Sommario

• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Atrial Ischemia Rather than the Neurohumural or Hemodynamic Changes Associated with Acute Myocardial Infarction Results in the Substrate for Atrial Fibrillation

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    M. Alasady, D. Lau, A. Brooks, L. Mackenzie, P. Kuklik, W. Abhayaratna, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Inflammatory Effects of ACA-rich Immunoglobulin in vitro—Implications for Scleroderma-associated Pulmonary Hypertension

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    S. Nakhla, R. Ilsar, P. Youssef, A. Heather, S. Adelstein, D. Celermajer

    
• • ·The Conversion of CRP to a Monomeric Form Represents the Missing Link Between Inflammation, Phospholipase A2 and Atherothrombosis

    Pagina :S2

    J. Habersberger, K. Peter

    
• • ·Androgens Stimulate Human Endothelial Progenitor Cell Function and Coronary Collateralization—Implications for the Role of Androgens in Men’s Cardiovascular Health

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    C. Hsu, R. Chow, D. Sieveking, K. Chan, P. Simpson, A. Yong, L. Dunn, D. Celermajer, M. Ng

    
• • ·Intense Prolonged Exercise (IPE) Causes Acute Right Ventricular (RV) Injury Which may not Always be Completely Reversible

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    A. La Gerche, A. Burns, D. Mooney, A. Taylor, H. Heidbüchel, A. MacIsaac, D. Prior

    
• • ·Late-gadolinium Enhancement in New-onset Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy is Associated with Recovery of Systolic Left Ventricular Function

    Pagina :S4

    D. Leong, P. Molaee, L. Joerg, N. Shipp, P. Madsen, A. Penhall, R. Perry, C. DePasquale, P. Sanders, J. Selvanayagam

    
• • ·Differing Gender and Age-specific Trends in the Incidence of Acute Coronary Events in Western Australia, 1996–2007

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    L. Nedkoff, T. Briffa, D. Preen, F. Sanfilippo, J. Hung, S. Ridout, M. Knuiman, M. Hobbs

    
• • ·Stationary Cycling Is as Effective as Walking in Phase I Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Randomised Controlled Trial

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    A. Hirschhorn, S. Mungovan, D. Richards, N. Morris, L. Adams

    
• • ·Transthoracic Three-dimensional Echocardiographic Assessment of Right Ventricular Volume and Function in Patient’s with Congenital Heart Disease is the Closest Correlate to Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Pagina :S5

    K. Stedman, N. Kelly, D. Burstow

     
• • ·Who Benefits Most from Assessment of Carotid Intima-media Thickness?

    Pagina :S6

    B. Haluska, L. Jeffriess, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Identifying Mild Cognitive Impairment—What is the Relationship with Self-care in Heart Failure Patients?

    Pagina :S6

    J. Cameron, L. Worrall-Carter, K. Page, B. Riegel, S. Stewart

    
• • ·Ongoing Audit and Process Change Improves Door to Balloon Time for ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction at a Tertiary Australian Hospital

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    L. Martin, N. Carolyn, B. Alison, J. Simon, J. Ian, K. Fergus, H. Mark, C. David, F. Omar

    
• • ·Prevalence and Predictors of ‘Residual Risk’ in Statin-treated Type 2 Diabetic Patients: Implications for Nurse-led Interventions

    Pagina :S7

    S. Hamilton, G. Chew, G. Watts

    
• • ·Protecting the Healthy Hearts of at Risk Individuals in Regional Australia: Impact of a Nurse-led Regional Healthy Hearts Risk Profiling & Management Clinic

    Pagina :S7

    M. Carrington, S. Stewart

    
• • ·Circulating Platelet–Monocyte (P–M) Conjugation Promotes Post-Infarct Myocardial Inflammation: Effect of Antiplatelet Therapy

    Pagina :S8

    Y. Liu, X. Gao, L. Fang, Y. Su, S. Sturgeon, S. Jackson, P. Kanellakis, A. Dart, X. Du

    
• • ·Coenzyme Q10 Inhibits Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy, Myocardial Fibrosis and Diastolic Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of Type 2 Diabetes

    Pagina :S8

    K. Huynh, H. Kiriazis, X. Du, K. Jandeleit-Dahm, M. Bowden, J. Forbes, J. McMullen, R. Ritchie

    
• • ·Endothelin-1-mediated Vasoconstriction Involves Rapid and Sustained Protein Kinase C and Rho Kinase Activation: Potential Therapeutic Strategies for Management of Microvascular Vasoconstriction

    Pagina :S9

    K. Rajopadhyaya, J. Dunn, J. Eng, J. Beltrame, D. Wilson

    
• • ·The Effect of Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Inhibiton on Rat Cardiac Cells and Aorta in Response to Urotensin II

    Pagina :S9

    L. Tran, B. Wang, A. Kompa, H. Krum

     
• • ·16-Year Retrospective of Fatal Aortic Dissection: A Review of Coronial Post-mortems

    Pagina :S10

    K. Bailey, R. Puranik, J. Duflou

    
• • ·A Novel Biotechnological Approach for Targeted Regenerative Cell Therapy and Molecular Imaging of Atherothrombosis

    Pagina :S10

    H. Ta, S. Prabhu, E. Leitner, K. Putnam, F. Jia, N. Bassler, K. Peter, C. Hagemeyer

     
• • ·Arterial Stiffness Predicts Myocardial Perfusion Reserve: An Adenosine Stress Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Study

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    D. Wong, D. Chew, J. Cameron, A. Nelson, I. Meredith, S. Worthley, M. Worthley

    
• • ·Bosentan for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Simple and Complex Congenital Heart Disease

    Pagina :S11

    S. Jaijee, R. Cordina, D. Fowler, D. Celermajer

    
• • ·Echocardiographic Markers of Hypertensive Heart Disease in Young and Middle-aged Hypertensive Patients

    Pagina :S11

    H. Sivakumar, J. Cameron, P. Mottram

    
• • ·Effect of Reduced Renal Function after Voluntary Kidney Donation on Cardiac Structure and Function and Arterial Stiffness

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    W. Abhayaratna, S. Yew, S. Sakuragi, C. Brown, K. Hayes, G. Talaulikar

    
• • ·Effective In Vitro Expansion and Differentiation of Cord Blood Derived CD34+ Cells into Functionally Active Endothelial Progenitor Cells

    Pagina :S12

    H. Domeij, I. Ahrens, D. Topcic, R. Merivirta, E. Leitner, M. Maag Kristensen, I. Haviv, A. Agrotis, J. Jowett, M. Lappas, K. Peter

    
• • ·Effects of Cardiovascular AT1 Receptor and AT2 Receptor Blockade on Angiotensin II Responses in Patients with Insulin Resistance Syndrome

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    D. Brillante, A. O’Sullivan, R. Brillante, L. Howes

     
• • ·Fluoroscopic Femoral Artery Puncture: Reducing the Risk of Vascular Complications

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    P. Choong, T. Wong, R. Chan, M. William, J. Woods, A. Hill, N. Wilkes, T. Kull, B. Gunalingam

    
• • ·Generation of Endothelial-like Cells from Endothelium-adherent Blood Monocytes

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    C. Tso, K. Rye, P. Barter

    
• • ·Influence of Adiposity on Carotid Wave Reflection and Arterial Stiffness: A Longitudinal Study in Healthy Children

    Pagina :S14

    W. Abhayaratna, K. Hayes, R. Telford, S. Sakuragi

    
• • ·Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Mortality in Patients with Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis

    Pagina :S14

    S. Perera, N. Wijesinghe, V. Pera, S. Pasupati, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Measurement of Carotid Wall Thickness Using Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Relative Contributions of the Intima-media and Adventitia

    Pagina :S15

    M. Skilton, L. Boussel, F. Bonnet, S. Bernard, P. Douek, P. Moulin, A. Serusclat

    
• • ·Predictors of Vascular Endothelial Function Measured by Pulse-wave Arterial Tonometry in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease

    Pagina :S15

    W. Chan, G. Cox, E. Duffy, J. Starr, A. Dart, S. Duffy

    
• • ·Relationship Between Endothelium-dependent and Independent Vasomotor and Platelet Dysfunction

    Pagina :S16

    A. Sverdlov, D. Ngo, W. Chan, Y. Chirkov, J. Horowitz

     
• • ·Safety and Feasibility of Inhaled Iloprost on Exercise Capacity in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

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    A. Worthington, N. Collins, R. Haddad

    
• • ·Sexual Dimorphism in the Relationship between Homocysteine and Arterial Stiffness in Healthy Children

    Pagina :S16

    W. Abhayaratna, K. Hayes, R. Telford, S. Sakuragi

    
• • ·Simvastatin Modulates Vasoconstriction via Activation of Smooth Muscle Myosin Phosphatase and Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase

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    S. Copley, J. Beltrame, D. Wilson

    
• • ·Sympathetic Nerve Protein Analysis: A Novel Window into Sympathetic Nervous System Dysfunction

    Pagina :S17

    G. Vaddadi, E. Lambert, L. Guo, T. Dawood, M. Esler

     
• • ·Teenage Years are Associated with Preferential Stiffening of the Proximal Aorta

    Pagina :S18

    A. Nelson, J. Cameron, A. Carbone, A. Chin, S. Willoughby, R. Puri, C. van den Heuvel, J. Martin, D. Kennedy, S. Worthley, M. Worthley

    
• • ·The Design of an Activation Specific Platelet Inhibitor that can be Turned On/Off at Medically Employed Hypothermia

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    D. Topcic, K. Wookhyun, C. Haller, A. Straub, F. Jia, H. Domeij, C. Hagemeyer, G. Krippner, E. Chaikof, K. Peter

    
• • ·The Role of Calcium Channels in Endothelin-1-Mediated Vasoconstriction of Rat Mesenteric Arteries

    Pagina :S19

    Y. Chan, J. Beltrame, D. Wilson

    
• • ·The Role of Heme Oxygenase-1 in Ischaemia-Mediated Neovascularisation

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    K. Chan, M. Guillou, R. Midwinter, Y. Wang, R. Stocker, M. Ng

    
• • ·The Utility of Functional 320 Slice Cardiac CT for Assessing Aortic Stiffness: Relationships with Carotid-Femoral Pulse Wave Velocity

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    J. Casan, J. Cameron, P. Ramachandran, M. Baldi, I. Meredith, S. Hope

    
• • ·Accelerated Chest Pain Pathway (ACPP) in the Management of Low to Intermediate Risk Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Tertiary Hospital Experience

    Pagina :S20

    J. Mazhar, B. Killion, M. Liang, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Treated with CABG Surgery: Suboptimal Use of Secondary Prevention Medications at Review 3 Years Later

    Pagina :S20

    K. Chow, K. Looi, J. Looi, A. Lin, C. Lin, S. Haliday, M. Lee, H. White, C. Ellis

     
• • ·Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Treated with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Potential for Significant Socio-Economic Burden from Adverse Events Due to Poor Cholesterol Control at Review 3 Years Later

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    C. Lin, A. Lin, J. Looi, K. Looi, K. Chow, S. Haliday, M. Lee, H. White, C. Ellis

     
• • ·Age Related Inflammatory Characteristics of Coronary Artery Disease

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    E. Najib, R. Puranik, J. Duflou, Q. Xia, S. Bao

    
• • ·Alterations of Gene Profiles of Extracellular Matrix and Inflammation Pathways in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

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    L. Fang, X. Du, X. Gao, A. Dart

    
• • ·Angiographic Characteristics in Patients with Inducible Ischaemia on Myocardial Perfusion Scintigraphy and No Previous Cardiac History

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    M. Savage, J. Lee, S. Davis, H. Yi-Tung, C. Raffel, D. Walters

    
• • ·ASPECT (Asia Pacific Evaluation of Chest pain Trial) – New Zealand Arm

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    S. Aldous, M. Richards, M. Than

    
• • ·Baseline Hypoalbuminemia and Cardiovascular Risk in Acute Coronary Syndromes

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    N. Anavekar, P. Barlis, C. Wong, W. Van Gaal, J. Ramchand

    
• • ·Cigarette Smokers have Elevated Thiocyanate Levels and Enhanced Myeloperoxidase-Dependent Plasma Oxidation: Implications for Smoking-Associated Atherosclerosis

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    J. Harmer, P. Morgan, D. Celermajer, M. Davies

    
• • ·Cigarette Smoking and Albuminuria are Associated with Impaired Arterial Smooth Muscle Function in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A FIELD Sub-Study

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    J. Harmer, A. Keech, A. Veillard, M. Skilton, K. Griffiiths, T. Marwick, G. Watts, I. Meredith, D. Celermajer

    
• • ·Comparison of Intravascular Ultrasound Assessment of Segmental Coronary Vasomotor Responses with Quantitative Coronary Angiography

    Pagina :S24

    R. Puri, G. Liew, A. Nelson, R. Das, D. Wong, A. Carbone, B. Copus, S. Nicholls, J. Beltrame, S. Worthley, M. Worthley

    
• • ·Cost Effectiveness of Aspirin Among Participants with Atherothrombotic Disease in Australian General Practice, Using “Real World” Data from the Australian REACH Registry

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    Z. Ademi, D. Liew, B. Hollingsworth, P. Steg, D. Bhatt, C. Reid

    
• • ·Does Reduced Myocardial Capillary Length Density Predispose to Non-ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease?

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    D. Campbell, D. Prior, A. Jenkins, M. Yii, J. Kenny, A. Newcomb, D. Kelly, M. Black

    
• • ·Does ST Resolution Achieved Via Different Reperfusion Strategies (Fibrinolysis vs PCI) have Different Prognostic Meaning in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction? A Systematic Review

    Pagina :S26

    C. Wong, S. Leon de la Barra, P. Herbison

    
• • ·Endothelial Progenitor Cell Populations Exhibit Differing Relationship with the Extent of Coronary Macrovascular Disease

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    K. Chan, P. Simpson, A. Yong, C. Chawantanpipat, C. Hsu, P. Lim, L. Dunn, M. Ng

    
• • ·Endothelial Progenitor Cell Populations Exhibit Differing Relationship with the Extent of Coronary Microvascular Disease and Collateralisation

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    K. Chan, A. Yong, C. Chawantanpipat, C. Hsu, P. Lim, L. Dunn, M. Ng

    
• • ·Fenofibrate and Short-Term Improvement in Endothelial Function in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A FIELD Substudy

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    J. Harmer, A. Keech, A. Veillard, M. Skilton, K. Griffiths, T. Marwick, G. Watts, I. Meredith, D. Celermajer

    
• • ·Framingham Risk Prediction Equations for Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease Using Detailed Measures for Smoking

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    H. Mannan, C. Stevenson, A. Peeters, H. Walls, J. McNeil

    
• • ·Health Status of Stable Patients with Obstructive or Non-Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease Compared with Healthy Controls

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    R. Tavella, N. Cutri, R. Adams, J. Beltrame

    
• • ·Health Status Outcomes in Patients with Non-Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S28

    R. Tavella, N. Cutri, J. Beltrame

    
• • ·High Sensitivity Troponin Out-Performs Conventional Assays in Predicting 2 Year Adverse Events

    Pagina :S28

    S. Aldous, C. Florkowski, I. Crozier, P. George, M. Than

    
• • ·How the New High-Sensitivity Troponin T Test will Change Our Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S28

    L. Ngan Kee, D. Bell, M. Crooke, R. Cooke, S. Mann

    
• • ·Incident Trends for Fatal Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) Vary by Age Group in Western Australia, 1996–2007

    Pagina :S29

    T. Briffa, L. Nedkoff, S. Ridout, A. Peeters, A. Tonkin, J. Hung, M. Knuiman

     
• • ·Intracoronary Shear-Related Upregulation of Platelet P-selectin, Platelet-Monocyte Aggregates and Monocyte CD11b, but not Platelet GPIIb-IIIa Activation in Humans Despite the Use of Aspirin and Clopidogrel

    Pagina :S29

    A. Yong, G. Pennings, M. Chang, A. Hamzah, T. Chung, D. Brieger, M. Behnia, M. Ng, H. Lowe, L. Kritharides

    
• • ·Long-Term Outcomes on Medically Managed Patients having Favourable Coronary Fractional Flow Reserve

    Pagina :S30

    A. Puri, M. Liang, S. Perera, M. Menon, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) Regulates Inflammatory Mediators and MMP-9 Levels in Ischemic Hearts and Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells

    Pagina :S30

    D. White, K. Lu Fang, Y. Liu, Y. Su, X. Du, A. Dart, X. Gao

    
• • ·Management of ACS in a Rural NSW Setting. Cost Effectiveness of Rural Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratories

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    A. Luhach, E. West, D. Amos, R. Arnold

    
• • ·Most Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction have Raised High Sensitivity Troponin on Presentation Outperforming Conventional Assays

    Pagina :S31

    S. Aldous, C. Florkowski, I. Crozier, J. Elliott, J. Lainchbury, P. George, M. Than

    
• • ·Myocardial Salvage by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Relationship to Biomarkers after Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S31

    C. Hamilton-Craig, I. Porto, L. Galiuto, L. Natale, F. Crea

    
• • ·Novel Thrombus Burden Guided Thrombus Aspiration Catheter Use During Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the Management of ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S32

    B. Ko, Y. Malaiapan, A. Hutchison, S. Lehman, J. Potvin, I. Meredith

    
• • ·Platelet Aggregation Within the Infarcted Myocardium is a Key Pathological Component Post-Infarct Contributing to Mechanical Complications

    Pagina :S32

    L. Shan, X. Gao, H. Kiriazis, L. Yang, Y. Su, A. Dart, X. Du

    
• • ·Platelet CD147 Expression is Upregulated Within the Cardiac Circulation in Humans

    Pagina :S33

    A. Yong, G. Pennings, D. Brieger, M. Ng, H. Lowe, L. Kritharides

    
• • ·Positive Predictive Value of Exercise Electrocardiography in Patients Referred from a Brisbane Emergency Department with Chest Pain

    Pagina :S33

    A. Camuglia, J. Gibson, C. Hammett, A. Brown, L. Cullen, W. Parsonage

    
• • ·Presence of Recent Chest Pain in Patients with Non-Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S33

    R. Tavella, C. Wong, S. Cherian, J. Beltrame

    
• • ·Protein Kinase A Directly Activates the Human Long N-Terminal Isoform of the á1c Subunit of the L-Type Ca2+ Channel: Implications for Understanding Effects of Hypoxia

    Pagina :S34

    D. Longman, L. Hool

    
• • ·Quantification of Pulsatile Changes in Retinal Vessel Caliber to Improve Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Risk Evaluation

    Pagina :S34

    O. Gibbs, J. Chiha, P. Mitchell, P. Kovoor, M. Barry, A. Thiagalingam

     
• • ·Recent Trends in Percutaenous Coronary Intervention Practise in Victorian Public Hospitals: Insights from the Melbourne Interventional Group Registry

