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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·A Regulatable Model of Mutant ⍺-Myosin Heavy Chain Overexpression to Study the Structural and Functional Consequences of Hypertrophy Regression

    Pagina :S1

    L. Cannon, T. Marciniec, B. Mearns, M. Vale, V. Nikolova-Krstevski, S. Kesteven, S. Raynor, M. Feneley, R. Graham, D. Fatkin

    
• • ·Molecular Imaging of Acute Thrombosis and Thrombolysis by Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound with Novel Platelet-targeted Microbubbles

    Pagina :S1

    X. Wang, C. Hagemeyer, F. Jia, E. Leitner, I. Ahrens, K. Peter

    
• • ·Obesity Results in Progressive Atrial Electrical and Structural Remodeling: Implications for Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S2

    H. Abed, P. Kuklik, D. Kelly, A. Nelson, S. Worthley, W. Abhayaratna, G. Wittert, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Evidence for an Acute Diffuse Fibrotic Response Throughout the Left Ventricle Following Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S2

    W. Chan, S. Duffy, A. Ellims, A. Dart, A. Taylor

    
• • ·Global Longitudinal Strain is a Strong Independent Predictor of All-Cause Mortality in Patients with Aortic Stenosis

    Pagina :S3

    L. Kearney, M. Ord, G. Matalanis, K. Lu, K. Profitis, L. Burrell, P. Srivastava

    
• • ·The Index of Microcirculatory Resistance Predicts Myocardial Infarction Related to Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :S3

    A. Yong, M. Ho, M. Shah, C. Chawantanpipat, R. O’Connell, A. Keech, L. Kritharides, W. Fearon, M. Ng

    
• • ·A Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Genetic Testing in the Evaluation of Families with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S4

    J. Ingles, J. McGaughran, P. Scuffham, J. Atherton, C. Semsarian

    
• • ·Efficacy of a Pharmacist-Managed Intervention for Improved Blood Pressure Control in Patients with Elevated Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Subgroup Analysis of the HAPPY RCT

    Pagina :S4

    K. Mc Namara, K. Stewart, J. George, S. Jackson, G. Peterson, J. Hughes, M. Bailey, A. Hsueh, L. Bereznicki, P. Gee, R. Lau, D. Bortoletto, J. McDowell

    
• • ·Evaluation of Right Ventricular Volume and Systolic Function – A Comparison of 2 and 3-Dimensional Echocardiography with Cardiac Magnetic Resonance

    Pagina :S5

    J. Chen, K. Profitis, K. Lu, S. Harberts, M. Ord, I. Vujacic, L. Kearney, P. Calafiore, G. Smith, M. Molan, E. Jones, P. Srivastava

    
• • ·Risk Reduction Interventions in Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review

    Pagina :S5

    N. Lowres, L. Neubeck, B. Freedman, T. Briffa, A. Bauman, J. Redfern

    
• • ·Access to Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention Services in Australia: Is Geography Really the Issue?

    Pagina :S6

    R. Clark, N. Coffee, D. Turner, K. Eckert, v. Deborah, S. Stewart, D. Wilkinson, A. Tonkin

    
• • ·Acetazolamide Reduces Hospital Admissions and Length of Stay in Refractory Heart Failure Patients

    Pagina :S6

    M. Lucas, M. Brown

    
• • ·Sex Differences in Symptom Presentation in Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Pagina :S6

    L. Coventry, J. Finn, A. Bremner

    
• • ·Wandering Hearts: Acute Cardiac Management in the Regional Setting

    Pagina :S7

    S. Clune, M. Murphy, J. Blackford

    
• • ·Chronic Low Dose Δ⁹-Tetrahydrocannabinol Administration Prevents Functional and Electrophysiological Myocardial Changes in SHR and SHR/STZ Rats by Antioxidant and Anti-inflammatory Mechanisms

    Pagina :S7

    R. Vella, A. Fenning

    
• • ·In Situ Measurements of Cross-bridge Dynamics and Lattice Spacing in Diabetic Rat Hearts using X-ray Diffraction

    Pagina :S8

    M. Jenkins, A. Edgley, T. Sonobe, Y. Fujii, H. Ishibashi-Ueda, D. Kelly, D. Schwenke, N. Yagi, M. Shirai, J. Pearson

    
• • ·Losartan Improves Survival and Cardiac Function in a Double-mutant Mouse Model of Severe Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S8

    R. Shephard, T. Tsoutsman, C. Semsarian

    
• • ·Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase p110alpha is a Master Regulator of Exercise-induced Cardiac Protection, Acting Independently of Heat Shock Protein 70

    Pagina :S8

    K. Weeks, X. Gao, H. Kiriazis, M. Febbraio, X. Du, J. McMullen

    
• • ·2011 Draft Position Statement on the Use of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Australia: National Heart Foundation (NHF) & High Blood Pressure Research Council (HBPRCA)

    Pagina :S9

    G. Head, A. Mangoni, M. Nelson, D. Cowley, M. Stowasser, B. McGrath, A. Mihailidou, M. Schlaich, J. Wilson, L. Ruta

    
• • ·A Novel Framework to Assess Neural and Peripheral Characteristics in Hypertension using Baroreflex Equilibrium Diagram

    Pagina :S9

    Y. Sata, T. Kawada, M. Sugimachi

     
• • ·A Novel Recombinant CD39 Targeting Activated Platelets via a Fused Single-chain Antibody: Achieving Efficient Anti-coagulation While Minimising Bleeding Side Effects by Clot Directed Enrichment

    Pagina :S10

    J. Hohmann, S. Krajewski, F. Jia, H. Nandurkar, A. Straub, K. Peter

    
• • ·Acute Pulmonary Embolism (PE)—Is Echocardiography Underutilised in Regional Australia

    Pagina :S10

    V. Tyagi, N. Kutaiba, M. Yates

    
• • ·Assessment of Optimal Cell Therapy for the Angiogenesis Response in a Murine Hindlimb Ischaemia Model using CD34⁺ cells and Endothelial Progenitor Cells

    Pagina :S11

    C. Hsu, R. Chow, L. Dunn, K. Chan, M. Guillou, D. Celermajer, M. Ng

    
• • ·Association of Left Ventricular Motion and Central Blood Pressure Waveform Morphology

    Pagina :S11

    K. Cheng, J. Cameron, M. Tung, P. Mottram, I. Meredith, S. Hope

    
• • ·Augmentation Index (AIx) and Augmentation Pressure (AP) in a Cardiac Population

    Pagina :S11

    L. Wong, E. Shanehsaz, T. Hong, J. Chiha, P. Kovoor, P. Mitchell, A. Thiagalingam

     
• • ·This abstract has been withdrawn.

    Pagina :S12

    
• • ·Calibration of Carotid Central Pressures: A Flaw in Brachial Applanation Tonometry?

    Pagina :S12

    A. Adji, M. O’Rourke

    
• • ·Correlation Between Radial Artery- and Peripheral Arterial Tonometry Derived Augmentation Index in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S12

    S. Willoughby, D. Lau, C. Schultz, H. Lim, R. Mahajan, S. Nayyar, M. Worthley, P. Sanders

     
• • ·Does Resveratrol Prevent Maladaptive Electrophysiological and Vascular Alterations in l-NAME Induced Hypertensive Rats?

    Pagina :S13

    C. Pullen, A. Fenning, F. Coulson, R. Vella, K. Connolly, D. Jackson

    
• • ·Dynamic Synchrotron Imaging of Diabetic Rat Coronary Microcirculation In Vivo

    Pagina :S13

    M. Jenkins, A. Edgley, T. Sonobe, R. Brown, Y. Fujii, D. Kelly, K. Umetani, D. Schwenke, M. Shirai, J. Pearson

    
• • ·Effect of Adenosine on Pulmonary Vascular Resistance in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension due to Left Heart Disease and Scleroderma

    Pagina :S14

    A. Burns, S. Murch, J. Layland, A. La Gerche, A. MacIsaac, D. Prior

    
• • ·Gender Differences in Internal Mammary Artery Vasoconstrictor Responses

    Pagina :S14

    A. Jaghoori, R. Stuklis, M. Worthington, J. Edwards, D. Wilson, J. Beltrame

    
• • ·Heme Oxygenase-1 is Necessary for Ischaemia-mediated Neovascularisation

    Pagina :S15

    K. Chan, M. Guillou, L. Dunn, R. Midwinter, J. Ni, Y. Wang, R. Stocker, M. Ng

    
• • ·Left Atrial Specific Endothelial Dysfunction and Inflammation in Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S15

    C. Schultz, S. Willoughby, H. Lim, M. Alasady, D. Lau, R. Mahajan, S. Nayyar, K. Roberts-Thomson, G. Young, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Lipid-free Apolipoprotein A-I Enhances Endothelium generation from Human Blood Monocytes

    Pagina :S15

    C. Tso, K. Rye, P. Barter

    
• • ·Novel Use of Intra-arterial Doppler in the Assessment of Pulmonary Artery Flow Velocities—Observations Before and After Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    Pagina :S16

    N. Iyer, E. Lau, D. Celermajer

    
• • ·Optimising Primary Care Management of Hypertension: The Valsartan Intensified Primary Care Reduction of Blood Pressure (VIPER-BP) Study

    Pagina :S16

    S. Stewart, M. Carrington, C. Swemmer, N. Kurstjens, G. Jennings

    
• • ·Osteopenia and Osteoporosis in a Hypertensive Population

    Pagina :S16

    N. Agarwal, S. Agarwal

    
• • ·Presence of Subclinical Anxiety in Hypertensive Patients

    Pagina :S17

    N. Agarwal, S. Agarwal

    
• • ·Prevalence of Atrial Fibrillation and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in the Valsartan Intensified Primary Care Reduction of Blood Pressure (VIPER-BP) Study Cohort

    Pagina :S17

    S. Stewart, M. Carrington, C. Swemmer, N. Kurstjens, G. Jennings

    
• • ·Prevalence, Associations and Risk Factors for Orthostatic Hypotension in Medical, Surgical and Trauma Inpatients: An Observational Cohort Study

    Pagina :S17

    A. Aung, S. Corcoran, V. Nagalingam, E. Paul, H. Newnham

    
• • ·Primary Hypoplasia of Aortic Arch (phaa)—An Update

    Pagina :S18

    T. Goh

    
• • ·Reduced Exercise Tolerance in Patients with Increased Aortic Stiffness Assessed by 320-slice Computed Tomography

    Pagina :S18

    S. Hope, S. Seneviratne, S. Lockwood, J. Cameron

    
• • ·Renal Denervation for Refractory Hypertension

    Pagina :S19

    A. Walton, M. Esler, H. Krum, M. Schlaich

    
• • ·Retrospective Audit of Hypertension Management in a Chronic Disease Management Unit at a Major Tertiary Hospital in Australia

    Pagina :S19

    T. Butler, H. Newnham, M. Bonollo

    
• • ·Risk Predictors of Lower-limb Amputation in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in the Fenofibrate Intervention and Event Lowering in Diabetes (FIELD) Study

    Pagina :S20

    K. Rajamani, L. Li, J. Best, M. Voysey, R. Ting, M. D’Emden, M. Laakso, J. Baker, A. Keech

    
• • ·Single-pill Combination of Telmisartan 80 mg/Amlodipine 10 mg Provides Superior Blood Pressure Reductions in Patients with Severe Hypertension: Teamsta Severe HTN Study

    Pagina :S20

    J. Neutel, G. Mancia, H. Black, B. Dahlöf, H. Defeo, L. Ley, R. Vinisko

    
• • ·Sleep Disordered Breathing in Children is Associated with Increased Platelet Aggregation, Systemic Inflammation and Endothelial Dysfunction

    Pagina :S21

    S. Willoughby, C. van den Heuvel, A. Chin, G. Hodge, J. Martin, A. Nelson, M. Worthley, D. Kennedy

    
• • ·This abstract has been withdrawn

    Pagina :S21

    
• • ·The Number and Function of Late Outgrowth Endothelial Cells Correlate with the extent of Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S21

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

    
• • ·The Number and Function of Late Outgrowth Endothelial Cells Correlate with the Extent of Coronary Collateralisation in Humans

    Pagina :S21

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

    
• • ·The Spatio-temporal Distribution of Migrating Pericytes in a Rat Model of Stroke: The Expression of Definitive Cell Markers

    Pagina :S21

    V. Sharma, T. Ling, P. Wookey, S. Rewell, D. Howells, D. Hare

    
• • ·A New Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory in Northern NSW: Experiences of the First Year

    Pagina :S22

    D. Murdoch, H. Gibbs, A. Blenkhorn, D. Mumford, P. Kwan

    
• • ·A Novel Targeted Recombinant Plasminogen Activator Allows Efficient and Safe Simultaneous Blockage of Activated Platelets and Fibrinolysis

    Pagina :S22

    C. Hagemeyer, F. Jia, V. Wong, D. Yohakim, D. Huang, X. Wang, K. Peter

    
• • ·A Randomised Double-blinded Pilot Study to Assess the Effect of Tetrahydrobiopterin and Folic Acid on Macrovascular and Microvascular Dynamic Function using Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

    Pagina :S23

    B. Paul, D. Wong, A. Mangoni, A. Nelson, B. Dundon, S. Willoughby, S. Worthley, M. Worthley

    
• • ·A Review of Missed AMI in Public Hospitals

    Pagina :S23

    L. Savage, S. Turner, T. Williams

    
• • ·Aboriginal Delays in Acute Coronary Syndrome Response and Disparities in Medical Procedures: Understanding the Linkage and Issues for Aboriginal Patients and Health Providers

    Pagina :S23

    K. Taylor, J. Katzenellenbogen, F. Sanfilippo, M. Hobbs, T. Briffa, L. Dimer, P. Thompson, S. Thompson

    
• • ·Acute Predict: Initial Experience in the Midland Region. Comparison of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Management at an Interventional and Non-interventional Centre

    Pagina :S24

    J. Mazhar, B. Killion, M. Mitchell, I. Ternouth, M. Lee, A. Kerr, G. Devlin

    
• • ·ALT—An Independent Marker of Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S24

    Y. Tsai, C. Ngan, D. Palasubramaniam, A. Wilson-O’Brien, J. Layland, R. Whitbourn, A. Wilson

    
• • ·Analysis of ECG to Diagnose Acute Coronary Syndrome in Prehospital Setting Using Computerised Algorithm

    Pagina :S24

    I. Agahari, B. Bastian, L. Savage, P. Fletcher, P. Stewart, S. Faddy

    
• • ·Angiographic Comparison of Coronary Artery Disease Between Sri-Lankan Born and Australian Born Patients

    Pagina :S25

    P. Fahmy, A. Kanthan, E. Kizana, P. Kovoor

    
• • ·Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) 2: A Novel Marker of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) in Man

    Pagina :S25

    M. Freeman, S. Patel, T. Lancefield, E. Velkoska, K. Griggs, R. Dean, A. Al-Fiadh, M. Horrigan, O. Farouque, L. Burrell

    
• • ·Aromatase Deficiency Influences the Acute Response to Myocardial Ischaemic Insult in Female Mice—A Matter of Local Sex Steroid Balance?

    Pagina :S26

    J. Bell, A. Wollerman, K. Mellor, W. Ip, S. Meachem, E. Simpson, L. Delbridge

    
• • ·BNP Signal Peptide and High Sensitivity Troponin T Response During Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography

    Pagina :S26

    M. Siriwardena, V. Campbell, N. Kitson, T. Yandle, M. Richards, C. Pemberton

     
• • ·Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Familial Hypercholesteroaemia in the FHWA Program: Is Risk Solely Mediated by Hypercholesterolaemia?

