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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Instructions to Authors

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• Reviews

  • ·Pathophysiology of Atherosclerosis Plaque Progression

    Pagina :399-411

    Kenichi Sakakura, Masataka Nakano, Fumiyuki Otsuka, Elena Ladich, Frank D. Kolodgie, Renu Virmani

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  • ·The Renaissance of Primary Aldosteronism: What Has it Taught Us?

    Pagina :412-420

    Michael Stowasser, Richard Douglas Gordon

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• Original Articles

  • ·Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation to Support Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in a Sheep Model of Refractory Ischaemic Cardiac Arrest

    Pagina :421-427

    Dion Stub, Melissa Byrne, Vincent Pellegrino, David M. Kaye

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  • ·Transcatheter Closure of the Patent Ductus Arteriosus: An Intention to Treat Analysis

    Pagina :428-432

    Bennett J. Sheridan, Cameron J. Ward, Benjamin W. Anderson, Robert N. Justo

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  • ·Totally Endoscopic Atrial Septal Repair with or without Robotic Assistance: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Case Series

    Pagina :433-440

    Dao-Kuo Yao, Hui Chen, Long-Le Ma, Zeng-Shan Ma, Le-Xin Wang

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• Brief Communications

  • ·Right Atrial Approach for Surgical Repair of Post Infarction Ventricular Septal Defect and Acute Tricuspid Regurgitation with Cardiogenic Shock

    Pagina :441-443

    Sanjay Kumar, Vladimir Shumaster, Raj Modak, Lavanya Bellumkonda, Daniel Jacoby, Abeel A. Mangi

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  • ·A Rare Case of Adult Type ALCAPA Syndrome: Presentation, Diagnosis and Management

    Pagina :444-446

    Ali Mohammed Safaa, Leanne L. Du, Ravinder Batra, Nasser Essack

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  • ·Differences in Morphology of Fibrin Clots Induced with Thrombin and Ferric Ions and Its Pathophysiological Consequences

    Pagina :447-449

    E. Pretorius, B. Lipinski

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• Images

  • ·Obstructive Right Atrial Myxoma in Association with Carney Complex

    Pagina :450-451

    Louis W. Wang, Emily K. Granger

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• Editorial

  • ·ANZSCTS President’s Address 2012

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    Julian A. Smith

     

• Abstracts

  • ·Micropapillary Predominant Adenocarcinoma: Clinical and Genetic Profile of a New Subtype

    Pagina :456

    Gavin Wright

    
  • ·Continuous Crystalloid Microperfusion Provides Excellent Preservation for Transplantation of Donation After Cardiocirculatory Death Hearts

    Pagina :456

    Adam Zimmet, Franklin L. Rosenfeldt, Robert F. Salamonsen, Ruchong Ou, Donald Esmore, Josh Byrne

    
  • ·Frailty in Cardiac Surgery

    Pagina :456-457

    L. Marshall, J. Mundy

     
  • ·Early Right Ventricular Dysfunction After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVI): A Prospective Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Study of Open Versus Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

    Pagina :457-458

    G. Crouch, J. Bennetts, C. Bradbrook, A. Sinhal, A. Penhall, R.A. Baker, J. Selvanayagam

    
  • ·CABG and OPCAB are Associated with Elevated Coagulation and Impaired Fibrinolysis Potential for up to Six Weeks After Surgery

    Pagina :458

    J.J.B. Edelman, C.J. Reddel, P.G. Bannon, J.F. Fraser, L. Kritharides, J.L. Curnow, M.P. Vallely

    
  • ·The Mechanisms of Hypothermia Mediated Ventricular Arrhythmias – Are Our Patients Too Cold?

    Pagina :458-459

    Levi Bassin, A.C. Yong, D. Kilpatrick, Stephen N. Hunyor

     
  • ·Decreased Stroke When Avoiding Aortic Manipulation – An Updated Meta-Analysis

    Pagina :459

    J.J.B. Edelman, T.D. Yan, M.K. Wilson, P.G. Bannon, M.P. Vallely

    
  • ·Can the Radial Artery be Used as a Bypass Graft Following Radial Access Coronary Angiography

    Pagina :459-460

    Mohamed Javid, Sean D. Galvin, Casey Lo, Lisa Lim, Balamurali Srinivasan, Siven Seevanayagam, George Matalanis

    
  • ·Implementing Benchmarking in Perfusion Practice: Results of a Multicentre Quality Improvement Initiative