    Pagina :S35

    B. Yan, A. Ajani, N. Andrianopoulos, S. Duffy, D. Clark, A. Brennan, P. Loane, M. Sebastian, G. New, R. Lew, C. Reid

    
• • ·Serum Gamma Glutamyl Transferase: A Novel Biomarker for Screening of Premature Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S35

    M. Elahi, S. Shabbir, D. Khan, F. Khan, B. Matata

    
• • ·Survivors of Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrests Proceeding to Coronary Angiogram: Clinical, Angiographic Features and In-Hospital Outcomes—A Single Centre Experience

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    V. Wijesekera, D. Mullany, M. Savage, D. Walters

    
• • ·Index

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• • ·The Frequency and Manner of Presentation of Anomalous Coronary Artery Origin in an Unselected Australian Population Undergoing Coronary Angiography

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    S. McKenzie, M. Trikilis, A. Rahman, R. Batra, N. Essack, G. Aroney, V. Kapadia, R. Jayasinghe

    
• • ·The Recruitment of Blood-Borne Qdot-Labeled Cells into Atherosclerotic Plaque

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    P. Wookey, P. Szeto, A. Zulli, D. Hare

    
• • ·Time to Positivity of a Highly Sensitive Troponin Assay in Patients with Myocardial Infarction

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    U. Nic Ionmhain, E. Yamen

    
• • ·Transradial Versus Transfemoral Access in Primary Angioplasty: Impact on Reperfusion Time

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    J. Swampillai, M. Liang, C. Nunn, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Young Patients (Age < 36) with Acute Myocardial Infarction in Northern Queensland: One-Year Follow-up Study

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    V. Wijesekera, R. Yadav, R. Schrale

    
• • ·10-Year Retrospective Review of Myocarditis: An Autopsy Study

    Pagina :S38

    S. Krishnamohan, J. Duflou, R. Puranik

    
• • ·A Comparison of the Antiarrhythmic and Anti-Ischaemic Properties of Riluzole in Ischaemia and Ischaemia-Reperfusion Models of MI

    Pagina :S38

    S. Weiss, D. Saint

    
• • ·Acute Elevation of Serum Triglycerides Increases Left Ventricular Contractility Measured by 2D Strain and Strain Rate

    Pagina :S39

    D. Holland, D. Erne, R. Leano, B. Haluska, T. Marwick, J. Sharman

    
• • ·Arrhythmogenic Action of CaMKII in Early Post-Ischemic Reperfusion in Isolated Rat Hearts

    Pagina :S39

    J. Bell, M. Reichelt, C. Curl, L. Delbridge

    
• • ·Autophagy is Upregulated in Hearts of Insulin Resistant Mice

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    K. Mellor, R. Ritchie, L. Delbridge

    
• • ·Biopsy-Proven Active Myocarditis in Systemic Sclerosis Patients with Recent-Onset Cardiac Involvement

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    M. Pieroni, C. Hamilton-Craig, C. Smaldone, M. Campioni, A. Severino, F. Marzo, A. Camporeale, G. Ferraccioli, F. Belloc, F. Crea

    
• • ·Cardiac-Specific Activation of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase p110á (PI3Ká) Protects Against Diabetes-Induced Diastolic Dysfunction In Vivo: Role for ROS Suppression?

    Pagina :S40

    R. Ritchie, J. Love, H. Kiriazis, K. Huynh, N. Cemerlang, J. Tan, T. Julius, N. Jennings, K. Jandeleit-Dahm, X. Du, J. McMullen

    
• • ·Cardioprotection can be Induced by Short Periods of Ischemia, Heat or Stretch Prior to Transient Ischemia: Role of NO, Heat Shock Proteins and HIF

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    D. Kim, T. Otto, D. Peet, D. Saint

    
• • ·Cardio-Protective Effects of Zoniporide is Dependent on Stat3 Activation

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    L. Gao, J. Tsun, L. Sun, A. Watson, M. Hicks, P. Macdonald

    
• • ·Clinical Course and Analysis of Nine Fatal Cases of Clozapine-Induced Myocarditis in Comparison with 66 Surviving Cases

    Pagina :S41

    K. Ronaldson, A. Taylor, P. Fitzgerald, D. Topliss, J. McNeil

    
• • ·Deletion of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor Protects the Heart from Prolonged Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury: A Predominant Role of Anti-Inflammation

    Pagina :S42

    X. Gao, Y. Liu, Y. Su, B. Drew, C. Bruce, D. White, H. Kiriazis, Q. Xu, N. Jennings, A. Bobik, M. Febbraio, B. Kingwell, A. Dart, E. Morand, X. Du

    
• • ·Derivation of a Bipotential Myocardial and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell (VSMC) Progenitor from Human Embryonic Stem Cells

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    L. Yang, S. Sinha

    
• • ·Diminished Contracture and Improved Post-Ischemic Functional Recovery in the Aromatase Knockout Mouse Heart

    Pagina :S43

    J. Bell, S. Meachem, E. Simpson, L. Delbridge

    
• • ·Evidence for C84 Troponin C as the Target for GSNO-Mediated Myofilament Ca²⁺ Desensitization

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    T. Spencer, J. Cooke, L. Brown, D. Wilson

    
• • ·Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase is Induced in Myocardium During Inflammation

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    D. Changsiri, Y. Wang, C. dos Remedios, D. Celermajer, R. Stocker

    
• • ·Mechanism of Myocardial Dysfunction by Velocity Vector Imaging in Cardiac Amyloidosis

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    Q. Lo, E. Chia, M. Lin, N. Morosoni, D. Richards, T. Marwick, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Multi-Parametric Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMR) Detects Myocardial Fibrosis and Impaired Strain in Patients with Dystrophinopathies Even in the Presence of Normal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction

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    J. Suttie, S. Dass, T. Karamitsos, C. Holloway, P. Cox, V. Ferreira, L. Cochlin, J. Francis, A. Johnson, C. Forfar, D. Hilton-Jones, M. Robson, H. Watkins, S. Neubauer, S. Petersen

    
• • ·New Monitoring Guidelines for Clozapine-Induced Myocarditis Based on an Analysis of 75 Cases and 94 Controls

    Pagina :S45

    K. Ronaldson, A. Taylor, P. Fitzgerald, D. Topliss, J. McNeil

    
• • ·Profile of Stress Induced Cardiomyopathy in North Queensland

    Pagina :S45

    A. Bhaskaran, S. Baveja, R. Yadav

    
• • ·Reduced Mitochondrial l-Arginine Transport Contributes to the Pathogenesis of Heart Failure

    Pagina :S45

    K. Venardos, D. Williams, Z. Yang, M. Byrne, D. Kaye

    
• • ·Regional Myocardial Dysfunction is Independently Associated with Regional Sympathetic Dysinnervation in Type 2 Diabetes

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    J. Sacre, B. Franjic, C. Jellis, C. Jenkins, J. Coombes, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Role of EGFR in Adenosine A1 Receptor Signaling and Cardioprotection

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    G. Williams-Pritchard, M. Knight, L. See Hoe, J. Headrick, J. Peart

    
• • ·Selective Effects of Intrinsic A2AAR Activity on Cardiac and Coronary Injuries with LPS Challenge

    Pagina :S47

    M. Reichelt, K. Ashton, S. Mustafa, B. Tang, C. Ledent, X. Tan, J. Headrick, R. Morrison

    
• • ·Tako-tsubo Cardiomyopathy in the John Hunter Hospital

    Pagina :S47

    R. Haddad, P. Fletcher, B. Bastian

    
• • ·Tako-tsubo Syndrome in Australians – Variations on a Theme?

    Pagina :S47

    T. Walters, D. Eccleston

    
• • ·The Cardioprotective Effect of the Novel INaP Blocker Riluzole

    Pagina :S48

    D. Morris, S. Weiss, D. Saint

    
• • ·Age and Gender-Specific Trends for Asymmetrical Septal Hypertrophy in a Single Centre Over 15 Years (1994–2009)

    Pagina :S48

    Y. Cheng, C. Yam, C. Wong, A. Brooks, D. Lau, D. Leong, N. Shipp, M. Alasady, H. Lim, H. Abed, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Cardiac MicroRNAs and the Predisposition to Polygenic Cardiac Hypertrophy

    Pagina :S48

    S. Harrap, F. Charchar, E. Porrello, L. Delbridge

    
• • ·Cardiac-Specific Deletion of Foxo1 Causes Heart Dysfunction in Mice

    Pagina :S49

    K. Weeks, H. Kiriazis, E. Woodcock, N. Cemerlang, E. Abel, R. DePinho, X. Du, M. Febbraio, J. McMullen

    
• • ·Chronic Urocortin 2 Treatment Significantly Improves Cardiovascular Function and Attenuates Cardiac Injury and Remodelling after Experimental Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S49

    L. Ellmers, N. Scott, V. Cameron, M. Richards, M. Rademaker

    
• • ·Effects of Increased Left Ventricular Wall Thickness and Diastolic Dysfunction on Myocardial Mechanics in Cardiac Amyloidosis Utilizing Velocity Vector Imaging

    Pagina :S50

    Q. Lo, E. Chia, M. Lin, N. Morosoni, D. Richards, T. Marwick, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM): Do Mitral Valve Characteristics Predict Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction (LVOTO)?

    Pagina :S50

    I. Ranasinghe, C. Cheruvu, J. Yiannikas

    
• • ·Natural History and Longer Term Outcomes of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S50

    S. Perera, A. Puri, M. Wong, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Phasic Atrial Function in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Evaluation Using Strain Rate Imaging

    Pagina :S51

    S. Eshoo, C. Semsarian, D. Ross, T. Marwick, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Predictive Value of Left Ventricular Mass and Geometry in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus for Adverse Cardiovascular Events

    Pagina :S51

    B. Wai, S. Patel, M. Ord, S. Grant, P. Srivastava, L. Burrell

     
• • ·Relationship between LV Mass and Diastolic Function is Independent of NO Generation

    Pagina :S52

    A. Sverdlov, D. Ngo, A. Nightingale, S. Rajendran, R. Ritchie, M. Frenneaux, J. Horowitz

    
• • ·Role of Low Affinity Beta1-Adrenergic Receptors in Normal and Diseased Hearts

    Pagina :S52

    N. Tugiono, H. Kiriazis, X. Gao, Q. Xu, N. Jennings, Y. Su, P. Molenaar, X. Du

    
• • ·Sex-Based Differences in Contractility and Ca²⁺ Homeostasis in Cardiomyocytes from Primary Hypertrophic Hearts

    Pagina :S53

    C. Curl, T. Harding, J. Bell, S. Harrap, L. Delbridge

    
• • ·Sigmoid Septum (SS): An Age Related Phenomenon or Sigmoid Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (sHCM)?

    Pagina :S53

    I. Ranasinghe, C. Cheruvu, J. Yiannikas

    
• • ·Systematic Review of the Impact of Renal Replacement Therapy on Left Ventricular Mass

    Pagina :S53

    G. Whalley, R. Simpson, K. Poppe, R. Doughty

    
• • ·The Potential of Manipulating PI3K Targeted MicroRNAs to Treat Heart Failure

    Pagina :S54

    B. Bernardo, R. Lin, X. Gao, H. Kiriazis, E. Woodcock, V. Matthews, M. Febbraio, X. Du, J. McMullen

    
• • ·Transcoronary Ethanol Septal Ablation for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy: Initial Experience at Waikato Hospital

    Pagina :S54

    S. Pasupati, M. Liang

    
• • ·A Contemporary Reflection on Cholesterol Levels in Australian General Practice: An Analysis of Close to Half A Million Patient Visits

    Pagina :S55

    M. Carrington, S. Stewart

    
• • ·Are Australian Indians at Higher Cardiovascular Risk Compared with the Australian General Population?

    Pagina :S55

    C. Chow, R. Puranik, B. Neal, D. Celermajer

    
• • ·Do Arterial Function and Atherosclerotic Burden Add Incremental Benefit to Framingham Risk in Predicting Outcome in Obese Patients

    Pagina :S55

    B. Haluska, L. Jeffriess, T. Marwick

    
• • ·E/e′ is An Independent Predictor of Heart Failure Admission in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

    Pagina :S56

    B. Wai, S. Patel, M. Ord, S. Grant, R. MacIsaac, G. Jerums, P. Srivastava, L. Burrell

    
• • ·Effect of Ascorbic Acid on Dyslipidemia [A Study Among Philippine Heart Center Employees]

    Pagina :S56

    M. Sunga

    
• • ·FT23, An Orally Active Anti-Fibrotic Compound Attenuates Structural and Functional Dysfunction in An Experimental Model of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S57

    S. Tan, Y. Zhang, H. Krum, R. Gilbertz, D. Kelly

    
• • ·High Density Lipoprotein Reduces Lipid Induced Macrophage Inflammation and Enhances Insulin Mediated Glucose Uptake in Human Skeletal Muscle

    Pagina :S57

    B. Kingwell, A. Natoli, R. Medini, D. Sviridov, B. Drew

    
• • ·High Glucose Levels Enhance the Proinflammatory and Prothrombotic Actions of Serum Amyloid A (SAA) in Endothelial Cells

    Pagina :S58

    C. Song, K. Hsu, P. Witting, C. Geczy, S. Freedman

     
• • ·Implications of Insulin Sensitivity on Inflammatory Activation and Atherogenic Risk in Normal and PCOS Females

    Pagina :S58

    W. Chan

    
• • ·Metabolic Risk Factor Clusters and Incident Peripheral Arterial Disease: The D.E.S.I.R. Study

    Pagina :S59

    M. Skilton, J. Chin-Dusting, A. Dart, O. Lantieri, L. Brazionis, K. O’Dea, B. Balkau

    
• • ·Metabolic Syndrome Alters Expression Levels of Metabolic Disease Risk Loci Genes

    Pagina :S59

    N. Scott, V. Cameron, E. Simpson, M. Richards, L. Ellmers

    
• • ·Pericardial Fat and Measurements of Cardiac Structure

    Pagina :S59

    C. Wong, H. Abed, A. Brooks, P. Molaee, A. Nelson, B. Dundon, D. Leong, W. Abhayaratna, G. Wittert, S. Worthley, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Polycystic Ovary Syndrome is Associated with Insulin Resistance Independent of Obesity, Vitamin D Status and Inflammatory Activation

    Pagina :S60

    D. Ngo, W. Chan, S. Rajendran, A. Sverdlov, J. Horowitz

     
• • ·Reconstituted High Density Lipoprotein (rHDL) Cholesterol Inhibits Inflammation-Induced Endothelial-Cell Angiogenic Processes in Vitro

    Pagina :S60

    J. Morton, L. Li, M. Ng, C. Bursill

    
• • ·Risk Factor Outcomes and Revascularisation Choice in Diabetic Patients Considered for Coronary Revascularisation

    Pagina :S61

    X. Ang, R. Dignan, M. Gonzalez, I. Shugman, D. Parikh, Y. Goh, S. Lo, D. Leung, P. Nguyen, R. Rajaratnam, A. Hopkins, C. Juergens, J. French

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

    Pagina :S61

    R. Liu, L. Dunn, P. Simpson, J. Levitt, T. Gattorna, M. Ng

    
• • ·A Not so Rare Form of Heart Failure in Urban Black Africans: Right Heart Failure in the Heart of Soweto Study Cohort

    Pagina :S61

    S. Stewart, M. Carrington, K. Sliwa

    
• • ·Accuracy of Non-invasive Right Heart Catheterisation to Predict Haemodynamics in Subjects with Normal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction

    Pagina :S62

    N. Htun, M. Maeder, S. Karapanagiotidis, L. Dewar, D. Kaye

    
• • ·Anaemia is a Significant Predictor of Increased Mortality in Subjects with Systolic Heart Failure with Medium Term Follow Up

    Pagina :S62

    K. Lu, D. Hare, L. Kearney, M. Ord, D. Toia, B. Wai, L. Burrell, P. Srivastava

    
• • ·Are Urotensin II Effects on Vascular Tone in Heart Failure Mediated Via Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase?

    Pagina :S63

    L. Tran, A. Kompa, B. Wang, H. Krum

     
• • ·Asymptomatic Myocardial Diastolic Dysfunction is prevalent in the Australian Tertiary Hospital Population with Cardiovascular Risk Factors (Experience from the NIL-CHF Study)

    Pagina :S63

    C. Wong, M. Carrington, G. Jennings, B. de Courten, G. Lee, S. Stewart

    
• • ·Best Practice Multidisciplinary Care for Chronic Heart Failure in Australia

    Pagina :S64

    P. Davidson, A. Driscoll, N. Huang, Z. Aho, J. Atherton, S. Hood, H. Krum, A. Sindone, S. Stewart

    
• • ·Betablocker Commencement and Titration is Possible in the Elderly Population who have Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) and a High Proportion of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD)

    Pagina :S64

    E. Godfrey, M. Ryan, P. Price, L. Grigg, D. Zentner

    
• • ·Bioactive Compounds Isolated from Salvia miltiorrhiza Exert Anti-hypertrophic Anti-fibrotic and Cardiac Protective Effects Via Reactive Oxygen Species Pathway

    Pagina :S65

    B. Wang, H. Jin, L. Tran, M. O’Loughlan, P. Ho, Y. Shen, G. Xu, H. Krum, C. Li

     
• • ·Cardiac Angiogenesis Promoted by β₂-adrenergic Activation is Crucially Involved in Maintaining Cardiac Function

    Pagina :S65

    Q. Xu, N. Jennings, H. Kiriazis, A. Dart, X. Du

    
• • ·Cardiac Transplant Outcome With Donor Hearts Over 50 Years of Age

    Pagina :S66

    M. Harkess, A. Keogh, P. Macdonald, R. Pettersson, C. Hayward

    
• • ·Cardiologists’ and Respirologists’ Responses to Clinical Scenarios Involving β-blocker Prescription

    Pagina :S66

    T. Jones, R. Ruffin, M. Arstall

    
• • ·Characterisation of Interventricular and Intra-left Ventricular Dyssynchrony in New-onset Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S67

    D. Leong, N. Shipp, P. Molaee, A. Penhall, R. Perry, M. Shirazi, A. Chakrabarty, C. DePasquale, P. Sanders, J. Selvanayagam

    
• • ·Determinants of Ventilatory Inefficiency in Heart Failure with Normal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction: Role of Changes in Wedge Pressure During Exercise

    Pagina :S67

    N. Htun, M. Maeder, D. Kaye

    
• • ·Differentially Expressed Plasma Peptides in Heart Failure

    Pagina :S68

    B. Wang, S. Reisman, M. Bailey, M. Elsik, H. Krum, G. Rice

     
• • ·Do Donor Recipient Physical Factors Predict a Significant Pericardial Effusion Post Cardiac Transplant?