    Pagina :S26

    D. Chan, Y. Lo, A. Juniper, L. Southwell, S. Burrows, T. Bates, F. Van Bockxmeer, T. Redgrave, J. Burnett, G. Watts

    
• • ·Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Inducible Coronary Artery Spasm

    Pagina :S27

    D. Di Fiore, C. Poh, J. Beltrame, C. Zeitz

    
• • ·Clinical Impact of High Sensitive Troponin T (HsTnT) on Diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)

    Pagina :S27

    J. Mazhar, V. Pera, A. Siddiqui, J. Bouwhuis, S. Du Toit, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Contribution of Circulating Fibrocytes to Atherosclerotic Plaque Stability

    Pagina :S28

    L. Fang, X. More, W. Chan, D. White, A. Dart

    
• • ·Coronary Artery Luminal Area in South Asians and Caucasians: A Coronary CT Angiographic Assessment

    Pagina :S28

    N. Wijesinghe, J. Leipsic, K. Ramanathan, R. Boone

    
• • ·Coronary B2-Adrenoreceptors Mediate Endothelium-dependent Vasoreactivity in Humans: Novel Insights from an In Vivo Intravascular Ultrasound Study

    Pagina :S28

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

    
• • ·Coronary Endothelial Function by the Index of Microcirculatory Resistance can be Estimated by Evaluating Left Ventricular Contractile Reserve at Low Dose Dobutamine Echocardiography

    Pagina :S29

    M. Leung, S. Lo, C. Juergens, D. Leung

     
• • ·Cost-Effectiveness of Drug-Eluting Stents in Large (≥3.5 mm) Coronary Arteries

    Pagina :S29

    B. Yan, M. Liu, V. Lee, C. Reid, C. Yu

    
• • ·D-Dimer and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: The Framingham Heart Study

    Pagina :S30

    E. Shaw, J. Massaro, D. Levy, C. O’Donnell, R. D’Agostino, G. Tofler

    
• • ·Diabetes has a Greater Association with Recurrent versus Incident Hospitalised Acute Coronary Syndromes

    Pagina :S30

    L. Nedkoff, T. Briffa, J. Hung, P. Thompson, M. Knuiman

    
• • ·Effect of Atherosclerotic Risk Factors on Microcirculatory Resistance: A Further Obesity Paradox

    Pagina :S30

    J. Layland, A. MacIsaac, S. Bappayya, J. Somaratne, R. Whitbourn, A. Wilson

    
• • ·Effect of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting on Progression of Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S31

    T. Nguyen, P. Hayward, Y. Zhu, W. Shi, D. Hare, B. Buxton

    
• • ·Effect of Lipid Exposure on Progression of Native Vessel Disease in Vein-Grafted Vessels in Coronary Bypass Patients

    Pagina :S31

    T. Nguyen, Y. Zhu, D. Hare, B. Buxton, P. Hayward

    
• • ·Effect of Statins on Dendritic Cell Differentiation and Migration in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease and Hypercholesterolaemia

    Pagina :S32

    A. Thompson, M. Fogel-Petrovic, J. Hung, P. Thompson

    
• • ·Elevated Plasma sCD147 Concentration in Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction—Potential Marker of Plaque Instability

    Pagina :S32

    C. Wong, A. Yong, G. Pennings, L. Kritharides

    
• • ·Emerging Practice Patterns in the Management of STEMI and High Risk ACS-early Findings from the CONCORDANCE Registry

    Pagina :S33

    B. Costa, I. Ranasinghe, F. Turnbull, P. Antonis, S. Coverdale, A. Brown, D. Walters, C. Juergens, D. Chew, D. Brieger

    
• • ·Evaluation for Pulmonary Embolism in Patients Presenting with Myocardial Injury without Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S33

    M. Indrajith, S. Butterly, B. Jesuthasan, A. Ng, W. Wang

    
• • ·Examining Atherosclerotic Plaque Using Intracoronary Optical Coherence Tomography in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease: A Pilot Study

    Pagina :S33

    R. Rayoo, Z. Tuer, N. Sharma, W. van Gaal, F. Ponnuthurai, P. Barlis

    
• • ·Fenofibrate and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A FIELD Sub-Study

    Pagina :S34

    J. Harmer, A. Veillard, M. Skilton, A. Keech, D. Celermajer, on behalf of the FIELD vascular sub-study investigators

    
• • ·Health Related Quality of Life of Elderly Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :S34

    B. Yan, M. Liu, V. Lee, C. Reid, C. Yu

    
• • ·High on Treatment Platelet Reactivity is Common and Differs Among Ethnic Groups

    Pagina :S34

    S. Harding, L. Johnston, J. Michel, A. Ramanathan, A. La Flamme, A. Sasse, P. Larsen

    
• • ·Impact of Renal Function in Patients with Multi-Vessel Coronary Disease (MVD) on Long Term Mortality Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) Compared with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)

    Pagina :S35

    H. Sugumar, T. Lancefield, S. Duffy, A. Brennan, B. Buxton, J. Smith, C. Reid, A. Ajani, K. Charter, G. New, T. Yip, O. Farouque, M. Freeman, N. Andrianopoulos, D. Clark

    
• • ·Incidences of Regression in Native Vessel Stenosis in Coronary Artery Bypassed Patients

    Pagina :S35

    T. Nguyen, P. Hayward, Y. Zhu, D. Hare, B. Buxton

    
• • ·Indeterminate Troponin Elevations Have Poor Positive Predictive Value for Acute Coronary Syndrome in an Emergency Department population

    Pagina :S36

    J. Hunter, C. Hammett, L. Cullen, J. Greenslade, A. Brown, K. Chu, W. Parsonage

    
• • ·LoDoCo: LOw DOse COlchicine in Stable Coronary Artery Disease and the Effect on hs-CRP and Brachial Flow Mediated Dilation

    Pagina :S36

    C. Judkins, P. Thompson, M. Nidorf, B. McQuillan

     
• • ·Low Positive Troponin Elevations: Prevalence and Clinical Outcome

    Pagina :S37

    K. Soon, A. Kelly, S. Klim, F. Abdi

    
• • ·Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) is a Novel Biomarker and Promotes Cardiac Inflammation Following Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)

    Pagina :S37

    D. White, W. Chan, L. Fang, Y. Liu, A. Taylor, E. Morand, S. Duffy, A. Dart, X. Du, X. Gao

    
• • ·Modifying Factors of Circadian Variation of Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S37

    M. Saifur Rohman, N. Hersunarti

    
• • ·NSTEMI with Occluded Artery (NSTEMIOA)—Prevalence and Clinical Significance

    Pagina :S38

    K. Soon, J. Du, A. Zakariyya, S. Klim, Y. Lim, A. Kelly

    
• • ·Optimal Management of Rural STEMI Patients Post Lytic Therapy

    Pagina :S38

    E. Robertson, R. Arnold, A. Julian, D. Perrignon-Roth, T. Milder, D. Amos

    
• • ·Outcomes of Coronary Angiography in Diabetic and Non-diabetic Patients with Low-risk Acute Coronary Syndrome

    Pagina :S39

    J. Swampillai, M. Liang, R. Aspden, R. Fisher, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Primary Diagnoses in Patients Admitted to Intensive Care or Coronary Care Units with an Elevated Troponin Level but no Clinical or ECG Evidence of Myocardial Ischaemia

    Pagina :S39

    J. Raval, T. Deshmukh, G. Reece, A.R. Denniss

    
• • ·Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for All Patients with ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction—The Initial Experience at Auckland City Hospital 2006/2007

    Pagina :S39

    A. Lin, K. Looi, J. Looi, K. Chow, H. White, M. Webster, C. Ellis

    
• • ·Prospective Validation of GRACE Freedom-from-Event Score

    Pagina :S40

    P. Dabee, K. Soon, A. Kelly

    
• • ·Rationale for the Australian Cooperative National Registry of Acute Coronary Care, Guideline Adherence and Clinical Events (CONCORDANCE)

    Pagina :S40

    B. Costa, I. Ranasinghe, A. Patel, A. Brown, A. Cass, L. Kritharides, D. Chew, J. French, F. Turnbull, D. Walters, I. Meredith, D. Brieger

    
• • ·Recombinant Human Elastin (rhELN)) Enhances Endothelial Progenitor Cell (EPC)-mediated Endothelialisation

    Pagina :S41

    Y. Yu, S. Wise, D. Bax, L. Dunn, A. Weiss, D. Celermajer, M. Ng

     
• • ·ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients have poor Cholesterol Control and Significant Adverse Events at Review Four Years Later

    Pagina :S41

    A. Lin, K. Looi, J. Looi, K. Chow, H. White, C. Ellis

    
• • ·ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Suboptimal Use of Secondary Prevention Medications at Review Five Years Later

    Pagina :S41

    K. Chow, K. Looi, J. Looi, A. Lin, F. Roberts, H. White, C. Ellis

    
• • ·Surrogate Markers of Atherosclerosis do not Predict the Presence of Subclinical Coronary Involvement in Patients at Intermediate Risk for Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S42

    A. Ellims, P. Lew, K. Thomson, A. Taylor

    
• • ·The Clinical Characteristics of Young Patients (<45 Years) Referred with Acute Coronary Syndromes

    Pagina :S42

    A. Incani, K. Poon, T. Chen, M. Dahl, J. Fu, H. Muller, M. Dooris, C. Hammett, D. Walters

    
• • ·The Demographic Profile of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes Referred for Invasive Treatment in a Large Clinical Network Using a Novel Web-based Triage and Transfer System

    Pagina :S43

    A. Incani, K. Poon, M. Dahl, J. Fu, H. Muller, M. Dooris, C. Hammett, D. Walters

    
• • ·The Psychology of Earthquake Stress Cardiomyopathy, Non-cardiac Chest Pain and Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S43

    J. Zarifeh, R. Mulder, A. Kerr, C. Chan, P. Bridgman

    
• • ·Time to Hospital Door and Survival in Acute Coronary Syndrome by Aboriginality

    Pagina :S44

    F. Sanfilippo, J. Katzenellenbogen, M. Hobbs, T. Briffa, L. Dimer, C. Cunningham, P. Thompson, S. Thompson

    
• • ·Under-treatment of Women with Acute Coronary Syndrome Appears to be Related to Unrecognised Risk

    Pagina :S44

    K. Waddell-Smith, W. Parsonage, M. Arstall, S. Coverdale, C. Prasad, D. Cross, N. Collins, C. Juergens, A. Prasan, J. Rankin, D. Fitzpatrick, B. Van Gaal, S. Mattchoss, M. Horsfall, D. Chew, J. Vaile

    
• • ·Use of Recursive Bayesian Algorithm to Optimise Coronary Artery Disease Diagnostic Pathways

    Pagina :S45

    J. Rivers, J. Lefevre, M. Waterhouse, I. Smith, K. Mengersen

    
• • ·Acute and Subacute ECG Changes in TakoTsubo Cardiomyopathy: Are There Pathognomonic Features?

    Pagina :S45

    A. Kucia, C. Neil, T. Nguyen, J. Stansborough, J. Horowitz

    
• • ·Beneficial Effects of Ramipril Treatment on Diastolic Function, Structural Remodelling and Apoptosis in a Mouse Model of Type 2 Diabetes

    Pagina :S45

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

    
• • ·Cardioprotection Induced by Heat and Stretch but not Ischaemia Preconditioning is Attenuated by Inhibition of Heat Shock Protein 70 (Hsp70)

    Pagina :S46

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

    
• • ·ECG Busters—Dispelling Some Myths of ECG Diagnosis

    Pagina :S46

    R. Lindsay, J. Presneill, G. Scalia

    
• • ·Examining the Efficacy of a Peptide Derived Against the Alpha-Interacting Domain of the L-type Calcium Channel in Preventing Ischaemia–Reperfusion Injury

    Pagina :S47

    P. Muralidharan, A. Chua, H. Viola, L. Hool

    
• • ·Fructose-induced Myocardial Autophagy Activation is Altered by Overexpression of Cardiac Angiotensinogen

    Pagina :S47

    K. Mellor, R. Ritchie, L. Delbridge

    
• • ·Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in a Northern Tasmanian Population: A Pilot Study

    Pagina :S47

    C. Armstrong, D. McTaggart, K. Ogden, D. DeSilva

    
• • ·Isolated Left Ventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy: A Clinical and Echocardiographic Study

    Pagina :S48

    M. Nolan, T. David, G. Koshy, A. Simmons

    
• • ·Left Ventricular Mass–Volume Index: A New Parameter for the Assessment of “Disproportionate” Left Ventricular Hypertrophy by Echocardiography

    Pagina :S48

    G. Scalia, C. Hamilton-Craig, R. Slaughter, P. Cain

    
• • ·This abstract has been withdrawn.

    Pagina :S48

    
• • ·Mechanically Induced Arrhythmias in Hypertrophic Rat Heart

    Pagina :S48

    D. Kim, D. Saint

    
• • ·Opposing Histone Methylation Patterns Distinguish the Serca2 Gene in the Pathological and Physiological Hypertrophied Heart

    Pagina :S49

    J. Ooi, J. McMullen, X. Du, A. El-Osta

    
• • ·Predictors of Atrial Fibrosis in an Ovine Model of Obesity: Implications for Remodeling in Atrial Fibrillation and Clinical Staging

    Pagina :S49

    H. Abed, A. Nelson, P. Kuklik, N. Shipp, S. Worthley, W. Abhayaratna, G. Wittert, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Sex Differences in Functional Response of Hypertrophic Cardiomyocytes to Simulated Ischaemic Insult

    Pagina :S50

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

    
• • ·Subclinical Systolic Dysfunction Following Chest Radiation Therapy Detected by Strain Imaging

    Pagina :S50

    Q. Lo, L. Hee, V. Batumalai, C. Allman, G. Delaney, D. Lonergan, L. Thomas

    
• • ·The Return of the Normal Heart: Cardiac Amyloidosis Regression After Bone Marrow Transplantation

    Pagina :S50

    G. Scalia, J. Bashford, B. Fitzgerald

    
• • ·The Role of the Cytoskeleton in Communication between the L-type Calcium Channel and the Mitochondria in Isolated Cardiac Myocytes

    Pagina :S51

    H. Viola, L. Hool

    
• • ·Assessment of Crassostrea gigas Oyster Extract in Preventing Chronic Cardiovascular Complications in Streptozotocin Induced Diabetic Rats

    Pagina :S51

    A. Fenning, K. Connolly, C. Pullen, R. Vella, D. Jackson, F. Coulson

    
• • ·Australian Experience with LDL-apheresis for the Treatment of Severe Autosomal Dominant Hypercholesterolaemia (ADH)

    Pagina :S52

    M. Page, J. Burnett, F. van Bockxmeer, L. Southwell, J. Gerace, P. Cannell, G. Watts

    
• • ·This abstract has been withdrawn.

    Pagina :S52

    
• • ·Fenofibrate Therapy in Carnitine Palmitoyl Transferase-2 Deficiency Improves Beta-oxidation of Fatty Acids But Does Not Prevent Rhabdomyolysis

    Pagina :S52

    M. Yudi, I. Hamilton-Craig, A. Wright

    
• • ·HDL Cholesterol is a Risk Factor for Diabetic Nephropathy But Not Retinopathy—Results From the ADVANCE Study

    Pagina :S52

    J. Morton, Q. Li, D. Celermajer, J. Chalmers, S. Zoungas, A. Patel, M. Ng

    
• • ·Abstract Removed

    Pagina :S53

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·High Long Term Success Rates for Statin Rechallenge in Patients Referred for Statin Intolerance

    Pagina :S53

    Z. Lu, M. Bozin, Y. Zhang, J. Best, D. O’Neal, A. Jenkins, A. Wilson

    
• • ·How Effective is Cascade Screening for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia? Preliminary Report from the FHWA Program

    Pagina :S53

    G. Watts, A. Juniper, E. Geelhoed, S. Maxwell, F. van Bockxmeer, T. Bates, J. Burnett, T. Redgrave, L. Southwell, P. O’Leary, On behalf of the FHWA program

    
• • ·Is HDL Cholesterol Protective Against Tumour Growth?

    Pagina :S54

    J. Morton, C. Bursill, D. Celermajer, M. Ng

    
• • ·Predicting the Yield of Cascade Screening for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia

    Pagina :S54

    T. Bates, N. Magana, H. Chan, J. Kung, A. Juniper, S. Burrows, L. Southwell, J. Burnett, F. van Bockxmeer, G. Watts

    
• • ·QT Interval Variability is Associated with 123I-MIBG Cardiac Sympathetic Integrity in Type 2 Diabetes

    Pagina :S55

    J. Sacre, B. Franjic, C. Jellis, J. Coombes, T. Marwick, M. Baumert

     
• • ·Rodent Models of Obesity, Insulin Resistance and Diabetes and their Associated Cardiac Dysfunction

    Pagina :S55

    M. Jenkins, J. Pearson, D. Kelly, A. Edgley

    
• • ·Temporal Change in Pre-hospital Statin Use and Total Cholesterol Levels in Patients Presenting with Acute Coronary Syndromes

    Pagina :S56

    I. Ranasinghe, B. Freedman, L. Neubeck, B. Costa, G. Devlin, J. Lefkovits, C. Juergens, F. Turnbull, D. Chew, D. Brieger

    
• • ·The FHWA Program: Nurse-led Cascade Screening for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH)

    Pagina :S56

    L. Southwell, M. Powell, A. Juniper, T. Bates, J. Burnett, T. Redgrave, F. van Bockxmeer, P. O’Leary, G. Watts, On behalf of the FHWA program

    
• • ·TRPV1 Down-regulation in Syndrome X: Its Role in AF Susceptibility

    Pagina :S57

    N. Shipp, S. Thanigaimani, D. Lau, A. Brooks, P. Kuklik, M. Baumert

    
• • ·A Morphological Characterisation of Cancer Induced Cardiomyopathy Independent of Chemotherapeutic Intervention

    Pagina :S57

    A. Shum, T. Mahendradatta, J. Gao, D. Ku, M. Sarris, S. Clarke, T. Tan, P. Polly

    
• • ·A Study on the Utility of Novel Cardiac Imaging Markers in Predicting Chemotherapy Cardiotoxicity

    Pagina :S58

    S. Grover, C. De Pasquale, K. Cheong, A. Penhall, M. Joseph, B. Koczwara, D. Kotasek, D. Leong, J. Selvanayagam

    
• • ·An Oral Charcoal Adsorbent, AST-120, Reduces Renal Fibrosis as well as Cardiac Pro-fibrotic and Pro-inflammatory mRNA Expression Post-MI in the Rat

    Pagina :S58

    S. Lekawanvijit, A. Kompa, M. Manabe, D. Kelly, H. Krum

    
• • ·Autonomic Change in Depressed and Non-Depressed Systolic Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) Patients Over 12 Months

    Pagina :S58

    D. Ta, D. Hare, A. Stewart, D. Toia, S. Lonie

    
• • ·Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Biomarker Profiling in Cancer Induced Cachexia: A Comparison

    Pagina :S59

    A. Shum, T. Mahendradatta, S. Clarke, T. Tan, P. Polly

    
• • ·Changes in Cardiac Denervation Independent of Changes in Systolic Function During Follow-up in CHF Patients

    Pagina :S59

    T. Nguyen, S. Unger, J. Horowitz

     
• • ·Characteristics, Treatments and Outcomes of Patients Hospitalised for Heart Failure: New Zealand Heart Failure Registry

    Pagina :S60

    V. Pera, R. Troughton, M. Lund, R. Doughty, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Chemotherapy-induced Cardiomyopathy: A Single Centre Experience

    Pagina :S60

    A. Sharma, S. McKenzie, M. Shuker, K. Chee, D. Platts, G. Javorsky, M. Brown

    
• • ·Chronic Kidney Disease-induced Cardiac Fibrosis is Ameliorated by Reducing Circulating Levels of a Non-dialysable Ureamic Toxin, Indoxyl Sulfate

    Pagina :S61

    S. Lekawanvijit, A. Kompa, M. Manabe, B. Wang, D. Kelly, H. Krum

    
• • ·Clinical Significance of Short Episodes of Atrial Arrhythmia Detected by CIED

