Sommario

• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Atrial Fibrillation and Obesity: Impact of Weight Reduction on the Atrial Substrate

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    R. Mahajan, A. Brooks, J. Manavis, J. Wood, J. Finnie, C. Sameul, D. Lau, J. Selvanayagam, K. Roberts-Thomson, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Intramyocardial Adiposity of Left Ventricular (LV) Scar Borders Post-Infarction Contributes to Greater Ventricular Tachycardia Susceptibility than Collagen

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    J. Pouliopoulos, W. Chik, A. Kanthan, G. Sivagangabalan, M. Barry, C. Midekin, J. Lu, E. Kizana, S. Thomas, A. Thiagalingam, P. Kovoor

    
• • ·Treatment with a beta3 Adrenergic Receptor Agonist in Heart Failure Reverses Inhibition of the Na+–K+ Pump in Cardiac Myocytes and Improves Pulmonary Congestion

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    N. Fry, A. Garcia, K. Karimi Galougahi, C. Liu, G. Figtree, H. Rasmussen

     
• • ·Abnormal Left Ventricular Contractile Response to Exercise Without Obstructive Coronary Disease: A Newly Described Phenomenon Associated with Subclinical Myocardial Dysfunction

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    A. Nasis, S. Moir, N. Nerlekar, D. Wong, B. Ko, J. Cameron, I. Meredith, P. Mottram

    
• • ·High Density Mapping of Ventricular Scar: A Comparison of Ventricular Tachycardia Supporting Channels with Channels That Do Not Support VT

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    S. Nayyar, A. Ganesan, P. Kuklik, A. Brooks, T. Sullivan, M. Baumert, R. Mahajan, L. Wilson, G. Young, P. Sanders, K. Roberts-Thomson

    
• • ·Transluminal Attenuation Gradient on 320-Detector Row CT (TAG320) Compared to Contrast Opacification Mean Difference (CO-Mean-Difference) for Detection of Functionally Significant Stenosis Assessed by Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR)

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    D. Wong, B. Ko, J. Cameron, N. Nerlekar, M. Leung, Y. Malaiapan, M. Crossett, D. Leong, S. Worthley, J. Troupis, I. Meredith, S. Seneviratne

    
• • ·Single Centre Experience with Riata Defibrillator Leads

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    J. Greenslade, I. Crozier, I. Melton, S. Matthewson

    
• • ·Trans-Catheter Aortic Valve Replacement for High Surgical Risk/Non-Surgical Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis – The Prince Charles Hospital Experience

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    M. Savage, V. Subban, A. Incani, A. Clarke, C. Raffel, C. Aroney, D. Walters

    
• • ·Family Screening for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is Underperformed – A First Year Experience from the HCM Clinic @ The Alfred

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    A. Olaussen, I. Macciocca, A. Ellims

    
• • ·TRPC6 (Canonical Transient Receptor Potential Ca²⁺ Channel 6) is An Important Mediator of Mechanical Stretch Responses in the Atrial Endocardial Endothelium

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    V. Nikolova-Krstevski, S. Wagner, I. Bowman, O. Friedrich, D. Fatkin

    
• • ·An Evolving Pattern of Cardiovascular Risk in 14,315 Men and Women Attending A Nurse-Led, Cardiac Profiling and Prevention Clinic over a Quarter of a Century

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    E. Jenkins, J. Jennings, M. Carrington, G. Jennings, S. Stewart

    
• • ·Feasibility of Training Nurses to Evaluate Semi-automated 3D Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Using a Workstation-based Training Protocol

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    K. Guppy-Coles, S. Hillier, K. Smith, A. Lo, S. Prasad, J. Atherton

    
• • ·The First Three Years of a New Zealand, Nurse Led, Out Patient Clinic for Patients Following Heart Valve Surgery

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    A. McLachlan, T. Sutton, M. Lee, A. Kerr

    
• • ·Two Year Outcomes of the Choice of Health Options in Prevention of Cardiovascular Events (CHOICE) Replication Study

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

    
• • ·Circulating Soluble Receptor for Advanced-Glycation End-Products is Elevated with Heparin Administration and Not by Cardiovascular Disease

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    S. Bappayya, D. Palasubramaniam, J. Layland, S. Hofferberth, A. Wilson-O’Brien, S. Palmer, C. Judkins, P. Conaglen, J. Somaratne, A. Newcomb, A. Wilson

    
• • ·Acute Cardiac Functional Recovery from Ischaemia/Reperfusion Injury is Impaired by Cardiomyocyte Mineralocorticoid Receptor Activation

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    L. Bienvenu, M. Reichelt, J. Morgan, L. Delbridge, M. Young

    
• • ·Presence of an RYR2 Mutation is Associated with Sudden Cardiac Events at Presentation in Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT)

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    J. Kozlovski, J. Ingles, V. Connell, L. Hunt, J. McGaughran, C. Turner, A. Davis, C. Semsarian

    
• • ·The Organisation of T-Tubules and Junctional Proteins in JPH2 Transgenic Mice

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    M. Munro, W. Wang, D. Baddeley, X. Wehrens, C. Soeller

    
• • ·A Novel Relationship Between Circulating RAGE and Pulmonary Hypertension

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    T. Lancefield, S. Patel, M. Freeman, E. Velkoska, L. Oliver, O. Farouque, M. Horrigan, L. Burrell

     
• • ·Acute Serelaxin Treatment Causes Rapid and Sustained Bradykinin-mediated Vasodilation through Endothelium-derived Hyperpolarising Factor and Prostacyclin Pathways

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    C. Leo, M. Jelinic, M. Tare, L. Parry

    
• • ·Age-related Impairment in Paracrine Regulation of Angiogenesis by Androgens

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    L. Lecce, Y. Lam, L. Lindsay, M. Ng

    
• • ·An Article on the Predictive Value of on Treatment Platelet Reactivity in Major Vascular Surgery Patients

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    L. Johnston, B. Scott, K. Wicks, D. Naik, R. Evans, A. LaFlamme, P. Larsen, S. Harding

    
• • ·Androgens Enhance Ischaemia-mediated Neovascularisation by Stimulation of HIF-1? and Endothelial Progenitor Cell (EPC) Mobilisation

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    Y. Lam, L. Lecce, M. Ng

    
• • ·Index

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• • ·Assessment of the Normal Blood Pressure Response to Exercise

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    B. Fitzgerald, G. Scalia

    
• • ·Assessment of the Therapeutic Potential of Endothelial Cells Differentiated from Human mRNA-transfected Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in a Murine Model of Peripheral Arterial Disease

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    Z. Clayton, S. Abraham, J. Wong, B. Bao, M. Ng, J. Cooke, S. Patel

     
• • ·Benefits of Strict Adherence to An Intensive Structured Care Approach to Blood Pressure Management in Primary Care within the Intervention Arm of a Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial

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

    
• • ·Carotid Wave Intensity Analysis Reveals Increased Indices of Wave Reflection in Appropriate Weight for Age Ex-Preterm Infants

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    R. Kowalski, J. Smolich, M. Cheung

    
• • ·Central Systolic Blood Pressure can be Reliably Estimated from a Non-Invasive Brachial Cuff Using Suprasystolic Pressure Waveform Analysis

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    B. Costello, J. Black, M. Schultz, J. Sharman

    
• • ·Characterisation of Ventriculo-Arterial Interaction in Pulmonary Hypertension Using Wave Intensity Analysis

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    D. Abelson, E. Lau, N. Dwyer, M. Ng, D. Celermajer

    
• • ·Diet Induced Obesity Exacerbates Cardiovascular Dysfunction in the Middle Aged SHR – An Animal Model of Metabolic Syndrome

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    K. Connolly, D. Jackson, F. Coulson, A. Fenning

    
• • ·Effect of Naturally Occurring Variation in Sodium Hydrogen Exchanger Activity on the Blood Pressure

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    Y. Zhang, Y. He, G. Morahan, L. Arnolda

    
• • ·Effects of Low-Density Lipoproteins on Endothelium-Generation from Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells

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    C. Tso, K. Rye, P. Barter

    
• • ·Fenofibrate Rescues Diabetes-related Impairment of Ischaemia-mediated Neovascularisation

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    K. Rajamani, J. Yuan, L. Lecce, A. Jenkins, A. Keech, M. Ng

    
• • ·High density Lipoproteins Augment Hypoxia-induced Angiogenesis In Vitro Via the HIF-1a/VEGF Pathway

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    J. Tan, H. Prosser, L. Vanags, S. Monger, M. Ng, C. Bursill

    
• • ·Hypertension and Cardiac Hypertrophy in the Fat Aussie Mouse: A Model of Obesity with Type II Diabetes

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    Y. Zhang, N. Teoh, G. Farrell, L. Arnolda

    
• • ·Impact of In Vitro Culture and Transfer of Embryo on Cardiovascular Function and Heart Growth in Postnatal Life

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    M. Padhee, C. McMillen, S. MacLaughlin, S. Zhang, D. Kleemann, S. Walker, J. Morrison

    
• • ·l-Arginine Transporters: A New Treatment Target in Obesity Induced Hypertension?

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    N. Rajapakse, F. Karim, G. Head, D. Kaye

    
• • ·Late-Outgrowth But Not Early Endothelial Progenitor Cells Enhance Ischaemia-mediated Neovascularisation and Coronary Collateral Formation – Implications for Therapeutic Angiogenesis

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    K. Chan, S. Yuen, L. Dunn, P. Simpson, A. Yong, C. Hsu, M. Guillou, S. Bao, C. Chawantanpipat, P. Lim, Y. Yu, D. Celermajer, J. Wu, M. Ng

    
• • ·Longitudinal In Vivo Assessment of Bone Marrow Mononuclear Cell Therapy for Ischaemia-mediated Neovascularisation

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    S. Yuen, Z. Clayton, A. Dantanarayana, L. Lecce, J. Wu, L. Dunn, M. Ng

     
• • ·Long-Term Cardiovascular Mortality in 1901 Patients Admitted with Acute Pulmonary Embolism in Two Tertiary Hospitals

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    J. Huang, A. Ng, L. Hee, V. Chow, K. Kadappu, L. Kritharides, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Index

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• • ·Novel Use of NavX Three-Dimensional Mapping to Guide Renal Artery Denervation

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    S. Zaman, J. Pouliopoulos, S. Al Raisi, J. Sullivan, A. Thiagalingam, J. Swinnen, P. Kovoor

    
• • ·Novel Vascular Phenotypes in the Mesenteric Artery of Male Relaxin-Deficient Mice

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    M. Jelinic, C. Leo, J. Gooi, M. Tare, L. Parry

    
• • ·Pevalence of Pseudohypertension in a Contemporary Patient Cohort Undergoing Cardiac Catheterisation

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    N. Collins, S. Quilty, P. Puller, A. Puller, C. Itty, N. Jackson, J. Attia

    
• • ·Postprandial Endothelial Function and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Severely Obese Individuals

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    J. Ne, D. Celermajer, K. Sim, T. Markovic, I. Caterson, M. Skilton

    
• • ·Potentiated Blood Pressure Response to Renal Nerve Ablation in Patients with Resistant Hypertension Treated with the Centrally Acting Sympatholytic Agent Moxonidine

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    D. Hering, A. Walton, P. Marusic, E. Lambert, H. Krum, G. Lambert, M. Esler, M. Schlaich

    
• • ·Predictors of Blood Pressure Response Following Catheter Renal Denervation: A Pooled Analysis of the Symplicity HTN-1 and HTN-2 Trials

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    H. Krum, M. Schlaich, M. Esler

    
• • ·Presence of a Practice Nurse to Facilitate An Intensive, Structured Care Approach to Hypertension Management in Primary Care Results in Improved Adherence to the Strategy and Better BP Control

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

    
• • ·Prevalence of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Patients Referred for Transthoracic Echocardiograms

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    K. Majeed, A. Hamer, S. White, S. Williams, Y. Chen, M. Williams

    
• • ·Progression of Kidney Function in Elderly Treated Hypertensive Patients: Findings from Second Australian National Blood Pressure Study (ANBP2)

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    E. Chowdhury, R. Langham, A. Owen, H. Krum, L. Wing, M. Nelson, C. Reid

    
• • ·Pulmonary Index of Microvascular Resistance (PIMR) using PressureWire: First Report in 38 Human Subjects

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    T. Roberts, S. Murch, A. La Gerche, W. Stevens, M. Conron, A. MacIsaac, D. Prior, A. Burns

    
• • ·Pulmonary Wave Reflection: Observations in Pulmonary Hypertension

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    S. Murch, T. Roberts, A. La Gerche, A. MacIsaac, D. Prior, A. Burns

    
• • ·Pulse Wave Velocity As A Marker of Cardiovascular Risk in An Elderly Population: A Community-based Study

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    R. Moses, W. Abhayaratna

    
• • ·QT Dispersion: A Predictor of Coronary Artery Disease?