    Pagina :S68

    V. Wijesekera, G. Javorsky, D. Platts, M. Brown

    
• • ·Elements of Risk Prediction Models to Predict Readmission to Hospital in Older Patients with Chronic Heart Failure

    Pagina :S69

    V. Betihavas, S. Stewart, P. Newton, S. Frost, P. Macdonald, P. Davidson

    
• • ·Extended Duration of Aldosterone Blockade Fails to Improve Diastolic Dysfunction Over the Effects of Blood Pressure in Patients with Heart Failure and Normal Ejection Fraction

    Pagina :S69

    D. Holland, P. Mottram, J. Hare, C. Jenkins, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Facilitating Optimum Doses of Heart Failure Medications: Evaluation of a Heart Failure Medication Titration Form

    Pagina :S70

    F. Chuan, R. Peters, T. Beswick, M. Weglowski, D. Korczyk

     
• • ·Gastrointestinal Bleeding Due to Angiodysplasia in Patients With Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device

    Pagina :S70

    K. Muthiah, C. Hayward, P. Macdonald, E. Kotlyar, P. Spratt, E. Granger, P. Jansz, G. Kumarasinghe

    
• • ·Heart Failure—Abandon the Standard for Diabetics

    Pagina :S71

    S. Kelman

    
• • ·Heart Failure Outcomes in Western Australia: Does Rurality Really Matter?

    Pagina :S71

    T. Teng, J. Finn, M. Knuiman, J. Hung, S. Stewart, I. Jacobs, E. Geelhoed, F. Sanfilippo, L. Arnolda

    
• • ·High Risk for Heart Failure? Underlying Cardiac Dysfunction in the Nurse-led Intervention for Less Chronic Heart Failure (NIL-CHF) Study Cohort

    Pagina :S72

    S. Stewart, M. Carrington, C. Wong, G. Lee, B. De Courten, P. Bergin, G. Jennings

    
• • ·Impact of Left Ventricular Assist Device Pump Speed on Exercise Capacity and Cardiopulmonary Function—A Randomised Crossover Trial

    Pagina :S72

    C. Hayward, R. Salamonsen, R. Prichard, R. Walker, A. Keogh, P. Macdonald, J. Woodard, E. Kotlyar, P. Jansz, P. Spratt

    
• • ·Impact of N-Acetylcysteine on Endothelial Function, B-type Natriuretic Peptide, and Renal Function in Patients with the Cardiorenal Syndrome: A Pilot Cross-over Randomised Controlled Trial

    Pagina :S72

    A. Camuglia, M. Maeder, J. Starr, C. Farrington, D. Kaye

    
• • ·Impact of Restrictive Filling on Ventricular Events in Patients with Ischaemic and Non-ischaemic Cardiomyopathy with Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillators

    Pagina :S73

    D. Arumugam, A. Camuglia, P. Martin, S. Prasad

    
• • ·Increased Strain in Interventricular Septum Following Chronic MI in Rats

    Pagina :S73

    B. Leonard, H. Lam, B. Smaill, I. LeGrice

    
• • ·Induction Immunosuppression with Anti-CD25 Monoclonal Antibody (Basiliximab) Allows Delayed Initiation and Uptitration of Calcineurin Inhibitor Post Cardiac Transplant

    Pagina :S74

    G. Grima, J. Gan, G. Javorsky, M. Brown

    
• • ·Invasive Assessment of Changes in Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Function Due to Exercise and Increased Pump Speed

    Pagina :S74

    C. Hayward, R. Salamonsen, A. Keogh, P. Macdonald, E. Kotlyar, R. Prichard, R. Walker, J. Woodard, P. Jansz, P. Spratt

    
• • ·Left Ventricular Volume and Geometry Affect B-type Natriuretic Peptide Release in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    Pagina :S75

    M. Maeder, D. Kaye

    
• • ·Multi-parameter Home Monitoring to Predict Cardiovascular Hospitalizations in a CRT-patient Population

    Pagina :S75

    S. Sack, C. Wende, W. Bauer, H. Naegele, K. Malinowski, W. Meyer, A. Boerdlein, J. Proff, V. Paul

    
• • ·Myocardial and Systemic Iron Depletion in Heart Failure: Implications for Anemia Accompanying Heart Failure

    Pagina :S76

    M. Maeder, O. Khammy, C. dos Remedios, D. Kaye

    
• • ·Myocardial Fibrosis Predicts Appropriate Device Therapy in Patients with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators for Primary Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death

    Pagina :S76

    L. Iles, H. Pfluger, L. Lefkovits, M. Butler, P. Kistler, D. Kaye, A. Taylor

    
• • ·Myocardial Infarction Impairs Renal Function, Induces Renal Interstitial Fibrosis and Increases Kim-1 Expression: Implications for the Cardiorenal Syndrome

    Pagina :S76

    S. Lekawanvijit, A. Kompa, Y. Zhang, B. Wang, D. Kelly, H. Krum

     
• • ·Organic Ion Transporters Ameliorate the Adverse Cardiac Effects of the Non-dialysable Uremic Toxin Indoxyl Sulphate in Cardiac Cell Culture: Implications for the Treatment of the Cardiorenal Syndrome

    Pagina :S77

    S. Liu, S. Lekawanvijit, G. Xu, A. Kompa, H. Krum, B. Wang

     
• • ·Peripheral Collagen Markers Predict All-cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Hospitalisation in Patients with Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction: Results of the I-PRESERVE Collagen Sub-study

    Pagina :S77

    H. Krum, M. Elsik, H. Schneider, A. Ptaszynska, M. Black, P. Carson, B. Massie

    
• • ·Predicting Success of Prednisolone Weaning in Heart Transplant Recipients

    Pagina :S78

    S. McKenzie, M. Brown, D. Platts, J. Maddicks-Laws, G. Javorsky

    
• • ·Prediction of Outcome for Hospitalised Heart Failure Patients: A Competing Risks Analysis

    Pagina :S78

    D. Leong, S. Shakib, M. Gillam, P. Ryan, A. Salter, C. Gericke

    
• • ·Relation of Liver Stiffness to Heart Failure and Associated Volume Overload

    Pagina :S79

    H. Krum, P. Porapakkham, P. Porapakkham, S. Casey, L. Farber, E. Condon, W. Kemp, S. Roberts, T. Williams, Y. Sata

    
• • ·Renal Impairment is a Significant Predictor of Increased Mortality in Subjects with Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction with Medium Term Follow Up

    Pagina :S79

    K. Lu, D. Hare, L. Kearney, B. Wai, D. Toia, M. Ord, L. Burrell, P. Srivastava

    
• • ·Reversal of Secondary Pulmonary Hypertension and Successful Bridging to Heart Transplant with LVAD support

    Pagina :S80

    G. Kumarasinghe

    
• • ·Socio-economic Status is an Independent Predictor of Long-term Survival and Readmissions in Heart Failure

    Pagina :S80

    J. Finn, T. Teng, M. Knuiman, M. Hobbs, J. Hung, S. Stewart, E. Geelhoed, L. Arnolda, I. Jacobs, F. Sanfilippo

    
• • ·Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Inhibition Attenuates Cardiac Remodelling Post-myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S81

    A. Kompa, B. Wang, P. Ho, G. Xu, D. Behm, D. Kelly, H. Krum

    
• • ·Survival Outcomes in Men and Women with Heart Failure of Ischaemic versus Non-ischaemic Aetiology in Western Australia between 1990 and 2005

    Pagina :S81

    J. Hung, T. Teng, J. Finn, M. Knuiman, M. Hobbs, S. Stewart, L. Arnolda, E. Geelhoed, F. Sanfillippo, I. Jacobs

    
• • ·The Ability of Omega-3 Fatty Acids to Prevent Non-Ischaemic Cardiac Damage in an Ovine Model of Doxorubicin-induced Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S82

    A. Carbone, P. Psaltis, A. Nelson, M. Weightman, T. Thomas, K. Williams, R. Metcalf, G. Young, S. Worthley

    
• • ·The Interaction Between Physical Activity and Centrifugal Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Function

    Pagina :S82

    S. Hu, A. Keogh, P. Macdonald, E. Kotlyar, D. Robson, M. Harkess, P. Jansz, P. Spratt, C. Hayward

    
• • ·Titration of ACE Inhibitors and Beta Blockers in a Heart Failure Population

    Pagina :S83

    A. Sullivan, R. Burke, S. Hales, G. Gillies, V. Baker, G. Tofler

    
• • ·Use of a Long Sheath for Endomyocardial Biopsy Post Heart Transplantation Reduces the Incidence and Severity of Tricuspid Regurgitation

    Pagina :S83

    S. McKenzie, M. Brown, D. Platts, J. Maddicks-Laws, G. Javorsky

    
• • ·Use of Device Therapy in the Outpatient Management of Congestive Cardiac Failure

    Pagina :S83

    M. Liang, J. Mazhar, G. Devlin, M. Stiles

    
• • ·Utilisation of Optimal Medical Therapy in the Outpatient Management of Systolic Heart Failure

    Pagina :S84

    M. Liang, J. Mazhar, G. Devlin, M. Stiles

    
• • ·Advanced Atrial Remodelling is Seen More Frequently with Atrial Flutter than with Atrial Fibrillation in Humans

    Pagina :S84

    C. Medi, P. Kistler, K. Roberts-Thomson, A. Teh, J. Kalman

    
• • ·Analysis of contracting and non-contracting regions of failing human hearts

    Pagina :S85

    D. Crossman, A. Young, P. Ruygrok, C. Soeller, M. Cannell

    
• • ·Atrial Electrical and Structural Remodelling with Systemic Hypertension and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Humans

    Pagina :S85

    C. Medi, J. Kalman, A. Teh, P. Kistler

    
• • ·Atrial Electrophysiology During Hypoxia and Hypercapnea: High Density Multi-Electrode Array Mapping and its Implications for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea

    Pagina :S85

    H. Dimitri, P. Kuklik, N. Shipp, A. Brooks, B. Lobb, L. Mackenzie, D. Saint, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Atrial Fibrillation and Hypertension: Evidence of Progressive Atrial Remodeling with Electro-Structural Correlate in a Chronic Ovine Hypertensive Model

    Pagina :S86

    D. Lau, L. Mackenzie, D. Kelly, P. Psaltis, A. Brooks, M. Worthington, A. Rajendram, D. Kelly, Y. Zhang, P. Kuklik, S. Worthley, M. Rao, J. Edwards, D. Saint, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Atrial Premature Beats Post AF Ablation: More But Less

    Pagina :S86

    N. Shipp, A. Brooks, A. Paukner, K. Drury, L. Wilson, M. Middeldorp, P. Kuklik, M. Baumert, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Electroanatomic Properties of the Pulmonary Veins in AF Patients: Slowed Conduction and Low Voltage as a Marker of Arrhythmogenicity

    Pagina :S87

    A. Teh, P. Kistler, G. Lee, C. Medi, P. Sparks, J. Morton, J. Vohra, J. Kalman

    
• • ·Endothelial Dysfunction and Vascular Inflammation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S87

    C. Schultz, S. Willoughby, H. Lim, B. John, S. Chandy, M. Alasady, H. Dimitri, D. Lau, J. Laborerie, K. Roberts-Thomson, G. Young, P. Sanders

    
• • ·High Density Multiple-electrode Array Mapping is Feasible in Tissue and small Animal Atria

    Pagina :S87

    D. Lau, L. Mackenzie, N. Shipp, P. Kuklik, H. Dimitri, B. Lobb, M. Alasady, H. Lim, D. Kelly, A. Brooks, D. Saint, P. Sanders

    
• • ·High Density Multiple Electrode Characterization of the Substrate for Atrial Arrhythmias in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

    Pagina :S88

    D. Lau, L. Mackenzie, D. Kelly, N. Shipp, K. Drury, H. Lim, N. Chia, P. Kuklik, Y. Zhang, H. Dimitri, B. Lobb, A. Brooks, D. Saint, L. Brown, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Hypoxia- and Hypercapnia-induced Changes in Rabbit Atrial Action Potential Produce an Arrhythmogenic Substrate

    Pagina :S88

    M. Neo, H. Dimitri, P. Sanders, D. Saint

    
• • ·Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on Ventricular Calcium Handling and Contractile Function: The Role of Irregularity

    Pagina :S89

    L. Ling, F. Amirahmadi, A. Foster, O. Khammy, L. Stevenson, K. Buxton, L. Zhang, C. dos Remedios, C. Chen, D. Kaye

    
• • ·Left Atrial Platelet Activation in Patients with Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S89

    H. Lim, S. Willoughby, C. Schultz, D. Lau, M. Alasady, D. Leong, A. Brooks, H. Dimitri, J. Dang, G. Sharma, R. Hillock, K. Roberts-Thomson, M. Worthley, G. Young, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Left Atrial Thrombogenesis Due to Atrial Fibrillation: Is it Rate or Rhythm?

    Pagina :S90

    H. Lim, S. Willoughby, C. Gan, C. Schultz, D. Lau, D. Leong, M. Alasady, H. Dimitri, A. Brooks, L. Wilson, K. Roberts-Thomson, M. Worthley, G. Young, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Metoprolol Stimulates the Cardiac Na⁺–K⁺ Pump by Reducing the Baseline Glutathiolynation of its beta1 Subunit

    Pagina :S90

    K. Karimi Galougahi, C. Liu, A. Garcia, E. Hamilton, G. Figtree, H. Rasmussen

    
• • ·Nicotine Exposure Results in ATRIAL Structural Remodelling: A Mechanism by which Smoking Results in Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S90

    G. Rangnekar, A. Chakrabarty, P. Sanders, L. Mackenzie

    
• • ·Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Chronic Heart Failure: Evidence of Atrial Protective Effects in an Ovine Model

    Pagina :S91

    D. Lau, A. Carbone, P. Psaltis, D. Kelly, L. Mackenzie, R. Metcalf, P. Kuklik, A. Nelson, Y. Zhang, C. Wong, D. Saint, M. James, G. Young, S. Worthley, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Patterns of Spatiotemporal Evolution of Atrial Fibrillation in Sheep Heart Assessed by High-density Mapping

    Pagina :S91

    P. Kuklik, D. Lau, L. Mackenzie, A. Brooks, M. Alasady, H. Abed, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Post-myocardial Infarction Evolution of Left Ventricular Electrophysiological Substrate

    Pagina :S92

    C. Hsieh, E. Chia, K. Huang, J. Lu, J. Pouliopoulos, P. Kovoor

    
• • ·Regional Left Atrial Remodelling in Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Patients. Substrate for Recurrent AF Beyond The Pulmonary Veins?

    Pagina :S92

    A. Teh, P. Kistler, G. Lee, C. Medi, P. Sparks, J. Morton, J. Vohra, J. Kalman

    
• • ·Right Atrial Electrical and Structural Remodelling Secondary to Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Ventricular Hypertrophy

    Pagina :S93

    C. Medi, J. Kalman, A. Teh, P. Kistler

    
• • ·Riluzole Provides Insights into the Mechanisms of Ischaemic and Ischaemia-reperfusion Arrhythmias

    Pagina :S93

    S. Weiss, D. Saint

    
• • ·Staphylococcal Superantigen-like Protein 5 (SSL5), a Prothrombotic Exotoxin of Staphylococcus aureus Infections and Potential Novel Treatment Strategies

    Pagina :S93

    P. Armstrong, H. Hu, Y. Chen, M. Li, N. Bassler, J. Fu, C. Hagemeyer, E. Gardner, K. Peter

    
• • ·The Origin of the J Wave in Hypothermia

    Pagina :S94

    L. Bassin, A. Yong, D. Kilpatrick, S. Hunyor

    
• • ·What is the Relationship Between Complex Fractionated Electrograms and Atrial Low Voltage Zones During Atrial Fibrillation and Sinus Rhythm?

    Pagina :S94

    A. Teh, P. Kistler, G. Lee, C. Medi, P. Sparks, J. Morton, J. Vohra, J. Kalman

    
• • ·What is the Significance of Complex Fractionated Signals in the Coronary Sinus?

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    A. Teh, J. Kalman, P. Kistler, C. Medi, G. Lee, F. Sutherland, J. Morton, J. Vohra, P. Sparks

    
• • ·3D TOE-guided Aspiration of Right Atrial Thrombus During AF Ablation

    Pagina :S95

    B. King, A. Liu, B. McKeown, P. Saklani, R. Samie

    
• • ·A Randomized Trial of Pulmonary Venous Isolation Alone Versus Additional Substrate Modification as Treatment for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S95

    A. McGavigan, J. Bowyer, C. Singleton

    
• • ·Abnormalities in Neurocognitive Function after Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

    Pagina :S96

    C. Medi, P. Sparks, P. Kistler, J. Morton, A. Teh, G. Lee, K. Halloran, J. Vohra, J. Kalman

    
• • ·Alternate-site Right Atrial Pacing for Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation: A Prospective, Long-term, Randomized, Controlled Study

    Pagina :S96

    D. Leong, J. Leitch, D. O’Donnell, P. Sanders, G. Young

    
• • ·Atrial Fibrillation Hospitalisations in Australia: Increasing Nation-Wide Trends (1998–2008)

    Pagina :S97

    C. Wong, Y. Cheng, M. Sun, D. Lau, A. Brooks, D. Leong, N. Shipp, M. Alasady, H. Lim, H. Abed, K. Roberts-Thomson, P. Sanders

     
• • ·Atrial Fibrillation Post-myocardial Infarction is Associated with Ventricular Fibrillation and Poor Long Term Outcomes

    Pagina :S97

    M. Alasady, D. Chew, D. Barlow, H. Lim, D. Leong, A. Brooks, K. Roberts-Thomson, W. Abhayaratna, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Atrial Ischemia is an Important Determinant of Atrial Fibrillation After Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S98

    M. Alasady, W. Abhayaratna, H. Lim, D. Leong, K. Roberts-Thomson, D. Chew, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Cardiac Device and Lead Displacement Secondary to Significant Weight Loss in the Obese Patient

    Pagina :S98

    A. Tay, B. Walker, H. Lim, R. Subbiah, D. Kuchar, C. Thorburn

    
• • ·Cardiac Structural and Functional Abnormalities in Patients With “Lone” Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S99

    P. Molaee, K. Teo, D. Leong, P. Kuklik, D. Wong, P. Sanders, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Cerebral Microembolism is Seen in Association with Cognitive Decline in Patients Post-atrial Fibrillation Ablation

    Pagina :S99

    C. Medi, P. Sparks, P. Kistler, J. Morton, A. Teh, G. Lee, K. Halloran, J. Vohra, J. Kalman

    
• • ·Characteristics of Atrial Arrhythmias Presenting Late Following Cardiac Transplantation, Referred for Radiofrequency Ablation

    Pagina :S100

    M. Elsik, A. Teh, J. Parameshwar, M. Virdee, S. Fynn, P. Kistler

    
• • ·Characterizations of Platelet Activity, Endothelial Function and Inflammation in Patients with Supraventricular Tachycardia

    Pagina :S100

    C. Schultz, S. Willoughby, H. Lim, M. Alasady, H. Dimitri, D. Lau, J. Laborderie, K. Roberts-Thomson, G. Young, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Chronic Fish Oil Ingestion in Humans Prevents Atrial Electrical Remodeling and Reduces Susceptibility to Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S100

    S. Kumar, G. Lee, F. Sutherland, R. Rosso, P. Sparks

    
• • ·Chronic Fish Oil Ingestion in Humans Reduces Atrial Mechanical Stunning After Direct Current Cardioversion for Atrial Arrhythmias: Implications for Stroke Prevention

    Pagina :S101

    S. Kumar, F. Sutherland, J. Morgan, R. Rosso, P. Sparks

    
• • ·Clinical and Mortality Outcomes in Patients Undergoing CRT-P vs CRT-D Device Implantation in a Large European Tertiary Centre

    Pagina :S101

    M. Elsik, L. Ring, R. Duehmke, J. Hutchinson, M. Virdee

    
• • ·Comparison of Radiation Doses for Catheter Ablation Procedures for Atrial Fibrillation with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Cases

    Pagina :S102

    K. McNeill, C. McErlean, M. Poyser, J. Scott, K. Wilson-Stewart, K. Phillips

    
• • ·Correlation and Characteristics of Electrocardiographic Changes with Coronary Anatomical Findings in Patients with Acute Circumflex Coronary Artery Occlusion

    Pagina :S102

    F. Chahadi, J. Moi, O. Farouque, M. Wong

    
• • ·CRT with Multisite RV Pacing is Associated with Improved Clinical Outcomes Compared to Standard CRT, in Patients with AF, at Long Term Follow Up

    Pagina :S102

    M. Elsik, L. Ring, F. Khan, J. Hutchinson, M. Virdee

    
• • ·Dissociated Pulmonary Vein Potentials Following Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: Incidence, Characteristics and Prognosis

    Pagina :S103

    G. Lee, A. Teh, J. Kalman, P. Kistler

    
• • ·Effectiveness of Radiofrequency Ablation Lesion Formation using Novel Virtual Electrode compared to Conventional Irrigated Ablation Catheter In Vivo

    Pagina :S103

    W. Chik, M. Barry, Z. Malchano, J. Poulipopoulos, L. Lu, K. Huang, C. Hsieh, S. Thomas, D. Ross, P. Kovoor, A. Thiagalingam

     
• • ·Evaluation of Left Ventricular Lead Output in Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT): Minimum Outputs for Maximum Gains

    Pagina :S104

    M. Wong, L. Bittinger, S. Letcher, G. Chiavaroli, M. Swale, D. O’Donnell

    
• • ·Evolution of ECG Changes in Tako Tsubo Cardiomyopathy: Arrhythmias First, QT Prolongation Later?

