED NEUTROPHIL AND MONOCYTE DEGRANULATION WITH RELEASE OF INTRACELLULAR LEUCOCYTE ELASTASE AND MYELOPEROXIDASE IN ACUTE ST ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

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    C Marshall, T Mocatta, J McKenzie, AJ Kettle, J Blake, J Elliott, D Smyth, M Richards, DR McClean

    
• • ·SERIAL DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY AND TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING MEASUREMENTS CAN ACCURATELY DETECT ELEVATED DIRECTLY MEASURED LEFT ATRIAL PRESSURE IN CHRONIC HEART FAILURE

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    J Ritzema, M Richards, I Crozier, N Gardiner, I Melton, R Doughty, N Eigler, J Whiting, WT Abraham, R Troughton

    
• • ·THE USEFULNESS OF N-TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE FOR DETECTING LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY IN ASYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS FROM VARIOUS ETHNIC GROUPS

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    JB Somaratne, GA Whalley, KK Poppe, A Pearl, C Morunga, C Ward, W Bagg, RN Doughty

    
• • ·IMPLANTED CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR THERAPY IN NEW ZEALAND

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    PD Larsen, P De Silva, NA Lever

    
• • ·FALLS IN BLOOD PRESSURE, TOTAL CHOLESTEROL AND SMOKING HAVE CONTRIBUTED UP TO 80% OF THE DECLINE IN CORONARY HEART DISEASE MORTALITY SINCE 1980

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    M Tobias, R Taylor, L-C Yeh, K Huang, S Mann, N Sharpe

    
• • ·CARDIAC RESYNCHRONISATION THERAPY: THE CHRISTCHURCH EXPERIENCE

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    RE Park, JM Greenslade, SP Matthewson, RW Troughton, IC Melton, IG Crozier

    
• • ·A SINGLE URINE ALBUMIN:CREATININE RATIO PREDICTS LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY BETTER THAN ECG IN PRIMARY CARE PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS

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    JB Somaratne, W Bagg, KK Poppe, A Pearl, C Morunga, C Ward, GA Whalley, RN Doughty

    
• • ·SWEET SOUTHERN SUCCESS FOR HEART GUIDE AOTEAROA

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    JC Cuthill, M Brown

    
• • ·ATRIAL FIBRILLATION NURSE-LED CLINIC: FIRST YEAR AUDIT

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    JM Dean, I Stolarek

    
• • ·NOT ANOTHER POSTPONEMENT OF SURGERY! ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION IN PRE-OPERATIVE ELECTIVE CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT (CABG) PATIENTS

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    AJ Scull, JM Elliott, SE Luty

    
• • ·IN-HOSPITAL AND FOLLOW-UP CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION (PCI) IN OCTOGENARIANS AT WELLINGTON HOSPITAL

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    D Chantad, M Simmonds

     
• • ·SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE DOOR-TO-BALLOON TIMES IN THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

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    VHT Chen

    
• • ·CAN A SIMPLE ADJUSTMENT FOR FAMILY HISTORY OF PREMATURE CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IMPROVE THE FRAMINGHAM-BASED RISK SCORE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE PRESENTING WITH AN ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME?

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    JL Looi, KL Looi, S Haliday, G Gamble, HD White, CJ Ellis

    
• • ·DEATHS ON THE CARDIAC SURGERY WAITING LIST

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    BD Mahon

    
• • ·COMPARISON OF ATRIAL AND B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE IN MITRAL AND AORTIC VALVE DISEASE

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    A Kerr, NC Van Pelt, RS Gabriel, V Sharma, OC Raffel, G Whalley, RAH Stewart

    
• • ·INCIDENCE OF NON-CARDIAC ABNORMALITIES DETECTED FROM CT CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY—A CONSECUTIVE SERIES OF 500 PATIENTS USING 64 SLICE MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY

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    ME Legget, CJ Ellis, C Edwards, JA Ormiston, N Van Pelt, J Christiansen, H Winch, M Osborne, H Williams, P Kyshap, G Gamble

    
• • ·N-TERMINAL PRO-B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE IN AORTIC STENOSIS: RESULTS FROM THE NZ HEART VALVE STUDY

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    RAH Stewart, A Kerr, ME Legget, M Richards, G Whalley, D Friedlander, A Hamer, R Luke, M Williams, M Simmonds, I Zeng, T O’Meegan, J Lainchbury, R Doughty, C Edwards, HD White, for The NZ Heart Valve Study Investigators

    
• • ·CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE—THE GOLD STANDARD INVESTIGATION FOR MITRAL REGURGITATION SEVERITY?

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    ACY To, AJ Kerr, C Occleshaw, R Gabriel, I Zeng, B Cowan, A Young, G Whalley, RAH Stewart

    
• • ·THE REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE OF EVEROLIMUS ELUTING CORONARY STENT: “THE APPLIANCE OF XIENCE”

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    S Aldous, J Blake, J Elliott, D McClean, M Richards, D Smyth

    
• • ·SPIROMETRY AND N-TERMINAL-PRO-B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE COMBINED PREDICT IMPAIRED FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE

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    N Bissessor, I Zeng, B Lowe, K Ellyet, A Kerr, J Kolbe, RAH Stewart

    
• • ·CURRENT TREATMENT TIMES FOR ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION PRIMARY/RESCUE ANGIOPLASTY IN OTAGO/SOUTHLAND JULY 2006–FEBRUARY 2008

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    VHT Chen

    
• • ·ASSESSMENT OF THORACIC AORTIC DILATION: IS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY AS GOOD AS MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING?

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    K Wong, C Edwards, G Armstrong, H Patel, T Scott, HH Hart, JP Christiansen

    
• • ·EVALUATION OF POSSIBLE ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA USING CARDIAC MRI—A SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE

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    K-L Looi, C Edwards, G Armstrong, H Patel, T Scott, HH Hart, JP Christiansen

    
• • ·CONTRAST-ENHANCED CARDIAC MRI: A NOVEL APPROACH TO IMAGING PERICARDIAL INFLAMMATION AND FIBROSIS

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    CW Wong, C Edwards, HH Hart, JP Christiansen

    
• • ·EFFECT OF STREAMLINING ADMISSION FOR PRIMARY PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION (PPCI) ON DOOR TO BALLOON (D2B) TIMES

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    N Swanson, K Golding, CM Nunn, S Holmes, GP Devlin

     
• • ·THE NEW ZEALAND HEART FAILURE REGISTRY: EARLY OBSERVATIONS

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    GP Devlin, R Troughton, M Lund, R Doughty, On behalf of the NZHFR Investigators

    
• • ·CARDIAC IMAGING BY 64-SLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY: THE AUCKLAND EXPERIENCE OF 500 CONSECUTIVE PATIENTS AT MERCY HOSPITAL

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    H Winch, CJ Ellis, ME Legget, C Edwards, JA Ormiston, N Van Pelt, J Christiansen, M Osborne, G Gamble

    
• • ·A LOW FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE DOES NOT CONFER PROTECTION FROM AN ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME: IMPLICATIONS FOR RISK ASSESSMENT IN YOUNG PEOPLE

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    KL Looi, JL Looi, S Haliday, G Gamble, HD White, CJ Ellis

    
• • ·IS CARDIAC IMAGING BY 64-SLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SAFE? ADVERSE EVENTS OBSERVED WITH 500 CONSECUTIVE PATIENTS IN A NEW ZEALAND PROGRAMME

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    CJ Ellis, ME Legget, C Edwards, JA Ormiston, N Van Pelt, J Christiansen, H Winch, M Osborne, G Gamble

    
• • ·DIFFERENT ANALYSERS AND VARIABLE THRESHOLDS WITH TROPONIN TESTING IN NEW ZEALAND 2002–2007: IS IT TIME FOR SOME NATIONAL STANDARDISATION?