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    B. Raman, R. Tavella, V. Shekar, C. Zhuang, A. Som, E. Ong, J. Beltrame

    
• • ·Relationship Between Central Arterial Pressure, Exercise and Fitness Level in Stable Coronary Artery Disease

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    A. Lin, A. Lowe, K. Sidhu, J. Rawstom, R. Maddison, A. Kerr, R. Stewart

    
• • ·Retinal Artery Flicker Provocation and Digital Reactive Hyperaemia (Endopat^®) for the Assessment of Arterial Endothelial Function in Patients with Type-2-Diabetes Mellitus

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    A. Lal

    
• • ·Retinal Detection of Aberrant Pulsatile Flow Changes As A Novel Measure of Arterial Stiffness in Subjects with Type-2-Diabetes Mellitus

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    A. Lal

    
• • ·Safety and Efficacy of Renal Denervation in a Private Hospital

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    K. Leong, D. Herring, J. Tan, M. Schlaich, A. Walton

     
• • ·Selective Activation of ?3 Adrenoceptors Protects Against Type 2 Diabetes-induced eNOS Uncoupling, Oxidative Na⁺–K⁺ Pump Inhibition and Vascular Dysfunction

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    K. Karimi Galougahi, C. Liu, A. Garcia, N. Fry, C. Hawkins, H. Rasmussen, G. Figtree

    
• • ·Supraventricular Tachycardia is Not Associated with Endothelial Dysfunction or Platelet Hyperreactivity: Implications for Left Atrial Thrombogenesis Due to AF

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    C. Schultz, G. Rangneker, H. Lim, A. Brooks, S. Willoughby, P. Sanders

    
• • ·The Effect of Physical Activity on Blood Pressure and Arterial Stiffness in Older Adults: A Community-Based Prospective Cohort Study

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    S. Rao, W. Abhayaratna

    
• • ·The Effect of Renal Nerve Ablation on Blood Pressure and Sympathetic Activity One Year Post Procedure

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    D. Hering, A. Walton, G. Lambert, P. Marusic, E. Lambert, H. Krum, M. Esler, M. Schlaich

    
• • ·Timing of the Aortic Pulse Wave Inflection Point is Associated with Mitral Annular Systolic Motion

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    O. Narayan, Q. Li, G. Curry, P. Coombs, P. Mottram, I. Meredith, J. Cameron

    
• • ·Index

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• • ·Vitamin D Levels Do Not Correlate with Measures of Large Artery Stiffness

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    S. Sasha, J. Warren, P. Ngu, A. Dart, J. Shaw

    
• • ·Weight Gain in Infancy is a Sex-Specific Determinant of Arterial Adventitial Thickness in Later Childhood

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    T. Sullivan, J. Ayer, J. Harmer, B. Toelle, G. Marks, D. Celermajer, M. Skilton

    
• • ·A Comparative Study of Transradial Coronary Angiography in Octogenarians Within a Regional Centre

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    D. Devenney, A. Sarkar, A. Saxena, A. Lee

    
• • ·Abnormal Troponin Not Meeting Universal Definition of MI is Still High Risk

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    D. Balakrishnan, D. Chew, J. Vaile, A. Sinhal, B. Pathik, M. Horsfall

    
• • ·Absence of a ‘Smoker's Paradox’ in Field Triaged ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients

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    U. Allahwala, J. Murphy, G. Nelson, R. Bhindi

    
• • ·Achieving Door to Balloon Times (DTBT) < 90 min Reduces Long Term Mortality in Lower ST Elevation MI (STEMI)

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    R. Spencer, J. Ramchand, N. Andrianopoulos, S. Duffy, A. Ajani, M. Sebastian, O. Farouque, K. Charter, D. Fernando, T. Lancefield, C. Reid, D. Clark

     
• • ·Altered Atheroprotective Properties of High-Density Lipoproteins in Adolescents with Chronic Inflammatory Disease

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    M. Duong, P. Mani, K. Uno, X. Chen, S. Nicholls

    
• • ·Ambulatory Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic for Low to Intermediate Risk Patients – A Single Centre Experience

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    J. Grewal, R. Johnston, K. Sanders, R. Rayoo, L. Kearney, R. Lim, G. Smith, C. Naismith, P. Srivastava, E. Jones, O. Farouque, Al-A. Fiadh

    
• • ·Aromatase Overexpression Elicits a Paradoxical Cardiac Response to Ischaemia and Reperfusion Challenge

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    J. Bell, G. Bernasochi, G. Risbridger, L. Delbridge

    
• • ·Bleeding Risk in Elderly STEMI Patients Post Thrombolysis with Ticagrelor

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    M. Lee, A. Nuriman, V. Pera, G. Devlin

    
• • ·BNP Signal Peptide is Protective in Ischaemia Reperfusion Injury

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    M. Siriwardena, C. Charles, M. Byers, M. Richards, C. Pemberton

    
• • ·Index

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• • ·Chest Pain in the Emergency Department: Novel Biomarker Endoglin Reflects Prior, But Not Current Cardiac Pathology

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    S. Hall, G. Bobek, S. Prahalath, R. Rajaratnam, A. Hennessy

    
• • ·Clinical Determinants of a Positive Acetylcholine Provocation Test in an Australian Setting

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    D. Di Fiore, C. Zeitz, M. Arstall, J. Beltrame

    
• • ·Complex Angiographic Coronary Artery Disease in Non-Diabetics is More Common Among Patients of South Asian Descent Than in Those of Australian European Descent

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    M. Kumar, I. Shugman, K. Kaddapu, C. Mussap, A. Hopkins, J. French, R. Rajaratnam

    
• • ·Coronary Artery Anomalies: Incidence and Outcome at Cardiology Tertiary Referral Centre in North Queensland

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    N. Sinhal, R. Schrale

    
• • ·Current Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction Fails to Reproducibly Define Periprocedural Myocardial Infarction

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    M. Liang, A. Al-Sinan, I. Webb, P. Larsen, S. Harding

    
• • ·Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Emergency Patients with Chest Pain Using a Two Hour Algorithm with Highly Sensitive Troponin I Assay Results

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    L. Cullen, W. Parsonage, J. Greeenslade, S. Aldous, P. George, C. Hammett, A. Lamanna, J. Ungerer, M. Richards, C. Pemberton, M. Than

    
• • ·Diagnosis of AMI Using Sex-Specific Cut-Off Values of a Highly Sensitive Troponin I Assay in Emergency Department Patients With Chest Pain

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    L. Cullen, W. Parsonage, J. Greenslade, S. Aldous, P. George, A. Lamanna, J. Ungerer, M. Richards, C. Pemberton, C. Hammett, M. Than

    
• • ·Diagnostic Approach of the Chest Pain by Emergency Department Vs. Cardiology Department

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    J. Raval, S. Varanasi, V. Nagaraja, C. Gan, D. Burgess, A. Denniss

    
• • ·Does Heparin Modulate Circulating Levels of Soluble Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)?

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    T. Lancefield, M. Freeman, E. Velkoska, S. Patel, D. Clark, M. Horrigan, O. Farouque, L. Burrell

    
• • ·Does Presence of Coronary Artery Disease Predict Degree of Valvular Calcification in Haemodialysis Patients?

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    L. Garg, N. Sinhal, D. Anand, R. Yadav

    
• • ·Does the 50% Delta Change Alter Clinical Outcomes in Chest Pain Presentations to the Emergency Department

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    J. Sajeev, F. Gunawan, P. Wijesundera, S. Menon, L. Roberts, D. Tong, A. Baradi, D. Jackson, P. Naidu, G. New

    
• • ·Early Australian Experience With AbsorbTM Bioresorbable Scaffold Technology in “Real-World” Coronary Disease

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    C. Arnott, M. Pitney, S. Ooi, N. Jepson

    
• • ·Effect of Arterial Size, Extent of Disease and Cardiovascular Medications on Nitrate-Induced Coronary Vasodilatation

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    N. Kim, M. Pitney, A. Lau

    
• • ·Effects of Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome on Cardiac Structure, Function and Tolerance to Ischaemia

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    E. Du Toit, D. Donner, I. Wensley, K. Salaveria, A. Bulmer

    
• • ·Elevation of High Sensitive Cardiac Troponin T in the Absence of Significant Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease

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    J. Raval, C. Gan, V. Nagaraja, K. Rangasamy, R. Talisayon, D. Burgess, A. Denniss

    
• • ·Evidenced Based Therapies in a Population with Chronic Kidney Disease Presenting with an Acute Coronary Syndrome. Findings From the Cooperative National Registry of Acute Coronary Care, Guideline Adherence and Clinical Events

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    J. Lau, M. Anastasius, K. Hyun, S. Coverdale, C. Ferry, J. Hung, P. Antonis, D. Chew, C. Juergens, B. Costa, D. Brieger

    
• • ·Index

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• • ·Ex-Vivo Stented Coronary Artery Hemodynamics Using 4D Flow Measurements and Computational Flow Dynamics (CFD)

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    Susann Beier, John Ormiston, Mark Webster, John Cater, Pau Medrano-Gracia, Alistair Young, Brett Cowan

    
• • ·Female False Positive Stress Testing – Fact or Fiction?