    Pagina :S104

    A. Kucia, C. Neil, T. Nguyen, J. Beltrame, M. Arstall, J. Horowitz

    
• • ·Incidence and Characteristics of Left Atrial Diverticula in Patients Undergoing AF Ablation

    Pagina :S105

    L. Wilson, C. Wong, A. Brooks, N. Kyriacou, P. Kuklik, D. Lau, H. Lim, M. Alasady, H. Abed, H. Dimitri, G. Young, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Inflammation and Myocardial Injury Following Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S105

    H. Lim, C. Schultz, R. Roberts-Thomson, J. Hunt, A. Brooks, J. Dang, D. Leong, D. Lau, M. Alasady, H. Abed, C. Gan, G. Young, M. Worthley, P. Sanders, S. Willoughby

     
• • ·Influence of Transmurality and Pacing Location on Bipolar and Unipolar Electrogram Characteristics

    Pagina :S106

    J. Pouliopoulos, W. Chik, K. Byth, P. Kovoor, A. Thiagalingam

     
• • ·Lead Abandonment in situ is a Reasonable Alternative to Lead Extraction in Selected Patients with ICDs

    Pagina :S106

    M. Hudaverdi, H. Samardhi, A. Sharma, S. Rateesh, G. Peters, M. Santos, R. Denman

    
• • ·Left Atrial and Pulmonary Vein Dimensions are Dependent on ECG-Gating of Computed Tomography in Sinus Rhythm and Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S106

    L. Wilson, C. Wong, P. Kuklik, A. Brooks, N. Kyriacou, D. Lau, M. Alasady, H. Lim, H. Abed, G. Young, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Left Atrial and Pulmonary Venous Anatomy: Variability in Patients Undergoing Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

    Pagina :S107

    L. Wilson, C. Wong, N. Kyriacou, P. Kuklik, A. Brooks, D. Lau, M. Alasady, H. Lim, H. Abed, H. Dimitri, G. Young, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Long term follow up of sub-mammary ICD systems in young females

    Pagina :S107

    M. Obeyesekere, N. Youngs, K. Kumawat, S. Kamberi, J. Alison

    
• • ·Long-term Outcome Following Ablation of Atrial Arrhythmias Occurring Late After Atrial Septal Defect Repair. High Incidence of Late Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S108

    A. Teh, C. Medi, P. Sparks, P. Kistler, G. Lee, J. Morton, J. Vohra, K. Halloran, J. Kalman

    
• • ·Noncontact Mapping System and CFAE Ablation Add to PVI Get Better for Chronic as AF on the First Session

    Pagina :S108

    D. Yuasa, S. Kaneko, M. Shinoda, H. Kamiya, R. Kubota, Y. Tatami, M. Hayashi, H. Kanayama

    
• • ·Obstructive Events in Sleep Apnoea Causes Acute Atrial Remodelling in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S108

    H. Dimitri, M. Ng, A. Brooks, N. Shipp, N. Antic, A. Thornton, R. Antic, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and its Implications for Atrial Remodelling in Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S109

    H. Dimitri, M. Ng, P. Kuklik, A. Brooks, M. Stiles, A. Thornton, R. Antic, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Periatrial Fat Volume is Predictive of Atrial Fibrillation Severity

    Pagina :S109

    H. Abed, C. Wong, A. Brooks, P. Molaee, A. Nelson, B. Dundon, D. Leong, G. Wittert, S. Worthley, W. Abhayaratna, P. Sanders

     
• • ·Pericardial Fat Burden is Predictive of Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Outcomes

    Pagina :S110

    H. Abed, C. Wong, A. Brooks, P. Molaee, A. Nelson, D. Leong, W. Abhayaratna, G. Wittert, S. Worthley, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Procedural Safety of Permanent Pacemaker Implantation Followed by AV Nodal Ablation

    Pagina :S110

    T. Barton, M. Obeyesekere, K. Kumawat, J. Alison, I. Meredith

    
• • ·Promoting Reverse Atrial Electrical Remodelling Following Catheter Ablation for Persistent or Permanent Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S110

    K. Phillips, D. Walker, S. Townsend

    
• • ·Right Ventricular Septal Versus Right Ventricular Apical Pacing and Subsequent Development of Heart Failure—A Single Centre Experience

    Pagina :S111

    S. Perera, A. Puri, V. Pera, H. Millow, N. Wijesinghe, G. Devlin, M. Stiles

    
• • ·Systemic Venous Anatomy in Congenital Heart Disease: Implications for Electrophysiologic Testing and Catheter Ablation

    Pagina :S111

    R. Cordina, D. Celermajer, M. McGuire

    
• • ·The CRT Learning Curve: A Single Centre Experience

    Pagina :S112

    J. Phan, C. Hayward, A. Tay, R. Subbiah, D. Kuchar, C. Thorburn, B. Walker

    
• • ·The Effect of Heart Rate on Ventricular Mechanical Dyssynchrony

    Pagina :S112

    A. Lovell, B. Choi, D. Leong, M. Alasady, H. Lim, G. Young, P. Sanders

    
• • ·The Impact of Ablation Technique on Persistent AF Ablation Outcomes: A Meta-analysis

    Pagina :S112

    A. Brooks, M. Stiles, J. Laborderie, D. Lau, P. Kuklik, N. Shipp, G. Rangnekar, P. Sanders

    
• • ·The Role of Restitution Profile in Determining Ventricular Tachycardia Propensity Post-Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S113

    J. Pouliopoulos, G. Sivagangabalan, W. Chik, K. Huang, J. Lu, K. Byth, A. Thiagalingam, P. Kovoor

     
• • ·The Safety and Utility of Routine General Anesthesia and Trans-esophageal Echocardiography in AF Ablation. Experience from 500 Consecutive Procedures

    Pagina :S113

    G. Lee, P. Sparks, J. Morton, P. Kistler, J. Vohra, C. Medi, R. Rosso, A. Teh, K. Halloran, J. Kalman

    
• • ·The Severity of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Determines the Persistence and Symptoms of Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S114

    H. Dimitri, M. Ng, A. Brooks, N. Antic, A. Thornton, H. Abed, M. Alasady, D. Lau, H. Lim, D. McEvoy, R. Antic, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Thermal Characteristics of Standard Radiofrequency Ablation Catheters

    Pagina :S114

    W. Chik, S. Thavapalachandran, M. Barry, J. Pouliopoulos, T. Lim, S. Thomas, P. Kovoor, A. Thiagalingam

     
• • ·Thermal Characteristics of the Novel Virtual Electrode in a Direct Visualisation Ablation Catheter

    Pagina :S115

    W. Chik, S. Thavapalachandran, M. Barry, T. Lim, J. Pouliopoulos, S. Thomas, Z. Malchano, V. Saadat, P. Kovoor, A. Thiagalingam

     
• • ·Twin Left Atrial Flutters Using a Common Scar Isthmus Presenting with Tachycardia of Alternating Cycle Length

    Pagina :S115

    H. Lim, B. John, D. Lau, H. Dimitri, P. Sanders

     
• • ·Using Intracoronary Electrocardiography in Diagnosing Atrial Ischemia During Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S116

    M. Alasady, D. Wong, D. Leong, W. Abhayaratna, K. Roberts-Thomson, D. Barlow, H. Lim, A. Brooks, S. Worthley, M. Worthley, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Utility of Direct Full-Colour Endovascular Visualisation in Identifying Gaps and Achieve Electrical Conduction Block

    Pagina :S116

    W. Chik, M. Barry, Z. Malchano, K. Huang, J. Lu, J. Pouliopoulos, C. Hsieh, D. Ross, S. Thomas, P. Kovoor, A. Thiagalingam

     
• • ·Ventricular Dependence of Left Atrial Mechanical Function

    Pagina :S117

    D. Leong, J. Ma, D. Lau, M. Alasady, L. Wilson, N. Kyriacou, H. Lim, S. Carlson, A. McGavigan, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Very Low Risk of Major Complications Associated with Antral Pulmonary Vein Isolation for Atrial Fibrillation. Results of 500 Consecutive Ablation Procedures in Young Patients with Low Prevalence of SHD from a Single Centre

    Pagina :S117

    G. Lee, P. Sparks, J. Morton, P. Kistler, J. Vohra, C. Medi, R. Rosso, A. Teh, K. Halloran, J. Kalman

    
• • ·9 Years of Left Main Stem Coronary Stenting at Christchurch Hospital

    Pagina :S118

    S. Aldous, J. Blake, J. Elliott, D. McClean, D. Smyth

    
• • ·A Comparison of Fluoroscopy Time and Serum Creatine Kinase as Predictors of Long-term Outcome after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :S118

    G. Starmer, K. Haladyn, V. Indrajith, K. Bhuiyan, S. Crown, R. Lim

    
• • ·A Novel Real-Time Image Processor to Facilitate Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. The Paieon’s C-THV System

    Pagina :S118

    N. Wijesinghe, J. Masson, F. Nietlispach, E. Tay, R. Gurvitch, D. Wood, J. Webb

    
• • ·A Practical Definition of Late Stent Thrombosis: Insights from the Melbourne Interventional Group Registry

    Pagina :S119

    N. Andrianopoulos, B. Yan, A. Ajani, D. Clark, S. Duffy, A. Brennan, C. Reid

    
• • ·Accuracy of MRI and Transthoracic Echocardiogram in Assessing Aortic Dimensions Prior to Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement

    Pagina :S119

    G. Liew, B. Lorraine, R. Das, K. Teo, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Adoption of Percutaneous Transfemoral Aortic Valve Implantation and Procedural Developments

    Pagina :S120

    S. Sack, P. Kahlert, H. Eggebrecht, M. Weber, D. Wendt, M. Thielmann, E. Kottenberg, J. Peters, H. Jakob, R. Erbel

    
• • ·An Embolic Deflection Device for Aortic Valve Interventions

    Pagina :S120

    F. Nietlispach, N. Wijesinghe, R. Gurvitch, E. Tay, J. Webb

    
• • ·An Experience of Transcoronary Ablation of Septal Hypertrophy (TASH) in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S120

    H. Samardhi, C. Harley, F. Syed, C. Raffel, M. Savage, C. Aroney, D. Walters

    
• • ·Antiplatelet Resistance and Thrombosis in Stents

    Pagina :S121

    S. Rajendran, D. Parikh, I. Shugman, J. French, C. Juergens

    
• • ·Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty (BAV) for Severe Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis (AS) in the Current Era

    Pagina :S121

    S. Pasupati, M. Liang

    
• • ·Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty in the Era of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI): A Single Centre Experience

    Pagina :S122

    Y. Yu, A. Yong, M. Ng

    
• • ·Body Mass Index (BMI) may not be a Valid Indicator for early Mortality after PCI: 30 day Outcomes after PCI in Australian Private Hospitals—Results from a National Multi-Centre Registry

    Pagina :S122

    B. Chan, D. Eccleston

    
• • ·Cardiac ARIA: Population Accessibility to 24 h\7 Day Public Catheterisation Laboratories

    Pagina :S122

    N. Coffee, R. Clark, K. Eckert, D. Turner, D. Coombe, J. Lawrence, S. Stewart, D. van Gaans, D. Wilkinson, A. Tonkin

    
• • ·Cardiology verses Emergency Physician Activation of the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Effect on Door to Balloon Times

    Pagina :S123

    A. Willson, D. Mountain, J. Jeffers, C. Blanton, B. McQuillan, J. Hung, M. Muhlman, M. Nguyen

    
• • ·Cerebrovascular Events Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement—Incidence, Predictors and Timing of Events

    Pagina :S123

    E. Tay, R. Gurvitch, N. Wijesinghe, F. Nietlispach, D. Wood, J. Ye, A. Cheung, R. Carere, S. Lichtenstein, C. Thompson, J. Webb

    
• • ·Clinical Outcomes and Angiographic Follow-up after Stenting of Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis in a Regional Hospital without Surgical Backup

    Pagina :S124

    J. Wong, C. Chan, C. Yue

    
• • ·Clinical Outcomes for Percutaneous Revascularization Following ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Selective Drug-Eluting Stent use in Patients at High Risk of Restenosis

    Pagina :S124

    I. Shugman, P. Diu, D. Parikh, J. Gohil, K. Kishor, S. Lo, D. Leung, D. Taylor, R. Rajaratnam, P. Nguyen, A. Hopkins, C. Juergens, J. French

    
• • ·Comparison of Non-Invasive Imaging Modalities Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA), Duplex ultrasound (DUS), CT Angiography (CTA) and MR Angiography (MRA) in Defining Carotid Artery Stenosis and Anatomic Risk in the Setting of Carotid Artery Stenting

    Pagina :S124

    A. Smith, J. Morton, T. Gattorna, S. McCormack, J. Harris, G. White, M. Ng

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

    Pagina :S125

    W. Chan, N. Andrianopoulos, D. Clark, A. Ajani, A. Brennan, A. Newcomb, P. Naidu, J. Smith, M. Butler, M. Freeman, A. Dart, D. Dinh, S. Duffy

    
• • ·Comparison of TR Band Protocols after Transradial Access

    Pagina :S125

    M. De Raya, Y. Goh, I. Shugman, C. Juergens, S. Lo

    
• • ·Complex Radial Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Using the Sheathless Eaucath

    Pagina :S126

    S. Harding, N. Briggs, P. Larsen

    
• • ·Conservative Management of Patients with Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) >0.75

    Pagina :S126

    D. De Silva, B. Hermen

    
• • ·Contrast Induced Nephropathy in Patients with Pre-existing Renal Impairment Undergoing Invasive Coronary Procedures—A Long-term Follow-up

    Pagina :S126

    A. Dhawan, D. Parikh, I. Shugman, J. French, H. Hallani, C. Fernandes, C. Juergens

    
• • ·Cooling and Coronary Catheterisation is Associated with Improved Survival in out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest

    Pagina :S127

    D. Stub, C. Hengel, W. Chan, D. Jackson, K. Sanders, A. Dart, A. Hilton, V. Pellegrino, J. Shaw, S. Duffy, S. Bernard, D. Kaye

    
• • ·Definite Stent Thrombosis Requiring a Primary Angioplasty: The Hamilton–Wellington Hospitals Experience

    Pagina :S127

    M. Liang, A. Puri, W. Kong, M. Zhang, S. Harding, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Does Stent Size “Mismatch” Predispose to Restenosis?