    Pagina :S61

    N. Shanmugan, V. Paul, A. Boerdlein, J. Proff, S. Sack

    
• • ·Combined Subtotal Nephrectomy and Myocardial Infarction Accelerates Heart and Kidney Disease: A New Model of the Cardiorenal Syndrome

    Pagina :S61

    S. Liu, A. Kompa, D. Kelly, H. Krum, B. Wang

    
• • ·Comorbidities Associated with First-ever Heart Failure Hospitalisation and their Impact on Long-term Cardiovascular Mortality

    Pagina :S62

    T. Teng, J. Hung, J. Finn, M. Knuiman, M. Hobbs

    
• • ·Designing a Map of Cardiac Function Suitable for MRI Guided Ex Vivo Tissue Sampling

    Pagina :S62

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

    
• • ·Development of Aortic Regurgitation/Insufficiency Following Implantation of Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) and Outcomes

    Pagina :S63

    K. Muthiah, J. Phan, D. Robson, P. Macdonald, A. Keogh, E. Kotlyar, E. Granger, K. Dhital, P. Spratt, P. Jansz, C. Hayward

    
• • ·Diabetes-Induced Cardiac Dysfunction is Rescued by Endothelial Cationic Amino Acid Transporter 1 (CAT-1) Overexpression in Mice

    Pagina :S63

    R. Ritchie, M. Khammy, M. Bowden, J. Irvine, K. Andrews, K. Huynh, H. Kiriazis, D. Kaye, K. Venardos

    
• • ·Effects of Atrio-Ventricular Delay and Interventricular Delay on Continuous Left Atrial Pressure and Waveforms in Ambulant Heart Failure Patients: A Novel Method for Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy Optimisation

    Pagina :S63

    W. Chan, A. Blomqvist, I. Melton, K. Norén, I. Crozier, R. Troughton

    
• • ·eGFR Can Predict Diastolic Dysfunction in Diabetic Patients; Experience from NIL-CHF Study

    Pagina :S64

    M. Asrar ul Haq, M. Carrington, T. Edwards, S. Stewart, C. Wong

    
• • ·Ethnic Differences in Characteristics, Treatments and Outcomes of Patients Hospitalised for Heart Failure: New Zealand Heart Failure Registry

    Pagina :S64

    V. Pera, R. Troughton, M. Lund, R. Doughty, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Evaluation of Anaemia in a Cohort of Chronic Heart Failure Patients

    Pagina :S65

    A. Pisaniello, S. Shakib, I. Kajani, K. Robinson, D. Wong

    
• • ·Evaluation of Domain-Specific Cognitive Defects in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure

    Pagina :S65

    M. Watanabe, S. Elkadi, T. Henderson, A. Kompa, E. Storey, H. Krum

    
• • ·Facilitating Needs Based Care for People with Chronic Heart Failure: Inter-rater Reliability, Validity and Acceptability of a Needs Assessment Tool

    Pagina :S65

    A. Waller, A. Girgis, P. Davidson, P. Newton, C. Lecathelinais, P. Macdonald, C. Hayward, D. Currow

    
• • ·Heart Transplantation: Early Clinical Experience of Supplementing Celsior^® Preservation Solution with Pro-survival Kinase Agents Erythropoietin and Glyceryl Trinitrate

    Pagina :S66

    G. Kumarasinghe, A. Iyer, M. Hicks, L. Gao, A. Watson, P. Jansz, K. Dhital, E. Granger, P. Spratt, P. Macdonald

    
• • ·How Well is Heart Rate Controlled in Australian Patients with Heart Failure? Analysis of 9225 Patients in the GP Research Network

    Pagina :S66

    H. Krum, C. Reid, N. von Sanden, P. Jenkins

    
• • ·Impaired Recovery of Left Ventricular (LV) Function after Acute Myocardial Reperfusion Injury is Rescued by the Anti-inflammatory Peptide Annexin-A1 (ANX-A1) Ex Vivo

    Pagina :S67

    R. Ritchie, K. Buxton, S. Pepe, A. Cao, K. Venardos, J. Love, Y. Yang, E. Morand, D. Kaye

    
• • ·Influence of Acute Oxygen Therapy on Maximal Exercise in Chronic Heart Failure

    Pagina :S67

    B. Paul, A. Mangoni, C. De Pasquale, Z. Gieroba, C. Thompson, P. Frith

    
• • ·Influence of Oxygen on Ergoreflex and Cardiovascular Parameters in Chronic Heart Failure

    Pagina :S68

    B. Paul, A. Mangoni, C. De Pasquale, Z. Gieroba, C. Thompson, P. Frith

    
• • ·Inhibition of Apoptosis Signal-regulating Kinase 1 (ASK1) Attenuates Angiotensin II- and TGFβ-stimulated Cardiac Myocyte Hypertrophy and Fibroblast Collagen Synthesis: Therapeutic Potential of ASK1 Inhibitors in Myocardial Remodelling

    Pagina :S68

    B. Wang, G. Xu, P. Ho, A. Kompa, B. Juncker, R. Willette, H. Krum

    
• • ·Left Atrial Remodelling and Reverse Remodelling with Therapy in New-presentation Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S69

    D. Leong, S. Grover, A. Penhall, R. Perry, P. Molaee, C. De Pasquale, P. Sanders, J. Selvanayagam

    
• • ·Left Ventricular Assist Devices—Early New Zealand Experience

    Pagina :S69

    J. White, P. Ruygrok, H. Gibbs, K. Finucane, P. Alison, C. Wasywich, P. Nand, M. Edwards, A. McGeorge, A. Coverdale

    
• • ·Left Ventricular Assist Devices in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S69

    K. Muthiah, J. Phan, D. Robson, P. Macdonald, A. Keogh, E. Kotlyar, E. Granger, K. Dhital, P. Spratt, P. Jansz, C. Hayward

    
• • ·Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Low Grade Inflammation in Schizophrenic Patients Receiving Long-term Clozapine Treatment: A 2D-Speckle Tracking Echocardiographic Study

    Pagina :S70

    V. Chow, A. Ng, T. Pasqualon, W. Zhao, D. Hanzek, T. Chung, T. Yeoh, L. Kritharides

    
• • ·Liver Elastography in Cardiac Disease (LECD) Trial

    Pagina :S70

    G. Kumarasinghe, P. Macdonald, M. Danta

    
• • ·Macrophage Mineralocorticoid Receptor Mediated Inflammation and Fibrosis in the Heart

    Pagina :S71

    L. Bienvenu, J. Moragan, G. Cranston, E. Fletcher, L. Delbridge, M. Young

    
• • ·Management of Elderly and Non-elderly Patients with Heart Failure Admissions: The New Zealand Heart Failure Registry

    Pagina :S71

    V. Pera, R. Troughton, M. Lund, R. Doughty, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Management of Heart Failure with Preserved and Impaired Systolic Function: The New Zealand Heart Failure Registry

    Pagina :S72

    V. Pera, R. Troughton, M. Lund, R. Doughty, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Mortality Outcomes Following Early Revascularisation in Survivors of First Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Heart Failure

    Pagina :S72

    T. Teng, J. Hung, J. Finn, M. Knuiman, T. Briffa, F. Sanfilippo, S. Stewart, M. Hobbs

    
• • ·NP202 Antioxidant, A Novel Synthetic Flavonol, Attenuates Systolic Dysfunction in Streptozotocin-induced Diabetic m(Ren2)27 Rats

    Pagina :S73

    F. Khong, Y. Zhang, A. Edgley, D. Kelly

    
• • ·Nutritional Status of Heart Failure Patients

    Pagina :S73

    S. Wong, G. Javorsky, M. Brown, S. McKenzie, S. Yerkovich

    
• • ·Potential Novel Molecular Regulators of Cancer Cachexia-Induced Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S73

    T. Mahendradatta, A. Shum, S. Clarke, T. Tan, P. Polly

    
• • ·Prevalence and Aetiology of Pulmonary Hypertension in a Tertiary Hospital Setting

    Pagina :S74

    P. Suri, P. Gunaruwan, G. Reeves, B. Bastian, N. Collins

    
• • ·Prevalence of Urinary Incontinence in People with Chronic Heart Failure

    Pagina :S74

    R. Hwang, F. Chuan, J. La, A. Fung, R. Peters, S. Kuys

    
• • ·Randomised Comparison of Remote Monitoring Versus Enhanced Standard Care for Heart Failure

    Pagina :S75

    P. Smith, C. May, N. Santamaria, D. Hendrie, M. Sheehan, J. Hung, K. Chan, A. Vickery, J. Williamson, P. Thompson

    
• • ·Reduced Availability of 18:2 Linoleic Acid Contributes to a Loss of Cardiolipin in the End-Stage Failing Human Heart

    Pagina :S75

    F. Sheeran, P. McLennan, L. Delbridge, S. Pepe

    
• • ·Relationship Between Amino-Terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide (NT-proBNP) and Left Atrial Volume Index in Older Subjects at Risk of Heart Failure

    Pagina :S76

    J. Coller, M. McGrady, L. Shiel, C. Reid, B. Boffa, D. Liew, S. Stewart, R. Wolfe, H. Krum, D. Campbell, D. Prior

    
• • ·Resident Cardiac Stem Cells (RCSCs) Enhance Myocardial Repair in Ischaemic Heart when Modified with Wnt16

    Pagina :S76

    J. Seow, A. Gill, C. Jackson, S. Hunyor

     
• • ·Role of Beta-Blockers in Heart Failure Readmission Rates in Patients with Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFPEF)

    Pagina :S77

    A. Madras, S. Hales, K. Roach, A. Sullivan, G. Gillies, R. Burke, E. Barin, A. Sindone, G. Tofler

    
• • ·Short and Long Term Outcomes of Intracoronary and Endogenously Mobilised Bone Marrow Stem Cells in the Treatment of STEMI

    Pagina :S77

    H. Zimmet, P. Porapakkham, Y. Sata, S. Haas, S. Itescu, A. Forbes, H. Krum

    
• • ·Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy at the Gold Coast Hospital

    Pagina :S77

    A. Gangasandra Basavaraj, N. Gaikwad, A. Francis, R. Jayasinghe

    
• • ·Trends in Heart Failure Hospitalisation from One Area Health Service

    Pagina :S78

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

    
• • ·Vasoreactivity Testing with Inhaled Iloprost and Nitric Oxide in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    Pagina :S78

    J. Phan, P. Macdonald, A. Keogh, E. Kotlyar, R. Pritchard, C. Hayward

    
• • ·Which Heart Failure Intervention is Most Cost-effective & Consumer Friendly in Reducing Hospital Care? Results from the Multicentre Randomised WHICH? Trial

    Pagina :S79

    M. Carrington, S. Stewart, T. Marwick, P. Davidson, P. Macdonald, J. Horowitz, H. Krum, P. Newton, C. Reid

    
• • ·A System for Studying Electrical Conduction in Lentivector Gene-Modified Primary Cardiomyocytes

    Pagina :S79

    A. Kanthan, J. Ross, R. Rao, P. Fahmy, S. Thomas, E. Kizana

     
• • ·Autonomic Neurocardiac Dysregulation in R6/1 Huntington’s Disease Transgenic Mice

    Pagina :S80

    H. Kiriazis, N. Jennings, P. Davern, Y. Su, T. Pang, X. Du, G. Lambert, G. Head, A. Hannan, X. Du

    
• • ·Cardiac Chamber Specific Gene Delivery Using Adeno-Associated Virus 2/9

    Pagina :S80

    J. Ross, A. Kanthan, R. Rao, P. Fahmy, I. Alexander, E. Kizana

     
• • ·Deep Hypothermia in Sheep Produces Right Ventricular ST Elevation

    Pagina :S80

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

     
• • ·Effect of Electrical Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation on Endothelial Function and Haemostasis

    Pagina :S81

    S. Willoughby, H. Lim, C. Wong, C. Schultz, K. Roberts-Thomson, G. Young, P. Sanders

    
• • ·This abstract has been withdrawn

    Pagina :S81

    
• • ·Electrophysiological Analysis of the Rat Left Atria Following a Myocardial Infarction: Implications for Aatrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S81

    L. Frost, L. MacKenzie, P. Kuklik, W. Wen, P. Sanders

    
• • ·High Density Epicardial Mapping of the Pulmonary Vein–LA Junction in Humans: Insights into Mechanisms of Pulmonary Vein Arrhythmogenesis

    Pagina :S82

    G. Lee, S. Spence, R. Brown, V. Atkinson, M. Larombina, J. Goldblatt, J. Kalman

    
• • ·High-Density Epicardial Mapping of Human Atrial Fibrillation: Spatial relationship between Complex Electrograms and Regions of High Dominant Frequency

    Pagina :S82

    G. Lee, K. Roberts-Thomson, S. Spence, A. Teh, J. Kalman

    
• • ·Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on Ventricular Ion Channel and Gap Junction Expression

    Pagina :S82

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

    
• • ·Increased Susceptibility to Electrical Instability in Isolated Obese Rat Atria

    Pagina :S83

    M. Neo, D. Morris, P. Kuklik, P. Sanders, D. Saint

    
• • ·Is Rapid Atrial Pacing Associated with Thrombogenesis in Normal Hearts?

    Pagina :S83

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

    
• • ·Negative Inotropic Effect of Riluzole: Blockade of the Ryanadine Receptor?

    Pagina :S84

    D. Morris, D. Saint, D. Laver

     
• • ·Obesity and Atrial Fibrillation: The Interaction Between Substrate and Trigger

    Pagina :S84

    H. Abed, D. Kelly, M. Alasady, N. Shipp, A. Brooks, W. Abhayaratna, G. Wittert, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Prevalence of Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms in Human Long Lasting Persistent Af. High Density Epicardial Mapping Demonstrates Significant Variability According to CFAE Definition

    Pagina :S85

    G. Lee, K. Roberts-Thomson, S. Spence, A. Teh, J. Kalman

    
• • ·Regional Heterogeneity in Action Potential Duration in Isolated Rat Atria

    Pagina :S85

    M. Neo, D. Morris, P. Kuklik, P. Sanders, D. Saint

    
• • ·Retinal Photography as a Screening Tool for Retinal Embolic Events in Patients Before and After Pulmonary Vein Isolation

    Pagina :S85

    B. Jideh, F. Touma, P. Kovoor, S. Thomas, D. Ross, A. Thiagalingam

    
• • ·Self Reported Blood-Injection-Injury “Phobia” is Predictive of Response to Tilt Table Testing

    Pagina :S86

    R. Blake, M. Barlow

    
• • ·Simultaneous High-density Epicardial Mapping: The Search for High Frequency Drivers Within the LA

    Pagina :S86

    G. Lee, K. Roberts-Thomson, S. Spence, A. Teh, J. Kalman

    
• • ·Spectral Analysis of 12 Lead ECG Recordings of Ventricular Fibrillation in Humans

    Pagina :S86

    E. Woodcock, N. Lever, P. Larsen

    
• • ·The Diagnostic Yield and Cost Effectiveness of In-Hospital Cardiac Monitoring of Patients Admitted with Unexplained Syncope

    Pagina :S87

    F. Nadri, A. Toufaili, A. Chen, R. Rajaratnam

    
• • ·Therapy Directed at Stretch Reduces the Frequency of Clinical Atrial Fibrillation: A Long Term Study in Patients With Mitral Stenosis

    Pagina :S87

    B. John, J. Roshan, G. Joseph, J. Jose, O. George, S. Chandy, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Use of the Siemens iPilot MR-fluroscopic Overlay During Complex Left Atrial Ablation: Early Experience

    Pagina :S88

    D. Sinagra, R. Weerasooriya, Y. Theron, M. John, A. Weerasooriya, A. Abraham, M. Butler

    
• • ·This abstract has been withdrawn

    Pagina :S88

    
• • ·Five Year Experience with CRT in a Multidisciplinary Service

    Pagina :S88

    D. O’Donnell, F. Chahadi, M. Wong, P. Rae, B. Dawood, P. Srivastava

    
• • ·A Pseudo-concealed Left Free Wall Accessory Pathway as a Cause of Broad Complex Tachycardia

    Pagina :S88

    H. Lim, R. Mahajan, M. Alasady, K. Roberts-Thomson, P. Sanders, G. Young

    
• • ·Aetiology of Triggered Atrial Activity in Paroxysmal and Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Compared with Healthy Controls

    Pagina :S89

    A. Brooks, N. Chia, G. Rangnekar, N. Shipp, P. Kuklik, A. Ganesan, D. Lau, M. Alasady, K. Roberts-Thompson, P. Sanders

     
• • ·Aortic Stiffness: A Potential Causative Factor in Lone Atrial Fibrillation and Implications for Ablation

    Pagina :S89

    D. Lau, M. Middeldorp, A. Brooks, K. Roberts-Thomson, M. Stiles, D. Leong, A. Ganesan, K. Drury, S. Willoughby, G. Young, W. Abhayaratna, P. Sanders

     
• • ·Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: Outcomes of Pulmonary Vein Isolation using the Cryoballoon Ablation Technique

    Pagina :S90

    A. Sepahpour, S. Singarayar, M. McGuire

    
• • ·Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Replacement Carries Significant Risk: Complication Rates from a New Zealand Tertiary Centre

    Pagina :S90

    M. Liang, H. Millow, J. Swampillai, C. Sebastian, C. Wade, S. Heald, M. Stiles

    
• • ·Cavotricuspid Isthmus Ablation Line Reconnections are Associated with Clinically Inducible Cavotricuspid Isthmus Dependent Flutters in Patients Undergoing Pulmonary Vein Isolation For Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S91

    W. Chik, T. Lim, C. Koay, V. See, R. McCall, R. Zecchin, K. Byth, L. Thomas, D. Ross, S. Thomas

    
• • ·Combined Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation and Watchman^® Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Procedure: A Case Series

    Pagina :S91

    K. Phillips, D. Walker, J. Humphries

    
• • ·Device Related Infection in Day Case versus Overnight Stay Patients – A Prospective Single Centre Study