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    B. Fitzgerald, G. Scalia

     
• • ·High Levels of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) are Associated With Reduced Glutathione Peroxidase (GPx) Activity in Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)

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    A. Holley, L. Johnston, S. Harding, P. Larsen

    
• • ·High Prevalence of Elevated High Sensitivity Troponins in Elderly Patients in the Absence of Acute Coronary Syndrome – Is There a Need for Cut Off Level Change

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    J. Shah, C. Hiew

    
• • ·Identification of Low Risk Emergency Patients with Symptoms of Possible Acute Coronary Syndrome: External Validation of the Vancouver Chest Pain Rule

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    L. Cullen, J. Greenslade, M. Than, S. Aldous, P. George, T. Hawkins, A. Brown, M. Richards, C. Pemberton, C. Hammett, W. Parsonage

    
• • ·Index

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• • ·IL-27 and IL-29 in Coronary Artery Disease in Premature Cardiac Death

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    B. Fang, R. Puranik, J. Duflou, S. Bao

    
• • ·Impact of Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease on Serum Biochemical Markers and Clinical Outcomes Following Acute Myocardial Infarction Treated with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

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    U. Allahwala, J. Mazhar, S. Conte, G. Nelson, R. Bhindi

    
• • ·LACE, CRUSADE, CADDILAC, TIMI-NSTEMI Scores Can Predict Unplanned Hospital Readmissions with ACS

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    N. Rudd, V. Mutha, M. Asrar Ul Haq, R. Peiris, C. Nguyen, D. Nour, L. Lau, S. Al-Daher, P. Barlis, W. van Gaal

    
• • ·Lipidomic Profiling Can Predict the Amount of Non-Calcified Coronary Plaque in Asymptomatic Patients at Intermediate Risk of Coronary Artery Disease

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    A. Ellims, G. Wong, J. Weir, P. Lew, P. Meikle, A. Taylor

    
• • ·Multiple Vascular Reactivity Measures Improves Our Ability to Predict Underlying Coronary Artery Disease

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    A. Al-Fiadh, N. Uddin, R. Kawazaki, D. Clark, A. Wilson, T. Wong, L. Burrell, O. Farouque

    
• • ·Non-Invasive Management of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome is not Associated With Increased Unplanned Hospital Readmissions with ACS

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    N. Rudd, M. Asrar Ul Haq, V. Mutha, R. Peiris, C. Nguyen, D. Nour, L. Lau, S. Al-Daher, P. Barlis, W. van Gaal

    
• • ·Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in a Nonagenarian Population

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    R. Puchalski, W. Peverill, A. Brazzale, S. Hayman, M. Dooris, P. Stewart

    
• • ·Peak High Sensitivity Troponin T as a Marker of Infarct Size and Left Ventricular Function in Revascularised Acute ST Elevated Myocardial Infarction (STEMI)

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    T. Nguyen, J. Phan, L. Thomas, D. Moses, M. Serratore, J. Hogan, G. Schlaphoff, H. Dimitri, R. Rajaratnam, C. Juergens, J. French, D. Richards

    
• • ·Plasma Based Biofunctionalisation of Cardiovascular Stents

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

     
• • ·Prevalence of Patent Foramen Ovale in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction and Angiographically Normal Coronary Arteries

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    J. Grewal, A. Al-Fiadh, O. Farouque, E. Jones

    
• • ·Relationship Between Admission High-Sensitivity Troponin Levels and Outcomes After ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction

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    T. Wang, T. Snow, T. Watson, J. Stewart, M. Webster, H. White, P. Ruygrok

    
• • ·Severity of Coronary Artery Disease is Associated with Prevalence of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm; Use of Complex Scoring Systems for Severity of Coronary Artery Disease Does Not Demonstrate A Significant Staged Association with AAA Prevalence

    Pagina :S47

    K. Willoughby-Martin, G. Jones, M. Williams, N. Curtis, G. Hill, A. Van Rij

    
• • ·Should We Perform Stress Echocardiography on Patients with L-BBB and Suspected Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease?

    Pagina :S47

    L. Dobson, I. Agahari, J. Lipshutz, P. Mottram, S. Moir

    
• • ·Somatic Depression Predicts Six-Year Mortality in Acute Coronary Syndrome

    Pagina :S48

    C. Tie, P. Herbison, E. Tang, B. Bermingham, C. Wong

    
• • ·Spotty Calcification Associates with Coronary Plaque Microstructures In Vivo: Insights From Fourier-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Analysis

    Pagina :S48

    Y. Kataoka, J. John, K. Wolski, K. Uno, R. Puri, E. Tuzcu, S. Nissen, S. Nicholls

    
• • ·STEMI Care in Australia and New Zealand: Results From The Australia and New Zealand SNAPSHOT ACS

    Pagina :S49

    J. French, C. Hammett, C. Ellis, G. Devlin, M. Williams, J. Elliott, J. Rankin, F. Turnbull, S. Thompson, J. Lefkovits, H. Parker, K. Lintern, T. Howell, D. Brieger, B. Carr, D. Chew, for the SNAPSHOT ACS Investigators

    
• • ·Index

    Pagina :S49

    
• • ·The Index of Microvascular Resistance (IMR) and Correlation with Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Moderate Epicardial Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S49

    T. Butler, A. Incani, C. Raffel, J. Chan, J. Fu, D. Walters

    
• • ·The Index of Microvascular Resistance (IMR) and Its Relationship to Left Ventricle End Diastolic Pressure and Right Atrial Pressure in Patients With Moderate Epicardial Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S50

    T. Butler, A. Incani, C. Raffel, J. Fu, D. Walters

    
• • ·The NHF/CSANZ Risk Stratification Tool Identifies Very-Low Risk Patients at Admission to ED With Acute Chest Pain Without ST-Segment-Elevation

    Pagina :S50

    N. Dayawansa, F. O’Keeffe, J. Shaw, P. Cameron, A. Dart

    
• • ·The Predictors of Discharge Without Clopidogrel Following Admission with Acute Coronary Syndrome in Australia – The CONCORDANCE Registry

    Pagina :S51

    M. Anastasius, J. Lau, K. Hyun, A. Patel, J. Rankin, D. Walters, C. Juergens, B. Costa, D. Brieger

    
• • ·The Relationship Between Coronary Arterial Plaque Burden and Lipid Pools: Histological Validation Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Intravascular Ultrasound

    Pagina :S51

    J. Andrews, R. Puri, S. Madden, R. Madder, J. Muller, K. Wolski, Y. Kataoka, K. Uno, K. King, E. Tuzcu, S. Kapadia, S. Nicholls

    
• • ·Trends in Gender- and Age-Specific Rates of First Myocardial Infarction in Adults With and Without Diabetes Between 1998 and 2010 in Western Australia

    Pagina :S52

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

    
• • ·Tropoelastin Selectively Inhibits Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation

    Pagina :S52

    P. Michael, S. Wise, M. Bilek, A. Weiss, M. Ng

    
• • ·Type 2 Myocardial Infarction is Associated with Worse Prognosis

    Pagina :S52

    D. Balakrishnan, D. Chew, J. Vaile, A. Sinhal, M. Horsfall

    
• • ·Use of an Accelerated Diagnostic Protocol in the Assessment of Emergency Department Patients with Possible Acute Coronary Syndrome

    Pagina :S53

    T. George, L. Cullen, W. Parsonage, P. Larsen, S. Coverdale, S. Ashover, J. Bilesky, K. Bailey, B. Boulton, J. Gibson, J. Currie

    
• • ·Vitamin D Levels Predict the Extent of Angiographic Coronary Artery Disease in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography

    Pagina :S53

    J. Warren, S. Sasha, P. Ngu, A. Taylor, A. Dart, J. Shaw

    
• • ·A Peptide Derived Against the Alpha-Interacting Domain of the L-type Ca²⁺ Channel Reduces Ischaemia-Reperfusion Injury In Vivo in Rat Heart and Improves Contractility

    Pagina :S54

    H. Viola, M. Jordan, K. Roos, L. Hool

    
• • ·CCN2/CTGF Plays a Key Role in Extracellular Matrix Gene Expression in Severe Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure

    Pagina :S54

    T. Tsoutsman, X. Wang, K. Garchow, B. Riser, S. Twigg, C. Semsarian

    
• • ·CXCR4 Antagonism Attenuates the Development of Myocardial Fibrosis in Dilated Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S55

    P. Chu, D. Kaye

    
• • ·Determining the Site of Phosphorylation on the Human Cardiac L-type Calcium Channel Alpha Subunit by cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase

    Pagina :S55

    H. Cserne Szappanos, D. Longman, T. Mahzabin, P. Muralidharan, E. Ingley, L. Hool

    
• • ·Index

    Pagina :S55

    
• • ·Dynamic Obstruction is Associated With Abnormal Myocardial Mechanics in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S55

    A. Lo, M. Dooris, A. Ng, A. Dahiya, J. Atherton

     
• • ·Electrocardiography Predicts Severity, But Not Presence, of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S56

    M. Watts, I. Macciocca, A. Ellims

    
• • ·Identifying the Site/S of Modification on Human L-type Calcium Channel Protein Isoforms During Oxidative Stress

    Pagina :S56

    P. Muralidharan, E. Ingley, L. Hool

    
• • ·Impaired Functional Relaxation Despite Upregulated Calcium Handling Proteins in Human Diabetic Myocardium

    Pagina :S57

    R. Lamberts, S. Lingam, S. Wang, P. Saxena, I. Galvin, R. Bunton, M. Williams, S. Coffey, J. Baldi, P. Jones

    
• • ·Incidence of Basal Septal Bulge in Echocardiographic Referrals

    Pagina :S57

    A. Sengupta, D. Platts

    
• • ·Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S57

    A. Ellims, L. Iles, L. Ling, B. Chong, I. Macciocca, J. Hare, D. Kaye, P. James, D. du Sart, A. Taylor

    
• • ·Peri-Valvar Aortic Stenosis and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy (LVH) vs Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy (HOCM): Pitfalls in Diagnosis

    Pagina :S58

    C. Ayoub, R. Chard, D. Brieger, J. Yiannikas

    
• • ·Pulmonary Hypertension is Associated With Right Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction

    Pagina :S58

    S. Murch, T. Roberts, A. La Gerche, A. MacIsaac, D. Prior, A. Burns

    
• • ·Stretch-Dependent Release of Positively Inotropic Factors in Isolated Perfused Rat Hearts

    Pagina :S59

    M. Ward, X. Shen

    
• • ·Studies of a Mouse Model of Cardiac ?_1A-Adrenergic Receptor Overexpression Provide Evidence For a Critical Role of RhoA/ROCK Signalling in Cardiac Contractility

    Pagina :S59

    Z. Yu, J. Tan, A. McMahon, S. Iismaa, X. Xiao, S. Kesteven, M. Reichelt, M. Mohl, Y. Dai, A. Sketchley, L. Yang, H. Gong, D. Fatkin, D. Allen, S. Head, R. Graham, M. Feneley

    
• • ·The Therapeutic Potential of microRNA-652 for the Treatment of Heart Failure

    Pagina :S60

    B. Bernardo, X. Gao, Y. Tham, R. Lin, H. Kiriazis, X. Du, J. McMullen

    
• • ·Are Soluble Receptors of Advanced Glycation End Products Associated With Pre-CLINICAL Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients With Diabetes?

    Pagina :S60

    T. Lancefield, B. Wai, S. Patel, E. Velkoska, M. Ord, P. Srivastava, L. Burrell

    
• • ·Changes in Echocardiographic Findings in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Progressing to Long-Term Haemodialysis: A North Queensland Centre Experience

    Pagina :S61

    L. Garg, D. Anand, R. Yadav

    
• • ·Declining Total Cholesterol Levels and Increasing Lipid Lowering Therapy Use at Presentation in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome

    Pagina :S61

    T. Chan, I. Ranasinghe, L. Neubeck, K. Hyun, D. Brieger, B. Aliprandi-Costa, J. Lefkovits, G. Devlin, C. Juergens, F. Turnbull, D. Chew, S. Freedman

     
• • ·Elementary School Physical Education and Lipid Concentrations in Community-Based Children: The Australian LOOK Intervention Study

    Pagina :S62

    W. Abhayaratna, R. Telford

    
• • ·Fasting Glucose and HbA1c in Relationship to Coronary Heart Disease and Statin Therapy: The Need for Clear Thinking

    Pagina :S62

    D. Colquhoun, I. Hamilton-Craig, K. Kostner, S. Woodhouse

    
• • ·Glycogen Responses During Metabolic Stress are Accentuated in Female Hearts: A Role for Myocardial Glycophagy

    Pagina :S63

    M. Reichelt, K. Mellor, D. Stapleton, L. Delbridge

    
• • ·Glycogen-Specific Autophagy in Hyperglycaemic Cardiomyocytes

    Pagina :S63

    K. Mellor, U. Varma, C. Chevalier, D. Stapleton, L. Delbridge

    
• • ·High Density Lipoproteins Attenuate the Vascular Complications of Diabetes Mellitus by Inhibition of Hyperglycaemia-mediated Overexpression Thioredoxin-interacting Protein

    Pagina :S64

    H. Prosser, L. Dunn, P. Simpson, L. Vanags, S. Monger, J. Tan, C. Bursill, M. Ng

    
• • ·Impact of Female Gender and Admission Heart Rate on Platelet Aggregation and Nitric Oxide Signalling in Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S64

    N. Procter, J. Ball, D. Ngo, Y. Chirkov, J. Isenberg, E. Hylek, S. Stewart, J. Horowitz

     
• • ·Impact of Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator Therapy on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Obese, Insulin-resistant Rats

    Pagina :S64

    Donner D., Headrick J., Du Toit E.