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    M Latif, A Chataline, G Gamble, HD White, CJ Ellis

    
• • ·OBESITY, IMPAIRED FASTING GLUCOSE AND THE METABOLIC SYNDROME ARE UNDER-RECOGNISED AND UNDER-TREATED IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

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    F Fahrtash, S Prasad, W Thai, Y Malaiapan, J Cameron, I Meredith

    
• • ·TAKE HEART: A MODEL FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION : FINDINGS FROM A DOCTORAL STUDY, RHODES UNIVERSITY, GRAHAMSTOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

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    S Frewen

    
• • ·CAN THE ADMISSION ECG DISTINGUISH APICAL BALLOONING SYNDROME FROM ANTERIOR ST ELEVATION MI?

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    J Fu, A Khan, AJ Kerr

    
• • ·THE TEMPORAL PROGRESSION OF ECG CHANGES IN APICAL BALLOONING SYNDROME COMPARED WITH NON-ST ELEVATION MI

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    J Fu, A Khan, AJ Kerr

    
• • ·THE ANTIPLATELET EFFECT OF HIGHER LOADING AND MAINTENANCE DOSE REGIMENS OF CLOPIDOGREL: THE PLAVIX RESPONSE IN CORONARY INTERVENTION (PRINC) TRIAL

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    PA Gladding, MWI Webster, I Zeng, J Stewart, P Ruygrok, J Ormiston, S El-Jack, G Armstrong, P Kay, D Scott

    
• • ·MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING PULMONARY FLOWS VERSUS NUCLEAR MEDICINE PERFUSION SCANNING: ARE BOTH NECESSARY?

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    T Glenie, BR Cowan, M Rutland, T Hornung, C Occleshaw

    
• • ·MONITORING OF A DANGEROUS MEDICATION: ARE WE MEETING EXPECTATIONS

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    T Glenie, A Scott

    
• • ·NON-INVASIVE MEASUREMENT OF ARTERIAL STIFFNESS USING WIDEBAND EXTERNAL PULSE SIGNALS FROM THE BRACHIAL ARTERY

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    W Harrison, P Ruygrok, A Lowe, K Edwards, E Hooper, N Sharrock, W Waite

    
• • ·DO CHANGES IN B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE AFTER SYMPTOM-LIMITED EXERCISE REFLECT IMPAIRED CARDIAC FUNCTION?

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    AJ Kerr, S Pasupati, I Zeng, NC Van Pelt, RS Gabriel, V Sharma, OC Raffel, RAH Stewart

    
• • ·INAPPROPRIATE SHOCK THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH MODERN IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATORS (ICD): A RETROSPECT AUDIT FROM THE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY DEPARTMENTAL DATABASE AT AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL

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    A Khan, A Elliot, F Riddell, I Zeng, M Hood, W Smith

    
• • ·APICAL BALLOONING SYNDROME: THE AUCKLAND COHORT

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    A Khan, S Wong, M Lund, M Webster, R Stewart, J Christiansen, AJ Kerr

    
• • ·LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP OF THE MOSAIC AORTIC BIOPROSTHESIS—A THIRD-GENERATION PORCINE VALVE : THE GREEN LANE EXPERIENCE 1995–2007

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    ME Legget, S Simpson-Plauman, PJ Raudkivi

    
• • ·AN EARLY INVASIVE STRATEGY IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES (ACS)—ARE WE MAKING A DIFFERENCE? : AN AUDIT OF CCU ADMISSIONS 2001 AND 2006 AT AUCKLAND AND GREEN LANE HOSPITAL

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    G Raj, ME Legget, RAH Stewart, HD White, PN Ruygrok

    
• • ·SCREENING FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IS BEING TAKEN UP RAPIDLY AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY BY PATIENTS IN NEW ZEALAND PRIMARY CARE SETTINGS

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    C MacDonald, S Mann, H Moriarty