    Pagina :S128

    R. Chan, R. Lim

    
• • ·Does Troponin Elevation After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Really Represent Myocardial Infarction? Insights from a Biomarker and MRI Study of Complex PCI

    Pagina :S128

    C. Lim, W. van Gaal, L. Burrell, L. Testa, R. Arnold, J. Digby, S. Neubauer, A. Banning

    
• • ·Effect of Initiating a “Code STEMI” Protocol on Door to Balloon Time in the Management of Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S129

    J. Amin, K. Blackman, A. Thomson, M. Nicholson, L. Bowman, L. Galligan, P. Roberts-Thomson

    
• • ·Efficacy of Manual Compression versus Closure Devices in Achieving Femoral Artery Haemostasis after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :S129

    P. D’Ambrosio, M. Pitney, A. Lau

    
• • ·Emergency Cardiac Catheterisation for Resuscitated Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest: An Ongoing Challenge But Not Futile

    Pagina :S129

    M. Dooris

    
• • ·Estimation of Skin Injury Risk in Patient Undergoing PCI

    Pagina :S130

    J. Rivers, I. Smith, J. Cameron, R. Beevors

    
• • ·Evaluation of the New Definition of Peri-Procedural Myocardial Infarction in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes

    Pagina :S130

    I. Shugman, P. Diu, J. Gohil, K. Kadappu, M. Leung, S. Lo, D. Leung, A. Hopkins, C. Juergens, J. French

    
• • ·False Positive Rates in Patients Undergoing Emergency Coronary Angiography for Suspected STEMI is Not Increased with Emergency Physician Activation of The Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory

    Pagina :S130

    A. Willson, D. Mountain, J. Jeffers, C. Blanton, B. McQuillan, J. Hung, M. Muhlman, M. Nguyen

    
• • ·Field Triage Reduces the Incidence and Mortality of Ischaemic Cardiogenic Shock in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S131

    A. Nojoumian, S. Buchholz, C. Yao-Yu, S. Soo Hoo, A. Loxton, R. Bhindi, P. Hansen, H. Rasmussen, G. Nelson, M. Ward

    
• • ·First Australian Experience with the Amplatzer Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion System: Royal Perth Hospital 2010

    Pagina :S131

    T. Gattorna, V. Paul, R. Clugston, M. Ferman

    
• • ·First-in-Man Use of a Tapered Endovascular Stent Graft for Treatment of Pseudoaneurysm After Coarctation Repair

    Pagina :S132

    F. Nietlispach, J. Leipsic, N. Wijesinghe, J. Webb, R. Carere

    
• • ·Fourteen Year Follow-up after Direct Percutaneous Intervention (DPCI) with Remote Surgical Backup for Anterior ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)

    Pagina :S132

    J. Elliott, M. Richards, N. Davis, S. Aldous, D. Smyth

     
• • ·Immobilized Recombinant Human Tropoelastin on a Plasma-Activated Coating Dramatically Enhances Biocompatibility of Metal Alloys: Implications for Coronary Stents

    Pagina :S132

    A. Waterhouse, Y. Yin, S. Wise, M. Bilek, A. Weiss, M. Ng

    
• • ·In Hospital Mortality and Complications following Primary Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI) in a Rural/Regional Hospital with no onsite Surgery

    Pagina :S133

    D. De Silva, B. Hermen

    
• • ·Incidence, Risk Factors, and In-Hospital Mortality of Contrast-Induced Nephropathy in Field Triaged Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S133

    S. Buchholz, A. Nojoumian, S. Soo Hoo, R. Bhindi, P. Hansen, M. Ward, H. Rasmussen, G. Nelson

    
• • ·Increase in Soluble CD40 Ligand and Monocyte Tissue Factor in a High Risk ACS Cohort Following PCI at Medium Term Follow Up

    Pagina :S133

    J. Layland, M. Ray, D. Walters

    
• • ·Initial and 1 Year Outcomes After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Australian Private Hospitals: Results from a National Multi-Centre Registry

    Pagina :S134

    D. Eccleston, T. Rafter, S. Worthley, G. Holt, M. Muhlmann, P. Sage, M. Horrigan

    
• • ·Initial Experience with the Melody Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve in New South Wales

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    P. Roberts, R. Puranik, D. Celermajer

    
• • ·Initial Experiences with a Non-Stented Coronary Sinus Device for the Treatment of Functional Mitral Regurgitation: Results of the PTOLEMY I Feasibility Trial

    Pagina :S135

    S. Sack, P. Kahlert, L. Bilodeau, L. Pièrard, P. Lancellotti, V. Legrand, J. Bartunek, M. Vanderheyden, R. Hoffmann, P. Schauerte, T. Shiota, D. Marks, S. Ellis, R. Erbel

    
• • ·In-Patient and One Year Mortality Following Field 12 Lead ECG in Patients with STEMI. Preliminary Outcomes of the MonAMI Project

    Pagina :S135

    A. Hutchison, Y. Malaiapan, P. Antonis, J. Cameron, I. Meredith

    
• • ·Intermediate to Long-Term Outcomes in Symptomatic Patients with Severe Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Following Percutaneous Transluminal Septal Myocardial Ablation

    Pagina :S136

    W. Thai, M. Leung, Y. Malaiapan, J. Cameron, I. Meredith

    
• • ·Intracoronary ECG During Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) For ST Elevation MI Predicts Microvascular Obstruction And Infarct Size

    Pagina :S136

    D. Wong, M. Leung, R. Das, G. Liew, B. Dundon, M. Worthley, K. Teo, D. Chew, I. Meredith, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Is Corevalve Performance Maintained After 12 Months? A Comparative Study Versus Open Aortic Valve Replacement

    Pagina :S136

    A. Ellims, A. Walton, S. Duffy, H. Thomson, A. Dart, C. Wong

    
• • ·Is Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Under General Anaesthesia Safe?—A Five Year Experience in a High Volume Centre

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• • ·IVUS Guided Management of Angiographic Intermediate Coronary Lesions: Long-Term Outcome After Stratification to PCI, CABG or Medical Therapy

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• • ·Large Coronary Artery PCI: Effect on TIMI Flow and Immediate Procedural Outcome

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    P. Fahmy, S. Lehman, W. Ahmar, M. Leung, M. Zhang, I. Meredith, Y. Malaiapan

    
• • ·Leukocyte Count is a Predictor of Long-Term Mortality in Stable Patients But Not Non-Elective Patients Undergoing PCI

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    R. Alcock, A. Yong, A. Ng, V. Chow, C. Cheruvu, B. Aliprandi-Costa, L. Kritharides, H. Lowe, D. Brieger

    
• • ·Long Term Follow-up of Percutaneous Balloon Pulmonary Valvotomies

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• • ·Long-Term Outcomes and Predictors of Death and MACE Following PCI: Insights From the MIG Registry

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• • ·Long-Term Predictors of Mortality after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the Era of Drug Eluting Stents

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    W. Wilson, D. Clark, N. Andrianopoulos, S. Duffy, A. Brennan, E. Harries, G. New, T. Yip, P. Loane, C. Reid, A. Ajani

    
• • ·Long-Term Clinical and Angiographic Outcome of Cobalt Alloy Stents Compared to Bare-Metal Stents and Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents With Regard to Lesion Length and Vessel Size

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    S. Sack, Z. Wang, J. Ge, R. Erbel

    
• • ·Long-Term Clinical and Angiographic Outcome of Cobalt Alloy Stents Compared to Conventional Bare-Metal Stents and Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents

    Pagina :S140

    S. Sack, Z. Wang, J. Ge, R. Erbel

    
• • ·Long-term Outcome of Patients Who Underwent Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI) for Stable and Unstable Acute Coronary Syndromes, Including STEMI, in a Regional Hospital Without On-site Surgical Back-up

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    M. Premaratne, K. Liou, D. Brillante, D. Owensby, A. Lee, W. McKenzie, T. Nguyen-Dang, A. Yeung, P. Shetty

    
• • ·Maximum Safe Contrast Volume (MSCV) During Cardiac Catheterization

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    N. Wijesinghe, S. Cherian, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Microcirculatory Resistance Can be Calculated without the Need for Wedge Pressure Measurements in the Presence of Epicardial Stenosis

    Pagina :S142

    A. Yong, M. Ho, C. Chawantanpipat, M. Shah, W. Fearon, M. Ng

    
• • ·Multivessel Coronary Intervention During Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction. A Review of Consecutive Cases

    Pagina :S142

    E. Mckay, V. Chen

    
• • ·Novel Use of a Melody Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve in the Tricuspid Valve Position—First Reported Experience

    Pagina :S142

    P. Roberts, M. Wilson, M. Valelly, B. Bailey, D. Celermajer

    
• • ·One-Year Experience with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Insertion [TAVI] via Transarterial Approach in a New Zealand Public Hospital

    Pagina :S142

    S. Pasupati, G. Devlin, M. Liang, R. Fisher, A. El-Gamel, N. Kejriwal

    
• • ·Patient and Resident Understanding of the Benefits of Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Stable Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S143

    C. Broderick, P. Friend, H. Samardhi, D. Walters, O. Raffel

    
• • ·Patient Selection for Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement

    Pagina :S143

    K. Nowakowski, S. Gleeson, D. Mullany, C. Gough, C. Aroney, D. Walters

    
• • ·Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Elderly Australians; Initial and 1-Year Results from a National Multi-Centre Registry

    Pagina :S144

    D. Eccleston, T. Rafter, S. Worthley, P. Sage, M. Muhlmann, M. Horrigan, G. Holt

    
• • ·Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the Very Elderly

    Pagina :S144

    M. Liang, A. Puri, J. Liang, S. Pilkington, S. Pasupati, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Percutaneous Device Closure Utilising the Premere Patent Foramen Ovale Occluder

    Pagina :S144

    R. Hatton, K. Ng, P. Hayes, R. Bhagwandeen, N. Collins, R. Jayasinghe

    
• • ·Peri-Procedural Complications and 30 days Outcomes from Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) via Transarterial Method Using Both Medtronic CoreValve™ and Edwards Sapien™ Valve at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Pagina :S145

    J. Mazhar, S. Pasupati, M. Liang

    
• • ·Post-Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Heart Block in the Self-Expandable and Balloon Expandable Valves

    Pagina :S145

    M. Liang, G. Devlin, S. Pasupati

    
• • ·Predictors of 30-Day Mortality in an All-Comer St Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Cohort in a Contemporary Australian Population

    Pagina :S146

    V. Venkatachalam, A. Narayan, J. Chiha, D. Yong, A. Ong, S. Thomas, P. Kovoor

    
• • ·Predictors of Stroke Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI): Findings from a Large Multicentre Australian PCI Registry

    Pagina :S146

    T. Lancefield, S. Duffy, D. Clark, A. Ajani, G. New, D. Stub, M. Sebastian, W. Chan, A. Finlay, A. Brennan, N. Andrianopoulos, A. Dart, C. Reid

    
• • ·Pre-hospital Ambulance Notification of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Significantly Improves Door to Balloon Time (DTB) for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI)—Australian Setting

    Pagina :S147

    M. Savage, C. Raffel, A. Luis, J. Bryant, M. Pincus, D. Walters

    
• • ·Pre-hospital Diagnosis of STEMI and Impact on Door to Balloon Time (TCH-AMI Study)

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    R. Pathak, L. Cox, P. Marley, A. Farshid

    
• • ·Primary Angioplasty (PAMI) with Drug-Eluting Stents (DES) and Bare-Metal Stents (BMS)

    Pagina :S147

    M. Liang, A. Puri, J. Wong, M. Liang, K. Abercrombie, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Outcomes in the Elderly

    Pagina :S148

    S. Wright, R. Jayasinghe

    
• • ·Radial vs. Femoral Arterial Approach in Acute ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction—Wellington Regional Hospital Experience

    Pagina :S148

    M. Webber, J. Lumsden, S. Harding

    
• • ·Reliability of Surface and Radiological Landmarks to Guide Femoral Artery (CFA) Puncture Site: Anatomical Variations in the Optimal Sheath Position

    Pagina :S149

    J. Ng, E. Yamen, A. Willson

    
• • ·Removal of Contrast Media from the Coronary Sinus Attenuates Renal Injury After Coronary Angiography and Intervention

    Pagina :S149

    S. Duffy, P. Ruygrok, C. Juergens, H. Sievert, M. Richards, J. Blake, R. Whitbourn, O. Farouque, T. Pertile, D. Kaye

    
• • ·Reverse Triage Events Study of Patients after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (RETRIEVE PCI)

    Pagina :S150

    V. Nguyen, K. Owen, P. Nguyen, C. Juergens, J. French, S. Lo, K. Kadappu, R. Rajaratnam

    
• • ·Seasonal Patterns of Referral for Emergency Cardiac Catheterization for ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Cardiac Arrest

    Pagina :S150

    M. Dooris

     
• • ·Seven Years Trends in Pain to Door Time and Ambulance Presentation for ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S151

    A. Willson, D. Bhullar, E. Yamen, M. Ammerer, D. Latchem, C. Blanton, M. Muhlmann

    
• • ·Short and Long Term Clinical Safety and Efficacy of Endeavor Stents in Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

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    W. Ahmar, Y. Malaiapan, T. Katticaran, P. See, I. Meredith

    
• • ·The Clinical Importance of Routine vs Ad Hoc Measurement of Serum Creatine Kinase after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)

    Pagina :S151

    G. Starmer, K. Haladyn, V. Indrajith, R. Lim

    
• • ·The Effect of Smoking on Clinical Outcomes in Patients Taking Clopidogrel Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :S152

    W. Chan, N. Andrianopoulos, A. Ajani, D. Clark, R. Johnston, A. Finlay, A. Walton, A. Brennan, J. Shaw, C. Reid, A. Dart, S. Duffy

    
• • ·The Incidence of Clinical Restenosis when the Choice Between Bare Metal Stents and Drug Eluting Stents is Based on the Calculated Risk of Restenosis

    Pagina :S152

    R. Padang, B. Bailey, M. Adams, M. Ng, L. Pressley, P. Harris

    
• • ·The Index of Microcirculatory Resistance, Measured Prior to Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Predicts Peri-Procedural Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S153

    A. Yong, M. Shah, M. Ho, C. Chawantanpipat, W. Fearon, M. Ng

    
• • ·The Initial 30-Day Australian and New Zealand Edwards Sapien Aortic Valve Replacement Experience

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    D. Chew, S. Pasupati, J. Bennetts, D. Baron, N. Kejriwal, D. Walters, A. Sinhal

    
• • ·The Use of Peri-Operative C-arm CT for the Accurate Placement of Percutaneous Aortic Valves

    Pagina :S153

    J. Crowhurst, C. Aroney, D. Walters

    
• • ·Thirty-Day and 1 Year Clinical Follow up of PCI Patients at Box Hill Hospital

    Pagina :S154

    W. Childs, S. Parnham, S. Sidhartha, J. Beale, L. Roberts, S. Ching, J. Sapontis, K. Yew, G. New

    
• • ·Thromboathero-Embolic Particulate Volume Retrieved Using Distal Protection in Saphenous Vein Graft Intervention is not Correlated with Lesion Volume Using a 3D Volumetric Angiographic Analysis

    Pagina :S154

    M. Moharram, A. Yong, B. Lin, D. Brieger, L. Kritharides, H. Lowe

    
• • ·Thrombolysis with Early Invasive Strategy for ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction at Campbelltown Hospital Achieves Favourable Mortality Rates

    Pagina :S154

    M. Leung, S. Ung, A. Berger, H. Kachwalla, U. Premawardhana, P. Nguyen, A. Toufali, R. Rajaratnam

    
• • ·To Review the Uptake of Thrombus Aspiration Device in a Tertiary Hospital Setting with a 24 × 7 Primary PCI Program in Light of Recent Recommendations

    Pagina :S155

    A. Gangasandra Basavaraj, J. Song, R. Batra, N. Dastagir, A. Nasir

    
• • ·Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation—Single Centre Outcomes From the First 270 High-Risk Patients

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    R. Gurvitch, E. Tay, F. Nietlispach, N. Wijesinghe, D. Wood, A. Cheung, C. Thompson, J. Ye, S. Lichtenstein, J. Webb

     
• • ·Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Patients with Bicuspid Aortic Valve Stenosis

    Pagina :S156

    N. Wijesinghe, J. Ye, J. Rodés-Cabau, A. Cheung, J. Velianou, M. Natarajan, E. Dumont, F. Nietlispach, R. Gurvitch, D. Wood, E. Tay, J. Webb

    
• • ·Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Durability of Clinical and Haemodynamic Outcomes Beyond Three Years in a Large Patient Cohort

    Pagina :S156

    R. Gurvitch, E. Tay, D. Wood, J. Leipsic, S. Lichtenstein, C. Thompson, R. Carere, N. Wijesinghe, F. Nietlispach, R. Boone, A. Cheung, J. Webb

    
• • ·Transcatheter Closure of Paravalvular Defects Using a New Purpose-Specific Occluder

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    F. Nietlispach, M. Johnson, R. Moss, R. Gurvitch, E. Tay, N. Wijesinghe, C. Thompson, J. Webb

    
• • ·Transcatheter Closure of Post-Myocardial Infarction Ventricular Septal Defects: Waikato Hospital Initial Experience

    Pagina :S157

    M. Liang, S. Pasupati

    
• • ·Transcatheter Valve-in-Valve Implantation for Failed Surgical Bioprosthetic Heart Valves

    Pagina :S157

    R. Gurvitch, D. Wood, J. Ye, E. Tay, R. Carere, N. Wijesinghe, F. Nietlispach, M. Johnson, R. Moss, J. Leipsic, S. Lichtenstein, A. Cheung, J. Webb

    
• • ·Trans-Radial Approach for Primary Percutaneous Intervention

    Pagina :S157

    S. Luis, M. Savage, B. Bell, A. Small

    
• • ·Transradial Coronary Angiography and Intervention are Safe and may have a Short Learning Curve

    Pagina :S158

    J. Looi, A. Cave, S. El-Jack

    
• • ·Trans-radial Versus Femoral Artery Access for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention—Has it Improved Clinical Outcomes?

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    M. Mok, N. Andrianopoulos, D. Clark, M. Sebastian, A. Black

    
• • ·Use of the Amplatzer Vascular Plug to occlude Veno-Venous Collaterals in Children with Congenital Heart Disease

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    T. Colen, B. Reeves, B. Sheridan, R. Justo

    
• • ·Watchman^® Left Atrial Appendage Occluder Implants: The Initial Queensland Experience

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    K. Phillips, D. Stewart, S. Jones, D. Walker, J. Humphries

    
• • ·Where not to have a Heart Attack in Australia!: The Cardiac ARIA Index

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    R. Clark, N. Coffee, K. Eckert, D. Turner, D. Coombe, J. Lawrence, S. Stewart, D. van Gaans, D. Wilkinson, A. Tonkin

    
• • ·2D Speckle Tracking Strain for assessment of RV function in Healthy Normals

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    E. Chia, C. Hsieh, D. Leung, L. Thomas

    
• • ·A Comparison of Local Referral Patterns For Transthoracic Echocardiography Versus ACC Appropriateness Criteria

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• • ·A High Coronary Calcium Score Does Not Preclude Coronary Evaluation by 320 Detector-Row Cardiac CT

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    J. Otton, N. Sammel, K. Sesel, J. McCrohon, J. De Villiers, L. Bester, D. Boshell, C. Wainwright, M. Feneley

    
• • ·A Novel Method for the Non-Invasive Estimation of Pulmonary Vascular Resistance (PVR) by Echocardiography Significantly Improves Estimation and Agreement with Right Heart Catheter Measurements (RHC)

    Pagina :S161

    A. Chong, T. Marwick, S. Wahi, B. Haluska

    
• • ·A Systematic Review of Reference Values Used in The Echocardiographic Assessment of Diastolic Function

    Pagina :S161

    G. Whalley, L. Sutherland, K. Poppe, R. Doughty

     
• • ·Accuracy of the Biplane Area-Length Method For Assessing Left Atrial Volume in Subjects With Normal and Dilated Left Atria: A Comparative Study Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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    P. Molaee, K. Teo, D. Leong, P. Kuklik, D. Wong, K. Williams, P. Sanders, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Acute Effects of Anthracycline Therapy on Cardiac Function

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    P. Stoodley, D. Richards, S. Meikle, J. Clarke, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Adenosine Stress Perfusion Imaging and Coronary Angiography using 320 Slice Computed Tomography—A Comparison with Quantitative Coronary Angiography and Fractional Flow Reserve

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    B. Ko, J. Cameron, M. Leung, S. Lehman, S. Hope, M. Crossett, A. Nasis, P. Antonis, T. DeFrance, S. Seneviratne

    
• • ·An Integrated Approach to Predicting Response to Cardiac Reysnchronisation Therapy (CRT)

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    J. Ng, G. Jenkins, B. McQuillan, P. Stobie, P. Cooke, V. Paul, N. Stoyanov

    
• • ·Assessment of Coronary Plaque Presence and Composition by 320-Slice Cardiac Computed Tomography: A Comparative Study Using Intravascular Ultrasound

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    S. Lehman, Y. Malaiapan, P. Antonis, M. Zhang, J. Cameron, I. Meredith, S. Seneviratne

    
• • ·Assessment of Global and Regional Left Ventricular Function and Volumes with 320-Slice MDCT: A Comparison with 2D-Echocardiography