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    Robert A. Baker, Richard F. Newland, Carmel Fenton, Michael McDonald, Timothy W. Willcox, Alan F. Merry, For the Perfusion Downunder Collaboration

    
  • ·Wide Variation in Transfusion Practice in Cardiac Surgery: Results From the Anzscts Cardiac Surgery Database

    Pagina :460-461

    Zoe McQuilten, Nick Andrianopoulos, Erica Wood, Merrole Cole-Sinclair, John McNeil, Peter Cameron, Christopher Reid, Andrew Newcomb, Julian Smith, Louise Phillips

    
  • ·Concomitant Epicardial Left Ventricular Lead Implantation in Cardiac Surgical Patients with Impaired Cardiac Function

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    P. Conaglen, L. Shan, D. Webb, E. Buratto, P. Davis, M. Yii, I. Nixon, A. Rosalion, A. Newcomb

    
  • ·Four Dimensional (4D) Chest Computed Tomography (CT) Imaging for Re-Entry Risk Assessment in Re-Do Sternotomy

    Pagina :461-462

    Fabiano Viana, John Troupis, Andrew Cochrane, Cliff Choong, Randall Moshinsky, Adrian Pick, Aubrey Almeida, Jacob Goldstein, Julian Smith

    
  • ·Severe Aortic Regurgitation, Aortic Valve Preserving Procedures: A Viable Alternative to Prosthetic AVR

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    Pallav Shah, Sudhir Wahi, Arnold Ng, William Wang, Terri hall, Alasdair Watson, Paul Peters

    
  • ·Early Experience of Surgical TAVI – Approaches and Results

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    Paul Wiemers, May Tsai, Karl Poon, Darren Walters, Peter Tesar, Andrew Clarke

    
  • ·Surgery for Infective Endocarditis in Australia – Post-OP and Mid-term Outcomes From the ANZSCTS Database

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    Paul Conaglen, Philip Davis, Lavinia Tran, Chris Reid, Andrew Newcomb

    
  • ·Surgical Management of Infective Endocarditis – An 11-year Single Centre Experience

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    Casey Lo, Lisa Lim, Sean D. Galvin, Mohamed Jarvid, Rinaldo Bellomo, Siven Seevanayagam, George Matalanis

    
  • ·119 PTE Cases in Training, Results in Excellent Outcomes in Subsequent 82 Cases as Primary Surgeon

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    V. Pretorius, M.M. Madani, S.W. Jamieson

    
  • ·Single Inter-space Videoscopic Lobectomy – A Five Year Experience

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    Jason A. Varzaly, Craig Jurisevic

    
  • ·Achieving an 80% Reduction in Cardiac Surgery Waiting List Deaths

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    Barry Mahon, Alexander Sasse, Ralph Stewart

    
  • ·Perioperative Increases in Serum Creatinine are Predictive of Increased 30-day Mortality and Morbidity After Cardiac Surgery

    Pagina :465-466

    Waleed Aty, Phil Tully, Benjamin Robinson, Rebecca Verchin, Rebecca Dignan

    
  • ·Early Echocardiographic Outcomes in Mitral Valve Repair for Myxomatous Mitral Regurgitation – A Single Centre Experience

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    Levi Bassin, Beatrix Weiss, Damian Gimpel, Paul Gilhooly, Riley Smith, Zakir Akhunji, Peter Grant, Hugh Wolfenden

    
  • ·Reporting of Clinical Risk Incidents in a Cardiothoracic Surgical Unit

    Pagina :466-467

    Krish Chaudhuri, Ros Woodfine, Paula Richardson, Svatka Micik, Craig Jurisevic, James Edwards, Rob Stuklis, Mike Worthington

    
  • ·Outcomes in Single Operation Bilateral Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy Over a 10-year Period

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    Krish Chaudhuri, Craig Jurisevic

    
  • ·Risk-Prediction Scoring in Endocarditis. Validation of AUS-Score and STS-based Endoscore in Australia

    Pagina :467-468

    Paul Conaglen, Philip Davis, Lavinia Tran, Chris Reid, Andrew Newcomb

     
  • ·Quantitative Analysis of Paravalvular Leak of Transcatheter Aortic Valves Using Cardiac MR: A Comparison of Surgical and Imaging Techniques

    Pagina :468-469

    G. Crouch, J. Bennetts, C. Bradbrook, A. Sinhal, A. Penhall, R.A. Baker, J. Selvanayagam

    
  • ·Mitochondrial DNA is Elevated in the Circulation After OPCAB, CABG and TRAUMA

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    J.J.B. Edelman, M.B. Kirschner, A. White, Z. Balogh, P.G. Bannon, L. Kritharides, J.F. Fraser, G. Reid, M.P. Vallely