    
• • ·NON-CORONARY CAUSES OF RAISED TROPONIN T INCLUDE RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS

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    I Kardailsky, P Beatty, P Quigley, S Mann

    
• • ·THE ESTIMATED INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE IN NEW ZEALAND FOR 2001–2003 BASED ON ROUTINELY COLLECTED DATA

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    M Tobias, WC Chan, C Wright, RT Jackson, S Mann, L-C Yeh

    
• • ·PROCEDURE-RELATED INFORMATION RECALLED BEFORE CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY

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    D Leiper, S Mann

    
• • ·PERCEPTIONS OF THE PROGNOSTIC BENEFIT OF STATIN THERAPY AND PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION AMONG PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS

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    S Mann

    
• • ·PERCEPTIONS OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS AMONG CARDIOLOGY OUTPATIENTS

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    C Stirrat, S Mann

    
• • ·MULTIMODALITY IMAGING—ITS USE IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF BIVENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION IN A PATIENT WITH LEOPARD SYNDROME

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    AM Moynagh, C O’Donnell, K Finucane, I Crozier

    
• • ·CARDIAC CT ANGIOGRAPHY FOR DETECTION OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE—PREVALENCE OF INCIDENTAL FINDINGS

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    A Moynagh, J Lainchbury, S MacDonald, R Keenan, R Troughton

    
• • ·COMPARISON OF INTRATHORACIC IMPEDANCE WITH DIRECT LEFT ATRIAL PRESSURE IN CHRONIC HEART FAILURE

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    RE Park, JLT Ritzema, IC Melton, IG Crozier, AM Richards, RW Troughton

    
• • ·OUTCOMES OF PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION ABLATION FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

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    RE Park, JM Greenslade, SP Matthewson, SL MacDonald, IC Melton, IG Crozier

     
• • ·SAME DAY DISCHARGE CAN BE ACHIEVED SAFELY IN THE MAJORITY OF ELDERLY PATIENTS UNDERGOING ELECTIVE PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION

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    AM Ranchord, S Prasad, SK Seneviratne, R Anscombe, MB Simmonds, P Matsis, A Aitken, SA Harding

    
• • ·SURGEONS AND ANAESTHETISTS REQUIRE EDUCATION ABOUT THE TIMING OF ELECTIVE SURGERY AND PERIOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF ANTIPLATELET THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH DRUG ELUTING STENTS

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    AM Ranchord, P Kay, H Tanner, W Harrison, M Ratnayeke, J Swampillai, S Plunkett, SA Harding

    
• • ·HAVE CHANGES IN TECHNIQUE AFFECTED THE OUTCOME OF PRIMARY PCI?

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    J Sathananthan, Y Malaiapan, IT Meredith, M Leung, M Baldi, SA Hope

    
• • ·INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON COUNTER-PULSATION USE AT TWO TERTIARY REFERRAL CENTRES IN THE SOUTH ISLAND

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    M Siriwardena, A Pilbrow, AM Richards, GT Wilkins

    
• • ·DOES RESTRICTIVE MITRAL FILLING PATTERN ON DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY PREDICT READMISSION IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE?

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    J Somaratne, R Doughty, K Poppe, D Prior, C Yu, G Whalley, MeRGE HR Collaborators

     
• • ·IMPLEMENTING A REAL-TIME ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME (RACS) DATABASE AND REPORTING SYSTEM IN SOUTH AUCKLAND

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    JB Somaratne, A To, A McLachlan, E Chan, P Funaki, AJ Kerr

    
• • ·SYSTEMATIC ERROR IN AORTIC REGURGITANT FRACTION MEASUREMENTS BY VELOCITY-ENCODED CINE IMAGING IN CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE

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    ACY To, AJ Kerr, I Zeng, A Young, B Cowan, RAH Stewart

    
• • ·CORONARY ARTERY ANATOMY IN APICAL BALLOONING SYNDROME

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    ACY To, P Kay, A Khan, AJ Kerr