    Pagina :S91

    S. Gamble, S. Healy, S. Ching, T. Bui, M. Reynolds, J. Alison

    
• • ·Do Anti-inflammatory Agents Promote Linear Ablation Lesion Discontinuities? An Electrophysiological Examination

    Pagina :S92

    K. Noonan, P. Martin, A. Scott, G. Kuhn, S. Neumann

    
• • ·Do Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICD) Cause Tricuspid Regurgitation? A Retrospective Study

    Pagina :S92

    T. Tan, J. Hardman, S. Sanagapalli, A. Narayan, P. Kovoor, A. Thiagalingam

    
• • ·Early Experience with Delayed-Enhancement Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

    Pagina :S92

    N. Stoyanov, R. Weerasooriya, M. Butler, A. Abraham

    
• • ·Early Experience with Robotic Navigation for Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation – Initial Procedural Details and Outcomes

    Pagina :S93

    A. Gavin, C. Singleton, J. Bowyer, A. McGavigan

    
• • ·Effect of Atrial Fibrillation and Increased Atrial Rates on Markers of Left Atrial Thrombogenesis in Humans

    Pagina :S93

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

    
• • ·Effects of Chronic Fish Oil Supplementation on the Burden of Paroxysmal Atrial Tachyarrhythmias in Elderly Patients with Dual Chambered Pacemakers

    Pagina :S94

    S. Kumar, F. Sutherland, J. Kalman, I. Stevenson, J. Morton, H. Mond, P. Sparks

    
• • ·Effects of Chronic Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Supplementation on Pulmonary Vein and Left Atrial Electrophysiology in Patients with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S94

    S. Kumar, A. Teh, P. Heck, F. Sutherland, M. Garg, P. Sparks

    
• • ·Evolution of an early ablation of post-myocardial infarct ventricular tachycardia in an ovine model

    Pagina :S94

    C. Hsieh, E. Chia, K. Huang, J. Lu, J. Pouliopoulos, T. Barry, S. Thomas, P. Kovoor

    
• • ·First in Human Successful Re-isolation of Pulmonary Veins Utilising the Direct Endocardial Visualisation Ablation Catheter for Recurrent Symptomatic Atrial Fibrillation Following Pulmonary Vein Isolation

    Pagina :S95

    W. Chik, D. Robinson, Z. Malchano, M. Barry, C. Rothe, B. Wylie, J. Pouliopoulis, J. Allison, V. Saadat, D. Ross, P. Kovoor, S. Thomas, A. Thiagalingam

     
• • ·Impact of Coronary Artery Disease Intervention on the Incidence and Prognosis of Atrial Fibrillation after Acute Myocardial infarction: A Systematic Review

    Pagina :S95

    M. Alasady, A. Brooks, S. Proctor, N. Chia, D. Barlow, H. Lim, W. Abhayaratna, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Outcomes in a Single New Zealand Centre

    Pagina :S96

    D. Wilson, B. Shi, P. Larson, S. Harding

    
• • ·Implantation of a Totally Subcutaneous ICD in Children

    Pagina :S96

    K. McLeod, D. Connelly, A. McLean

    
• • ·Improvements in Quality Of Life and 6-Minute Walk Distances are Not Affected by Different Ablation Strategies or Recurrent Atrial Tachyarrhythmias but may be Worsened by Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy

    Pagina :S96

    T. Lim, C. Koay, V. See, R. Zecchin, R. McCall, W. Chik, K. Byth, S. Seow, L. Thomas, D. Ross, S. Thomas

    
• • ·Improving Pericardial Access and Safety for Epicardial Ablation

    Pagina :S97

    M. Swale, J. Gard, S. Johnson, K. Parker, D. Packer

    
• • ·Inducibility of Atrial Fibrillation in Absence of Structural Heart Disease or Clinical Atrial Fibrillation: Implications for the Use of Inducibility as an Endpoint for Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

    Pagina :S97

    S. Kumar, J. Kalman, F. Sutherland, A. Teh, G. Lee, C. Medi, P. Heck, P. Sparks

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

    Pagina :S98

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

    
• • ·Initial Experience of Arctic Front Cryoablation for Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S98

    G. Trim, J. Brabant, A. Henry, K. Hedges, K. Lim, J. Meulet

    
• • ·Initial Experience with the Laser System for Cardiac Device Lead Extraction

    Pagina :S98

    N. Strathmore, P. Heck

    
• • ·Intravenous Heparin as Bridging Therapy During Cardiac Electronic Device Implantation in Patients with Mechanical Heart Valves

    Pagina :S99

    J. Swampillai, C. Wade, C. Sebastian, R. Linder, S. Heald, M. Stiles

    
• • ·Larger Body Size but not BMI Predict Longer Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Procedure Times and Increased Arrhythmia Recurrences on Long Term Follow Up

    Pagina :S99

    T. Lim, C. Koay, V. See, R. McCall, W. Chik, R. Zecchin, K. Byth, S. Seow, L. Thomas, D. Ross, S. Thomas

    
• • ·Late Gadolinium Enhancement on Cardiac MRI Predicts Response to Atrial Fibrillation Ablation in Patients with Heart Failure

    Pagina :S100

    L. Ling, A. Ellims, G. Lee, A. Teh, C. Medi, D. Kaye, A. Tayor, P. Kistler

    
• • ·Long-term Complications of Transvenous Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Leads – A Single-centre Experience

    Pagina :S100

    M. Santos, J. Wright, J. Betts, B. England, J. Lindemann, D. Wright, C. Taylor, H. Samardhi, R. Denman

    
• • ·Low Frequency Ventilation During Pulmonary Vein Ablation is a Safe and Effective Way to Reduce Cardiac Movement

    Pagina :S100

    D. Sinagra, R. Weerasooriya, A. Lovegrove, H. Aneja, M. John, A. Weerasooriya

    
• • ·Low Incidence of Acute Pulmonary Vein Reconnection with Focal, Overlapping, Antral Lesions Combined with Waiting Time and Intravenous Adenosine During Pulmonary Vein Isolation for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S101

    S. Kumar, P. Heck, A. Teh, G. Lee, F. Sutherland, P. Sparks

    
• • ·Mechanisms and Effects of Chronic Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Supplementation on Human Atrial Electrical and Mechanical Function

    Pagina :S101

    S. Kumar, F. Sutherland, P. Heck, A. Teh, G. Lee, C. Medi, R. Rosso, M. Wheeler, M. Garg, J. Morgan, P. Sparks

    
• • ·Mitral Isthmus Ablation Line Reconnections are Common and Predicts Mitral Annular Dependent Flutters Following Pulmonary Vein Isolations for Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S102

    W. Chik, T. Lim, C. Koay, V. See, R. McCall, R. Zecchin, K. Byth, L. Thomas, D. Ross, S. Thomas

    
• • ·New Insights into the Electrophysiological Significance of Lipomatous Metaplasia Post-myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S102

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

    
• • ·Non-invasive Characterisation of Electrical Remodeling in an Interventional Weight Loss Program: Implications for Obesity and Atrial Arrhythmias

    Pagina :S103

    H. Abed, Y. Cheng, M. Baumert, N. Antic, W. Abhayaratna, G. Wittert, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Non-invasive Electrical and Echocardiographic Parameters Accurately Characterise Atrial Fibrillation Patients

    Pagina :S103

    N. Chia, A. Brooks, N. Shipp, P. Kuklik, A. Ganesan, M. Baumert, K. Roberts-Thomson, P. Sanders

     
• • ·Pacemaker Implantation by Surgeons vs. Cardiologists: Comparing Two Different Eras

    Pagina :S104

    S. Mirzaee, S. Oraii

    
• • ·Patient Radiation Exposure for Pulmonary Vein Isolation is Acceptable and is Lower than that for Diagnostic Coronary Angiogram

    Pagina :S104

    F. Tabas, N. Mughal, A. Huang, K. Hellestrand, D. Whalley, L. Kanagaratnam

    
• • ·Patients with Recurrent Organised Atrial Tachyarrhythmias have Better Outcomes after a Second Ablation Procedure than Patients who have Recurrent Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S104

    T. Lim, C. Koay, V. See, R. McCall, W. Chik, R. Zecchin, K. Byth, S. Seow, L. Thomas, D. Ross, S. Thomas

    
• • ·Presence of Abnormal Atrial Substrate in New Onset Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S105

    G. Rangnekar, A. Brooks, P. Sanders

     
• • ·Pulmonary Vein Isolation with the Cryoballoon Technique

    Pagina :S105

    N. Jackson, M. Barlow, J. Leitch

     
• • ·Real-time Assessment of Oesophageal Position by Direct Visualisation with Luminal Contrast—Implications FOR Catheter Ablation Strategy

    Pagina :S106

    A. Gavin, C. Singleton, A. McGavigan

    
• • ·Serum Markers of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Intake and Electrophysiological Vulnerability to Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S106

    S. Kumar, F. Sutherland, A. Teh, G. Lee, P. Heck, C. Medi, M. Garg, P. Sparks

    
• • ·Shock Reduction in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators—A Local Perspective

    Pagina :S106

    M. Wong, F. Chahadi, P. Rae, D. O’Donnell

    
• • ·Should Anti-platelet Therapy be Discontinued Prior to Pacemaker Implantation?

    Pagina :S107

    P. Choudhary, L. Davis, D. Springell, J. Squire

    
• • ·Single Centre Experience: Bleeding Complications after Permanent Pacemaker Implantation in Patients on Anticoagulant Treatment

    Pagina :S107

    L. Garg, M. Premaratne, W. Mohsen, R. Szirt, D. Owensby, A. Lee, J. Gohil, B. McKenzie, E. Vogl, N. Dang, A. Yeung, P. Shetty

    
• • ·Single Coil ICD Leads are Associated with a Similar Outcome to Dual Coil ICD Leads During Medium Term Follow-up

    Pagina :S108

    H. Samardhi, S. Rateesh, K. Ng, M. Santos, R. Denman

    
• • ·Single Ring Posterior Left Atrial (Box) Isolation Results in Fewer AF Recurrences than Wide Antral Pulmonary Vein Isolation on Long Term Follow up

    Pagina :S108

    T. Lim, C. Koay, V. See, R. McCall, W. Chik, R. Zecchin, K. Byth, S. Seow, L. Thomas, D. Ross, S. Thomas

    
• • ·Single Ring Posterior Left Atrial Isolation Results in Fewer Recurrent Atrial Arrhythmias than Wide Antral Isolation after two or More Procedures

    Pagina :S109

    T. Lim, C. Koay, V. See, R. McCall, W. Chik, R. Zecchin, K. Byth, S. Seow, L. Thomas, D. Ross, S. Thomas

    
• • ·Sinus Rhythm and Ectopic P-wave Duration as Markers of Substrate in Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S109

    A. Brooks, P. Kuklik, N. Chia, M. Baumert, N. Shipp, G. Rangnekar, M. Alasady, K. Roberts-Thomson, P. Sanders

     
• • ·Super-responders to Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT)

    Pagina :S110

    F. Chahadi, M. Wong, B. Dawood, D. O’Donnell

    
• • ·The Electrocardiographic Features of Atrial Flutter Post Percutaneous Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S110

    D. Barlow, M. Alasady, R. Mahajan, A. Brooks, K. Roberts-Thomson, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Three Sisters Study: Atrial Pacing and Beta Blockade for the Suppression of Atrial Fibrillation: Six Year Follow-up

    Pagina :S110

    J. England, M. Lewandowski, S. Huang, A. McLean, L. Davis, R. Giles

    
• • ·Transseptal Puncture and Thrombotic Risk

    Pagina :S111

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

    
• • ·2011 Addendum to the Guidelines for the Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes 2006

    Pagina :S111

    D. Chew, C. Aroney, P. Aylward, H. White, P. Tideman, A. Kelly, J. Waddell, L. Azadi, A. Wilson, L. Ruta

    
• • ·Sixty-four Cases of Stent Thrombosis: A Seven Year Experience from the Australian Capital Territory

    Pagina :S112

    A. Mishra, A. Farshid, R. Tan, S. O’ Connor, M. Rahman, C. Allada, D. McGill, P. Marley, L. Arnolda

    
• • ·A Bayesian Risk Index for Predicting Risk of Major Adverse Cardiac Events at 12 Months Post Angioplasty and Its Application to Clinical Service Quality Improvement

    Pagina :S112

    J. Cameron, J. Rivers, P. Hadjipetrou, K. Mengersen, I. Smith

    
• • ·This abstract has been withdrawn.

    Pagina :S113

    
• • ·A Comparison of Oral and Intravenous Sodium Bicarbonate on Urinary pH in Patients at Risk of Contrast-induced Nephropathy: A Pilot Study

    Pagina :S113

    P. To, F. Chahadi, M. Freeman, M. Pan, O. Farouque, P. Mount

    
• • ·A Grading System for Chronic Total Occlusions

    Pagina :S113

    Y. Singbal, M. Trikilis, R. Jayasinghe

    
• • ·A Review of a Primary Angioplasty Database

    Pagina :S113

    L. Savage, T. Williams, P. Diu

    
• • ·A Single Centre Experience in the Use of Rotational Atherectomy for the Percutaneous Management of Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S114

    F. Syed, E. Vink, K. Poon, M. Savage, M. Pincus, A. Small, N. Bett, R. Chua, D. Walters, O. Raffel

    
• • ·Accurate Assessment of the Femoro-iliac Arteries for TAVI Using On Table Dyna CT

    Pagina :S114

    J. Crowhurst, D. Campbell, B. Robinson, K. Poon, C. Aroney, D. Walters

    
• • ·This abstract has been withdrawn.

    Pagina :S114

    
• • ·Aortic Valve Guide—Automatic Valve Annulus Profiling For TAVI. First Australian Experience

    Pagina :S114

    J. Crowhurst, D. Campbell, B. Robinson, K. Poon, C. Aroney, D. Walters

    
• • ·Appropriate timing of PCI pre-TAVI

    Pagina :S115

    K. Nowakowski, K. Poon, M. Savage, D. Walters

    
• • ·Are Intra-aortic Balloon Pumps Harmful in Cardiogenic Shock?

    Pagina :S115

    D. Stub, W. Chan, D. Clark, A. Ajani, N. Andrianopoulos, A. Brennan, P. Loane, A. Black, G. New, J. Shaw, O. Narayan, C. Reid, A. Dart, S. Duffy

    
• • ·Australian and New Zealand Source Registry: Edwards Sapien Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement—30 Day Outcomes

    Pagina :S116

    D. Walters, A. Sinhal, D. Barron, S. Pasupati, S. Thambar, G. Yong, N. Jepson, R. Bhindi, J. Bennetts, R. Larbalestier, A. Clarke, P. Brady, H. Wolfenden, A. James, A. El Gamel, P. Jansz, D. Chew, for the SOURCE AUS Investigators

    
• • ·Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty (BAV). Does it Have a Role in the Era of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)?

    Pagina :S116

    S. Pasupati, M. Liang

    
• • ·This abstract has been withdrawn

    Pagina :S116

    
• • ·Clinical Application of Optical Coherence Tomography in Coronary Angiography and Intervention: 33 Cases from The Prince Charles Hospital OCT Registry

    Pagina :S117

    K. Poon, A. Incani, M. Savage, A. Small, M. Pincus, R. Chua, C. Raffel, D. Walters

    
• • ·Clinical Outcomes After Bare-metal Stents Deployment in Large Coronary Arteries in Patients with ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S117

    I. Shugman, L. Hee, P. Diu, S. Lo, P. Nguyen, R. Rajaratnam, L. Thomas, D. Leung, A. Hopkins, C. Juergens, J. French

    
• • ·Clinical Outcomes for PCI Patients? A Nine-Year Hospital Registry

    Pagina :S118

    S. Sidharta, L. Roberts, C. Shields, K. Munnan, J. Beale, J. Mascaro, W. Wen, W. Childs, G. New

    
• • ·Clinical Outcomes in Small Coronary Vessel Interventions with Everolimus-Eluting Stent

    Pagina :S118

    M. Liang, T. Liew, A. Puri, C. Lowry, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Clinical Utility of Routine Fractional Flow Reserve in Patients with Suspected CAD Referred for Elective Invasive Angiography

    Pagina :S118

    B. Ko, J. Cameron, I. Meredith, M. Leung, P. Antonis, Y. Malaiapan, J. Koutsoubos, S. Seneviratne

    
• • ·Code STEMI: Twelve Months Following Initial “CODE STEMI” Experience—Registry

    Pagina :S119

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

     
• • ·Comparison of Brachial Versus Radial Approach for Diagnostic Coronary Angiography When Femoral Approach Contra-indicated

    Pagina :S119

    P. Fahmy, A. Kanthan, E. Kizana, P. Kovoor, A. Ong

    
• • ·Comparison of Everolimus and Zotarolimus Eluting Stents in STEMI Angioplasty

    Pagina :S120

    R. Gooley, A. White, M. Leung, W. Ahmar, I. Meredith, Y. Malaiapan

    
• • ·Comparison of Transcoronary Ablation of Septal Hypertrophy (TASH) to Surgical Myomectomy in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S120

    H. Samardhi, S. Rateesh, F. Syed, C. Harley, C. Aroney, C. Raffel, D. Walters

    
• • ·Complementary Anatomical Suitability for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implant in a Program with Access to Two First Generation Transcatheter Valves

    Pagina :S121

    G. Yong, J. Rankin, J. Turner, G. Beale, S. Shetty, R. Clugston, R. Kanna, M. Muhlmann, X. Xu, K. Lam, R. Larbalestier

    
• • ·Defining Learning Curves in Percutaneous Atrial Septal Closure

    Pagina :S121

    Y. Singbal, L. Huynh, S. Cox, S. Wahi

    
• • ·Does Body Mass Index (BMI) Remain a Valid Indicator for Mortality After PCI?