    
• • ·Inflammatory Biomarker Levels and The Risk of Vascular Complications and Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

    Pagina :S65

    G. Hillis, G. Lowe, A. Rumley, Q. Li, S. Harrap, M. Marre, P. Hamet, A. Patel, N. Poulter, J. Chalmers

     
• • ·Physical Education Improves Insulin Resistance: The Australian LOOK Intervention Trial

    Pagina :S65

    W. Abhayaratna, R. Telford

    
• • ·Protective Effects of Sustained Ligand-activated Preconditioning in Type II Diabetes Mellitus

    Pagina :S66

    L. See-Hoe, A. Zemljic-Harpf, J. Schilling, C. Finley, S. Kellerhals, D. Roth, J. Peart, H. Patel, J. Headrick

    
• • ·Striking Differences Between the Atheroprotective Effects of High Density Lipoproteins in Early-stage and Late-stage Atherosclerosis: Insights into the Lack of Efficacy of HDL-raising Therapy

    Pagina :S66

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

     
• • ·The Effect of Periconceptional Overnutrition and Rosiglitazone Exposure on Foetal Heart Development

    Pagina :S67

    K. Botting, J. Chiang, L. Nicholas, C. McMillen, S. Zhang, M. Padhee, K. Wang, J. Morrison

    
• • ·The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Coronary Disease Status and Lipid Lowering in the Setting of Secondary Prevention: A Population-based Study of Older Adults

    Pagina :S67

    S. Thammavongsa, W. Abhayaratna

    
• • ·The Relationship Between High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) Levels and Glycaemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM): The FIELD Study

    Pagina :S68

    B. Waldman, A. Jenkins, T. Davis, R. O’Connell, M. Ng, A. Keech

    
• • ·The Relative and Combined Ability of High Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T and N-Terminal pro-BNP to Predict Cardiovascular Events and Death in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

    Pagina :S68

    G. Hillis, P. Welsh, J. Chalmers, C. Chow, Q. Li, V. Perkovic, B. Neal, S. Zoungas, M. Jun, N. Poulter, G. Mancia, B. Williams, N. Sattar, M. Woodward

    
• • ·Utility of Post-mortem Lipid Levels in Fatal Premature CAD: An Autopsy Study

    Pagina :S69

    I. Rashid, H. Klimis, J. Duflou, D. Sullivan, R. Puranik

    
• • ·A Regional Centre Experience on Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy—A Five-year Audit at The Gold Coast Hospital (GCH)

    Pagina :S69

    A. Safaa, R. Markham, R. Mohan, L. Shanahan, J. Coatsworth, R. Batra

    
• • ·A Review of Current Practices in Treatment of Patients Hospitalised for Heart Failure: The New Zealand Heart Failure Registry

    Pagina :S69

    K. Sree Raman, V. Pera, M. Lund, R. Doughty, R. Troughton, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Acute Beta-adrenoceptor Blockade Fails to Bring Down Repolarisation Instability in Patients with Ischaemic Cardiomyopathy Prone to Ventricular Tachycardia

    Pagina :S70

    S. Nayyar, M. Baumert, M. Hassan, J. Hunt, P. Sanders, K. Roberts-Thomson

    
• • ·Anaemia is Associated with Increased Prevalence of Major Co-morbidities in Chronic Heart Failure

    Pagina :S70

    B. Ordys, J. Lau, M. Chang, A. Sindone

    
• • ·Index

    Pagina :S71

    
• • ·Angiotensin Receptor Neprilysin Inhibition (ARNi) Attenuates Adverse Cardiac Remodelling In Vitro and In Vivo

    Pagina :S71

    T. von Lueder, B. Wang, A. Kompa, L. Huang, R. Webb, P. Jordan, D. Atar, H. Krum

    
• • ·Can Recurrence of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy be Predicted?

    Pagina :S71

    T. Nguyen, C. Neil, C. Chong, K. Singh, T. Heresztyn, Y. Chirkov, J. Horowitz

    
• • ·Chronic Kidney Disease is a Marker of Increased Risk and Co-morbidity in Heart Failure

    Pagina :S71

    J. Lau, M. Chang, B. Ordys, M. Jardine, A. Al-kahwa, A. Sindone

    
• • ·Clinical Outcomes and Cardiovascular Responses According to Exercise Training Intensity in Heart Failure Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Pagina :S72

    H. Ismail, J. McFarlane, G. Dieberg, H. Noujoumian, N. Smart

    
• • ·Comparison of Current Treatment Practices for Preserved and Reduced Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction: The New Zealand Heart Failure Registry

    Pagina :S72

    K. Sree Raman, V. Pera, M. Lund, R. Doughty, R. Troughton, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Comparison of Heart Failure Management for Patients Hospitalised Under Cardiologists or General Physicians

    Pagina :S73

    I. Matthews, B. Smith

    
• • ·Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices Improve Survival in Reactive But Not Fixed Type 2 Pulmonary Hypertension

    Pagina :S73

    G. Kumarasinghe, C. Hayward, P. Macdonald, A. Keogh, E. Kotlyar, E. Granger, K. Dhital, P. Jansz, P. Spratt, A. Jabbour

     
• • ·Differences Between NZ European and NZ Maori in Characteristics, Treatments and Outcomes of Patients Hospitalised for Heart Failure: New Zealand Heart Failure Registry

    Pagina :S74

    K. Sree Raman, V. Pera, M. Lund, R. Doughty, R. Troughton, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Do Soluble Receptors of Advanced Glycation end Products Correlate with Invasively Determined Left Ventricular Filling Pressure?

    Pagina :S74

    T. Lancefield, M. Freeman, S. Patel, E. Velkoska, M. Horrigan, O. Farouque, L. Burrell

     
• • ·Does Worsening Renal Function with RAAS Inhibitors Predict Worse Clinical Outcomes? Meta-analysis of >20,000 Patients with Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction

    Pagina :S75

    H. Clark, I. Hopper, H. Krum

    
• • ·Dual Renin–angiotensin System Blockade with Aliskiren in Patients with Heart Failure, with or without Diabetes Mellitus: Insights from ALOFT

    Pagina :S75

    S. Boyle, R. Latini, P. Jhund, M. MacDonald, M. Petrie, B. Pitt, A. Maggioni, W. Chang, J. Lewsey, S. Solomon, J. McMurray

    
• • ·Effect of Body Position on Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Flow Dynamics

    Pagina :S76

    K. Muthiah, S. Gupta, D. Robson, R. Walker, P. Macdonald, P. Jansz, C. Hayward

     
• • ·Effect of the HeartWare HVAD Continuous-flow Left Ventricular Assist Device on Clinical Outcomes

    Pagina :S76

    S. Gupta, K. Woldendorp, K. Muthiah, D. Robson, R. Prichard, P. Macdonald, A. Keogh, E. Kotlyar, A. Jabbour, K. Dhital, E. Granger, P. Spratt, P. Jansz, C. Hayward

    
• • ·Evaluation of Unplanned Hospital Readmissions for Chronic Heart Failure

    Pagina :S76

    M. Boyde, R. Peters, M. Weglowski, T. Ha, D. Korczyk

    
• • ·Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and Sleep Disordered Breathing in Stable Heart Failure Patients

    Pagina :S77

    A. Lamanna, M. Brown, D. Smith, S. McKenzie, D. Platts, M. Lucas, J. Douglas, G. Javorsky

    
• • ·Financial Impact of Adaptive Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (AdaptivCRT^®) Device Algorithms in Australia

    Pagina :S77

    M. Chau, A. Eggleston, S. Tsintzos

    
• • ·Heart Transplant Survival Rates in Patients Requiring a Ventricular Assist Device as a Bridge to Transplant

    Pagina :S78

    A. Lamanna, S. McKenzie, M. Brown, D. Platts, B. Thomson, P. Tesar, J. Maddicks-Law, J. Bancroft, G. Javorsky

    
• • ·Histidine-rich Ca²⁺ Binding Protein Inhibits the Propensity for Store Overload-induced Ca²⁺ Release (SOICR)

    Pagina :S78

    J. Zhang, J. McLay, P. Jones

    
• • ·Home Inotrope Therapy for Heart Failure, the Alfred Hospital Experience

    Pagina :S78

    I. Bader, L. MacFarlane, D. Kaye, A. Taylor, A. Leet, J. Hare, P. Bergin

    
• • ·Impact of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators on Survival of Patients with Centrifugal Left Ventricular Assist Devices

    Pagina :S79

    W. Lee, A. Tay, R. Subbiah, B. Walker, D. Kuchar, K. Muthiah, D. Robson, E. Hodkinson, P. Macdonald, A. Keogh, E. Kotlyar, A. Jabbour, P. Spratt, E. Granger, K. Dhital, P. Jansz, C. Hayward

    
• • ·Impaired Microvascular Oxygen Delivery in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFPEF)

    Pagina :S79

    V. Van Empel, D. Kaye

    
• • ·Influence of Age on Outcome in Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    Pagina :S80

    N. Collins, S. Kodur, W. Ahmad, D. Barker, A. Davies, J. Attia

    
• • ·Inhibition of Apoptosis Signal-regulating Kinase 1 (ASK1) Attenuates Uremic Toxins’ Detrimental Effects on Cardiac and Renal Cells: Therapeutic Potential of ASK1 Inhibitors in Cardiorenal Syndrome

    Pagina :S80

    B. Wang, L. Huang, Q. Fu, H. Krum

    
• • ·Interaction Between Left and Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Tako-Tsubo Cardiomyopathy: Impact on Haemodynamics and Morbidity

    Pagina :S80

    K. Singh, C. Neil, J. Stansborough, H. Nguyen, M. Frenneaux, J. Horowitz

    
• • ·Iron Deficiency in Heart Failure with Relatively Preserved Left Ventricular Function is Associated with More Adverse Co-morbidities

    Pagina :S81

    M. Chang, J. Lau, A. Al-Kahwa, F. Zaky, B. Ordys, A. Sindone

    
• • ·Iron Deficiency in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (iPAH)

    Pagina :S81

    V. Van Empel, J. Lee, T. Williams, D. Kaye

    
• • ·Measurement of Left Ventricular Chamber Function in the Setting of Ventricular Assist Device Support

    Pagina :S82

    S. Gupta, K. Muthiah, K. Woldendorp, D. Robson, P. Jansz, C. Hayward

    
• • ·Mitochondrial Function is Linked to Impair Contractility in Human Heart Failure

    Pagina :S82

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

    
• • ·MOBILE-HF: Physiotherapist Supervised Early Mobilisation in Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

    Pagina :S83

    R. Francis, L. Moore, A. Bullen, O. Tronstad, G. Javorsky, M. Brown, S. McKenzie, D. Platts, S. Kuys

    
• • ·Myocardial Infarction after Subtotal Nephrectomy Accelerates Pathological Cardiac Remodelling and Renal Impairment

    Pagina :S83

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

    
• • ·Needs Assessment of Heart Failure Patients Attending a Clinical Nurse Specialist-led Heart Function Clinic

    Pagina :S83

    J. Chirnside

    
• • ·Non-invasive Determination of the Preload Recruitable Stroke Work Relationship in Patients with Heart Failure

    Pagina :S84

    D. Nayyar, M. Feneley, P. Macdonald, A. Keogh, E. Kotlyar, R. Walker, C. Hayward

    
• • ·Not All Systematic Reviews are Systematic: A Meta-review of the Quality of Current Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses for Remote Monitoring in Heart Failure

    Pagina :S84

    R. Clark, A. Conway, S. Inglis, M. Horton-Breshears, J. Cleland

    
• • ·Not Such a Rarity! Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy as a Mimic of ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S85

    B. Raman, K. Singh, C. Neil, T. Nguyen, J. Stansborough, C. Zietz, J. Horowitz

     
• • ·Poor Health Status and Depression are Associated with Excessive Daytime Sleepiness in Stable Heart Failure Patients