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    A. Nasis, S. Moir, S. Seneviratne, S. Healy, J. Cameron, P. Mottram

    
• • ·Assessment of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction by 128-detector CT in the Setting of Severe Aortic Stenosis: A Comparison with Cardiac MRI

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    G. Liew, B. Lorraine, D. Wong, K. Teo, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Assessment of Mitral Annular Disjunction by Cardiac MRI in Patients With Mitral Valve Prolapse

    Pagina :S165

    J. Christiansen, C. Edwards, S. Myerson

     
• • ·Associations of Persistent Diastolic Dysfunction After Valve Replacement in Aortic Stenosis? A Study of Hemodynamics and Fibrosis

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    S. Wahi, R. Leano, M. Ura, M. Bansal, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Atrial Dysfunction in Diabetes Mellitus Using Two-Dimensional Strain Imaging

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    K. Kadappu, A. Boyd, B. Haluska, T. Marwick, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Atrial Function Evaluation Using Strain Imaging in Fabry Disease

    Pagina :S166

    A. Boyd, N. Sadick, D. Silence, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Biplane Angiography Saves Contrast Media For Routine Cardiac Angiography

    Pagina :S167

    J. Crowhurst, M. Savage, S. Barbour, N. Faint, D. Walters

    
• • ·Cardiac Complications of Ventriculo-Atrial (VA) Shunts—Important Role of Echocardiography

    Pagina :S167

    T. Gay, P. Lumley, M. Rowe

     
• • ·Cardiac MRI Predictors of Short-Term Outcomes in High Risk CAG Surgical Patients

    Pagina :S168

    M. Sheriff, M. Wilson, M. Vallely, R. Puranik

    
• • ·Cardiac MRI Predicts Recovery of Left Ventricular Function in Suspected Myocarditis

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    A. McLellan, S. McKenzie, A. Taylor

    
• • ·Carotid Intima-Media Thickness, Echocardiography and Incident Cardiovascular Disease: Comparing the Predictive Performance of Ultrasound Imaging in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM)

    Pagina :S169

    S. Bhattacharyya, J. Somaratne, G. Whalley, K. Poppe, W. Bagg, R. Doughty

    
• • ·Changes in Left Ventricular Volume and Geometry During Normal Ageing from Early Adulthood to Middle-Age

    Pagina :S169

    P. Mottram, L. Donelan, S. Moir, R. Peverill

    
• • ·Clinical Usefulness of CT Coronary Angiography in the Exclusion of Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S170

    T. Boga, T. O’Meeghan, K. Ferrier, R. Anscombe

    
• • ·CMRI as a Complementary Imaging Modality to TTE in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Masses

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    A. Sharma, H. Samardhi, M. Hudaverdi, N. Brett, C. Maskiell, W. Strugnell, O. Raffel, D. Burstow, R. Slaughter

    
• • ·Common Extra-Coronary Findings on Coronary CT Angiography

    Pagina :S170

    K. Soon, F. Brown, L. Bentley, J. Frank, R. Bashir, D. Chong, L. Smith, Y. Lim

    
• • ·Comparison of Pulsed Wave and Colour Tissue Doppler Derived Echocardiographic Estimation of Left Ventricular End Diastolic Pressure

    Pagina :S171

    K. Kadappu, A. Boyd, C. Allman, R. Rajaratnam, S. Lo, J. French, D. Leung, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Comparison of Time–Frequency Analysis Parameters from Standard 12-Lead ECG with Left Atrial Volume by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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    A. Forshaw, M. Dwan, A. Diery, J. Wright, R. Pascoe

    
• • ·Compression of the Left Atrium and Pulmonary Veins in Patients with Large Hiatus Hernia: A Novel Insight into the Mechanism of Dyspnoea using Echocardiography

    Pagina :S171

    C. Naoum, G. Falk, A. Ng, J. Yiannikas

    
• • ·Computational Fluid Analysis of the Left Main Coronary Artery: The Effects of Angulation and Stenosis Severity on Wall Shear Stress

    Pagina :S172

    M. Chang, A. Yong, A. Hamzah, L. Ridley, G. Lau, S. Freedman, M. Behnia, L. Kritharides

    
• • ·Contrast Echo Greatly Improves Assessment of Left Ventricular Wall Motion and Ejection Fraction in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients

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    A. Penhall, R. Perry, M. Altman, J. Selvanayagam, M. Joseph

    
• • ·Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging: The Imaging Modality of Choice in Acute Pericarditis

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    D. Roper, N. Brett, C. Maskiell, W. Strugnell, R. Slaughter, D. Walters, C. Raffel

    
• • ·Contrast Transesophogeal Echocardiography Remains Superior to Contrast-Enhanced Cardiac MRI for the Assessment of Patent Foramen Ovale

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    C. Hamilton-Craig, A. Sestito, L. Natale, A. Meduri, P. Santangeli, F. Pilato, F. Crea, G. Lanza

    
• • ·Defining Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in an Interventional Study for Prevention of Congestive Heart Failure (NILCHF Study)

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    M. Asrar Ul Haq, C. Wong, M. Carrington, G. Jennings, B. de Courten, G. Lee, S. Stewart

    
• • ·Description of a Novel Ex-Vivo Imaging And Investigation Technique to Record, Analyze and Visualize Heart Valve Motions Under Physiological Conditions

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    M. Kondruweit, S. Friedl, T. Wittenberg, R. Tandler, M. Weyand

    
• • ·Diagnostic Accuracy of Adenosine Stress Cardiac MRI (SCMR) Following Acute ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction Post Primary Angioplasty

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    D. Wong, M. Leung, R. Das, K. Williams, G. Liew, K. Teo, B. Dundon, P. Molaee, I. Meredith, M. Worthley, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Dilatation of the Left Ventricular Outflow Tract in Patients with Congenital Bicuspid Aortic Valves

    Pagina :S175

    S. Lockwood, P. Mottram, S. Moir

    
• • ·Discharging Chest Pain Patients from ED after a Single Troponin and Normal 320-Slice CCTA Significantly Reduces Length of Stay

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    A. Nasis, I. Meredith, N. Nerlekar, J. Cameron, P. Antonis, P. Mottram, J. Troupis, T. Kambourakis, G. Braitberg, S. Seneviratne

    
• • ·Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography as a Gatekeeper for Angiography: Better at Closing the Gate Than Opening It

    Pagina :S176

    J. Fitzgerald, B. Haluska, R. Thwaites, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Does CT Coronary Angiography Lead to Unnecessary Percutaneous Intervention?

    Pagina :S176

    K. Milburn, S. Roy, M. Pitney

    
• • ·Does Time to Peak E Velocity Versus Time to Peak e′ Velocity Accurately Predict Left Ventricular End Diastolic Pressure?

    Pagina :S176

    K. Kadappu, R. Rajaratnam, S. Lo, J. French, D. Leung, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Does Using an ACIST CVi Contrast Management System Reduce the Contrast Volume Delivered During Diagnostic Coronary Angiography?

    Pagina :S177

    J. Crowhurst, M. Savage, S. Barbour, N. Faint, D. Walters

    
• • ·Echocardiographic Indices of Right Ventricular Systolic Function: A Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Comparative Study

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    D. Leong, S. Grover, P. Molaee, N. Shipp, A. Penhall, R. Perry, M. Shirazi, A. Chakrabarty, M. Joseph, J. Selvanayagam

    
• • ·Echocardiographic Parameters Pre and Post Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation with Edwards Sapien Prosthesis

    Pagina :S178

    M. Altman, A. Penhall, R. Perry, A. Sinhal, J. Bennetts, D. Chew, N. Joseph

    
• • ·Effective Radiation Dose in 320 Slice Multidetector–Row Computed Tomography Imaging in Congenital Heart Disease

    Pagina :S178

    S. Varma, M. Crossett, J. Cameron, M. Ditchfield, S. Hope

    
• • ·Effects of Dialysis on Left Ventricular Diastolic Function Reflected by Left Atrial Phasic Changes

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    T. Nguyen, S. Kapoor, A. Boyd, M. Whatmough, L. Hee, D. Leung, C. Middlemiss, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Effects of Weight Loss on Left Ventricle and Pericardial Fat Assessed with Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Morbid Obesity

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    S. Schneiter, R. Warrier, L. Lefkovits, C. Laurie, P. O’Brien, A. Taylor

    
• • ·Exercise-Induced Dilation of the Pulmonary Microvasculature, Demonstrated by Agitated Contrast Transit, Predicts Right Ventricular Afterload and Function

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    A. La Gerche, A. Burns, D. Mooney, W. Inder, H. Heidbüchel, A. MacIsaac, D. Prior

    
• • ·Extrinsic Compression of the Left Atrium, Pulmonary Veins and Coronary Sinus in Patients with Large Hiatus Hernia and Dyspnoea: A Prospective Evaluation Using Non-Coronary Cardiac Computed Tomography

    Pagina :S180

    C. Naoum, J. Chambers, G. Falk, L. Ridley, J. Yiannikas

    
• • ·Feasibility of Evaluating Pulmonary Valve Leaflet Morphology Using Three-dimensional Transthoracic Echocardiography

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    N. Kelly, D. Platts, G. Scalia, D. Burstow

     
• • ·For Better or Worse ? Application of the New American Society of Echocardiography Diastolic Function Assessment Guidelines into Routine Clinical Practice

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    A. Kwon, J. Humphries, G. Scalia

    
• • ·Geographic Variation in Left Ventricular Mass and Mass Indices: A Systematic Review

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    M. Edgerton Bachmann, K. Poppe, R. Doughty, G. Whalley

    
• • ·High Field (7 Tesla) Human Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Assess Cardiac Volumes and Mass Validated Against 1.5 T and 3 T

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    J. Suttie, L. DelaBarre, A. Pitcher, P. van de Moortele, S. Dass, C. Snyder, J. Francis, G. Metzger, P. Weale, K. Ugurbil, S. Neubauer, M. Robson, T. Vaughan

     
• • ·Impact of Echo-Contrast (Definity) in Treadmill Stress Echocardiography Workflow—Initial Experience with New Contrast Protocol

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    A. Forshaw, A. Call, G. King, J. Wright, R. Pascoe

    
• • ·Incremental Diagnostic Value of Live Three-dimensional Transoesophageal Echocardiography in the Assessment of Mitral Regurgitation and Correlation with Operative Findings

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    A. Ellims, S. Marasco, H. Thomson, C. Wong

    
• • ·Incremental Value of Cardiac MRI for Diagnosis and Clinical Decision Making in Patients Presenting with Ventricular Tachycardia or Fibrillation and Normal Echocardiography

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    T. Glenie, C. Edwards, J. Christiansen

    
• • ·Indexed Left Atrial Volume Improves Following Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement with the CoreValve Bioprosthesis

    Pagina :S183

    N. Kelly, D. Walters, G. Scalia, C. Aroney, D. Burstow

     
• • ·Infarct Reabsorbtion and Microvascular Dysfunction over Time as Assessed by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

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    C. Hamilton-Craig, I. Porto, L. Natale, L. Galiuto, L. Bonomo, F. Crea

    
• • ·Infarct Size, Microvascular Obstruction and Edema: A Comparison of Semi-quantitative and Volumetric Methods by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

    Pagina :S184

    C. Hamilton-Craig, I. Porto, L. Natale, L. Galiuto, F. Crea

    
• • ·Influence of Body Mass on Left Atrial Size and Reservoir Function in Healthy Children

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    R. Ganesalingam, C. Brown, K. Hayes, R. Telford, W. Abhayaratna

    
• • ·Influence of LA Volume on Echocardiographic Reporting of LA Size

    Pagina :S185

    D. Jackson, P. Calafiore

    
• • ·Initial Experience with Watchman^® Left Atrial Appendage Occluder Device Implantation—Lessons from Transoesophageal Echocardiographic Guidance

    Pagina :S186

    J. Humphries, K. Phillips

    
• • ·Instantaneous Decrease in Left Ventricular Afterload during Percutaneous Aortic Valve Implantation does not Result in Immediate Changes in Left Ventricular Strain

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    A. Penhall, R. Perry, M. Altman, A. Sinhal, J. Bennetts, D. Chew, M. Joseph

    
• • ·Interaction Between Duration of Ischaemia, Infarct Size and Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Patients with Acute ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction

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    S. Prasad, V. See, P. Brown, T. McKay, A. Narayan, P. Kovoor, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Interpretability of the Parasternal Long Axis Window Following Administration of Definity Echocardiography Contrast

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    A. Lamanna, E. Savill, A. Lo, J. Younger

    
• • ·Left Atrial Changes with Varying Grades of Valvular Mitral Regurgitation

    Pagina :S187

    E. Chia, J. Vidaic, A. Boyd, D. Leung, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Left Atrial Structural Remodeling as a Consequence of Myocardial Infarction: Relationship to Adverse Cardiovascular Outcome

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    M. Alasady, W. Abhayaratna, D. Leong, H. Lim, D. Barlow, K. Roberts-Thomson, D. Chew, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Long-term Effect of Enzyme Replacement Therapy (ERT) for Fabry Disease on Diastolic Function as Manifested by Left Atrial (LA) Volumes

    Pagina :S188

    A. Boyd, N. Sadick, D. Silence, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Mitral Annular Systolic Velocity: Clinical Determinants and Relationship to Diastolic Function in Population-based Subjects

    Pagina :S189

    B. Jacobson, L. Cartwright, K. Hayes, C. Brown, W. Abhayaratna

    
• • ·Mitral Stenosis Valve Area by Pressure Half Time Technique Works Even with Severe Aortic Regurgitation

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    M. Hudaverdi, M. Ischenko, G. Scalia, D. Burstow

     
• • ·MRI Accurately Depicts the Origin and Proximal Course of Normal and Anomalous Coronary Arteries

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    C. Maskiell, N. Brett, R. Slaughter, W. Strugnell, R. Riley

    
• • ·Negative Coronary CTA for Chest Pain Assessment Predicts Low Event Rate in Five Years

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    K. Soon, D. Chong, F. Brown, Y. Lim

    
• • ·New Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Measurement for Assessment of Aortic Stenosis: Inter- and Intra-observer Variability and Reproducibility

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    C. Chao, L. Watson, T. Hetherington, L. Marquart, K. Mallitt, W. Parsonage

    
• • ·Non-invasive Quantification of Myocardial Fibrosis in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: T1 Mapping or Integrated Backscatter?

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    C. Jellis, J. Wright, J. Sacre, D. Kennedy, B. Haluska, C. Jenkins, J. Martin, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Novel Contrast Enhanced Cardiac MRI Parameters Correlate with Surrogates of Ventricular Arrhythmia Post-PPCI

    Pagina :S191

    D. Wong, H. Tayeb, M. Leung, R. Das, T. Bailie, K. Teo, M. Worthley, P. Sanders, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Novel Gadolinium Dendrimer MRI Contrast Agents for Non-invasive Detection of Thrombosis and Vulnerable Plaques

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    C. Hagemeyer, C. von zur Muhlen, Z. Wu, D. von Elverfeldt, D. Owen, K. Peter

    
• • ·Obstruction of the St Jude Prosthetic Aortic Valve: Diagnostic Utility of Cineradiographic Screening Using an in Vitro Model

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    E. Tabet, D. Brieger, H. Lowe

    
• • ·Optimised Prospective Cardiac CT Gating Based on Lateral Wall Tissue-Doppler Velocities

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    J. Otton, M. Feneley, K. Sesel, N. Sammel, L. Bester, J. De Villiers, C. Wainwright, D. Boshell, J. McCrohon

     
• • ·Percutaneous Transluminal Septal Myocardial Ablation Improves Outflow Tract Obstruction and Symptoms Without Changing Long Axis Function in Patients with Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy

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    W. Thai, C. Mylrea, I. Meredith, R. Peverill

    
• • ·Performance of Rest Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Emergency Rooms in Developing Nations—Preliminary Results from the PREMIER Trial

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    N. Better, J. Vitola, A. Nguyen, B. Paritsky, A. Peix, A. Fatima, J. Soares, M. Novak, M. Vangu, G. Karthikeyan, G. Storto, J. Quintana, N. Soni, P. Son, M. Dondi

    
• • ·Prospective “Step and Shoot” Scanning Mode Markedly Reduced the Radiation Dose of Coronary CTA

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    K. Soon, O. Tumur, F. Brown, D. Chong, S. Barr, L. Bentley, Y. Lim

    
• • ·Reduced Pressure-Volume Response to Exercise: A Marker of Subclinical Myocardial Disease in Type 2 Diabetes

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    C. Jellis, C. Jenkins, R. Leano, J. Martin, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Resting Perfusion Defects On Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography Predict Improve after Reopening of Chronic Coronary Occlusion. The RECORD Trial

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    C. Hamilton-Craig, S. Barchetta, E. Fedele, L. Paraggio, A. De Caterina, A. Rebuzzi, F. Crea, L. Galiuto

    
• • ·Right and Left Ventricular Structure and Function in Systemic Amyloidosis

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    E. Chia, Q. Lo, M. Lin, J. Taper, D. Gottlieb, R. Phoon, G. Stewart, D. Richards, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Right Ventricular Free Wall Apical Longitudinal Strain Correlates with Right Ventricular Pressure in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    Pagina :S195

    W. Zhao, T. Chung, B. Costa, L. Kritharides

    
• • ·Right Ventricular Free Wall Apical Longitudinal Strain Responds Sensitively to the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    Pagina :S195

    W. Zhao, T. Chung, B. Costa, L. Kritharides

    
• • ·Subclinical Myocardial Disease in Type 2 Diabetes: Mechanistic Insights from Resting and Exercise Haemodynamics

    Pagina :S196

    C. Jellis, T. Stanton, R. Leano, J. Martin, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Substantial Weight Reduction by Laparoscopic Gastric Banding Consistently Improved Myocardial Function

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    M. Asrar Ul Haq, M. Butler, A. Ellims, A. Taylor, P. O’Brien, C. Wong

    
• • ·The Clinical Utility of Cardiac MRI in a Quaternary Referral Centre

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    R. Puranik, H. Lackey, J. Stewart, J. Archer, K. Mann, D. Celermajer, G. Parker

    
• • ·The Differing Ventricular Response to Increasing Regurgitant Volumes in Patients with Mitral and Aortic Regurgitation: Insights from Cardiac MRI

    Pagina :S197

    J. Christiansen, S. Myerson

     
• • ·The Potential Role of Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography (CTCA) for the Detection of Significant Coronary Artery Disease in Patients Undergoing Valvular Surgery

    Pagina :S198

    J. Huang, J. Yeoh, R. Gabriel, T. Sutton, N. Van Pelt

    
• • ·The Role of Cardiac MRI in the Selection of Patients for Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Replacement

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    R. Puranik, P. Roberts, D. Celermajer

    
• • ·The Sphincter Action of the Mitral Valve with Exercise!