    Pagina :S121

    B. Chan, M. Horrigan, D. Ecclestone

    
• • ·Does Field-triage of STEMI Patients by Paramedics Improve Door-to-balloon Times and Clinical Outcomes in Infarct PCI?—Insights from the Melbourne Interventional Group (MIG) Registry

    Pagina :S122

    W. Childs, N. Andrianopoulos, S. Sidharta, L. Roberts, S. Duffy, A. Ajani, J. Lefkovits, D. Clark, O. Farouque, A. Brennan, T. Yip, R. Munnur, L. Martin, C. Reid, G. New

    
• • ·Dual Anti-platelet Therapy Post-PCI in Elderly Patients Who Take Warfarin. Insights from a National Multi-centre Angioplasty Registry

    Pagina :S122

    B. Chan, M. Horrigan, D. Eccleston

    
• • ·Early Outcomes from Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation—A Single Center Experience

    Pagina :S123

    S. Jaijee, A. Mortada, D. Celermajer, M. Adams, B. Bailey, P. Forrest, L. Simmons, M. Wilson, M. Vallely, M. Ng

    
• • ·Economic Analysis of Hospitalisation for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Compared to Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Octogenarians

    Pagina :S123

    G. Yong, J. Rankin, J. Turner, G. Beale, R. Ienco, R. Clugston, S. Shetty, M. Muhlmann, R. Kanne, R. Larbalestier

    
• • ·Effect of Venous Pressure on Fractional Flow Reserve and Index of Microcirculatory Resistance in Patients with Stable Chest Pain Syndromes

    Pagina :S123

    A. Al-Fiadh, M. Mok, T. Lancfield, M. Freeman, D. Clark, O. Farouque

    
• • ·Efficacy and Safety of Eptifibatide vs Abciximab in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S124

    M. Yudi, R. Jayasinghe, S. Jayasinghe

    
• • ·Evolution of a Same Day PCI Discharge Program at the Launceston General Hospital

    Pagina :S124

    B. Herman, R. Barthwal

    
• • ·Expected Survival and Value of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Versus Medical Therapy in Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis (AS) Based on the Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) Comparative Dataset

    Pagina :S125

    R. Prakash, D. Chew, A. Sinhal, M. Horsfall, C. Green, D. Makoy, J. Bennetts, A. Markwick, J. Judd, K. Waddell-Smith, Y. Wong

    
• • ·Femoral Access PCI has Very Low Bleeding Rates when Performed by Experienced Operators using Meticulous Technique

    Pagina :S125

    J. Chandrasekhar, M. Pitney

    
• • ·Femoral Artery Anatomy: A Simple Strategy to Minimise Access-site Complications

    Pagina :S125

    B. Dundon, A. Hutchison, Y. Malaiapan, R. Gooley, J. Lipshutz, R. Harper, I. Meredith

    
• • ·Femoral Versus Radial Coronary Angiography—An Audit From the Gold Coast Hospital

    Pagina :S126

    A. Safaa, R. Markham, R. Jayasinghe, M. Trikilis

    
• • ·First 12 Months Experience and Clinical Outcomes after Watchman^® Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Procedure: Case Series in a Single Centre

    Pagina :S126

    J. Humphries, K. Phillips

    
• • ·Fractional Flow Reserve Guided Revascularisation—The MonashHEART Experience

    Pagina :S126

    M. Leung, B. Ko, S. Seneviratne, P. See, J. Cameron, Y. Malaiapan, I. Meredith

    
• • ·How are We Treating Women with Coronary Artery Disease in 2011? Outcomes after PCI and Compliance with New Guidelines: Results from a National Multi-centre Registry

    Pagina :S127

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

    
• • ·Immediate Coronary Angiography will Identify Acute Arterial Occlusion in a Significant Minority of out of Hospital VF Survivors Without ST Elevation

    Pagina :S127

    S. Wright, J. Lekfovits, R. Iyer

    
• • ·Impact of Right Atrial Pressure on Decision Making Using Fractional Flow Reserve in Elective PCI

    Pagina :S128

    J. Layland, R. Whitbourn, A. Burns, J. Somaratne, A. MacIsaac, A. Wilson

    
• • ·Improving Outcomes for Primary PCI in the Australian Capital Territory: A Three-Year Registry

    Pagina :S128

    A. Farshid, A. Mishra, L. Cox, R. Tan, D. McGill, S. O’Connor, M. Rahman, C. Allada, L. Arnolda

    
• • ·Increases in Radiation Badge Counts are Associated with a Switch from Femoral to Radial Artery Access for PCI

    Pagina :S128

    J. Elliott

     
• • ·Initial Experience of ExoSeal Vascular Closure Device Following Percutaneous Trans-femoral Coronary Procedures

    Pagina :S129

    C. Itty, M. Paymard, N. Jackson, I. Agahari, P. Gunaruwan, N. Collins, R. Bhagwandeen

    
• • ·Initial Multicentre Experience with Left Atrial Appendage Closure Devices for Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S129

    B. Gunalingam, P. Roy, D. Wynne, D. Baron, D. Muller

    
• • ·Interventional PFO Closure Using the Premere Device: Australian Experience

    Pagina :S130

    A. Ghoshal, D. Walters, R. Jayasinghe, S. Worthley, R. Harper

    
• • ·Intracoronary ECG is Predictor of Hyperaemic Blood Flow and Myocardial Injury

    Pagina :S130

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

    
• • ·Is a Left Shoulder Guard Biologically More Useful than a Left Shin Guard for Radiation Protection in Interventional Cardiology?

    Pagina :S130

    S. Buchholz, N. Mughal, A. Nojoumian, R. Bhindi

    
• • ·Is Catheter Balloon Sizing Required in Atrial Septal Defect Closure?

    Pagina :S131

    Y. Singbal, L. Huynh, S. Cox, S. Wahi

    
• • ·Is Measurement of Troponin-I (Tn-I) Post-elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Required to Predict Adverse Events?

    Pagina :S131

    D. Clark, M. Mok, K. Charter, M. Horrigan, O. Farouque

    
• • ·Is there a Treatment Gap in Risk Factor Management after PCI in 2011? Results from a National Multi-centre Registry

    Pagina :S132

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

    
• • ·Lack of Ostial Coronary Artery Vasoconstriction in Acute ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S132

    S. Buchholz, M. Ward, R. Bhindi

    
• • ·Late Structural Integrity of Balloon Expandable Stents used for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR): Assessment by Multi Detector Computerised Tomography (MDCT)

    Pagina :S132

    A. Willson, J. Leipsic, R. Gurvitch, S. Toggweiler, R. Binder, D. Wood, J. Ye, A. Cheung, J. Webb

    
• • ·Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Utilising the Amplatzer Cardiac Plug

    Pagina :S133

    G. Young, V. Paul, P. Disney, R. Clugston, X. Xu, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Lesion Guided Strategy for the Use of Bare Metal Stents in Large Coronary Vessels

    Pagina :S133

    P. Fahmy, M. Leung, W. Ahmar, P. Sinha, C. Roufaeil, K. Sinha, I. Meredith, Y. Malaiapan

    
• • ·Long Term Mortality Rates Post PCI: Insights from the MIG Registry

    Pagina :S134

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

     
• • ·Long-term Outcomes after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Australian Private Hospitals: Results in the First 2000 Patients from a National Multi-centre Registry

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• • ·Long-term Outcomes are Better with Long-term Dual Anti-Platelet Therapy after Drug-Eluting Stents: Insights from a Multi-centre Australian Study

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• • ·Low Coronary Blood Flow Pre-PCI Predicts Microvascular Dysfunction Following PCI in Patients with Stable Angina

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• • ·Lumen Diameter Derived from Compliance Charts in Stenting: A Valid Approximation to Quantitative Coronary Angiography Measurements

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• • ·Major Vascular Complications and Bleeding During Transfemoral Aortic Valve Replacement

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• • ·Management Strategies for Aortic Arch Stenting in Young Adult

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• • ·This abstract has been withdrawn.

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• • ·No Difference in Contrast Volume Delivered to Patients with Traditional vs. Automatic Injector Systems During Diagnostic Coronary Angiography

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• • ·NP202 Improves Systolic Function and Reduces Inflammation in a Rodent Model of Myocardial Ischaemia and Reperfusion

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• • ·One Year Echocardiographic Follow Up in Patients Treated with Edwards Sapien Aortic Valve Implantation: Experience from the Flinders Medical Centre

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    L. Lee, R. Prakash, M. Joseph, C. Green, J. Bennetts, D. Chew, A. Sinhal

    
• • ·One-Year Hospital Readmission Rate in the Very Elderly Patients Who had Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

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

    
• • ·Optical Coherence Tomography Findings in Stent Thrombosis: Insights from the Prince Charles Hospital OCT Registry

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    K. Poon, A. Incani, M. Savage, M. Pincus, A. Small, C. Raffel, D. Walters

    
• • ·Patent Foramen Ovale Closure With Occlutech Figulla^® Flex Device: Initial Australian Experience

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    P. Gunaruwan, I. Agahari, N. Jackson, R. Hatton, C. Itty, N. Collins, R. Bhagwandeen

    
• • ·Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) for Left Main Coronary Stenosis: A Comparison of Vascular Access Sites

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    T. Glenie, F. De Vroey, P. Ruygrok, J. Ormiston, J. Stewart, M. Webster

    
• • ·Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) to the Left Main Coronary Artery in Patients with Acute ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI)

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    T. Glenie, F. De Vroey, P. Ruygrok, J. Ormiston, J. Stewart, M. Webster

    
• • ·Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Left Main (LM) Coronary Artery Stenosis in Patients Without Previous Coronary Bypass Surgery: The Auckland City Hospital Experience

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    T. Glenie, F. De Vroey, P. Ruygrok, J. Ormiston, J. Stewart, M. Webster

    
• • ·Persistence of Paroxysmal AF Ablation Outcomes: A Systematic Review of Results Presented at One and Two Years Post-Procedure

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    N. Shipp, A. Brooks, P. Kuklik, M. Baumert, D. Lau, K. Roberts-Thomson, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Plain old Balloon Angioplasty for ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction

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    A. Zakariyya, N. Cox, K. Soon, Y. Lim

    
• • ·Post Implantation Geometry of the Edwards SAPIEN XT Valve as Assessed by Multidetector Computerised Tomography

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    A. Willson, J. Webb, R. Gurvitch, R. Binder, S. Toggweiler, D. Wood, J. Ye, A. Cheung, J. Leipsic

    
• • ·Predictors and Outcomes of Peri-procedural Myocardial Infarction Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights from a Multi-centre Australian Registry

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

    
• • ·Predictors of 30-Day Mortality After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Establishment of a PCI Risk Model

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    W. Chan, N. Andrianopoulos, A. Brennan, A. Ajani, D. Clark, A. Black, G. New, D. Stub, B. Yan, A. Dart, C. Reid, S. Duffy

    
• • ·Prospective Audit of Completeness of Consent Form for Same Day Coronary Angiogram

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    M. Lawrence, Y. Malaiapan, I. Meredith

    
• • ·Radial Angiography Experience in a Regional Centre

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    R. Szirt, M. Premaratne, D. Brillante, A. Lee, D. Owensby, B. McKenzie, N. Dang, E. Vogl, A. Yeung, J. Gohil, M. Dennis, L. Garg, P. Shetty

    
• • ·Reduced Radiation Dose and Contrast Use with Dual Axis Rotational Coronary Angiography

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    S. Sahay, A. Farshid, A. Mishra, S. O’ Connor, R. Tan, M. Rahman, C. Allada, D. McGill, G. Bright, A. Balwin

    
• • ·Reducing Door to Reperfusion Time in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarct (STEMI) by Catheter Laboratory Activation from the Field

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    S. Wright, M. Wong, L. Grigg

    
• • ·Review of Aeromedical Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Retrieval in New South Wales

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    B. Burns, C. Reid, K. Habig

    
• • ·Risk Factor Outcomes in Diabetic Patients with Multi-vessel Disease

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    L. Hee, X. Ang, R. Dignan, C. Mussap, L. Thomas, J. French

    
• • ·Safety and Efficacy of Rescue Angioplasty for ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction with High Utilisation Rates of Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitors

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    I. Shugman, D. Parikh, S. Cheng, V. Hsieh, Q. Lo, D. Tobing, S. Lo, D. Leung, A. Hopkins, C. Juergens, J. French

    
• • ·Same Day Return Transfer of Low Risk Patients Following PCI to Improve Service Access—A Safety Study

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

    
• • ·Same-day Discharge Following Elective PCI—10 Year Single Centre Experience

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    Z. Zhang, A. Ranchord, M. Webber, M. Simmonds, P. Matsis, A. Aitken, A. Sasse, D. Luo, S. Harding

    
• • ·Short-Term Effect on Left Ventricular Function Post-Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Related New Onset of Left-Bundle Branch Block

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    M. Liang, G. Devlin, S. Pasupati

    
• • ·Single Centre Experience on Primary PCI for STEMI and Outcome

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    M. Premaratne, W. Mohsen, R. Szirt, A. Lee, D. Owensby, B. McKenzie, E. Vogl, N. Dang, J. Gohil, A. Yeung, T. Tiberio, M. Aquilina, P. Shetty

    
• • ·South Asian Born Patients Present Later With STEMI Compared to Australian Born Patients in Western Sydney

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    A. Kanthan, P. Fahmy, E. Kizana, A. Narayan, G. Sivagangabalan, P. Kovoor

    
• • ·Stent Post-Dilatation in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction-Beneficial or Detrimental? PODAMAS study

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    S. Biswas, K. Soon, C. Wong, N. Cox, Y. Lim

     
• • ·Survival of Cardiogenic Shock Patients in the Current Era of Improved Treatment Strategies

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    S. Wright, A. Ajani, D. Eccleston, J. Lefkovits, R. Iyer

    
• • ·The Impact of Advanced Age on Clinical Outcome from an Early Invasive Strategy in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome. The Acute Coronary Syndrome Prospective Audit registry (ACACIA)

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    R. Prakash, C. Malkin, D. Chew, M. Horsfall, J. Amerena, A. Markwick, J. Judd, K. Waddell-Smith, Y. Wong

    
• • ·The Impact of Aspiration Thrombectomy on the Diagnosis and Outcomes of Coronary Embolism

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    A. Huang, E. Shaw, P. Hansen, R. Bhindi, G. Figtree, G. Nelson, H. Rasmussen, M. Ward

    
• • ·The Influence of Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation on the Calculation of Cardiac Output Measurement During Right Heart Catheterisation

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    S. McKenzie, M. Brown, D. Platts, G. Javorsky

    
• • ·The Sunshine Coast STEMI Pilot: An Integrated Network Model for Immediate Transfer of Regional patients to a PCI-Capable Hospital

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    P. O’Donohue, M. Dahl, D. Colburn, S. Rashford, R. Cardwell, T. George, P. Larsen, D. Williamson, D. Callow, M. Dooris, D. Walters, C. Raffel, M. Pincus, C. Hammett

    
• • ·The Use of Intra-Coronary Optical Coherence Tomography in the Assessment of Coronary Stent Apposition

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    R. Rayoo, Z. Tuer, N. Sharma, W. van Gaal, F. Ponnuthurai, N. Mehta, P. Barlis

    
• • ·Time of Presentation and Door to Lab Time in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction

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    M. Dooris

     
• • ·Time to Reperfusion with the Radial Approach in STEMI PCI

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    M. Lawrence, A. Hutchison, Y. Malaiapan, I. Meredith

    
• • ·TIMI Myocardial Perfusion Grade Predicts Myocardial Salvage Index: Insights From A Cardiac MRI Study

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    D. Wong, R. Das, M. Leung, R. Puri, K. Teo, I. Meredith, M. Worthley, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation—Multicentre Study Evaluating the Clinical Outcomes of Patients with PARTNER Trial Exclusions

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    R. Gurvitch, A. Willson, J. Rodes-Cabau, R. Bagur, S. Toggweiler, D. Wood, A. Cheung, J. Ye, M. Lee, E. Dumont, J. Webb

    
• • ·Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) for Severe Aortic Stenosis, Experience from the Flinders Medical Centre

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    L. Lee, R. Prakash, M. Joseph, J. Bennetts, P. Puckridge, W. Cheng, D. Chew, A. Sinhal

    
• • ·Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI). Can We Afford Not to be Involved?