    Pagina :S85

    A. Lamanna, M. Brown, S. McKenzie, D. Smith, D. Platts, M. Lucas, J. Douglas, G. Javorksy

    
• • ·Predictors and Rates of Readmission and Mortality in Heart Failure: A Rural Snap Shot

    Pagina :S86

    K. Stanton, R. Arnold, S. Martin

    
• • ·Preoperative Predictors for Length of ICU Admission after Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) Implantation as Bridge to Transplant—A Single Centre Experience

    Pagina :S86

    S. McKenzie, D. Platts, J. Bancroft, J. Maddicks-Law, M. Brown, B. Thomson, G. Javorsky

    
• • ·Presence of RV Dysfunction and Pulmonary HT in Decompensated Heart Failure

    Pagina :S86

    S. Martin, R. Arnold, K. Stanton

    
• • ·Rurality Does Matter for Heart Failure Outcomes in Western Australia

    Pagina :S87

    T. Teng, J. Katzenellenbogen, S. Thompson, F. Sanfilippo, M. Hobbs, E. Geelhoed, M. Knuiman, J. Hung

    
• • ·Significant Reduction in All-cause Mortality with Ivabradine in Chronic Heart Failure Patients with Baseline Heart Rate ?77 bpm: Subgroup Analysis of SHIFT

    Pagina :S87

    H. Krum, A. Sindone

    
• • ·Structural Heart Disease is Common Within a Community Cohort at Risk of Heart Failure—The SCREEN-HF Study

    Pagina :S88

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

    
• • ·Targeting Ischaemia-reperfusion (I-R) Injury in the Intact Heart with Annexin-A1 (ANX-A1) Mimetics

    Pagina :S88

    C. Qin, N. Cao, X. Gao, S. Rosli, H. Kiriazis, X. Du, R. Ritchie

    
• • ·Tenckhoff Catheter Implantation and Modified Peritoneal Dialysis As a Novel Therapeutic Approach in Diuretic Resistant Congestive Heart Failure: A Single-centre Case-series

    Pagina :S89

    R. Grover, J. Sevastos, C. Hayward, A. Jabbour, A. Keogh, E. Kotlyar, P. Macdonald

    
• • ·The Continuum Between Longitudinal and Radial Left Ventricular “Systolic” Function: Relationship to Left Ventricular Filling Pressure

    Pagina :S89

    B. Jacobson, W. Abhayaratna

    
• • ·The Effect of Ageing on the Pulmonary Vasculature and Exercise Physiology

    Pagina :S90

    V. Van Empel, B. Borlaug, D. Kaye

    
• • ·The Liver X Receptor Agonist, T0901317 Attenuates Angiotensin II-stimulated Hypertrophy and Collagen Synthesis in Cardiac Cells

    Pagina :S90

    A. Kompa, T. von Lueder, B. Wang, H. Krum

     
• • ·The Uraemic Toxin Adsorbent AST-120 Abrogates Renal Injury Post-MI Evidenced by Normalisation of KIM-1 Protein Expression and Reduced Collagen Turnover

    Pagina :S91

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

    
• • ·Usefulness of Parameters of Right Ventricular Function by Echocardiography to Predict Cardiac Events in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure

    Pagina :S91

    K. Shiino, M. Iwase, M. Sone, Y. Takakuwa, K. Takada, Y. Ito, K. Sugimoto, H. Inuduka, Y. Ozaki

    
• • ·Utility of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Compared to Electrocardiography and Echocardiography for the Prediction of Clinical Response and Long-term Survival Following Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy

    Pagina :S91

    A. Ellims, H. Pfluger, M. Elsik, M. Butler, J. Hare, A. Taylor

    
• • ·(?)-Epicatechin Prolongs Action Potential Duration in Healthy Uninephrectomised Rats

    Pagina :S92

    D. Jackson, K. Connolly, F. Coulson, A. Fenning

    
• • ·A Deductive Strategy from Multiple Deflections Mapping in Sinus Rhythm for Field Localisation of Ventricular Tachycardia Supporting Channels in Ischaemic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S92

    S. Nayyar, P. Kuklik, A. Ganesan, T. Sullivan, A. Brooks, G. Young, P. Sanders, K. Roberts-Thomson

    
• • ·A Study of the Electrophysiology of the PV–LA Junction During Acute Stretch in Humans: Conduction Slowing and Complex Fractionated Electrograms

    Pagina :S93

    T. Walters, S. Spence, M. Larobina, V. Atkinson, J. Kalman

    
• • ·ACE Inhibition Reverses the Atrial Substrate Due to Hypertension: A High-density Microelectrode Array Study

    Pagina :S93

    D. Kim, S. Thanigaimani, A. Brooks, P. Kuklik, D. Lau, P. Sanders

     
• • ·AFAF (Autonomic Function in Atrial Fibrillation) Study: The Effect of Pulmonary Vein Isolation (PVI) for Atrial Fibrillation (AF) on Autonomic Reflexes

    Pagina :S93

    V. Malik, D. Mckitrick, R. Weerasooriya, L. Arnolda

    
• • ·Dietary and Age Impact on Atrial Electrophysiological Remodelling in Type II Diabetes: Atrial Electrophysiological Mapping Studies in a Murine Model

    Pagina :S94

    W. Lim, M. Neo, P. Kuklik, A. Ganesan, D. Saint, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Does Electrogram Morphology and Lesion Size Predict Catheter-tissue Contact Force During Epicardial RF Ablation in an Ovine Model

    Pagina :S94

    M. Wong, G. Edwards, J. Kalman, S. Kumar, S. Joseph, S. Spence, J. Morton

    
• • ·Elevated Atrial TGF-B1 in Obesity Predicts Atrial Structural and Electrophysiological Remodelling in an Obese Ovine Model

    Pagina :S95

    R. Mahajan, A. Brooks, J. Wood, J. Manavis, C. Samuel, K. Roberts-Thomson, P. Sanders

     
• • ·Epistatic Interactions of Ion Channels Underlie Variability in Cardiac Electrical Activity. In-silico Analysis of the Electrocardiogram

    Pagina :S95

    S. Mann, A. Sadrieh, R. Subbiah, L. Domanski, J. Taylor, J. Vandenberg, A. Hill

    
• • ·High Energy Dietary Supplement Results in Atrial Electrophysiological Remodelling in Type II Diabetes: Atrial Electrophysiological Mapping Studies in a Murine Model

    Pagina :S96

    W. Lim, M. Neo, P. Kuklik, A. Ganesan, D. Saint, P. Sanders

    
• • ·High Fat Diet in a Novel Mouse Model of Type II Diabetes Exacerbates Atrial Electrophysiological Remodelling Irrespective of a Diabetic State

    Pagina :S96

    M. Neo, W. Lim, P. Sanders, D. Saint

    
• • ·Impact of Age and Diabetes on Atrial Electrophysiological Remodelling: Implications for the Substrate Predisposing to Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S96

    M. Neo, W. Lim, P. Sanders, D. Saint

    
• • ·Impact of Catheter-Tissue Contact Force on Epicardial Muscle and Fat During Radiofrequency Ablation in an Ovine Model

    Pagina :S97

    M. Wong, G. Edwards, J. Kalman, S. Kumar, S. Joseph, S. Spence, J. Morton

    
• • ·Increased Thrombotic Risk Associated with Newly Diagnosed Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S97

    G. Rangnekar, C. Schultz, A. Brooks, M. Middeldorp, S. Willoughby, K. Thomson, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Mouse Pacemaker Cells Express NCS-1 that is up-regulated by Taxol

    Pagina :S98

    Y. Ju, J. Kim, D. Allen

    
• • ·Index

    Pagina :S98

    
• • ·Prediction of Atrial Flutter Mechanisms Following Pulmonary Vein Isolation from the Surface Electrocardiogram

    Pagina :S98

    P. Qian, G. Wu, S. Thomas

    
• • ·Reverse Remodelling of the Atrial Substrate in Hypertensive Ovine Model: Implications of Conventional Anti-hypertensive Drugs

    Pagina :S99

    S. Thanigaimani, D. Lau, A. Brooks, P. Kuklik, R. Mahajan, T. Kuchel, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Right Ventricular Dysfunction Predicts Inducible Ventricular Tachycardia at Electrophysiology Studies in Patients with Acute ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Reduced Left Ventricle Ejection Fraction

    Pagina :S99

    J. Thakkar, S. Zaman, A. Narayan, A. Thiagalingam, S. Thomas, G. Sivagangabalan, D. Farlow, R. Barnett, P. Kovoor

    
• • ·Shannon Entropy Mapping of AF Rotors-Theoretical Extensions to a Novel Conceptual Paradigm

    Pagina :S100

    A. Ganesan, P. Kuklik, M. Baumert, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Spatio-Temporal Differences in Bipolar Electrogram Characteristics: Shannon Entropy and Frequency Domain as Predictive Parameters of AF Termination

    Pagina :S100

    S. Thanigaimani, D. Lau, A. Brooks, P. Kuklik, A. Ganesan, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Stimulation of ?₃ Adrenergic Signalling Reverses Diabetes-Induced Oxidative Inhibition of Sarcolemmal Na⁺–K⁺ pump

    Pagina :S100

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

    
• • ·The Effects of the Human Germline Connexin40 Mutation A96S on Cardiac Physiology in the Intact Animal

    Pagina :S101

    A. Kanthan, R. Rao, P. Fahmy, I. Alexander, S. Thomas, E. Kizana

    
• • ·The Inotropic Effect of Riluzole is Due to Inhibition of the RyR Receptor and Not Due to Cardiac ECG Changes

    Pagina :S101

    D. Morris, V. Benson, Y. Ju, S. Weiss, D. Saint

     
• • ·Triggers Precede Substrate in the Temporal Evolution of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S102

    G. Rangnekar, A. Brooks, M. Middeldorp, J. Kim, E. Pancewicz, S. Willoughby, K. Thomson, P. Sanders

    
• • ·True Unipolar ECG Leads Recording (Without the Use of WCT)

    Pagina :S102

    G. Gargiulo, A. Thiagalingam, A. McEwan, M. Cesarelli, P. Bifulco, J. Tapson, A. van Schaik

     
• • ·Ventricular Depolarisation Variation in Sinus and Premature Ventricular Complexes (PVC)

    Pagina :S103

    B. Shi, S. Harding, A. Jimenez, P. Larsen

    
• • ·VF Frequency is Influenced by Cardiac Structure

    Pagina :S103

    E. Woodcock, S. Harding, B. Shi, N. Lever, P. Larsen

    
• • ·A Comparison of Right Ventricular Apical (RVA) and Non-Apical (RVNA) Defibrillator (ICD) Lead Position: A Single Centre Experience

    Pagina :S103

    L. Eng, B. Hunt, K. Dauber, J. Hill, P. Gould, G. Kaye

    
• • ·A Minimal or Maximal Ablation Strategy to Achieve Pulmonary Vein Isolation for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: Acute Outcomes in a Prospective Multi-Centre Randomised Controlled Trial (The Minimax Study)

    Pagina :S104

    A. McLellan, L. Ling, G. Lee, S. Azzopardi, G. Lee, S. Kumar, M. Wong, J. Lee, T. Walters, K. Looi, M. Stiles, N. Lever, S. Fynn, P. Heck, P. Sanders, J. Morton, J. Kalman, P. Kistler

    
• • ·A Study of the Atrial Fibrillatory Cycle Length Derived From the 12-Lead ECG: Longer Cycle Length Activity is Associated With More Advanced Electroanatomic Remodelling

    Pagina :S104

    T. Walters, A. Teh, S. Spence, K. Halloran, P. Kistler, J. Morton, J. Kalman

    
• • ·Ablation of Focal atrial Tachycardia—Demographics, Characteristics and Outcomes

    Pagina :S105

    F. Chahadi, T. Mathew, C. Singleton, B. Pathik, A. McGavigan

    
• • ·Activation Characterisation in Atrial Fibrillation: An Objective Assessment Tool

    Pagina :S105

    D. Chapman, P. Kuklik, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Balloon Warming Time Predicts Durability of Pulmonary Vein Isolation by Balloon Cryoablation for Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S105

    J. Ghosh, K. Chan, S. Gomes, S. Singarayar, M. McGuire

    
• • ·Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy for All Patients with Atrioventricular Nodal Disease and Reduced Ejection Fraction. Can We Afford It?