    Pagina :S198

    B. Fitzgerald, R. Lindsay, G. Scalia

     
• • ·The Use of Multi-Slice Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography (CTCA) as a Gatekeeper to Invasive Coronary Angiography

    Pagina :S199

    M. Liang, M. Liang, D. Blair, G. Davis, M. Menon

    
• • ·The Utility of Three-dimensional Transoesophageal Echocardiography in the Assessment of Prosthetic Para-valvular Regurgitation

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    J. Sedgwick, D. Sathianathan, D. Burstow, D. Platts, D. Walters, J. Chan

    
• • ·The Utility of Left Ventricular Opacification with Definity Echocardiography Contrast for Calculation of Ejection Fraction in Obese and Non-Obese Patients

    Pagina :S200

    A. Lamanna, E. Savill, A. Lo, J. Younger

    
• • ·Three-dimensional Echocardiography: A New Measure for Early Diastole

    Pagina :S200

    C. Jenkins, T. Marwick

     
• • ·Tracking Cardiac Myofibrils by Magnetic Resonance Diffusion Tensor Imaging at High Field

    Pagina :S201

    S. Grieve, P. Kuchel, B. Chapman, G. Figtree

     
• • ·Tube Voltage Impacts on Radiation in Prospective Scanning of Coronaries Using 128-Detector Computed Tomography

    Pagina :S201

    G. Liew, D. Wong, B. Lorraine, S. McKeen, G. Kourlis, D. Leech, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Use of CT Coronary Angiography for Intermediate Risk Chest Pain and Correlation with Catheter Angiography

    Pagina :S202

    S. Taj, K. Toh, N. Stoyanov, M. Kumar, J. Rankin

    
• • ·Use of Echo Assessment of Raised Pulmonary Vascular Resistance in Follow-up

    Pagina :S202

    A. Dahiya, S. Butterly, H. Gibbs, S. Wahi, T. Marwick

     
• • ·Utility of Cardiac MRI Indices for LV Diastolic Function

    Pagina :S203

    S. Offen, D. Celermajer, R. Puranik

    
• • ·Utility of Multislice Computed Tomography in Predicting the Correct Angiographic Angle for Deployment of Transcatheter Aortic Valves

    Pagina :S203

    R. Gurvitch, D. Wood, J. Leipsic, E. Tay, F. Nietlispach, N. Wijesinghe, A. Cheung, S. Lichtenstein, B. Munt, J. Webb

    
• • ·Utility of Real Time Three-dimensional Transoesophageal Echocardiography Prior to Atrial Septal Defect Closure

    Pagina :S204

    G. Aggarwal, A. Sepahpour, D. Schlosshan, G. Mathur, R. Allan, G. Cranney

    
• • ·Utility of Resting Perfusion Scans in Assessing Low Risk Chest Pain

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    K. Stanton, N. Stoyanov, K. Anvardeen, W. McDonald, J. Rankin

    
• • ·Validation of a Comprehensive Model of Atherosclerosis for Risk Stratification with Non-Invasive Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography

    Pagina :S204

    J. van Werkhoven, J. Schuijf, C. Veltman, A. Pazhenkottil, W. Jukema, B. Herzog, M. Leung, E. van der Wall, D. Leung, P. Kaufmann, J. Bax

    
• • ·What is the Best Predictor of Outcome: Ejection Fraction or Global Strain?

    Pagina :S205

    C. Jenkins, T. Stanton, T. Marwick

    
• • ·What is the Clinical Relevance of Pericardial Effusion Reported on Chest Computed Tomography Performed for General Indications in a Tertiary Hospital? A Comparison With Transthoracic Echocardiography

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    A. Wald, W. Thai, P. Mottram

    
• • ·Age and Gender-Specific Trends for ICD Implantations in Australia: 2000–2008

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    C. Wong, M. Sun, A. Brooks, D. Lau, D. Leong, N. Shipp, M. Alasady, H. Lim, H. Abed, J. Dang, K. Roberts-Thomson, P. Sanders

     
• • ·Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Home Monitoring at Waikato Hospital: An Initial Experience

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    C. Hor, M. Liang, S. Heald, M. Stiles

    
• • ·Echocardiographic Assessment of Aortic Regurgitation Post CoreValve^® Implantation

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    M. Butler, A. Walton, R. Johnstone, S. Duffy, C. Wong

    
• • ·How Long Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators Last to Minimise the Number of Replacements

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    J. Betts, R. England, J. Wright, D. Wright, J. Lindemann, C. Taylor, M. Santos, R. Denman

    
• • ·Is a 24 h Holter Enough for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Detection?

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    N. Shipp, A. Brooks, A. Paukner, L. Wilson, K. Drury, M. Middeldorp, P. Kuklik, M. Baumert, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) Case Study – Australian First Comparison

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    M. Savage, J. Crowhurst, C. Raffel, D. Walters

    
• • ·23 Months Experience of an Australian Multidisciplinary Obstetric Cardiology Clinic

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    A. Lamanna, N. Fagermo, K. Lust, R. Kimble, W. Parsonage

    
• • ·A Novel Method of Atrial Temporary Pacing as an Acute Treatment for Brady- and Tachy-arrhythmias in the Intensive Care Setting with Preservation of Atrio-ventricular Synchrony

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    B. Pang, A. McGavigan

    
• • ·A Retrospective Audit of Cardiac Workup and Outcomes in Patients Considered for Listing for Renal Transplant Through Auckland City Hospital

    Pagina :S209

    E. Curry, M. Webster, H. Pilmore

    
• • ·Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Treated with Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Have Poor Cholesterol Control and Significant Adverse Events at Review 3 Years Later

    Pagina :S209

    A. Lin, C. Lin, K. Chow, J. Looi, K. Looi, M. Lee, H. White, C. Ellis

     
• • ·An Unmet Need for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators in New Zealand

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    S. Burgess, S. Harding, I. Melton, N. Lever, A. Swain, P. Larsen

    
• • ·Angioedema and ACE Inhibitors or Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers, Revisited

    Pagina :S209

    R. Jones, G. Gabb

    
• • ·Bleeding and Ischaemic Events Associated with Perioperative Use of Potent Antiplatelet Therapy

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    J. Lau, D. Brieger

    
• • ·Bridging Anticoagulation Strategy is Associated with a High Incidence of Peri-operative Haematoma in Patients Undergoing Pacemaker Insertion

    Pagina :S211

    V. Chow, I. Ranasinghe, J. Lau, H. Stowe, N. Hendel, P. Bannon, L. Kritharides

    
• • ·Can TAVI Improve Quality of Life in Elderly Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis? A Single Centre Experience

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    S. Lockwood, I. Meredith, P. Antonis, J. Harley, P. Mottram, S. Moir

    
• • ·Cardiac Clinical Network, Reducing Total Length of Stay for AMI Patients

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    P. Tideman, R. Tirimacco, P. Simpson

    
• • ·Cardiovascular Clinical Outcome and Quality Registries—An Australian Perspective

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    A. Brennan, D. Dinh, C. Costolloe, N. Johnston, J. McNeil, S. Duffy, A. Ajani, G. Shardey, H. Mond, D. Chew, A. Black, A. Newcomb, A. MacIsaac, H. Krum, C. Reid

    
• • ·Diagnoses and Diagnostic Processes in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome, Raised Cardiac Enzymes in the Absence of Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease Angiographically

    Pagina :S213

    S. Butterly, W. Wang

    
• • ·Dynamic Left Atrial Compression During Exercise in Patients with Large Hiatus Hernia

    Pagina :S213

    C. Naoum, G. Falk, A. Ing, J. Yiannikas

     
• • ·Early Discharge After Trans-radial Day Case Coronary Angiography is Safe and Feasible

    Pagina :S214

    S. Gamble, A. Hutchison, B. Dundon, M. Lawrence, J. Potvin, W. Ahmar, M. Baldi, I. Meredith, Y. Malaiapan

    
• • ·Early Exclusion of Myocardial Infarction Using a Multiple Biomarker Protocol Influences the Casemix on the Cardiac Ward

    Pagina :S214

    A. Kent, S. Bloomer, E. Yamen

     
• • ·ECG Characteristics in Apical Ballooning Syndrome Patients with Anterior ST Elevation (ASTE-ABS) Compared to Sex-matched Patients with Anterior ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (A-STEMI)

    Pagina :S214

    C. Wong, J. Looi, A. Khan, A. Kerr

    
• • ·Efficacy and Safety of a Novel CCTA-Guided Algorithm for ED Assessment of Patients Presenting with Ischaemic-Type Chest Pain

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    A. Nasis, S. Seneviratne, J. Cameron, I. Meredith

    
• • ·Elective Non-cardiac Surgery and the Peri-operative Management of Anti-platelet Therapy

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    R. Alcock, B. Aliprandi-Costa, F. Davidson, D. Brieger

    
• • ·Elevated Cardiac Troponin T (cTnT) in the Extreme Elderly Group of Patients: The Short and Long Term Prognostic Implications

    Pagina :S216

    T. Nguyen, J. Gohil, D. Leung, G. Le, J. French, C. Juergens

    
• • ·Elevated Plasma Active Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 Level is Associated with Increased Degree of Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

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    J. Chu, G. Jones, G. Tarr, L. Philips, G. Wilkins, A. van Rij, M. Williams

    
• • ·Elevated Troponin T Predicts Both Short and Long-term Mortality after Pulmonary Embolism

    Pagina :S216

    A. Ng, V. Chow, A. Yong, T. Chung, L. Kritharides

    
• • ·Generation of Aortic Flow Velocity from Derived Aortic Pressure Waveforms

    Pagina :S217

    A. Adji, M. Namasivayam, M. O’Rourke, A. Avolio, T. Weber

    
• • ·Health Service Variability as Determinants of Achievement of Performance Indicators and Outcome

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    C. Astley, C. MacDougall, D. Chew

    
• • ·High Mortality and Morbidity in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients who Received Medical (Non-revascularisation) Management

    Pagina :S218

    J. Looi, K. Looi, K. Chow, S. Haliday, M. Lee, G. Gamble, H. White, C. Ellis

    
• • ·High Risk ACS Transfer Trial

    Pagina :S218

    A. Tiberio, A. Lee

     
• • ·High Sensitivity Troponin T May Rise After Endurance Cycling: A Study of Participants in the Great Ride for Heart 2010

    Pagina :S219

    S. Mann, M. Crooke, R. Cooke, D. Bell, N. Sharpe

    
• • ·Infective Endocarditis and the Modified Dukes Criteria: Do We Need It?

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    A. Zakariyya, D. Haikerwal

    
• • ·Is ECG Helpful in Risk Stratifying Patients with High Risk Pulmonary Embolus

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    S. Gomes, M. Yang, B. Chan, S. Roy

    
• • ·Is P Wave Duration on 12-leads ECG Useful to Select Ischemic Stroke Patients for 24 h Ambulatory Holter Monitoring?

    Pagina :S220

    K. Chee, D. Coles, D. McGill

    
• • ·Is Patent Foramen Ovale a Cause of Cryptogenic Acute Coronary Syndrome?

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    A. Al-Fiadh, K. Profitis, O. Farouque, E. Jones

    
• • ·Knowledge & Skill Retention After the Advanced Cardiac Life Support Workshop – A Study in Nursing Practitioners at the Udonthani Hospital, Thailand

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    W. Wichitkosoom, B. Prasanatikom

    
• • ·Long Term Results of Palliative Atrial Switch Surgery for Transposition of the Great Arteries with Ventricular Septal Defect and Pulmonary Hypertension

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    D. Radford, F. Kermeen, P. Pohlner

    
• • ·Long-term Outcomes of Patients Presenting with Syncope to a Major Victorian Emergency Department

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    H. Han, M. Santos

    
• • ·Outcome from Calcium Channel Blocker Poisonings: Evaluation of Risk Factors and Treatment of Presentations to an Inpatient Toxicology Centre

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    T. Mallard, N. Collins, I. Whyte, G. Carter

    
• • ·Outpatient Anticoagulation Monitoring of Patients with Mechanical Prosthetic Valves in South Auckland

    Pagina :S222

    P. Ding, T. Sutton, A. McLachlan, I. Zeng, A. Kerr

    
• • ·Predictors of Mortality in Infective Endocarditis in Contemporary Australian Practice Over 13 Years

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    K. Lu, R. Reddy, K. Profitis, L. Kearney, B. Wai, M. Ord, P. Srivastava

    
• • ·Predictors of Rehospitalisation after Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS): Insights from the Australia-New Zealand (ANZ) Population of the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE)

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    P. Sangu, I. Ranasinghe, B. Alprandi-Costa, G. Devlin, J. Elliott, J. Lefkovitz, D. Brieger

    
• • ·Prognostic Validation of Treadmill Stress Echocardiography in an Unselected Australian Population

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    J. Coller, P. Srivastava, A. Adel, R. Delahunty, J. Chew, L. Roberts, G. New, J. Cooke

    
• • ·Prolonged Pain to Door Time is Associated with Longer Door to Balloon Times in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction

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    A. Willson, C. Blanton

    
• • ·Reactive Hypoglycemia in Hypotensive Syncope

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    A. Hamer, E. McGregor, A. Snell, J. Beale, L. Roberts

     
• • ·Real World Experience of Efficacy of Adding Ezetimibe to Statin Therapy (on Maximal Tolerated Doses)

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    D. Colquhoun, K. Lah

    
• • ·Relationship Between Precipitant Stressor and Timing of Clinical Diagnosis in Tako-Tsubo Cardiomyopathy

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    C. Neil, A. Kucia, H. Nguyen, A. Sverdlov, A. Chan, R. Dautov, I. Mohasseb, J. Selvanayagam, M. Arstall, C. Zeitz, J. Beltrame, J. Horowitz

    
• • ·Retinal Microvascular Endothelial Function is Attenuated in Patients with Chronic and Acute Cardiovascular Disease

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    A. Al-Fiadh, S. Ristevski, J. Xie, M. Freeman, S. Patel, F. Islam, T. Nguyen, A. Wilson, D. Clark, L. Burrell, T. Wong, H. Farouque

    
• • ·Safety of Right Heart Catheterisation in a Non-fasting, Anticoagulated Population

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    J. Harris, A. Keogh, C. Hayward, R. Prichard, J. Phan

    
• • ·The Fiscal Burden of Blackouts: The Cost of Investigating Syncope

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    H. Han, M. Santos

    
• • ·The Management of Anti-coagulation Therapy in Patients Undergoing Elective Non-cardiac Surgery

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    R. Alcock, C. Naoum, B. Aliprandi-Costa, F. Davidson, S. Chandar, D. Brieger

    
• • ·The Progression of ECG Changes in Apical Ballooning Syndrome Compared with Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (NSTEMI)

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    C. Wong, J. Looi, A. Khan, A. Kerr

    
• • ·The Spectrum of Cardiac Masses and their Clinical Characteristics—A Single Centre Experience

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    A. Sharma, H. Samardhi, M. Hudaverdi, N. Brett, C. Maskiell, R. Slaughter, W. Strugnell, D. Burstow, D. Walters, O. Raffel

    
• • ·“Thunderbolt and Lightning, Very Very Frightening”? Temporal and Meteorological Variation in Tako-Tsubo Cardiomyopathy

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    S. Buchholz, M. Ward, G. Figtree

    
• • ·Unusual Left Atrial Thrombus Site Undetected by Trans-Oesophageal Echocardiography

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    H. Lim, L. Wilson, D. Lau, N. Kyriacou, M. Alasady, D. Leong, H. Abed, H. Dimitri, J. Laborderie, N. Shipp, P. Kuklik, S. Willoughby, P. Sanders

     
• • ·A Novel Non-truncating Mutation in APOB, V925l, Causes Familial Hypobetalipoproteinaemia

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    A. Hooper, G. Mantiri, A. Marais, D. Tanyanyiwa, C. McKnight, J. Burnett

    
• • ·Association of Genetic Variation in the Natriuretic Peptide System with Cardiovascular Outcomes

    Pagina :S230

    K. Ellis, C. Newton-Cheh, T. Wang, C. Frampton, R. Doughty, G. Whalley, C. Ellis, N. Davis, L. Skelton, T. Yandle, R. Troughton, M. Richards, V. Cameron

    
• • ·Genetic Studies in Left Ventricular Noncompaction

    Pagina :S230

    N. Wong, R. Bagnall, L. Yeates, C. Chiu, R. Weintraub, C. Semsarian

    
• • ·Lower than Expected Desmosomal Gene Mutation Prevalence in Endurance Athletes with Complex Ventricular Arrhythmias of Right Ventricular Origin

    Pagina :S231

    A. La Gerche, C. Robberecht, C. Kuiperi, D. Nuyens, R. Willems, T. de Ravel, G. Matthijs, H. Heidbüchel

    
• • ·Post-mortem Review and Genetic Analysis of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) Cases

    Pagina :S231

    E. Tu, R. Bagnall, J. Duflou, C. Semsarian

    
• • ·The National Genetic Heart Disease Registry: An Update

    Pagina :S232

    J. Ingles, L. Yeates, L. Hunt, V. Connell, T. Thompson, J. McGaughran, A. Davis, R. Weintraub, J. Vohra, I. Winship, D. McTaggart, J. Atherton, C. Semsarian

    
• • ·Y Chromosome Haplogroup as a Predictor of Coronary Artery Disease in Men

    Pagina :S232

    F. Charchar, T. Barnes, C. Nelson, Y. Wang, A. Bani-Mustafa, A. Dominiczak, A. Hall, I. Ford, M. Tomaszewski, N. Samani

    
• • ·A Novel Technique of Continuous Parasternal Ropivacaine Infusion after Cardiac Surgery: Background Study to the PAINLESS Trial

    Pagina :S233

    A. Kiat, R. Dignan, V. Gebski, A. Keech

    
• • ·Association Between Body Mass Index and Outcomes Following Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

    Pagina :S233

    R. Harvey, B. Haluska, J. Mundy, P. Peters, A. Wood, R. Griffin, T. Marwick, P. Shah

    
• • ·Beyond Serum Creatinine: Creatinine Clearance is a Better Predictor of Postoperative Renal Dysfunction, and Outcomes Following Cardiopulmonary Bypass

    Pagina :S233

    S. Galvin, A. El-Gamel

    
• • ·Bleeding Risk for Coronary Surgery as Assessed by VerifyNow

    Pagina :S234

    Q. Luu, R. Dignan, D. Rosenfeld, J. French

    
• • ·Chest Tube Bleeding and Mortality Following Cardiac Surgery

    Pagina :S234

    B. Dixon, J. Santamaria, D. Campbell, M. Yii, A. Newcomb, A. Rosalion, D. Reid, M. Collins

    
• • ·Combined Off Pump Left Ventricular Aneurysm Plication and Multivessel Coronary Revascularization in Patients with Ischaemic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S235

    S. Galvin, A. El-Gamel

    
• • ·Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting with and Without Manipulation of the Aorta—A Meta-analysis

    Pagina :S235

    J. Edelman, T. Yan, R. Padang, P. Bannon, M. Vallely

    
• • ·Deficiencies in Long Term Management after Heart Valve Surgery in South Auckland Patients

    Pagina :S235

    P. Ding, T. Sutton, A. McLachlan, L. Boenders, M. Morgan, I. Zeng, A. Kerr

    
• • ·Drug-eluting Stents versus Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease—A Meta-analysis of Randomized and Non-randomized Studies

    Pagina :S236

    R. Padang, T. Yan, C. Pooh, D. Black, M. Wilson, P. Bannon, M. Vallely

    
• • ·Early and Mid-term Outcomes Following Surgical Management of Infective Endocarditis with Associated Cerebral Complications: A Single Centre Experience

    Pagina :S236

    A. Yeates, J. Mundy, R. Griffith, L. Marshall, A. Wood, P. Peters, P. Shah

    
• • ·Lipid Management after Coronary Surgery: How Effective are we at Secondary Prevention?