    
  • ·Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Induces Prolonged Alterations to Host Neutrophil Physiology

    Pagina :469-470

    J.J.B. Edelman, Y.L. Fung, G.J. Pennings, P.G. Bannon, L. Kritharides, J.F. Fraser, M.P. Vallely

    
  • ·Hybrid Repair of Aortic Arch Aneurysms. Early and Midterm Results

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    Ahmed E.L. Bishry, Amr Abd Raheem

    
  • ·Total Arterial Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients with Diabetes

    Pagina :470-471

    Sean D. Galvin, William Y. Shi, John A. Fuller, Philip A. Hayward, Brian F. Buxton

    
  • ·Emergency Chest Re-Exploration in the Intensive Care Unit After Cardiac Surgery: The Geelong Experience

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    S.S.C. Goh, J. Chan, J. Deng, J. Kumar, C.H. Yap, B. Zhang

    
  • ·Left Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma with Intraarterial Extension into Segmental Branches of the Right Pulmonary Artery Treated with Left Pneumonectomy and Right Pulmonary Endarterectomy

    Pagina :471-472

    Ronald Guevara, Chris Cole, Michael Wilson

    
  • ·Short Term Results of the ATS 3F Stentless Valve for Aortic Valve and Root Replacement

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    Shoane Ip, Lucy Marney, Anand Iyer, Sumit Yadav

    
  • ·Hearts from Donations After Circulatory Death (DCD) Donors – Assessment on Clinically Approved Ex-vivo Organ Care System

    Pagina :472-473

    A. Iyer, A. Doyle, L. Gao, G. Kumarasinghe, B. Wan, A. Jabbour, M. Hicks, P. Jansz, K. Dhital, P. Macdonald

    
  • ·Innovative Rigid Sternal Closure – Is it Worthwhile in High Risk Median Sternotomy?

    Pagina :473

    Sathappan Kumar, Joseph Politi, Isreal J. Jacobowitz, Sunil Abrol, Mikhail Vaynblat, Greg Crooke, Greg Ribakove

    
  • ·48 days Later: Lessons Learnt From 48 days on Veno-Venous ECMO Bridging to Lung Transplantation

    Pagina :473

    T. Law, B. Dunne, M. Musk, C. Merry, V. Vincent

    
  • ·A Randomised Controlled Double-Blind Study of Remote Ischaemic Preconditioning in High-Risk Cardiac Surgery

    Pagina :474

    Paul Young, Barry Mahon, Paul Dalley, Alexander Garden, Christopher Horrocks, Anne La Flamme, John Miller, Janine Pilcher, Mark Weatherall, Jenni Williams, William Young, Richard Beasley

    
  • ·Experience of Endobronchial Valve Management of Chronic Airflow Limitation

    Pagina :474

    Matthew Bayfield, Louise Rushworth, Mavis Duncanson, Mohammad Ali Malik, James Nadel

    
  • ·High-Sensitivity Troponin Release Profile After Cardiac Surgery

    Pagina :475

    Phuong L. Markman, John-Paul Tantiongco, Jayme S. Bennetts, Robert A. Baker

     
  • ·Beating Heart Aortic Valve Replacement in the Presence of Patent Internal Thoracic Artery Grafts

    Pagina :475-476

    L. Marney, S. Ip, A. Iyer, S. Yadav

    
  • ·Development of a Risk Prediction Model for Large Volume Red Cell Transfusion in Cardiac Surgery

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    Zoe McQuilten, Joanne Enticott, Erica Wood, Merrole Cole-Sinclair, John McNeil, Peter Cameron, Christopher Reid, Andrew Newcomb, Julian Smith, Louise Phillips, Nick Andrianopoulos

    
  • ·Giant Coronary Aneurysms: A Rare Complication Following Bentall Procedure

    Pagina :476-477

    Felicity Meikle, Brecon Wademan, John Riordan

    
  • ·The Role of Closure Techniques in Sternal Dehiscence – An Artificial Model

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    Felicity Meikle, Sean Galvin, Yuanji Zhang, Kim Pickering, Adam El-Gamel

    
  • ·MRI Predictors of Short-Term Outcomes After High Risk Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