    Pagina :S106

    B. Pathik, T. Mathew, F. Chahadi, K. Sutton, D. Balakrishnan, A. McGavigan

    
• • ·Catheter-Tissue Contact Force Determines Atrial Electrogram Characteristics Before and Lesion Efficacy After Ablation in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S106

    S. Kumar, H. Haqqani, M. Yudi, M. Chan, J. Morton, P. Kistler, J. Kalman

    
• • ·Characterisation of Symptoms in Patients With Recurrent Atrial Arrhythmia Following Catheter Ablation

    Pagina :S107

    C. Nalliah, T. Lim, C. Koay, W. Chik, J. Thelander, R. Zecchin, D. Ross, S. Thomas

    
• • ·Comparing Australia/New Zealand and North American ICD Programming: Compliance With the Evidence Base

    Pagina :S107

    K. Khokhar, M. Stiles, M. Silver, S. LiU, B. Peterson, D. Lexcen

    
• • ·Complications of Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review

    Pagina :S108

    A. Gupta, T. Perera, A. Ganesan, T. Sullivan, D. Lau, K. Roberts-Thomson, A. Brooks, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Conventional Fluoroscopic and ECG Criteria for Right Ventricular Septal Pacemaker Lead Placement are not Accurate: A Cardiac Computer Tomography Validation Study

    Pagina :S108

    B. Pang, S. Joshi, E. Lui, M. Tacey, H. Liang, J. Alison, S. Seneviratne, J. Cameron, H. Mond

    
• • ·Coronary Artery Reperfusion for ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction Results in Shorter Cycle Length VT and Fewer Spontaneous Arrhythmias

    Pagina :S109

    C. Nalliah, S. Zaman, A. Narayan, J. Sullivan, P. Kovoor

    
• • ·Coronary Sinus Dissection During Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy Implantation

    Pagina :S109

    D. Flannery, P. Rae, D. O’Donnell

    
• • ·Diagnosis of Atrial Fibrillation Using the Pulsecor Cardioscope Blood Pressure Device

    Pagina :S109

    T. Oh, A. Lin, A. Lowe, R. Stewart

     
• • ·Diffuse Atrial Fibrosis Measured by T₁ Mapping on Cardiac MRI Predicts Success of Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

    Pagina :S110

    A. McLellan, L. Ling, A. Ellims, L. Iles, S. Azzopardi, J. Morton, J. Kalman, A. Taylor, P. Kistler

    
• • ·Diffuse Ventricular Fibrosis Measured by T₁ Mapping on Cardiac MRI Predicts Success of Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

    Pagina :S111

    A. McLellan, L. Ling, A. Ellims, L. Iles, S. Azzopardi, J. Morton, J. Kalman, A. Taylor, P. Kistler

    
• • ·Do the Effects of CRT Persist Over Time?

    Pagina :S111

    D. Flannery, T. Lin, M. Swale, P. Srivastava, D. O’Donnell

    
• • ·Effect of Atrial Fibrillation on Catheter-Tissue Contact During Antral Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Humans: Lower Contact Force at the Left Anterior Pulmonary Vein in Atrial Fibrillation Compared to Sinus or Paced Rhythm

    Pagina :S111

    S. Kumar, J. Morton, P. Kistler, J. Kalman

    
• • ·Efficacy and Safety of Epicardial Ventricular Arrhythmia Ablation

    Pagina :S112

    B. Wilsmore, M. Kanj

    
• • ·Index

    Pagina :S112

    
• • ·Failure to Shock—A Riata Lead Case Study

    Pagina :S112

    J. Greenslade, I. Crozier, I. Melton, S. Matthewson

    
• • ·His-Purkinje System Capture is not Possible From Conventional Right Ventricular Apical and non-Apical Pacing Sites

    Pagina :S113

    B. Pang, S. Kumar, M. Tacey, H. Mond

    
• • ·Implications for Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy: An ECG Algorithm to Predict the Latest Site of Left Ventricular Activation in Cardiomyopathy Patients With Left Bundle Branch Block

    Pagina :S113

    B. Pang, H. Haqqani, J. Kalman, H. Mond, M. Wong, J. Vohra, J. Morton

    
• • ·Importance of Aggressive Risk Factor Management on Outcomes After AF Ablation

    Pagina :S114

    R. Pathak, M. Middeldorp, R. Mahajan, D. Twomney, A. Brooks, M. Alasady, W. Abhayaratna, J. Kalman, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Is the Most Delayed Site the Best Site for LV Lead Pacing?

    Pagina :S114

    D. Flannery, T. Lin, P. Rae, J. Grewal, D. O’Donnell

    
• • ·Left Phrenic Nerve Pacing for the Detection of Phrenic Nerve Dysfunction Due to Balloon Cryoablation

    Pagina :S114

    J. Ghosh, S. Singarayar, K. Chan, S. Gomes, M. McGuire

    
• • ·Index

    Pagina :S115

    
• • ·Marked Variation in Catheter-Tissue Contact Force During Cavotricuspid Isthmus Ablation Using Traditional Markers of Good Contact

    Pagina :S115

    S. Kumar, J. Morton, M. Wong, P. Kistler, J. Kalman

    
• • ·Non Uniform Ventricular Remodelling Following CRT—Insights From Quadrapolar Leads

    Pagina :S115

    R. Spencer, H. Sugumar, T. Lin, D. Flannery, P. Rae, D. O’Donnell

    
• • ·Observations of Electrical Coupling Interval Using the Contact™ System during Pulmonary Vein Electrical Isolation Procedures

    Pagina :S116

    K. Phillips, D. Walker

    
• • ·Pacing and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Lead Perforation as Assessed by Cardiac Computer Tomography: Appearances and Clinical Correlates

    Pagina :S116

    B. Pang, E. Lui, S. Joshi, M. Tacey, J. Alison, S. Seneviratne, J. Cameron, H. Mond

    
• • ·Pericardial Fat Reduction and Reverse Remodelling Following Atrial Fibrillation Ablation

    Pagina :S117

    C. Wong, M. Sun, R. Mahajan, A. Brooks, D. Lau, K. Roberts-Thomson, W. Abhayaratna, S. Worthley, J. Selvanayagam, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Post Procedure Electrophysiological Findings to Predict Outcomes of Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S117

    J. McKenna, S. Keating, J. Brown, D. O’Donnell

    
• • ·Procedural Competency in Cardiac Rhythm Device Implantation—How Long Does It Take?

    Pagina :S117

    D. O’Donnell, P. Rae, I. Subiakto

    
• • ·Procedural Outcomes of Watchman^® Left Atrial Appendage Occluder Device Implantation and Longitudinal Toe Follow-Up of Peri-Device Leaks

    Pagina :S118

    J. Humphries, K. Phillips

    
• • ·Pulmonary Vein Isolation Requiring Ablation on the Intervenous Ridge to Achieve Electrical Disconnection: Impact on Acute and Long Term Outcome

    Pagina :S118

    A. McLellan, L. Ling, G. Lee, S. Azzopardi, G. Lee, S. Kumar, M. Wond, J. Lee, T. Walters, K. Looi, M. Stiles, N. Lever, S. Fynn, P. Heck, P. Sanders, J. Morton, J. Kalman, P. Kistler

    
• • ·Pulmonary Vein Potentials: Electrophysiological Findings at Initial and Repeat Ablation Procedures

    Pagina :S119

    J. McKenna, S. Keating, J. Brown, D. O’Donnell

    
• • ·Radiation Exposure Reduction in Pulmonary Vein Isolation Procedure for Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S119

    K. Rajamani, R. Hendricks, J. Wagstaff, S. Thomas

    
• • ·Redo Left Atrial Procedures With Repeat Transseptal Puncture is Associated With a Tougher Intra Atrial Septum. Additional Tools Such as Radiofrequency Ablation can Facilitate Difficult Transseptal Puncture

    Pagina :S119

    G. Furniss, E. Davies, P. Barman, I. Lines, D. Tomlinson, G. Haywood

    
• • ·Remote Monitoring for Early Detection of Device Malfunction

    Pagina :S120

    C. Nalliah, P. Kovoor, N. Straits, G. Sivagangabalan

    
• • ·Single Centre Outcomes Following Ablation of Non-Infundibular Idiopathic VT

    Pagina :S120

    H. Samardhi, J. Quah, C. Taylor, D. Wright, J. Lindemann, J. Betts, R. Denman, H. Haqqani

    
• • ·Supraventricular Tachycardia as a Trigger for Atrial Fibrillation in a Young Cohort of Patients Referred for Catheter Ablation

    Pagina :S120

    R. Mahajan, A. Smith, M. Middeldorp, L. Wilson, R. Pathak, D. Twomey, A. Ganesan, D. Lau, K. Roberts-Thomson, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Surrogates Markers of Catheter-Tissue Contact Force Such as Electrogram Amplitude and Impedance are Inferior to Real-Time Contact Force Measurements for Determining Pre-Ablation Contact Force and Lesion Efficacy During Radiofrequency Ablation of Atrial Arrhythmias in Humans

    Pagina :S121

    S. Kumar, H. Haqqani, M. Yudi, M. Chan, M. Wong, J. Morton, P. Kistler, J. Kalman

    
• • ·Index

    Pagina :S121

    
• • ·Systemic Effect of Intrapericardial Triamcinolone Acetate Following Epicardial Mapping and Ablation

    Pagina :S121

    H. Samardhi, C. Taylor, J. Lindemann, D. Wright, J. Betts, R. Denman, H. Haqqani

    
• • ·The Agilis Sheath in Typical Atrial Flutter Ablation Trial

    Pagina :S122

    N. Jackson, J. Leitch, B. Wilsmore, M. Barlow

    
• • ·The National Heart Foundation of Australia Consensus Statement on Catheter Ablation as a Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S122

    J. Kalman, P. Sanders, D. Brieger, A. Aggarwal, N. Zwar, J. Tatoulis, A. Tay, A. Wilson, M. Branagan

    
• • ·The Role of Adenosine following Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Patients Undergoing Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review

    Pagina :S123

    A. McLellan, S. Kumar, C. Smith, J. Morton, J. Kalman, P. Kistler

    
• • ·The Role of Lead Integrity Alerts and Remote Monitoring in Reducing Morbidity Associated With the St Jude Medical Riata ICD Lead

    Pagina :S123

    J. Lindemann, J. Betts, O. Davison, J. Denbesten, H. Samardhi, C. Taylor, D. Wright, H. Haqqani, R. Denman

    
• • ·Trends in Cardiac Radiofrequency Ablation: A Single Centre Experience

    Pagina :S123

    J. Betts, J. Lindemann, D. Wright, C. Taylor, O. Davison, J. Denbesten, H. Samardhi, H. Haqqani, R. Denman

     
• • ·Ventricular Arrhythmias Following Catheter Ablation of AF: A Cause for Recurrent Symptoms Following Pulmonary Vein Isolation

    Pagina :S124

    S. Prabhu, T. Walters, D. Blusztein, L. Couper, S. Nanayakkara, P. Kistler

    
• • ·Young, Slow, Men—The Preferred Characteristics of Focal Atrial Tachycardia Arising From Crista Terminalis

    Pagina :S124

    F. Chahadi, B. Pathik, T. Mathew, C. Singleton, W. Heddle, A. McGavigan

    
• • ·3D Reconstruction of Coronary Arteries Using Multiplane Angiography and Optical Coherence Tomography to Improve Stent Visualisation