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

    
• • ·Transcatheter Aortic Valve-in-valve Implantations for Failed Bioprosthetic Heart Valves at the Prince Charles Hospital

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    K. Poon, A. Incani, J. Crowhurst, C. Aroney, D. Walters

    
• • ·Transport Following Resuscitation from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest to Hospitals with Interventional Cardiac Services is Associated with Improved Survival

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    D. Stub, K. Smith, J. Bray, S. Bernard, S. Duffy, D. Kaye

    
• • ·Two-Year Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Primary Angioplasty with Bare-Metal Stents

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    M. Liang, J. Wong, A. Puri, J. Hii, C. Nunn, G. Devlin

     
• • ·Two-Year Clinical Outcomes with Everolimus Drug-Eluting Stent—A New Zealand Tertiary Centre Registry Review

    Pagina :S154

    M. Liang, A. Puri, C. Lowry, L. Hyde, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Validating Intracoronary Optical Coherence Tomography Measurements of Acute Stent Apposition

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    R. Rayoo, Z. Tuer, A. Hutchinson, N. Sharma, P. Barlis

    
• • ·Variations in Coronary Lumen Dimensions Measured In Vivo: Quantitative Comparisons Between Intravascular Ultrasound, Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography and Three Dimensional Quantitative Coronary Angiography

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

    
• • ·3DE is the More Reliable Method Sequential LV Mass Measurements in Clinical Trials

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    C. Jenkins, L. Wright, D. Gilroy, M. Stowasser, J. Sharman, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Accuracy and Feasibility of Non-Sonographer Acquisition and Measurement of Carotid Intima–Media Thickness

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    B. Haluska, J. Holliday, L. Jeffriess, S. Stewart, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Acute Systolic Dysfunction and Recovery Does Not Coincide With Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients Presenting with Tako-Tsubo Cardiomyopathy

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    S. Butterly, M. Indrajith, A. Thompson, W. Wang

    
• • ·Adenosine Stress Perfusion CMR Accurately Identifies the Target Vessel for Revascularisation

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    J. Richardson, A. Bertaso, D. Wong, A. Nelson, H. Tayeb, A. Carbone, B. Dundon, P. Molaee, K. Williams, M. Brown, M. Worthley, K. Teo, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Adenosine Stress Perfusion CMR Reliably Risk Stratifies Patients with Prior Indeterminate Exercise Treadmill Testing

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    A. Bertaso, J. Richardson, A. Nelson, D. Wong, H. Tayeb, A. Carbone, B. Dundon, P. Molaee, K. Williams, M. Brown, M. Worthley, K. Teo, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Adenosine Stress Perfusion CMR Safely Guides Revascularisation Decisions in Patients with Intermediate Coronary Stenosis

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    J. Richardson, A. Bertaso, D. Wong, A. Nelson, H. Tayeb, A. Carbone, B. Dundon, P. Molaee, K. Williams, M. Brown, M. Worthley, K. Teo, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Altered LV Diastolic Function Early After Anthracycline Chemotherapy

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    P. Stoodley, A. Boyd, D. Richards, P. Harnett, R. Hui, S. Meikle, J. Clarke, L. Thomas

    
• • ·An Online Survey Technique of Evaluating the Contrast Echocardiography Programme at The Prince Charles Hospital-Assessment of Its Utility by Sonographers, Echocardiologists and Referring Clinicians

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    D. Platts, C. West, J. Sedgwick, D. Sathianathan, N. Kelly, B. Bolton, D. Burstow

    
• • ·Anatomical and Morphological Survey of the Left Main Coronary Artery by Computed Tomography Coronary Angiogram

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    M. Chang, G. Lau, L. Ridley, S. Freedman, L. Kritharides

    
• • ·Aortic Annulus Diameter Determination by Multidetector Computed Tomography: Reproducibility, Applicability and Implications for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

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    R. Gurvitch, J. Webb, R. Yuan, M. Johnson, C. Hague, A. Willson, S. Toggweiler, D. Wood, J. Ye, R. Moss, C. Thompson, J. Leipsic

    
• • ·Assessment of Aortic Root Dimensions for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Comparison of Imaging Modalities

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    G. Liew, D. Wong, A. Bertaso, V. Thomson, K. Teo, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Assessment of Right Ventricular Volumes by 320 Slice Multi-detector Computed Tomography

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    S. Hope, M. Crossett, N. Ardley, J. Cameron, S. Seneviratne

    
• • ·Assessment of Significant Coronary Artery Stenosis Using Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (BOLD-CMR)

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    J. Harker, J. Luu, D. Guensch, J. Hare, M. Friedrich

    
• • ·Association of Imaging Markers of Myocardial Fibrosis with Metabolic and Functional Disturbances in Early Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: A Multi-modality Study

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    C. Jellis, J. Wright, D. Kennedy, J. Sacre, C. Jenkins, B. Haluska, J. Martin, J. Fenwick, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Can Strain and Strain Rate Useful in Assessing Left Ventricular Filling Pressure?

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

    
• • ·Cardiac Magnetic Resonance: Clinical Experience in a High Volume Centre

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    K. Williams, J. Richardson, A. Bertaso, D. Wong, J. Young, B. Koschade, M. Cunnington, A. Nelson, H. Tayeb, V. Cox, P. Molaee, M. Brown, M. Worthley, K. Teo, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Cardiac MRI and Non-compaction: Incidence and Clinical Patterns

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    H. Jangwal, D. Celermajer, B. Bailey, S. Singarayar, C. Semsarian, D. Richmond, R. Puranik

    
• • ·Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Validation of Echocardiographic Evaluation of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

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    F. Tipoo, G. Perry, D. Leong, M. Joseph, C. De Pasquale, J. Selvanayagam

    
• • ·Clinical Utility of Perflutren Microsphere Contrast Echocardiography in the Critical Care Setting

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    D. Platts, J. Fraser, C. West, N. Kelly, D. Burstow

    
• • ·Coherent Sound Generation in Mitral Regurgitation, Detected by Doppler Echocardiography

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    L. Dubowsky, A. Russell

     
• • ·Comparison of Doppler-derived Methods to Predict Invasive Mean Pulmonary Artery Pressure at Rest and After Exercise in Patients with Scleroderma

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    N. Gnaneswaran, B. Pang, A. La Gerche, A. MacIsaac, D. Prior, A. Burns

    
• • ·Comparison of Early Haemodynamic Performance Between Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) and Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement (SAVR) Bioprosthesis

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    Y. Wong, M. Joseph, D. Chew, J. Bennetts, F. Chong, J. Selvanayagam, A. Penhall, M. Horshall, R. Prakash, J. Judd, K. Waddell-Smith, A. Markwick, A. Sinhal

    
• • ·Comparison of the Utility of Transthoracic Echocardiographic and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients Presenting with Troponin Positive Chest Pain with Unobstructed Coronary Arteries

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    M. Habibian, S. Luis, C. Luis, A. Courtney, C. Hamilton-Craig, W. Strugnell, M. Hansen, R. Slaughter, O. Raffel

    
• • ·Computed Tomography Guided Pericardiocentesis in Adults: A Single Centre Experience of 44 Procedures

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    F. Syed, R. Slaughter, C. Tjahjadi, M. Hansen, O. Raffel

    
• • ·Contrast Enhanced Cardiac CT May Be Used to Accurately Measure the Coronary Calcium Score

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    J. Otton, J. Lønborg, D. Boshell, M. Feneley, A. Hayen, N. Sammel, K. Sesel, L. Bester, J. McCrohon

    
• • ·Convalescent Cardiac MRI in Apical Ballooning—Not All Are Normal!

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    T. Glenie, J. Looi, A. Kerr, C. Edwards, J. Christiansen

     
• • ·CT Coronary Angiography Can Effectively Rule Out Significant Coronary Artery Disease in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

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    J. Huang, T. Tan, R. Gabriel, T. Sutton, N. van Pelt

    
• • ·Detection of Myocardial Ischaemia in Pre-Renal Transplant Work-up in Asymptomatic High-Risk Patients, Utilising Dobutamine Stress Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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    M.G.M. Maia, B.K. Dundon, K.S. Teo, H.M. Tayeb, T. Coates, G. Russ, K.M. Bannister, R.J. Faull, S.G. Worthley, M.I. Worthley

    
• • ·Detection of Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) Using Agitated Saline Contrast Imaging: Experience with 1162 Patients and Recommendations for Echocardiography

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    K. Marriott, A. Forshaw, J. Wright, R. Pascoe

    
• • ·Determination of Normal Myocardial Contrast Enhancement Patterns in 320-Detector Row Cardiac Computed Tomography

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    T. Meredith, J. Cameron, S. Hope, S. Seneviratne

    
• • ·Diabetes Mellitus is an Independent Determinant of Impaired Left Ventricular Diastolic Reserve: A Potential Marker of Subclinical Diabetic Cardiomyopathy

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    M. Leung, M. Whatmough, D. Leung

    
• • ·Diagnostic Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients Presenting with Troponin Positive Acute Coronary Syndromes and Unobstructed Coronary Arteries

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    S. Luis, M. Habibian, C. Luis, A. Courtney, C. Hamilton-Craig, W. Strugnell, R. Slaughter, K. Poon, O. Raffel

    
• • ·Diastolic Dysfunction as Assessed with Grid-Tagged Cardiac MRI Correlates with Microvascular Dysfunction and Markers of Left Ventricular Remodelling Following ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

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    M. Weightman, D. Wong, M. Leung, R. Das, K. Williams, A. Bertaso, J. Richardson, K. Teo, I. Meredith, M. Worthley, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Differential Reduction in Strain Measurements Occurs Following Chest Radiation Therapy

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    Q. Lo, L. Hee, V. Batumalai, C. Allman, G. Delaney, D. Lonergan, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Diffuse Myocardial Fibrosis Evaluated with Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Predicts Heart Failure Symptoms in Non-Ischaemic Cardiomyopathy

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    L. Iles, C. Jaworski, A. Ellims, D. Kaye, A. Taylor

    
• • ·Diffuse Myocardial Fibrosis in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Can Be Detected by Cardiac MRI and Correlates with Left Ventricular Filling Pressure

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    A. Ellims, L. Iles, L. Ling, J. Hare, D. Kaye, A. Taylor

    
• • ·Does a Large Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Diameter Influence Calculated Dimensionless Index? Implications for Assessment of Aortic Stenosis Severity

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    A. Nasis, S. Moir, S. Lockwood, P. Mottram

    
• • ·Does Increased Valvulo-arterial Impedance Lead to Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Myocardial Fibrosis in Severe Aortic Stenosis?

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    T. Hall, L. Huynh, M. Ura, R. Leano, S. Wahi

    
• • ·Does Successful TAVI with CoreValve Have a Significant Impact on Cardiac Structure and Function at one Year?

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    S. Lockwood, I. Meredith, P. Antonis, S. Ciavarella, J. Harley, P. Mottram, S. Moir

    
• • ·Echocardiographic Indices of Right Ventricular Function as Predictors of Severity of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

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    S. Ranjan, T. Hall, L. Huynh, A. Chong, S. Wahi

    
• • ·Echocardiographic Parameters of Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Patients with Massive Pulmonary Embolism

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    A. Camuglia, M. Dooris, A. Lo

    
• • ·Effectiveness of Atropine as a Chronotropic Adjunct in Cardiac Transplant Recipients Undergoing Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography

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    S. Buchholz, F. Ali, E. Kotlyar, C. Hayward, A. Keogh, P. MacDonald, M. Feneley

    
• • ·Evaluation of CMR Tissue Characterisation of Myocarditis and Comparison to Patient Characteristics, Biomarkers and In-Hospital Outcome

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    A. Courtney, C. Hamilton-Craig, W. Strugnell, R. Slaughter, M. Hansen, C. Luis, M. Habibian, S. Luis, O. Raffel

    
• • ·Feasibility of Microsphere Contrast Echocardiography in Patients on Mechanical Cardiac Support

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    D. Platts, J. Fraser, M. Ziegenfus, D. Mullany, J. Sedgwick, D. Burstow

    
• • ·Feasibility of Pulmonary Valve Morphological Assessment Using Simultaneous Biplane and Three-Dimensional Transoesophageal Echocardiography

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    J. Sedgwick, D. Burstow, J. Chan, M. Hudaverdi, D. Santhianathan, S. Rahman, G. Lee, D. Platts

     
• • ·Functional Testing in the Prediction of Cardiac Events: A Comparison of Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) and Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI)

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    S. Wright, J. Lefkovits, A. Ajani, J. Westcott, N. Better

    
• • ·Global Longitudinal Strain is a Reliable and Reproducible Quantitative Parameter During Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography

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    D. Sathianathan, N. Kelly, A. Yamada, D. Burstow, J. Chan

    
• • ·Grid Tag Strain Analysis Characterises Peri-infarct Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Is a Predictor of Ventricular Arrhythmia Risk Following ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S175

    D. Wong, M. Weightman, M. Leung, A. Bertaso, J. Richardson, K. Williams, R. Puri, A. Nelson, I. Meredith, M. Worthley, K. Teo, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Harm Minimisation: Should Regular Cocaine Users have a Thrombophilic Screen?

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    R. Kozor, S. Buchholz, R. Bhindi, G. Figtree

     
• • ·How Good Is Tricuspid Regurgitation Velocity in Excluding Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients with Left Heart Disease

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    J. Mazhar, V. Pera, M. Liang, E. Lee, P. Tamuno, J. Jayabal, R. Fisher

    
• • ·Hypertension Accelerates Diastolic Changes Associated with Normal Aging with a Consequent Premature Increase in Left Atrial Volumes

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    A. Boyd, S. Eshoo, D. Richards, W. Abhayaratna, L. Thomas

    
• • ·If the Pictures are Clear, Is Transoesophageal Echocardiography for Aortic Annulus and Root Measurements Really Needed in Patients Undergoing Workup for TAVI?

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

    
• • ·Impact of Valvulo-arterial Impedance on Left Ventricular Mass Index Change Post Aortic Valve Replacement for Severe Aortic Stenosis

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    T. Hall, L. Huynh, M. Ura, R. Leano, S. Wahi

    
• • ·Incremental Value of Adenosine-induced Stress CT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging with CT Coronary Angiography in Stable Patients with Chest Pain and Suspected Coronary Artery Disease—Comparison with Fractional Flow Reserve

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    B. Ko, J. Cameron, I. Meredith, M. Leung, A. Nasis, P. Antonis, M. Crossett, S. Seneviratne

    
• • ·Inflammation During Myocardial Ischaemia–Reperfusion Injury: Detection of Vcam Up-Regulation by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance

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    S. Grieve, J. Lonborg, T. Tan, E. Ho, L. Chia-Chi, J. Tomka, W. Lay, R. Bhindi, A. Gill, G. Figtree

     
• • ·Is Standard Dose Adenosine Infusion Sufficient to Establish Maximal Hyperaemia During Adenosine Stress Perfusion Cardiac Magnetic Resonance?

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    J. Young, B. Koschade, J. Richardson, A. Bertaso, V. Cox, D. Wong, M. Cunnington, A. Nelson, H. Tayeb, M. Maia, K. Williams, M. Worthley, K. Teo, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Late Microvascular Obstruction is the Best Predictor of Left Ventricular Remodelling Following ST Elevation MI: A Comparison between CMR and Angiography Derived Myocardial Blood Flow

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    D. Wong, M. Leung, R. Das, A. Bertaso, J. Richardson, K. Williams, R. Puri, I. Meredith, K. Teo, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Left Atrial Appendage Anatomical Analysis Using Segmented Three-Dimensional Cardiac CT: A Comparison of Patients with Paroxysmal and Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

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    D. Walker, J. Humphries, K. Phillips

    
• • ·Left Atrial Compression and the Mechanism of Exercise Impairment in Patients with Large Hiatus Hernia

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    C. Naoum, L. Kritharides, G. Falk, T. Lu, L. Ridley, A. Ing, A. Ng, J. Yiannikas

    
• • ·Left Atrial Dilatation and Elevation of Left Atrial Pressure—Common Findings in Scleroderma

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    C. Chao, C. Mylrea, L. Donelan, J. Sahhar, R. Peverill

    
• • ·Left Atrial Phasic Volumes and Function in Varying Grades of Mitral Regurgitation

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    E. Chia, S. Kapila, J. Vidaic, D. Leung, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Left Ventricular Mass–Volume Index: A New Parameter for the Assessment of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy by Cardiac MRI

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    K. SookLim, W. Strugnell, R. Slaughter, C. Hamilton-Craig

    
• • ·Maximum VO₂ Intake and Its Relationship to RV Size and Function in a Healthy Adult Population

    Pagina :S182

    E. Chia, P. Phan, J. Vidaic, D. Leung, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Mechanics of Myocardial Twist During Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography

    Pagina :S182

    D. Sathianathan, A. Yamada, N. Kelly, D. Burstow, J. Chan

    
• • ·Mechanisms to Preserve Left Ventricular Stroke Volume: A CMR Study

    Pagina :S182

    S. Offen, D. Celermajer, R. Puranik

    
• • ·Myocardial Bridging on Cardiac CT-Clinically Significant? CIMBOCA Study

    Pagina :S183

    K. Soon, N. Wan Salam, S. Klim, F. Brown, C. Wong, A. Kelly, Y. Lim

    
• • ·Myocardial Dysfunction and Metabolic Derangement in Type 2 Diabetes: Relationship with Procollagen Biomarkers of Myocardial Fibrosis

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    C. Jellis, J. Sacre, B. Haluska, C. Jenkins, T. Marwick, J. Martin

    
• • ·New Scanning Technique Using Adaptive Statistical Iteractive Reconstruction (ASIR) Significantly Reduced the Radiation Dose of Cardiac CT

    Pagina :S184

    K. Soon, O. Tumur, A. Adel, S. Reeves, C. Wong, F. Brown

    
• • ·Non-invasive Diagnosis of Tako-tsubo Cardiomyopathy with Cardiac Computed Tomography

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    O. Raffel, S. Luis, M. Hansen, R. Slaughter, C. Hamilton-Craig

    
• • ·Novel Use of Combined CT Coronary Angiography and CT Stress Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Using 320-slice CT in Assessment of Stable Symptomatic Patients with Suspected Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S184

    B. Ko, J. Cameron, I. Meredith, M. Leung, P. Antonis, A. Nasis, E. James, M. Crossett, S. Seneviratne

    
• • ·Ongoing Review of Radiation Dose in 320-detector Row Cardiac Computed Tomography

    Pagina :S185

    M. Tung, J. Cameron, S. Seneviratne

     
• • ·Patients with Low Gradient Severe Aortic Stenosis and Preserved Systolic Function Have Reduced Transvalvular Flow Rates

    Pagina :S185

    J. Lipshutz, A. Nasis, S. Moir, S. Lockwood, P. Mottram

    
• • ·Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement Results in an Acute Reduction in Mitral Regurgitation

    Pagina :S186

    A. Penhall, M. Altman, D. Chong, A. Sinhal, J. Selvanayagam, D. Chew, M. Joseph

    
• • ·Percutaneous Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty for Severe Aortic Stenosis: Haemodynamic Evaluation by Echocardiography

    Pagina :S186

    F. Chong, C. Malkin, A. Penhall, J. Selvanayagam, D. Chew, M. Joseph, A. Sinhal

    
• • ·Prevalence of Aortic Stenosis by Age—A Study of 144,772 Australian Echocardiograms

    Pagina :S187

    P. Cain, P. Srivastava, M. Nidorf, P. Disney, X. Fang, G. Holt

     
• • ·Prognostic Value of Adenosine Stress Perfusion Cardiac Magnetic Resonance with Late Gadolinium Enhancement in Intermediate Cardiovascular Risk Patients