    Pagina :477-478

    O. Mouline, M.J. Sheriff, M.K. Wilson, M.P. Vallely, R. Puranik

     
  • ·Risk Factors For Sternal Breakdown in Cardiac Surgery Patients

    Pagina :478-479

    Jivesh Choudhary, Sarah Gabriel, James McGree, Muslim Mustaev, Yasangi Ranawaka, Peter Tesar

    
  • ·Early Experience of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Through Ascending Aorta

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    Kan Nawata, Robert G. Stuklis, Joseph K. Montarello, Stephen Worthley

    
  • ·Surgical Palliation in Single Ventricle Patients with Dextrocardia

    Pagina :479-480

    Chin Poh, Mary Xu, John C. Galetti, Ajay Iyengar, Michael Cheung, Christian P. Brizard, Igor E. Konstantinov, Yves d’Udekem

     
  • ·Multifaceted Blood Conservation Stratergy Reduces Periopertative Transfusion Requirement in Cardiac Surgery

    Pagina :480-481

    Benjamin M. Robinson, Waleed A. Ahmed, William O’Regan, Manish Jain, Ajay Hirikannawar, Hugh D. Wolfenden, Bruce G. French, Rebecca Dignan

    
  • ·Management of the Empty Pleural Space with Balanced Chest Drainage to Prevent Post-Pneumonectomy Pulmonary Oedema

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    Gideon Sandler, Bruce French

    
  • ·Aortic Root Replacement Using Tissue Prosthesis: Early Results of the Initial Five Cases with Biovalsalva Graft

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    Takahiro Sawada, Michael Worthington, Robert Xu, Jason Varzaly, Kan Nawata, Ritwick Bhuyan, Krishanu Chaudhuri, James Edwards, Robert Stuklis

    
  • ·Impact of Socioeconomic Status and Rurality on Early Outcomes and Mid-Term Survival After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Insights From a Multicentre Registry

    Pagina :482-483

    William Y. Shi, Cheng-Hon Yap, Andrew E. Newcomb, Lavinia Tran, Christopher M. Reid, Gilbert C. Shardey, Julian A. Smith

    
  • ·In Vivo Results of the Trifecta™ Valve: A Single Centre’s Initial Experience

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    Andrie Stroebel, Douglas Wall, Peter Tesar

    
  • ·Late Postoperative Troponin and its Significance in Cardiac Surgery

    Pagina :483-484

    John-Paul Tantiongco, Shahid Ullah, Richard Newland, Jayme Bennetts, Robert Baker

    
  • ·Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients with Haemophilia: An Approach Utilising Continuous Factor Infusion

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    Jason Varzaly, Gareth Crouch, Simon McRae, Michael Worthington, Robert Stuklis

    
  • ·Analysis of Re-admission to Cardiothoracic Intensive Care – Why it Happens

    Pagina :484-485

    Jason Varzaly, Krish Chaudhuri, Svatka Micik, Michael Worthington, James Edwards, Robert Stuklis

    
  • ·Cardiac Surgery in Jehovah’s Witness Patients – A Local Perspective

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    Robert Xu, Kan Nawata, Michael Worthington, Robert Stuklis

    
  • ·Right Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy Ligation of the Thoracic Duct as Treatment for a Case of Chyloptysis

    Pagina :485-486

    Robert Xu, Gareth Crouch, Kan Nawata, Craig Jurisevic, Robert Stuklis

     
  • ·Extra Anatomical Repair of Coarctation of Aorta Following Multiple Previous Interventions

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    Robert Xu, Ritwick Bhuyan, James Edwards, Robert Stuklis

     
  • ·Anaortic Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in the Elderly and Very Elderly

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    Edward A. Cooper, J. James B. Edelman, Deborah Black, R. John Brereton, Donald Ross, Paul G. Bannon, Matthew S. Bayfield, Michael K. Wilson, Michael P. Vallely

    
  • ·The Growing Evidence to Support Axillary Cannulation

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    Laura S. Fong, Levi Bassin, Manu N. Mathur

    
  • ·Serum Biomarkers of Neurologic Injury in Cardiac Operations

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    Michael Seco, James Edelman, Michael Wilson, Paul Bannon, Michael Vallely

    
  • ·Systematic Review of Total Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Outcomes

    Pagina :488-489

    Michael Seco, James Edelman, Michael Wilson, Paul Bannon, Michael Vallely

    

• Obituary

  • ·Obituary for George Randall Stirling (20.12.1927–30.11.2012)

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    Bruce B. Davis, Gilbert C. Shardey

     

• Societies

  • ·Heart Foundation

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  • ·The Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand

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