    Pagina :S126

    V. Mutha, M. Asrar Ul Haq, A. Ooi, J. Monty, S. Moore, P. Barlis

    
• • ·A Single Centre Experience on Reasons for Delay in the Door to Balloon Time: A Five-Year Trend at The Prince Charles Hospital

    Pagina :S126

    A. Safaa, A. Incani, M. Savage, J. Fu, C. Raffell, B. Bell, M. Pincus, A. Small, R. Chua, A. Mishra, M. Dahl, D. Walters

    
• • ·An Evaluation of Peripheral Vascular Access Site Complications Following Cardiac Angiography and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)

    Pagina :S127

    J. Parkinson, T. Buckley, J. Gullick, A. Marshall, D. Alchin

    
• • ·Area of Myocardium at Risk and Lesion Length are Predictors of Functionally Significant Coronary Artery Stenoses Assessed by Fractional Flow Reserve

    Pagina :S127

    D. Wong, B. Ko, O. Narayan, D. Leong, S. Seneviratne, J. Cameron, I. Meredith, Y. Malaiapan

    
• • ·Assessing Suitability for Early Discharge Following Primary PCI for STEMI

    Pagina :S128

    C. Brown, A. Hutchison, J. Cameron, P. Antonis

    
• • ·Atrioventricular Node Recovery in Patients with Pacemakers Implanted Post-Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) With the Medtronic CoreValve

    Pagina :S128

    J. Nathan, S. Duffy, J. Mariani, R. Dick, A. Walton

    
• • ·Calcific Plaque Predicts Stent Malapposition in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients

    Pagina :S128

    V. Mutha, M. Asrar Ul Haq, S. Gocuk, S. Al Daher, N. Rudd, W. Van Gaal, P. Barlis

    
• • ·Chronic Total Occlusions: A Single Centre Experience at the Prince Charles Hospital

    Pagina :S129

    N. Gaikwad, V. Khelgi, D. Murdoch, M. Savage, A. Incani, C. Raffel, A. Small, B. Bell, M. Pincus, D. Walters

    
• • ·Clinical Outcome of Drug-Eluting Stents Versus Bare-Metal Stents in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Intervention in Vein Grafts

    Pagina :S129

    A. Rehmani, R. Samanta, M. Rahman, J. Chandrasekhar, A. Farshid

    
• • ·Clinical Outcomes for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Following Acute Coronary Syndromes Using Selective use of 1st and 2nd Generation Drug-Eluting Stent in Patients at High Risk of Restenosis

    Pagina :S130

    H. Idris, I. Shugman, L. Thomas, L. Hee, C. Mussap, S. Lo, D. Leung, A. Hopkins, C. Juergens, J. French

    
• • ·Clinical Outcomes of Patients with ACS Treated with Prasugrel

    Pagina :S130

    M. Yudi, N. Andrianopoulos, R. Sharma, V. Turaga, S. Duffy, A. Brennan, D. Clark, T. Yip, R. Lew, C. Reid, A. Ajani

    
• • ·Clinical Outcomes of the First 100 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implant (TAVI) Procedures at Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) as Defined by the Valve Academic Research Consortium-2 Consensus (WARC)-2 Statement

    Pagina :S131

    R. Prakash, B. Pathik, A. Singh, L. Brown, D. Balakrishnan, A. Swan, M. Joseph, J. Judd, W. Cheng, D. Chew, S. Lehman, J. Bennetts, A. Sinhal

    
• • ·Clinical Utility of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in the Optimisation of ABSORB Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold Deployment During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :S131

    U. Allahwala, E. Shaw, J. Cockburn, G. Figtree, P. Hansen, R. Bhindi

    
• • ·Comparing Stent Apposition in Drug Eluting Stents Using Optical Coherence Tomography

    Pagina :S131

    V. Mutha, H. Al-janaby, M. Ul Haq, N. Rudd, W. Van Gaal, P. Barlis

    
• • ·Comparison of Radial and Femoral Access for Coronary Angiography Within South Australian Public Cardiac Catheterisation Facilities

    Pagina :S132

    M. Worthley, R. Tavella, S. Worthley, D. Chew, M. Arstall, C. Zeitz, J. Beltrame

    
• • ·Coronary Artery Augmentation Index: A Marker and Predictor of Periprocedural Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S132

    S. Palmer, J. Layland, C. Judkins, P. Williams, R. Whitbourn, A. MacIsaac, A. Wilson, B. Costello, A. Burns

    
• • ·Coronary Artery Ectasia in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI): A Single Centre Experience

    Pagina :S133

    H. Wijesekera, W. Ahmar, Y. Malaiapan, D. Wong, A. Hutchison, J. Cameron, I. Meredith

    
• • ·Cumulative Incidence of Coronary Stent Thrombosis in a Rural/Regional Hospital

    Pagina :S133

    S. Koneru, T. David, B. Herman

    
• • ·Differential Effect of Renal Sympathetic Denervation on Central and Peripheral Blood Pressure

    Pagina :S133

    V. Nguyen, G. Connors, A. Ng, J. Sharman, M. Stowasser, A. McCann

    
• • ·Door to Balloon Times in STEMI Patients: A Five-Year Trend at the Prince Charles Hospital

    Pagina :S134

    A. Safaa, A. Incani, M. Savage, J. Fu, M. Pincus, C. Raffell, A. Small, B. Bell, A. Mishra, R. Chua, M. Dahl, D. Walters

    
• • ·Dual Anti-Platelet Therapy Following Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion with the Watchman Device is not Associated with Increased Risk of Thromboembolism Compared with Warfarin

    Pagina :S134

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

    
• • ·Effect of Caffeine on Adenosine Fractional Flow Reserve in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S135

    V. Mutha, M. Asrar Ul Haq, S. Al-Daher, N. Rudd, W. Van Gaal

    
• • ·Effect of Coronary Artery Plaque Composition, Morphology and Burden on ABSORB Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold Expansion and Eccentricity: A Detailed Analysis with Optical Coherence Tomography

    Pagina :S135

    E. Shaw, U. Allahwala, T. Hansen, J. Mazhar, J. Cockburn, G. Figtree, P. Hansen, R. Bhindi

    
• • ·Efficacy and Safety of Drug Eluting Balloon: A Single Centre Experience

    Pagina :S136

    V. Pera, P. Tamuno, M. Menon, G. Devlin

    
• • ·Fate of Epicardial Artery Side Branches During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Using ABSORB Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffolds

    Pagina :S136

    E. Shaw, J. Cockburn, G. Figtree, G. Nelson, P. Hansen, R. Bhindi

    
• • ·Formation of Normative Ranges for Multi-Detector Computed Tomography Derived Aortic Annular Measurements

    Pagina :S136

    R. Gooley, J. Soon, R. Syeda, D. Loi, G. Chitale, J. Cameron, I. Meredith

    
• • ·Graduated Introduction of an Operator Guided Radial Access Program for Coronary Procedures at an Australian Tertiary Hospital is not Associated with Adverse Access Site Complications

    Pagina :S137

    C. Judkins, S. Palmer, P. Williams, L. Yang

     
• • ·Has the Frequency of Peri-Procedural Myocardial Infarction Reduced Using Third Universal Definition?

    Pagina :S137

    H. Idris, I. Shugman, Y. Saad, S. Lo, A. Hopkins, L. Hee, C. Mussap, D. Leung, L. Thomas, C. Juergen, J. French

    
• • ·Higher Mortality in Smokers Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :S138

    A. Huang, J. O’Brien, N. Andrianopoulos, D. Clark, A. Ajani, A. Brennan, R. Sharma, G. New, A. Black, C. Reid, T. Dart, S. Duffy

     
• • ·Improvements in Left Atria and Vascular Function 24 h Following the Reversal of Chronic Atrial Stretch

    Pagina :S138

    C. Schultz, S. Wiloughby, S. Kumar, S. Nair, A. Srivastava, S. Chandy, B. John, P. Sanders

    
• • ·Influence of Age and Gender on Clinical Outcomes Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute Coronary Syndromes

    Pagina :S139

    H. Idris, I. Shugman, S. Lo, A. Hopkins, L. Hee, C. Mussap, D. Leung, C. Juergens, J. French, L. Thomas

    
• • ·In-Hospital Mortality post-PCI in Regional Hospital in Northern Tasmania

    Pagina :S139

    A. Madras, T. David, S. Wong, B. Herman

    
• • ·In-Hours vs. After-Hours St-elevation Myocardial Infarction Outcomes (ISNOOS)

    Pagina :S139

    D. Natarajan, P. Chan, U. Qazi, R. Rafiudeen, A. Adel, N. Cox, K. Soon

    
• • ·Initial Experience with Drug-Eluting Balloons in the Treatment of In-Stent Restenosis and de novo Coronary Lesions from Two Combined Public and Private Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratories

    Pagina :S140

    G. Femia, V. Kushwaha, M. Pitney, N. Jepson

    
• • ·Invasive and Echocardiographic Assessment of Aortic Stenosis Progression post-Percutaneous Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty in a TAVR Cohort

    Pagina :S140

    J. Hunter, D. Murdoch, A. Incani, O. Raffel, C. Aroney, D. Walters

    
• • ·Is Thebesian Venous Drainage a Part of a Clinical Syndrome?

    Pagina :S140

    A. Carlyle, M. Pitney

    
• • ·Left and Right Heart Catheterisation via Transradial and Antecubital Fossa Vein Access: A Safe and Effective Approach

    Pagina :S141

    P. Williams, S. Palmer, C. Judkins, A. Burns, R. Whitbourn, A. MacIsaac, A. Wilson, B. Costello, J. Gutman

    
• • ·Long-Term Outcomes with Selective Drug Eluting Stent Use in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction in an Australian Urban Population

    Pagina :S141

    J. Dandach, D. Changsirivathanathamrong, A. Narayan, J. Sullivan, A. Ong, P. Kovoor, G. Sivagangabalan

    
• • ·Longer Ischaemic Times and Higher Adverse Event Rates for Women Undergoing PPCI for STEMI

    Pagina :S142

    J. Chandrasekhar, P. Marley, P. Taverner, R. Appeldorff, A. Farshid

    
• • ·Longer Pain to Balloon Times and Trend for More Deaths Among Diabetics Undergoing PPCI

    Pagina :S142

    J. Chandrasekhar, P. Marley, A. Farshid

    
• • ·Low Risk of Stroke is Achievable After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI): A Two-Centre Australian Experience

    Pagina :S142

    D. Stub, S. Duffy, R. Dick, S. Marasco, A. Walton

    
• • ·Lower Incidence of Stent Thrombosis and Mace with Prasugrel in Stemi Patients <76 Years of Age

    Pagina :S143

    R. Samanta, A. Rehmani, J. Chandrasekhar, D. McGill, C. Allada, M. Rahman, A. Farshid, S. O’Connor, R. Tan

    
• • ·Lower MACE Rate with Shorter Pain to Balloon Times for Ambulance Activated PPCI

    Pagina :S143

    J. Chandrasekhar, P. Marley, C. Allada, D. McGill, S. O’Connor, M. Rahman, R. Tan, A. Farshid

    
• • ·Medium Term Follow Up of Medtronic Core Valve: Melbourne Experience

    Pagina :S144

    R. Sharma, J. Tan, R. Dick, S. Duffy, A. Walton

    
• • ·Mode of Presentation of In-Stent Restenosis and the Influence of de novo Lesion Stent Generation

    Pagina :S144

    D. Yates, O. Raffel, M. Savage, A. Incani, D. Walters

    
• • ·Novel Use of Aortic Valve IVUS to Guide Valve Sizing in TAVI

    Pagina :S144

    D. Roy, P. Bhamra-Ariza, S. Brecker

    
• • ·Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA): Correlation Between ST Elevation on ECG and Benefits from Emergency Coronary Angiography, Single Centre Experience