    
• • ·COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF CORONARY ARTERY STENOSES: CT CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY VERSUS CONVENTIONAL CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY AND CORRELATION WITH FFR

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    N van Pelt, WB Meijboom, C van Miegham, N Mollet, PJ de Feyter

    
• • ·THE CONTRIBUTION OF NEW-ONSET ANAEMIA AND RAISED INFLAMMATORY MARKERS IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS

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    S Perera, N Wijesinghe, V Mathavan, A Robin, GP Devlin

    
• • ·INCIDENCE AND AETIOLOGY OF PERICARDIAL DISEASE ASSOCIATED WITH PULMONARY EMBOLISM

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    N Wijesinghe, LW Chan, C Sebastian, HF McAlister, GP Devlin

    
• • ·ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SEVERITY OF ANEMIA AND CAUSATIVE ORGANISMS OF INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS

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    S Perera, N Wijesinghe, V Mathavan, A Robin, GP Devlin

    
• • ·UNTREATED SEVERE AORTIC STENOSIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH POOR OUTCOMES

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    S Perera, N Wijesinghe, GP Devlin, S Pasupati

    
• • ·INCIDENCE OF RADIOCONTRAST INDUCED NEPHROPATHY (RCIN) DURING CARDIAC CATHERTERIZATION IN PATIENTS WITH NORMAL SERUM CREATININE

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    S Cherian, N Wijesinghe, GP Devlin

    
• • ·SEASONAL VARIATION AND PRESENTATION OF ST-ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTIONS (STEMI)

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    N Wijesinghe, J Swampillai, C Sebastian, GP Devlin

    
• • ·COMPLICATIONS OF PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTIONS (PCI) IN THE REAL-WORLD: THE WAIKATO HOSPITAL EXPERIENCE

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    N Wijesinghe, CM Nunn, C Sebastian, S Heald, HF McAlister, GP Devlin

    
• • ·COMPLICATIONS OF CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY IN A REAL-WORLD SETTING: EIGHT-YEAR EXPERIENCE

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    N Wijesinghe, CM Nunn, C Sebastian, S Heald, HF McAlister, GP Devlin

    
• • ·COMPLICATIONS OF PRIMARY ANGIOPLASTY IN MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (PAMI) IN A REAL-WORLD CARDIAC CATHETERISATION LABORATORY: EIGHT-YEAR EXPERIENCE

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    N Wijesinghe, CM Nunn, C Sebastian, S Heald, HF McAlister, GP Devlin

    
• • ·THROMBOLYSIS OF PERI CARDIAC CATHETERISATION STROKES: A SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE

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    N Wijesinghe, P Wright, GP Devlin

    
• • ·CREATININE CLEARANCE (EGFR) AND RADIOCONTRAST-INDUCED NEPHROPATHY (RCIN) IN PATIENTS WITH NORMAL SERUM CREATININE LEVELS

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    S Cherian, N Wijesinghe, GP Devlin

    
• • ·OUTCOME AND PROGNOSTIC FACTORS ON 57 CASES OF INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS IN A SINGLE CENTRE

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    CW Wong, J Tisch, GF Porter, C Young, B Dwyer

     
• • ·FOLIC ACID AND VITAMIN B-12 SUPPLEMENTATION IMPROVES ARTERIAL FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE IN SUBJECTS WITH SUBNORMAL INTAKE

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    KS Woo, P Chook, TWC Yip, SK Kwong, YJ Hu, XS Huang, MJ Wu, YM Liu, CWK Lam, DS Celermajer

    
• • ·TREATMENT OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (AMI) IN 2006 AND 1-YEAR OUTCOMES

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    G Campbell, AM Richards, C Frampton, JM Elliott

     
• • ·HEART HEALTH PATIENT LITERATURE: HELPING OR HINDERING INEQUALITIES

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    SM Eadie, J Moffit

    
• • ·Author Index

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