    Pagina :S237

    Y. Zhu, P. Hayward, D. Hare, B. Buxton

    
• • ·Long-term Follow-up after Aortic Valve Replacement: The Impact of Pre-operative Valve Lesion on LV Size

    Pagina :S237

    W. Wilson, L. Grigg, P. Skillington

    
• • ·Long-term Outcomes of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) Compared with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) in Patients with Multi-vessel Coronary Disease (MVD)

    Pagina :S237

    M. Freeman, H. Farouque, J. Smith, D. Dinh, A. Brennan, N. Andrianopoulos, C. Reid, A. Ajani, S. Duffy, F. Rosenfeldt, B. Buxton, D. Clark

    
• • ·Off Pump Coronary Surgery is Comparatively Kind to Kidneys: Evidence from a Novel Biomarker of Acute Kidney Injury

    Pagina :S238

    P. Hayward, M. Haase, L. Peck, G. Eastwood, R. Bellomo

    
• • ·Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery versus Percutaneous Coronary Intervention—A Meta-analysis of Randomized and Non-randomized Studies

    Pagina :S238

    J. Edelman, T. Yan, R. Padang, P. Bannon, M. Vallely

    
• • ·Pulmonary Vein Isolation for Atrial Fibrillation using the Argon-based Cryoablation Probe: A Report of Early Experience from an Australian Centre

    Pagina :S239

    W. Shi, G. Matalanis

    
• • ·Should Moderate > 2 Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation (TR) be Treated at the Time of Mitral Valve (MV) Surgery? Impact on Clinical and Echocardiographic Parameters at Mid-term Follow-up

    Pagina :S239

    P. Shah, J. Mundy, A. Wood, R. Griffin, P. Peters, A. Yeates, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Success Rates of Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in a Single Centre

    Pagina :S239

    D. Wong, B. Chan, G. Youssef, M. Horton

    
• • ·Synthetic Recombinant Human Elastin-based Vascular Grafts with Biological and Mechanical Properties Matching the Human Vasculature

    Pagina :S240

    S. Wise, M. Byrom, A. Waterhouse, P. Bannon, A. Weiss, M. Ng

    
• • ·Trends in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery and Combined Aortic Valve Surgery at Auckland City Hospital

    Pagina :S240

    R. Garg, S. McGuinness

     
• • ·Detection and Management of Depression in Patients with Chronic Heart Disease: The Take Heart in Primary Care Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial

    Pagina :S240

    K. Eckert, G. Schrader, D. Wilkinson, D. Askew, M. Dick, T. Wade, T. Marwick, P. Scuffham, C. Jackson, P. Schluter, S. Stewart

    
• • ·Early Effectiveness and Safety Results from the CoreValve Transcatheter Aortic Valve Australia–New Zealand Study

    Pagina :S241

    J. Ormiston, I. Meredith, D. Walters, T. Walton, S. Pasupati, D. Muller, S. Worthley, G. Yong, R. Whitbourn

    
• • ·Flow Mediated Dilatation in People with Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

    Pagina :S241

    M. Mohamed, I. Levinger, D. Toia, D.L. Hare, G. Jerums, S. Selig

    
• • ·Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Cardiac Patients: Results of a Randomised Controlled Trial

    Pagina :S242

    B. Murphy, R. Higgins, M. Worcester, P. Elliott, H. Navaratnam, F. Mitchell, M. Le Grande, A. Goble

    
• • ·Is Home Warfarin Self-Management Effective? Results of the Warfarin S.M.A.R.T. Study and Uptake of Self-Management

    Pagina :S242

    R. Dignan, A. Keech, C. Powell, L. Turner, K. Mann, C. Hughes, V. Gebski

    
• • ·Optimising Individualised Blood Pressure Targets in Primary Care: The Valsartan Intensified Primary Care Reduction of Blood Pressure (VIPER-BP) Study

    Pagina :S242

    S. Stewart, M. Carrington, G. Jennings

    
• • ·The Sleep Apnea cardioVascular Endpoints (SAVE) Trial

    Pagina :S243

    D. McEvoy, N. Antic, E. Heeley, Y. Huang, S. Huang, J. Wang, B. Chen, Q. He, N. Zhong, C. Anderson

    
• • ·A Randomised Controlled Study of a Multidisciplinary, Home-based Health Care Program for Privately Insured Cardiac Patients: The Young @ Heart Study

    Pagina :S243

    Y. Chan, M. Carrington, A. Calderone, S. Stewart

    
• • ·Chylothorax—A Rare Cardiothoracic Post-operative Complication

    Pagina :S244

    J. McAllister, C. Wong, S. Skalkos, G. Matalanis

    
• • ·ECG Characteristics in Heart Disease-free Urban Black Africans

    Pagina :S244

    G. Lee, M. Carrington, S. Stewart, K. Sliwa

    
• • ·Effective Strategies for Reducing in Door to Balloon (DTB) Times for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) in STEMI—Prince Charles Hospital Experience

    Pagina :S244

    M. Savage, C. Gough, C. Raffel, D. Walters

    
• • ·Electrocardiographic Abnormalities in Community Screening in Regional Victoria: Results from the Healthy Hearts—Beyond City Limits Program

    Pagina :S245

    G. Lee, M. Carrington, S. Stewart

    
• • ·Gender Variances in Chest Pain Presentation: An Audit of 15805 Patients

    Pagina :S245

    L. Savage, T. Williams, S. Hiles, V. Clark

    
• • ·Nurse Led Quality Improvement Initiatives Improving Uptake of Cardiac Rehabilitation

    Pagina :S245

    A. McLachlan, A. Kerr, C. Grey, K. McLean

    
• • ·Preferences for Chronic Heart Failure Management Programs: Interviews with Patients and Development of a Discrete Choice Experiment

    Pagina :S246

    J. Whitty, P. Scuffham, T. Marwick, M. Carrington, S. Stewart

    
• • ·Short-term Medication Adherence in Patients Following Acute Coronary Syndrome

    Pagina :S246

    C. Montafia, R. Fernandez, R. Rajaratnam, K. Warren

    
• • ·A Clinical Staging System Does Not Predict the Presence of a Haemodynamically Significant Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Preterm Infants

    Pagina :S247

    P. Ramachandran, S. Hope

    
• • ·Adverse Remodelling after the Norwood Procedure Results in Progressive Ventricular Dysfunction

    Pagina :S247

    T. Gentles, B. Cowan, C. Occleshaw, J. Beca, A. Young

    
• • ·Closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus with Amplatzer Duct Occluder I

    Pagina :S248

    B. Sheridan, B. Reeves, T. Colen, C. Ward, R. Justo

    
• • ·Congenital Complete Heart Block: Experience at a Tertiary Centre

    Pagina :S248

    S. Varma, A. Malhotra, S. Menahem

    
• • ·Coronary Artery Dilatation in Toxic Shock-Like Syndrome: The Kawasaki Disease Shock Syndrome

    Pagina :S248

    D. Yim, J. Ramsay, D. Kothari, D. Burgner

    
• • ·Echocardiographic Predictors of Survival to Bidirectional Cavopulmonary Shunt After Norwood Procedure for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

    Pagina :S249

    R. Kowalski, C. Brizard, M. Cheung, Y. D’Udekem, I. Konstantinov

    
• • ·Fetal Diagnosis in a Cohort of Infants Undergoing Surgery or Catheter Intervention in the First Year of Life—Diagnostic and Management Considerations

    Pagina :S249

    G. Sholler, N. Kasparian, V. Pye, A. Cole, D. Winlaw

    
• • ·Functional Single Ventricle (FSV): Outcomes After Birth for a 4-Year Cohort

    Pagina :S249

    G. Sholler, N. Kasparian, V. Pye, A. Cole, D. Winlaw

    
• • ·Impact and Benefits of a Dedicated Paediatric Cardiology Murmur Clinic

    Pagina :S250

    J. Saundankar, J. Cross, J. Ramsay, B. Andrew, D. Kothari

    
• • ·Late Outcomes of Cardiac Surgery for Rheumatic Heart Disease in the Young: The New Zealand Experience 1990–2006

    Pagina :S250

    B. Remenyi, R. Web, P. Russell, M. Lee, T. Gentles, K. Finucane, N. Wilson

    
• • ·Long Term Outcomes of Isolated Mitral Valve Surgery for Rheumatic Heart Disease in the Young: New Zealand 1990–2006

    Pagina :S251

    B. Remenyi, R. Webb, P. Russell, M. Lee, T. Gentles, K. Finucane, N. Wilson

    
• • ·Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Infants Undergoing Early Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease

    Pagina :S251

    J. Gunn, R. Hunt, M. Goldsworthy, J. Beca, L. Shekerdemian

    
• • ·Paediatric Heart Transplantation in Australia Comes of Age—A 21-Year Experience

    Pagina :S251

    A. Swager, P. Alexander, K. Lee, A. Shipp, J. Wilkinson, R. Weintraub

    
• • ·Primary Hypoplasia of the Aortic Arch—An Unrecognized Cause of Hypertension in the Young Adult

    Pagina :S252

    T. Goh

    
• • ·Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunoprophylaxis in a Paediatric Cardiac Tertiary Referral Centre

    Pagina :S252

    P. Alexander, L. Eastaugh, J. Royle, A. Daley, L. Shekerdemian, D. Penny

    
• • ·Silent VSD—An Update

    Pagina :S253

    T. Goh

    
• • ·Structure–Function Correlates in Adults with Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot—A Cardiac MRI Study

    Pagina :S253

    S. O’Meagher, P. Munoz, J. Alison, I. Young, D. Tanous, D. Celermajer, R. Puranik

    
• • ·Three-Dimensional Quantitative Analysis of Rheumatic Mitral Valve in Childhood: Inter-Observer Variation

    Pagina :S253

    J. Mervis, M. Burrows, T. Gentles

    
• • ·Twenty-Three Year Experience of Acute Rheumatic Fever in a Tertiary Hospital in Australia

    Pagina :S254

    D. Yim, B. Chidlow, M. Tallon, S. Woods, J. Ramsay

    
• • ·A Comparison of Metabolic Risk Profiles Among Rural and Urban Māori in New Zealand

    Pagina :S254

    A. Faatoese, S. Pitama, M. Gillies, P. Robertson, T. Huria, R. Doughty, G. Whalley, M. Richards, R. Troughton, E. Wells, I. Sheerin, V. Cameron

    
• • ·A Successful Urban Indigenous Heart Health Screening Clinic

    Pagina :S255

    D. Murdoch, R. Jayasinghe, C. Buchanan

    
• • ·Atrial Fibrillation in Indigenous Aboriginal Australians

    Pagina :S255

    C. Wong, Y. Cheng, D. Lau, D. Leong, A. Brooks, N. Shipp, M. Alasady, H. Lim, H. Abed, K. Roberts-Thomson, P. Sanders

     
• • ·ECG Abnormalities in a Community Cohort of Indigenous Adults in Central Australia: The Heart of the Heart Cohort Study

    Pagina :S256

    G. Lee, A. Brown, M. Carrington, M. McGrady, C. Zeitz, H. Krum, S. Stewart

    
• • ·Impact of Rheumatic Heart Disease on Maternal and Foetal Outcomes

    Pagina :S256

    L. Eng, A. Sharma, R. Yadav, N. Nundlall, D. Watson

    
• • ·Incidence and Case Fatality of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Western Australians 2000–2004: A Study using the WA Data Linkage System

    Pagina :S256

    J. Katzenellenbogen, F. Sanfilippo, M. Hobbs, T. Briffa, S. Ridout, M. Knuiman, L. Dimer, K. Taylor, P. Thompson, S. Thompson

    
• • ·Atrial Fibrillation Comorbidities and Hospital Activity: Single Centre Experience from 2000 to 2009

    Pagina :S257

    C. Wong, Y. Cheng, D. Leong, D. Lau, A. Brooks, H. Abed, H. Lim, M. Alasady, N. Shipp, K. Roberts-Thomson, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Cardiac Depression Collaborative Australia: A Strategy to Improve Screening and Management of Depression

    Pagina :S257

    K. Goldston, C. Ferry, P. Davidson, L. Keogh, P. Newton, M. DiGiacomo, J. Rolley, I. Hickie

    
• • ·Depression, Heart Failure and the Role of Heart Rate Variability

    Pagina :S258

    S. Lonie, A. Stewart, D. Toia, D. Hare

    
• • ·Impact of HIV/AIDS on the Manifestation of Newly Diagnosed Heart Disease in an Urban African Community: Insights from the Heart of Soweto Study

    Pagina :S258

    S. Stewart, M. Carrington, K. Sliwa

    
• • ·Incidence and Characteristics of Newly Diagnosed Atrial Fibrillation in an Urban African Community: Insights from the Heart of Soweto Study

    Pagina :S258

    S. Stewart, M. Carrington, K. Sliwa

    
• • ·Outcome of Cardiac Electrophysiology Research Presentations: 15-Year Trends

    Pagina :S259

    C. Wong, Y. Cheng, M. Sun, J. Dang, D. Barlow, N. Chia, N. Wong, A. Brooks, D. Lau, H. Abed, K. Roberts-Thomson, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Standing at the Crossroad Between Old and New Forms of Heart Disease in a Black Urban Population in South Africa: The Heart of Soweto Cohort Study

    Pagina :S259

    S. Stewart, M. Carrington, K. Sliwa

    
• • ·Trends Comparing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Australia: 2000–2008

    Pagina :S260

    Y. Cheng, C. Wong, A. Brooks, D. Lau, D. Leong, N. Shipp, M. Alasady, H. Lim, H. Abed, M. Worthley, S. Worthley, P. Sanders

     
• • ·Why were a Majority of Subjects with a Family History of Premature Cardiovascular Disease Scored as a Low Five Year Risk of Developing Cardiovascular Disease Themselves?

    Pagina :S260

    J. Holliday, L. Rigby, K. Kostner, S. Stewart, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Complementary Medicines in Cardiovascular Disease—Review of the Evidence by the National Institute of Complementary Medicine

    Pagina :S261

    D. Colquhoun, A. Ferreira-Jardim

    
• • ·Discharge Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome (DMACS) at the Alfred

    Pagina :S261

    K. Sanders, A. Dart, M. Way, M. Dooley, S. Duffey, H. Newnham, R. Wrigh, C. Kam, A. Given, A. Korajkic, S. Ivulich

    
• • ·Disproportionate Right Ventricular Load and Remodelling in Endurance Athletes: A Comparison with the Left Ventricle Using a Novel Minimally Invasive Method of Calculating End-systolic Wall Stress

    Pagina :S262

    A. La Gerche, A. Burns, D. Mooney, W. Inder, A. Taylor, H. Heidbüchel, A. MacIsaac, D. Prior

    
• • ·Exercise Intolerance in Type 2 Diabetes: Left Ventricular Dysfunction or Impaired Skeletal Muscle Microvascular Blood Flow?

    Pagina :S262

    J. Sacre, C. Jellis, B. Haluska, C. Jenkins, J. Coombes, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Heart Guide Aotearoa, Reducing Inequalities in Cardiac Rehabilitation

    Pagina :S262

    S. Eadie, M. Tane

    
• • ·Is Mild In-Hospital Depression a Better Predictor of Mortality than Moderate/Severe Depression? A 12-Year Follow-Up Study of Female Cardiac Patients

    Pagina :S263

    B. Murphy, M. Rogerson, M. Worcester, P. Elliott, R. Higgins, M. Le Grande, A. Goble

    
• • ·Long-Term Effectiveness of Centre-Based Exercise Program in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure

    Pagina :S263

    R. Hwang, H. Porteous, F. Chuan, R. Peters, D. Korczyk

     
• • ·Medication Management in Acute Coronary Syndrome—Are We Complying with Guidelines

    Pagina :S264

    C. Montafia, R. Fernandez, R. Rajaratnam, K. Warren

    
• • ·Perception of Risk and Future Risk Reduction by Coronary Patients One-Year Following Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S264

    J. Kokje, N. Gandhi, S. Mann

    
• • ·Physical Activity and the Prevention of Fatal Cardiovascular Events in a High-risk Population

    Pagina :S264

    E. Zomer, A. Owen, D. Magliano, C. Reid, D. Liew

    
• • ·Predictors of Severity of Angiographic Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with First Presentation of ACS

    Pagina :S265

    P. Chia, R. Pathak, R. Samantha, A. Farshid

    
• • ·Severe Hypoxia in Eisenmenger Syndrome does not Preclude Safe Performance of the Six Minute Walk Test

    Pagina :S265

    R. Davis, K. Hall, J. Walsh, H. Seale, J. Harris, D. Radford, F. Kermeen

    
• • ·Testing an Innovative Model for Secondary Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation: The Electronic Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation Program (eOCR) Proof of Concept Testing in the South East and Riverland Regions of South Australia

    Pagina :S266

    P. Tideman, K. Mummery, R. Tirimacco, C. Vandelanotte, V. Poulsen, P. Simpson, R. Clark, M. Duncan, A. Van Itallie, K. Corry

    
• • ·The COACH Program is Cost-Effective for the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease

    Pagina :S266

    D. Liew, M. Vale, J. Kingston, M. Jelinek, A. Tonkin, J. Best

    
• • ·Update of the Heart Foundation Recommendations of Marine n-3 Fatty Acids for Patients with Heart Disease

    Pagina :S267

    D. Colquhoun, A. Ferreira-Jardim, B. Eden, T. Udell

    
• • ·Validation of a Simple Screening Tool for Assessment of Nutritional Status in Coronary Patients

    Pagina :S267

    L. Neubeck, A. Jackson, A. Bauman, J. Redfern

    
• • ·What are the Barriers and Facilitators to the Optimal Management of CVD Risk within Primary Health Care?

    Pagina :S267

    F. Doolan-Noble, S. Mann, J. Tracey

    
• • ·What Predicts Non-Return to Work after Acute Coronary Syndrome?

    Pagina :S268

    F. Chong, J. Pereira, K. Middleton, M. Worcester, P. Elliott, B. Murphy, A. Goble, R. Newman

    
• • ·Wheel Running Induces Cardiac Protection and Transcriptomic Changes in Mice

    Pagina :S268

    B. Budiono, J. Peart, L. Haseler, J. Headrick

    
• • ·Author Index

    Pagina :S269