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    A. Bertaso, J. Richardson, A. Nelson, D. Wong, H. Tayeb, A. Carbone, B. Dundon, P. Molaee, K. Williams, M. Brown, M. Worthley, K. Teo, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Prospectively Gated Coronary CT Angiography in Bypass Grafts: Dramatic Reductions in Radiation Dose

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    K. De Boni, C. Burley, S. Redmond, M. Hansen, R. Slaughter, C. Hamilton-Craig

    
• • ·Pulmonary Vein Isolation Results in Some Regional Atrial Dysfunction with Preserved Global Atrial Contractility Dissimilar to Surgical Ablation

    Pagina :S188

    A. Boyd, V. See, T. Lim, D. Ross, S. Thomas, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Radiation Exposure in a Consecutive Series of Patients in Western Sydney Who Underwent CT Coronary Angiography Using a Dual-phase 128-slice CT scanner

    Pagina :S188

    T. Tan, P. Choudhary, J. O’Rourke, P. Kovoor, C. Chow

    
• • ·Reduced Right Ventricular Function is Seen with Tissue Doppler Strain in Systemic Amyloidosis

    Pagina :S189

    E. Chia, Q. Lo, M. Lin, J. Taper, D. Gottlieb, R. Phoon, G. Stewart, D. Richards, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Reproducibility of Segmental Myocardial Strain and Myocardial Velocity Analysis During Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography

    Pagina :S189

    D. Sathianathan, N. Kelly, C. West, B. Bolton, A. Benjamin, D. Burstow, J. Chan

    
• • ·Right Side and Left Side Septal Responses to the Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension as Assessed by 2D Longitudinal Strain

    Pagina :S190

    W. Zhao, T. Chung, A. Ng, V. Chow, L. Kritharides

    
• • ·Right Ventricular Systolic Pressures in Patients with Normal Left Ventricular Systolic Function—A Study of 51,429 Australian Echocardiograms

    Pagina :S190

    P. Cain, P. Srivastava, M. Nidorf, P. Disney, X. Fang, G. Holt

     
• • ·Safety of a Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography-guided Strategy for Assessment of Chest Pain in the Emergency Department

    Pagina :S191

    A. Nasis, I. Meredith, P. Sinha, J. Cameron, B. Ko, P. Antonis, S. Seneviratne

    
• • ·Safety of Adenosine Stress Perfusion Cardiac Magnetic Resonance

    Pagina :S191

    B. Koschade, J. Young, J. Richardson, A. Bertaso, V. Cox, D. Wong, M. Cunnington, A. Nelson, H. Tayeb, K. Williams, M. Brown, M. Worthley, K. Teo, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Stress Echocardiography: Quantification and Identification of Ischaemic Wall Motion Through Speckle-tracking

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    Z. Zhang, T. O’Meeghan, R. Anscombe, T. Boga, D. Luo, A. Morgan, S. Harding, P. Larsen, A. Sasse

    
• • ·T2 Mapping by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Reveals Reduced T2 Times in Aortic Stenosis

    Pagina :S192

    A. Jabbour, C. Ettles, T. Ismail, A. Gulati, R. Wage, H. Barnes, R. Mohiaddin, T. He, D. Firmin, S. Prasad

    
• • ·The Clinical and Investigative Features of Patients with Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Presenting with Acute Coronary Syndromes

    Pagina :S192

    A. Benjamin, J. Sedgwick, D. Burstow, C. West, S. Boucaut, D. Platts

    
• • ·The Incremental Benefit of Perflutren Microsphere Contrast Echocardiography in Ventricular Thrombus Evaluation

    Pagina :S193

    D. Roper, J. Sedgwick, D. Burstow, M. Hudaverdi, C. West, N. Kelly, B. Bolton, D. Platts

    
• • ·The Relative Atrial Index—Population Data from 145,522 Echocardiograms

    Pagina :S193

    G. Scalia, P. Cain

     
• • ·The Relative Atrial Index (RAI)—Validation of this Useful Echo Tool Pre and Post Percutaneous Atrial Septal Defect Closure

    Pagina :S194

    T. Draheim, S. Wahi, S. Cox, G. Scalia

     
• • ·The Role of Echocardiography and Utility of Second-generation Contrast Agents in the Assessment of Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Coronary Artery-left Ventricular Fistulae

    Pagina :S194

    A. Benjamin, J. Sedgwick, D. Burstow, C. West, S. Boucaut, D. Platts

    
• • ·The Utility of 3D TOE in the Assessment of Crista Terminalis Mimicking a Right Atrial Mass

    Pagina :S195

    J. Sedgwick, D. Sathianathan, D. Platts, D. Burstow, J. Chan

     
• • ·The Utility of Cardiac MRI in Patients Presenting with Myocardial injury Without Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S195

    M. Indrajith, S. Butterly, J. Amin, B. Jesuthsan, A. Ng, S. Ngai, W. Wang

    
• • ·Transthoracic Echocardiography Inside a Hyperbaric Chamber

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    B. King, B. McKeown, D. Playford, K. Brown, I. Gawthrope

    
• • ·Tricuspid Regurgitation is an Independent Predictor of Mortality in Acute Pulmonary Embolism

    Pagina :S196

    K. Profitis, K. Lu, D. De Silva, J. Grewal, M. Ord, P. Srivastava, O. Farouque, E. Jones

    
• • ·Utility of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Assessment of Prosthetic Aortic Valves

    Pagina :S196

    L. Kearney, M. Molan, G. Matalanis, M. Ord, K. Lu, K. Profitis, L. Burrell, P. Srivastava

     
• • ·What is the Current Incremental Diagnostic Benefit from TOE for the Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis? An Evaluation of a Large Cohort from a Tertiary Referral Centre

    Pagina :S197

    T. Barton, P. Mottram, S. Moir

    
• • ·Which Echocardiographic Measurement Should be Performed to Accurately Evaluate Aortic Root Dimension? A Comparison with 320 Slice Cardiac CT

    Pagina :S197

    S. Lockwood, P. Mottram, S. Moir

    
• • ·Which Echocardiographic Parameters Predict Mortality in ESRD Patients?

    Pagina :S198

    R. Pathak, A. Farshid, M. Alasady, G. Talaulikar, L. Arnolda

    
• • ·Yield of Transthoracic Echocardiogram (TTE) in Identifying Cardiac Source of Embolism (CSOE) in Patients with Ischaemic Cerebrovascular Accident (ICVA)

    Pagina :S198

    J. Mazhar, E. Lee, M. Davis

    
• • ·Implementation of Secure Wireless Data Transmission and Priority Marking on 12-lead ECG Improves Work Flow in a Pre-operative Theatre Ward

    Pagina :S198

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

    
• • ·Initial Experience with Cardiac Auscultation Using a Novel Electronic Stethoscope via Telemedicine

    Pagina :S199

    S. McKenzie, R. Gururajan, A. Galbraith

    
• • ·Use of an Echocardiographic Mannequin Simulator for Early-sonographer Training

    Pagina :S199

    D. Platts, B. Anderson, T. Forshaw, D. Burstow

     
• • ·A Hospital Quality Improvement Initiative for Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes in China: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial

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    F. Turnbull, X. Du, R. Gao, A. Patel, Y. Wu, S. Lo, I. Ranasinghe

    
• • ·Achieving Door-to-balloon Times (DTB) of Less Than 90 min Results in Mortality Reduction in Patients with Both Low-risk and High-risk ST Elevation MI: Insights from a Large Australian Multicentre Registry

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    D. Fernando, T. Lin, M. Mok, N. Andrianopoulos, L. Martin, K. Charter, B. Yan, G. New, M. Sebastian, S. Duffy, M. Horrigan, O. Farouque, A. Ajani, D. Clark

    
• • ·Cardiac Rhythm Monitoring: Are We Missing the Beat?

    Pagina :S200

    H. Han, T. Lin, K. Sanders, J. Scott, E. Jones, J. Johns, O. Farouque, M. Wong

    
• • ·Cardiology Admissions Following the 2010 and 2011 Christchurch Earthquakes

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    C. Chan, I. Crozier, P. Bridgman, J. Lainchbury, J. Elliott, R. Troughton, J. Blake, D. McClean, I. Melton, D. Smyth

     
• • ·Cardiovascular Medication use Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI): Findings from a Multi-centre Registry

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    A. Brennan, B. Yan, S. Duffy, P. Loane, A. Finlay, A. Ajani, C. Reid, G. New, A. Black, J. Shaw, D. Clark, N. Andrianopoulos

    
• • ·Cardiovascular Risk, Renal Status and Fenofibrate Safety in the FIELD Study

    Pagina :S202

    R. Ting, T. Davis, P. Drury, M. Donoghoe, K. Rajamani, J. Best, Y. Kesaniemi, A. Keech

    
• • ·Chronic Fish Oil Supplementation Reduces the Recurrence of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation after Cardioversion

    Pagina :S202

    S. Kumar, F. Sutherland, J. Wong, J. Morgan, J. Voukelatos, P. Sparks

     
• • ·Clinical Outcomes Associated with Concomitant Use of Dual Anti-platelet Therapy and Proton Pump Inhibitors After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :S203

    C. Liew, C. Hiew, O. Narayan

    
• • ·Clinical Profile and Long Term Outcomes in Stress Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S203

    R. Barthwal, T. David, B. Herman

    
• • ·Clinical Variables Predictive of Mortality in ESRD Patients

    Pagina :S203

    R. Pathak, M. Alasady, G. Talaulikar, A. Farshid

    
• • ·Differential Lipid Profiles According to Ethnicity in the ‘Heart of Soweto Study’ Cohort of de novo Presentations of Heart Disease

    Pagina :S204

    J. Lyons, S. Stewart, M. Carrington, K. Sliwa

     
• • ·Does the Presence of Ongoing Chest Pain Influence Triage and Transfer in an Acute Coronary Syndrome Network?

    Pagina :S204

    A. Incani, K. Poon, M. Dahl, J. Fu, H. Muller, M. Dooris, C. Hammett, D. Walters

    
• • ·Gradients in High-density Lipoprotein Levels in Urban Africans Presenting with Communicable Versus Non-communicable Forms of Heart Disease: The Heart of Soweto Study

    Pagina :S205

    J. Lyons, S. Stewart, M. Carrington, K. Sliwa

    
• • ·Haemodynamic Effects of Left Atrial Compression by Large Hiatus Hernia

    Pagina :S205

    C. Naoum, G. Falk, R. Alcock, J. Yiannikas

    
• • ·High Sensitivity Troponin-T—A Regional Hospital Experience

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    A. Tiberio, A. Lee, P. Shetty, J. Gohill, M. Premaratne, D. Brillante, L. Garg, M. Aquilina

    
• • ·How Well Do We Manage Lipids after Coronary Artery Revascularisation in Australia? Insights from a National Multi-centre Registry

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

    
• • ·Increased Right to Left Atrial Area Ratio Following Acute Pulmonary Embolism is an Adverse Prognostic Marker During Long-term Follow-up

    Pagina :S206

    V. Chow, T. Chung, A. Ng, L. Kritharides

    
• • ·Incremental Valve of TOE over Improved TTE in Detection of IE and Influence Antibiotic Use in 2010

    Pagina :S207

    V. Mutha, R. Rayoo, N. Anvekar, S. Marasovic, C. Wong

    
• • ·Influence of Timing of Cardiac Computed Tomography on Emergency Department Length of Stay in Acute Chest Pain Investigation

    Pagina :S207

    P. Sinha, A. Nasis, I. Meredith, J. Cameron, P. Antonis, T. Kambourakis, S. Seneviratne

    
• • ·Insight into Retardation of Aortic Stenosis: A Therapeutic Role for ACE Inhibitors?

    Pagina :S208

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

    
• • ·Limited Utility of Exercise Stress Test in the Evaluation of Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome in Patients Aged Less Than 40 Years with Intermediate Risk Features

    Pagina :S208

    A. Lamanna, A. Scott, J. Bilesky, J. Greenslade, L. Cullen, C. Denaro, A. Brown, W. Parsonage

    
• • ·Mortality in Patients with Coronary and Non Coronary Causes of an Elevated Troponin

    Pagina :S209

    A. Hutchison, S. Barns, T. Barton, R. King, P. Antonis, I. Meredith, J. Cameron

    
• • ·Multiple Cases of Stress Cardiomyopathy after a Destructive Earthquake: When the Earthquakes, the Heart Breaks

    Pagina :S209

    J. Elliott, C. Chan, W. Chan, M. Daly, K. Milburn, R. Saireddy, P. van Wyk, R. Troughton, P. Bridgman

    
• • ·Outcomes of Moderate and Severe Mitral Regurgitation in the Modern Era: A Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) Experience

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    A. Markwick, D. Chew, M. Horsfall, N. Dhiantravan, M. San, A. Chou, M. Joseph, K. Waddell-Smith, R. Prakash, Y. Wong, J. Judd

     
• • ·Peri-operative Myocardial Damage in Higher-risk Patients Undergoing Elective Non-cardiac Surgery

    Pagina :S210

    R. Alcock, D. Kouzios, C. Naoum, G. Hillis, D. Brieger

    
• • ·Pick-up Rate of Significant Cardiac Findings in a ‘Heart Murmur Clinic’

    Pagina :S210

    J. Pemberton, T. Glenie

    
• • ·Plasma BNP Detects High Risk Patients with Asymptomatic Aortic Stenosis and Normal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction

    Pagina :S211

    L. Kearney, M. Ord, K. Lu, K. Profitis, L. Burrell, P. Srivastava

    
• • ·Pre-operative Cardiovascular Risk Evaluation and Management Prior to Non-cardiac Surgery

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    J. Mooney, M. McGarraghy, R. Halliwell, G. Hillis, C. Chow

    
• • ·Pre-operative High-sensitive Troponin Concentration in Higher-risk Patients Undergoing Elective Non-cardiac Surgery

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    R. Alcock, D. Kouzios, C. Naoum, G. Hillis, D. Brieger

    
• • ·Pre-operative Kidney Function as a Predictor of Adverse Outcomes after Surgery—A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Pagina :S212

    J. Mooney, I. Ranasinghe, C. Chow, F. Barzi, S. Zoungas, T. Tan, V. Perkovic, G. Hillis

    
• • ·Prevalence of Known and Incidental Atrial Fibrillation in a Relatively Healthy Population Aged Over 40

    Pagina :S212

    Deif B, Freedman S

    
• • ·Primary Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death in Ischaemic Cardiomyopathy: The Role of the Fourth Extrastimulus at Electrophysiologic Study

    Pagina :S213

    S. Zaman, S. Kumar, A. Narayan, G. Sivagangabalan, A. Thiagalingam, P. Kovoor

    
• • ·Pulmonary Hypertension is a Common Disease: The Armadale Echo Study

    Pagina :S213

    G. Strange, D. Playford, S. Stewart, A. Kent, E. Gabbay, J. Deague

    
• • ·Pulmonary Hypertension Remains a Deadly Disease: Insights from the Armadale Echo Study

    Pagina :S213

    G. Strange, D. Playford, S. Stewart, A. Kent, E. Gabbay, J. Deague

     
• • ·Quality of Life and Long-term Outcomes after Tako-tsubo Cardiomyopathy: Insights from a Multi-centre Australian Study

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    E. Teo, A. Zakariyya, R. Haddad, T. Walters, B. Bastian, P. Fletcher, A. Teh, J. Cooke, G. New, D. Eccleston

    
• • ·Randomised Double Blind Placebo Controlled Crossover Study to Determine the Effects of Esomeprazole on the Inhibition of Platelet Function by Clopidogrel

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    H. Fernando, N. Bassler, J. Habersberger, L. Sheffield, A. Dart, K. Peter, J. Shaw

    
• • ·Reduced Times to Transfer Using a Novel Web-based Triage and Transfer System for Acute Coronary Syndrome as Part of the Development of a Clinical Network in Queensland

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    A. Incani, K. Poon, M. Dahl, J. Fu, H. Muller, M. Dooris, C. Hammett, D. Walters

    
• • ·Serum Total Bilirubin Levels Predict Amputation Events in Type 2 Diabetic Mellitus

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    K. Chan, D. Sullivan, K. Rajamani, R. Stocker, M. Ng, R. O’Connell, A. Keech

    
• • ·Single High Oral Dose Amiodarone for Cardioversion of Recent Onset Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S215

    K. Nadarasa, M. Williams

    
• • ·STEMI Outcomes in Patients Over 80 Years Treated with Primary PCI: Insight from a Large Multicentre Australian Registry

    Pagina :S216

    D. Fernando, M. Mok, R. Hage-Ali, T. Lin, N. Andrianopoulos, J. Grewal, A. Brennan, K. Charter, C. Reid, G. New, A. Black, O. Farouque, S. Duffy, A. Ajani, D. Clark

    
• • ·Survival Following Out of Hospital VF Arrest Due to STEMI

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    S. Sidharta, L. Roberts, E. Briganti, S. Mirzaee, N. John, J. Mascaro, J. Beale, G. New

    
• • ·Symptoms to Definitive Diagnosis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH)

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    G. Strange, A. Keogh, S. Stewart, M. Carrington, F. Kermeen, T. Williams, E. Gabbay

    
• • ·System Barriers to the Evidence-Based Care of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Patients in China: A Qualitative Analysis

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    I. Ranasinghe, Y. Rong, X. Du, Y. Wang, R. Gao, A. Patel, Y. Wu, R. Iedema, Z. Hao, D. Hu, F. Turnbull

    
• • ·The Normal Range of High Sensitivity Troponins may Require Adjustment for Age and Sex

    Pagina :S217

    J. Michel, L. Ngan Kee, S. Harding, P. Larsen, S. Mann

     
• • ·The Presence of Retinal Microvascular Dysfunction is a Predictor of Underlying Coronary Artery Disease

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    A. Al-Fiadh, S. Rogers, R. Kawasaki, M. Freeman, S. Patel, D. Clark, A. Wilson, L. Burrell, T. Wong, O. Farouque

    
• • ·With Comprehensive Pre-operative Evaluation, there is a Low Incidence of Early Cardiac Complications from Liver Transplantation

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    B. Gray, G. McCaughan, D. Celermajer, S. Patel

    
• • ·A Y Chromosome Haplogroup Increases Risk of Coronary Artery Disease

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    F. Charchar, N. Samani, M. Tomaszewski

    
• • ·Genetic Analysis of Hyperpolarisation-Activated Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Cation (HCN) Channels in Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) Cases

    Pagina :S219

    E. Tu, L. Waterhouse, J. Duflou, R. Bagnall, C. Semsarian

    
• • ·Genetic Heart Diseases in Tasmania

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    J. Kawa, C. Armstrong, D. DeSilva, J. Ingles, K. Ogden, C. Semsarian, D. McTaggart

    
• • ·Health Status of Cardiac Genetic Disease Patients and Their At-risk Relatives

    Pagina :S220

    J. Ingles, L. Yeates, L. Hunt, J. McGaughran, P. Scuffham, J. Atherton, C. Semsarian

    
• • ·This abstract has been withdrawn

    Pagina :S221

    
• • ·Phenotypic Variability of Myosin Binding Protein C Gene Mutation Associated Cardiomyopathy: A Role for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Clinical Screening

    Pagina :S221

    A. Camuglia, J. Younger, J. Atherton

    
• • ·The Australian National Genetic Heart Disease Registry: An Update

    Pagina :S221

    J. Ingles, L. Yeates, J. Kawa, C. Armstrong, T. Thompson, V. Connell, D. DeSilva, A. Davis, R. Weintraub, J. Vohra, I. Winship, D. McTaggart, J. McGaughran, J. Atherton, C. Semsarian

    
• • ·A Focus Group Study Investigating Quality of Life in Octogenarians Following Cardiac Surgery

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    J. Oldroyd, M. Levinson, G. Stephenson, A. Rouse, T. Leeuwrik, J. Reeves, G. Shardey, G. Hawdon, J. Lefkovits, J. Barrett

    
• • ·A Novel Assay to Detect Alterations of Coagulation and Fibrinolysis after Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

    Pagina :S222

    J. Edelman, C. Reddel, L. Kritharides, M. Vallely, J. Curnow

    
• • ·Adverse Outcomes of Non-Marfan Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm

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    A. Sherrah, S. Andvik, R. Jeremy

    
• • ·Aortic Valve Replacement in Octogenarians—Do Outcomes Justify the Practice?

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    J. Ditchfield, E. Granger

    
• • ·BMI is a Significant Predictor of Cost and Resource Utilization in Diabetic Patients Undergoing CABGS

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    Y. Tsai, A. Wilson-O’Brien, S. Bappayya, D. Dinh, D. Reid, H. Rizzoli, A. Newcomb

    
• • ·Cardiac Surgery in Octogenarians Results in Subjective Gains but No Objective Improvements in Quality of Life or Functional Status after three Months

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    J. Oldroyd, M. Levinson, G. Stephenson, J. Reeves, G. Shardey, T. Leeuwrik, G. Hawdon, J. Barrett, J. Lefkovits

    
• • ·Cardiac Valve Replacement for Acute Infective Endocarditis in North Queensland

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    K. Burns

    
• • ·Improved Care for Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm—Two Decades Experience

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    S. Andvik, A. Sherrah, R. Jeremy

    
• • ·Is Obesity a Risk Factor for Adverse Outcome Following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery (CABG)?

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    T. Lancefield, D. Dinh, A. Newcomb, A. Ajani, O. Farouque, J. Smith, W. Chan, L. Burrell, A. Brennan, C. Reid, D. Clark, S. Duffy

    
• • ·Lipid Exposure Enhances Arterial Graft Patency via the Native Vessel Pathway: An Illustration of the Competitive Flow Phenomenon After Coronary Surgery

    Pagina :S225

    Y. Zhu, T. Nguyen, A. Stewart, D. Hare, B. Buxton, P. Hayward

    
• • ·Performance Monitoring in Cardiac Surgery: Application of Statistical Process Control to a Single-site Database

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    M. Gardner, J. Rivers, J. Cameron, R. Brighouse, K. Mengersen, I. Smith

    
• • ·Predictors of Major Adverse Cardiac Events Following Aortic Valve Replacement during Intermediate-term Follow-up

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    L. Kearney, G. Matalanis, M. Ord, K. Lu, K. Profitis, L. Burrell, P. Srivastava

    
• • ·Radial Artery versus Saphenous Vein as the Second Conduit in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting—A Meta-analysis of Clinical Outcomes

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    J. Edelman, T. Yan, M. Wilson, P. Bannon, M. Vallely

    
• • ·Revascularisation Strategies in Diabetics with Multi-vessel Disease: Factors Influencing Treatment Selection

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    L. Hee, R. Dignan, W. Ahmed, C. Mussap, L. Yang, T. Liza, J. French

    
• • ·Short and Medium Term Outcomes for Elderly undergoing Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement (SAVR): The Wellington Experience

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    P. Lou, M. Simmonds, B. Mahon, S. Harding

    
• • ·South Australian Experience of Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair—A Review of the First 100 Consecutive Patients with Mitral Regurgitation

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    J. Bradley, T. Painter, K. Drummond, J. Edwards

    
• • ·sRAGE is Constitutively Expressed in the Coronary Circulation and is a Marker of Systemic Inflammation

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    S. Bappayya, J. Layland, D. Palasubramaniam, S. Hofferberth, Y. Tsai, A. Wilson-O’Brien, A. Newcomb, A. Wilson

    
• • ·Standford Type A Dissection in Pregnant Women—Diagnosis Incognito: A Case Series

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    S. Ch’ng, A. Cochrane, J. Goldstein

    
• • ·Structural, Morphological and Hydrodynamic Characterisation of Taurodeoxycholate Decellularised Porcine Heart Valves: A Holistic Approach to Heart Valve Tissue Engineering

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    E. Buratto, A. Gastaldello, C. Dal Lin, V. Tarzia, F. Naso, T. Bottio, A. Gandaglia, M. Spina, G. Gerosa

    
• • ·A Randomised Trial of Nurse-led Intervention at the Time of Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation—Effects on Quality of Life, Symptom Severity and Rehospitalisation

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    J. Bowyer, P. Tully, C. Singleton, A. McGavigan

    
• • ·A Retrospective Audit of Screening Practices Used to Detect Abnormal Glucose Regulation in a Cohort of AMI Patients Admitted to a Coronary Care Unit—An Australian Study

    Pagina :S230

    M. Jolic, Y. Lim, S. Hamblin, S. Kinney

    
• • ·Cardiovascular Risk Screening Among South Asians: A Community-University Collaborative Partnership

    Pagina :S230

    R. Fernandez, P. Davidson, B. Everett, Y. Salamonson, R. Rajaratnam, C. Miranda

    
• • ·Improved Intervention Rates in a Smoking Cessation Programme Offered by Nurses in CCU—An Audit of 2008 and 2010 at Auckland City Hospital

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    S. Watts, P. Chrisstoffels, M. Legget

    
• • ·Mothers’ Knowledge and Understanding of Their Children’s Care at the Time of Cardiac Surgery

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    M. Tallon, G. Kendall, P. Snider

    
• • ·Nurse Practitioners in Cardiac Care: State of the Nation

    Pagina :S231

    J. McVeigh, P. Davidson

    
• • ·Redefining the African ECG: Electrocardiographic Findings in Heart Disease-free Urban Africans

    Pagina :S232

    G. Lee, K. Sliwa, M. Carrington, S. Stewart

    
• • ·Self-care Education for People with Chronic Heart Failure

    Pagina :S232

    M. Boyde, S. Song, R. Peters, C. Turner, D. Thompson, S. Stewart

    
• • ·A Snapshot of IPAH from a National Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Registry

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    M. Rose, C. O’Donnell, I. King, S. Vidmar, R. Justo, P. Alexander, M. Richardson, A. Bullock, S. Hope, G. Sholler, M. Sherwood, D. Penny, R. Weintraub

    
• • ·An Institutional Experience of Cardiac Transplantation for Congenital Heart Disease

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    K. Chee, M. Brown, D. Platts, S. McKenzie, A. Sharma, G. Javorsky

    
• • ·Arterial Ischaemic Stroke in Children with Heart Disease: Experience in a Single Centre Over 17 Years

    Pagina :S233

    D. Hutchinson, M. Cheung, M. Cardamone, M. Mackay, C. Barnes, L. Coleman

    
• • ·Association Between Patent Foramen Ovale and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea

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    E. Lau, B. Yee, K. Wong, K. Melehan, R. Grunstein, D. Celermajer

    
• • ·Derivation of Transthoracic Echocardiographic Reference Ranges for Left Ventricular M-mode Dimensions in Preterm Infants

    Pagina :S234

    R. Warrier, E. Tan, A. Sehgal, S. Hope

    
• • ·Development of a DVD to Educate Parents About Their Child’s Heart Condition

    Pagina :S234

    D. Ha, M. Hay, S. Menahem

     
• • ·Early Results for Management of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome in a New Program

    Pagina :S235

    D. Winlaw, A. Cole, S. Cooper, M. Sherwood, R. Hawker, K. Lau, P. Roberts, D. Murphy, I. Nicholson, K. Leclair, G. Scarfe, R. Chard, G. Sholler

    
• • ·Exercise Capacity and Stroke Volume are Preserved Even with Severely Dilated Right Ventricle, Late After Tetralogy Repair

    Pagina :S235

    S. O’Meagher, D. Celermajer, R. Puranik

    
• • ·Indications for Revision Pulmonary Valve Replacement Surgery in Paediatric Patients with Post-operative Pulmonary Incompetence

    Pagina :S236

    L. Gnanendran, O. Jones

    
• • ·Infant Withdrawal Following Cardiac Surgery—Treat Mother’s Distress

    Pagina :S236

    J. Re, C. Franich-Ray, S. Menahem, S. Dean, C. Paul, J. Taffe, A. Guedeney

    
• • ·Isolated Foetal Cardiac Asymmetry as a Predictor of Postnatal Coarctation of the Aorta

    Pagina :S236

    L. D’Orsogna, J. Sharpe, D. Kothari

    
• • ·Judicial Encounters of Young Adults with Congenital Heart Disease

    Pagina :S237

    T. Malpas, J. Kaisar, D. Radford

    
• • ·Mitral Valve Geometry in Rheumatic Mitral Regurgitation

    Pagina :S237

    M. Yeong, T. Gentles, N. Wilson, K. Finucane

     
• • ·Pulmonary Valve Replacement Surgery Leads to Near Normalisation of Right Ventricular Dimensions in Young Adults with Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot

    Pagina :S238

    S. O’Meagher, D. Celermajer, R. Puranik

    
• • ·QRS Duration and Long Term Benefit of Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy—A Single Paediatric Centre Experience

    Pagina :S238

    A. Rotstein, A. Davis, S. Kamberi, D. Scicluna, J. Koleff, M. Cheung, R. Weintaub, A. Pflaumer

    
• • ·Screening for Congenital Heart Disease by Prenatal Ultrasound. A Comparison of Two Decades in Western Australia

    Pagina :S239

    J. McLean, C. Bower, J. Sharpe, L. D’Orsogna, D. Kothari

    
• • ·Silent VSD—Revisited

    Pagina :S239

    T. Goh

    
• • ·Surgery for Ebstein’s Anomaly: A Single Centre Experience

    Pagina :S239

    V. Wijesekera, D. Radford, P. Pohlner

    
• • ·The Demographics of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Associated with Congenital Heart Disease: Results from a National Registry

    Pagina :S240

    G. Strange, M. Rose, F. Kermeen, I. King, S. Vidmar, L. Grigg, D. Celermajer, R. Weintraub

    
• • ·Treatment for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Complicating Congenital Heart Disease in Adults: Results from a National Registry

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    M. Rose, G. Strange, F. Kermeen, I. King, S. Vidmar, L. Grigg, R. Weintraub, D. Celermajer

    
• • ·Aboriginal to Non-aboriginal Differentials in Two-year Outcomes of Non-fatal Incident Myocardial Infarction

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    J. Katzenellenbogen, F. Sanfilippo, M. Hobbs, T. Briffa, M. Knuiman, L. Dimer, K. Taylor, P. Thompson, S. Thompson

    
• • ·A Family Support Group for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: Experiences in Western Australia

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    W. Farid, G. Crispin, K. Sengotta, L. Southwell, G. Watts, On behalf of the FHWA program

    
• • ·Depressed Cardiac Patients Improve with Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Results of a Randomised Controlled Trial

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    B. Murphy, M. Worcester, R. Higgins, A. Turner, P. Elliott, M. Le Grande, A. Goble

    
• • ·Diabetes and Poorer Glycaemic Control in Patients from Rural Areas with Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S242

    C. Ngan, Y. Tsai, D. Palasubramaniam, A. Wilson-O’Brien, J. Layland, R. Whitbourn, A. Wilson

    
• • ·Elevated Resting Heart Rates in Urban Africans Presenting with De Novo Heart Disease

    Pagina :S242

    S. Stewart, M. Carrington, K. Sliwa

    
• • ·High Rates of Anxiety and Depression in Young Cardiac Patients

    Pagina :S243

    B. Murphy, D. Ludeman, J. Humphreys, F. Judd, M. Worcester

    
• • ·Motivations of Women with Congenital Heart Disease Proceeding to Pregnancy

    Pagina :S243

    K. Ngu, M. Hay, S. Menahem

    
• • ·Psychosocial Functioning in Adolescents with Heart Disease

    Pagina :S243

    Q. Wang, M. Hay, D. Clarke, S. Menahem

    
• • ·Psychosocial Impact of Heart Failure Diagnosis in the Age Group 40–67 Years

    Pagina :S244

    M. Brown, H. Gee, D. Platts, S. Mckenzie, G. Javorsky

    
• • ·Smoking Habits and Vitamin Taking in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography

    Pagina :S244

    S. Napier, J. Harmer, D. Celermajer

    
• • ·Acute Coronary Syndrome as a Teachable Moment for Smoking Cessation

    Pagina :S245

    G. Tofler, R. May, R. Bartrop, A. Kirkness, H. Glinatsis, S. DeBurgh

    
• • ·Brief, Standardised Education Incorporating the National Heart Foundation Warning Signs of Heart Attack Materials Improves Knowledge and Chest Pain Action Plans in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

    Pagina :S245

    R. Gallagher, J. Belshaw, A. Kirkness, K. Roach, L. Sadler, D. Warrington

    
• • ·Chronic Disease Self Management: Multilingual Audiovisual Resources for People with Ischaemic Heart Disease and Chronic Heart Failure

    Pagina :S246

    G. Paull, R. Gallagher, E. Ang, C. Ferry, J. Agostino, M. Arndt, A. Baxter, B. Connolly, S. Davis, N. Hraiki, J. Newton, M. Ratnarajah, N. Vuong

    
• • ·Discharge Management of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome—An Outer Metropolitan Hospital Experience in Queensland

    Pagina :S246

    V. Tyagi, C. Jayasuriya

    
• • ·Does Being Elderly and Living Alone Impact on Outcomes Following Participation in a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program?

    Pagina :S247

    D. Jacobs, A. Young-Whitford, N. Campbell, S. Chong, B. Jalaludin, P. Davidson, W. Quinn

    
• • ·Falling Trends in the Prevalence, Incidence and Recurrence of Atherothrombotic Vascular Disease

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    T. Briffa, L. Nedkoff, M. Knuiman, P. Norman, J. Hung, G. Hankey, P. Thompson, E. Geelhoed, S. Hickling, F. Sanfilippo, A. Bremner, M. Hobbs

    
• • ·HealthTracker Decision Support for Primary Care Practitioners: Development and Validation Testing

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    D. Peiris, J. Redfern, P. Groenestein, E. Heeley, R. Webster, T. Usherwood, F. Turnbull, A. Patel

    
• • ·Influenza as Risk Factor for Ischaemic Cardiac Events and the Effects of Influenza Vaccination. Outcomes from a Three-Year Prospective Case–control Study Conducted in the Australian Winters of 2008–2010 (HEART-FLU Study)

    Pagina :S248

    R. MacIntyre, T. Tan, A. Heywood, I. Ridda, H. Seale, D. Dwyer, R. Lindley, D. Siu, V. Lo, A. Katelaris, N. Wood, J. Fox, P. Mitchell, P. Kovoor

    
• • ·Low Framingham Risk Patients with a Family History of Premature Atherosclerosis May Benefit from Measurement of Carotid Intima-Media Thickness

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    B. Haluska, J. Holliday, K. Yuh Tang, K. Bee Leng, D. Hegney, M. Carrington, S. Stewart, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Recent Temporal Changes in Lipid Management and Serum Cholesterol after Acute Coronary Syndromes

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    L. Neubeck, J. Redfern, T. Briffa, A. Bauman, S. Freedman

    
• • ·Safety and Benefits of Cardiac Rehabilitation for Patients with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)

    Pagina :S250

    R. Zecchin, J. Baihn, Y. Chai, G. Lindsay, J. Hungerford, M. Owen, J. Thelander, R. Denniss

    
• • ·Standing at the Crossroad: Cholesterol Levels and Management of Dyslipidaemia in Primary Care of 199,331 Australians from 2004 to Mid-2009

    Pagina :S250

    M. Carrington, S. Stewart

    
• • ·Status of Clinical Lipidology in Australia

    Pagina :S250

    T. Bates, G. Watts

    
• • ·The Relationship Between Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Uptake and Socioeconomic Status in Western Sydney. Substudy of the Heart-Flu Study 2008–2009

    Pagina :S251

    T. Tan, D. Siu, H. Seale, A. Heywood, I. Ridda, D. Dwyer, V. Lo, S. Ghotane, A. Katelaris, R. Lindley, N. Wood, J. Fox, P. Mitchell, P. Kovoor, R. MacIntyre

    
• • ·Triggered Acute Risk Prevention: Feasibility in Higher Risk Subjects

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    G. Tofler, M. Spinaze, T. Buckley, E. Shaw