    Pagina :S145

    P. Hegde, P. Shetty

    
• • ·Outcomes Following PCI in Diabetics with Single Versus Multi-Vessel Disease

    Pagina :S145

    V. Turaga, N. Andrianopoulos, M. Yudi, P. Loane, B. Yan, S. Duffy, G. New, D. Clark, J. O’Brien, E. Carroll, G. Toogood, A. Ajani

     
• • ·Outcomes in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :S146

    J. O’Brien, N. Andrianopoulos, A. Ajani, D. Clark, J. Shaw, A. Brennan, A. Walton, G. Toogood, M. Sebastian, G. New, P. Loane, A. Dart, S. Duffy

    
• • ·Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Without Onsite Cardiac Surgery in a New Regional Cardiac Catheter Lab in Northern New South Wales

    Pagina :S146

    C. Itty, A. Blenkhorn, D. Mumford, P. Kwan

    
• • ·Patients Older Than 75 Years Have Longer Treatment Times and 20% One-Year Mortality Post-PPCI for STEMI

    Pagina :S147

    J. Chandrasekhar, P. Marley, P. Taverner, R. Appeldorff, A. Farshid

    
• • ·PCI Outcomes in Native Arteries Versus Saphenous Vein Grafts (SVG) Versus Arterial Grafts

    Pagina :S147

    A. Baradi, N. Andrianopoulos, L. Roberts, D. Jackson, S. Duffy, D. Clark, A. Ajani, O. Farouque, J. Beale, P. Naidu, G. New

    
• • ·Percutaneous Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty is a Safe and Effective Bridging Procedure to Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

    Pagina :S148

    D. Murdoch, J. Hunter, A. Incani, O. Raffel, C. Aroney, D. Walters

    
• • ·Percutaneous Closure of Secundum Atrial Septal Defects: Success Rates in Patients with Moderate-Large versus Very Large Defects

    Pagina :S148

    G. Romanelli, R. Harper, N. Nerlekar, P. Mottram

    
• • ·Peri-Procedural Anticoagulation and Coronary Angiography: Should Warfarin be Discontinued?

    Pagina :S148

    T. Wang, T. Snow, T. Watson, J. Stewart, M. Webster, P. Ruygrok

    
• • ·Permanent Pacemaker Implantation Rate pre- and post-CoreValve Accutrak Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Delivery System

    Pagina :S149

    N. Shah, S. Duffy, J. Nathan, R. Dick, A. Walton

    
• • ·Predictors of Readmission after Coronary Angioplasty in Australia. Results from a National Multi-Centre Registry

    Pagina :S149

    D. Eccleston, T. Rafter, P. Sage, A. Whelan, C. Reid, M. Huq, M. Horrigan

    
• • ·Prehospital Activation of the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory Reduces Door to Balloon Time in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S150

    D. Colburn, P. Larsen, R. Poulter, S. Coverdale, S. Priestley, S. Rashford, M. Johnson, M. Marrinan, T. George, C. Preda, A. Willson

    
• • ·Prevalence and Trends in Obesity in a Large Australian PCI Cohort

    Pagina :S150

    M. Brooks, A. Ajani, N. Andrianopoulos, S. Duffy, D. Clark, A. Black, R. Lew, G. New, A. Brennan, C. Reid, T. Lancefield, E. Carroll, J. Lefkovits

    
• • ·Prognostic Implication of Aortic Regurgitation post-Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: A Single Centre Experience

    Pagina :S151

    V. Pera, G. Gamble, R. Nair, A. El Gamel, N. Kejriwal, G. Devlin, S. Pasupati

    
• • ·Radial versus Femoral Screening Times at the Royal Hobart Hospital Cardiac Catheter Laboratory

    Pagina :S151

    B. Costello, A. Black, N. Dwyer

    
• • ·Radial vs. Femoral Approaches for STEMI: A Single Centre's Preliminary Results

    Pagina :S151

    D. Natarajan, R. Rafiudeen, A. Oppermann, P. Chan, N. Shah, N. Cox, K. Soon

    
• • ·Radiation Exposure with the Radial Approach for Diagnostic Coronary Angiography in a Centre Previously Performing Purely the Femoral Approach

    Pagina :S152

    A. Vlachadis Castles, P. Barlis, L. Ponnuthurai, N. Mehta, C. Lim, W. van Gaal

    
• • ·Radiation in CT vs Angiography (RICTA Study), Early Results

    Pagina :S152

    A. Carlyle, M. Pitney, D. Friedman

    
• • ·Retrospective Study of First and Second-Generation Drug-Eluting Stents in the Treatment of Native Vessel In-Stent Restenosis in Real-World Clinical Practice

    Pagina :S152

    D. Yates, O. Raffel, M. Savage, A. Incani, D. Walters

    
• • ·Risk Factors for High Grade AV Block post-Trans-Catheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Using the Medtronic CoreValve™

    Pagina :S153

    H. Wijesekera, L. Ling, S. Lockwood, S. Lee, J. Cameron, L. Bittinger

    
• • ·Safety and Efficacy of Same-Day Discharge Following Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :S153

    Y. Saad, M. Kumar, I. Shugman, I. Pauk, D. Leung, C. Mussap, A. Hopkins, R. Rajaratnam, S. Lo, C. Juergens, J. French

    
• • ·Significant Paravalvular Aortic Regurgitation Twelve Months Post-Trans-Catheter Aortic Valve Implantation Does Not Result in Adverse Left Ventricular Remodelling

    Pagina :S154

    J. Judd, R. Prakash, R. Perry, A. Sinhal, M. Joseph

    
• • ·‘Target-lesion’ SYNTAX Score (tSS) Correlates with Radiation Dose During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :S154

    L. Hee, M. Kumar, L. Thomas, C. Juergens, S. Lo, A. Hopkins, J. French, C. Mussap

     
• • ·TAVI versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement and Medical Therapy in Patients with Aortic Stenosis: Can We Afford it in Australasia?

    Pagina :S155

    P. Indraratna, S. Ang, C. Cao

    
• • ·The Geometric Interaction Between the LOTUS TAVI Device and the Native Aortic Annulus

    Pagina :S155

    R. Gooley, P. Antonis, J. Soon, S. Lockwood, J. Cameron, I. Meredith

    
• • ·The Importance of Centring TAVR Devices in the Imaging Field

    Pagina :S156

    J. Crowhurst, K. Poon, C. Raffel, V. Subban, D. Walters

    
• • ·The Introduction of Radial Artery Angiography and Interventions in a Regional Tertiary Hospital North Queensland

    Pagina :S156

    N. Sinhal, A. Menon, R. Yadav, S. Baveja, D. Anand, R. Schrale

    
• • ·The Relationship Between High Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (HDL-C) and Peri-Procedural Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S156

    B. Waldman, C. Goh, M. Mok, A. Al-Fiadh, D. Clark, O. Farouque, M. Ng

    
• • ·The Tyranny of Distance: Reduced and Delayed Access to Evidence-Based Care for ACS Patients Presenting to Regional and Rural Centres Across Australia and New Zealand: Results from SNAPSHOT ACS

    Pagina :S157

    T. Howell, G. Gamble, D. Cross, C. Ellis, T. Mylius, G. Tucker, T. Briffa, D. Brieger, J. French, C. Hall, S. Spencer, S. Thompson, H. Parker, C. Astley, K. Lintern, I. Ranasinghe, C. Hammett

    
• • ·Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in a Private Hospital Setting

    Pagina :S157

    N. Shah, R. Dick, S. Marasco, S. Duffy, A. Walton

    
• • ·Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in High Risk Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis: Comparing Costs and Outcomes with Surgery

    Pagina :S158

    J. Rankin, G. Yong, E. Geelhoed, C. Gardner, F. Sanfilippo

    
• • ·Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Australia

    Pagina :S158

    C. Mervin, P. Scuffham

    
• • ·Index

    Pagina :S158

    
• • ·Transcathether Aortic Valve Maintains Excellent Hemodynamics Based on Echocardiographic Parameters at One Year: A Single Centre Study

    Pagina :S158

    R. Prakash, B. Pathik, A. Singh, J. Judd, D. Balakrishnan, R. Perry, L. Brown, A. Swan, S. Lehman, W. Cheng, M. Joseph, D. Chew, J. Bennetts, A. Sinhal

    
• • ·Transradial Access in Coronary Catheterisation to Reduce Bleeding Complications

    Pagina :S159

    J. Luu, A. Hopkins, S. Lo, C. Mussap, I. Shugman, L. Thomas, J. French, C. Juergens

    
• • ·Transradial Coronary Angiography Shortens Mobilisation and Discharge Times: Early Registry and Patient Survey Data from the ACT

    Pagina :S159

    J. Chandrasekhar, P. Taverner, A. Baldwin, J. Neely, R. Appeldorff, L. Divorty, C. Bumpus, L. Cunningham, L. Estomata, K. Gravenmaker, O. Tuazon, R. Underwood, A. Farshid

    
• • ·Trends in Door-to-Balloon Time and Outcomes Following Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S160

    A. Brennan, N. Andrianopoulos, S. Duffy, D. Clark, P. Loane, J. Lefkovits, G. New, A. Black, B. Yan, M. Brooks, L. Roberts, C. Reid, A. Ajani

    
• • ·Trends in PCI Over the Last Decade at Box Hill Hospital (BHH)

    Pagina :S160

    D. Tong, L. Roberts, J. Beale, H. Jangwal, A. Baradi, D. Jackson, P. Naidu, M. Rowe, Y. Cheong, G. Proimos, D. Fernando, C. Goods, G. New

     
• • ·Utility of Rotational Atherectomy and Outcomes Over an Eight Year Period

    Pagina :S161

    J. Shaw, P. Loane, N. Andrianopoulos, A. Brennan, A. Walton, T. Yip, G. New, D. Clark, S. Duffy, C. Reid

    
• • ·320 Detector Row CT Coronary Angiography Predicts Freedom from Revascularisation and Acts as a Gatekeeper to Defer Referrals for Invasive Angiography in Stable Coronary Artery Disease—A Fractional Flow Reserve Correlated Study

    Pagina :S161

    B. Ko, J. Cameron, D. Wong, D. Leong, M. Leung, I. Meredith, N. Nerlekar, P. Antonis, M. Crossett, J. Troupis, R. Harper, Y. Malaiapan, S. Seneviratne

    
• • ·A Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (cMRI) Based Approach to Diagnosis and Quantification of LV Non-compaction Using Relative Signal Intensities

    Pagina :S162

    P. Choudhary, S. Grieve, C. Semsarian, D. Richmond, D. Celermajer, R. Puranik

    
• • ·Abdominal Aortic Calcification on Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry is Associated with Coronary Calcium and Incident Myocardial Infarction in Middle-aged Men

    Pagina :S162

    T. Wang, M. Bolland, N. van Pelt, A. Grey, G. Gamble, P. Ruygrok, I. Reid

    
• • ·Accounting for Pressure Recovery in Severe Aortic Stenosis: Worth the Effort?

    Pagina :S163

    S. Tatavarti, H. Raghuraman, S. Buchholz

    
• • ·Accuracy and Reproducibility of Single Breath-hold Real-time Cardiac MRI in Patients with Arrhythmia

    Pagina :S163

    M. Koshy, E. Abdul Rahman, W. Strugnell, J. Neill, C. Hamilton-Craig

    
• • ·Accuracy of Echo-derived 3D Right Ventricular Volumes Compared to Same Day Cardiac MRI in the Post-cardiac Transplant Population

    Pagina :S163

    J. Nathan, A. Ellims, A. Burrell, L. Iles, J. Hare

    
• • ·Accuracy of Handheld Cardiac Ultrasound Devices in the Critical Care Setting

    Pagina :S164

    Y. Singbal, D. Peiniger, A. Bartlett, K. Kostner, S. Wahi

    
• • ·An Audit of Frequency of Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Trastuzumab: Comparing Gated Heart Pool Scan, 2D-Echo and LV Strain

    Pagina :S164

    M. Eskandari, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Aortic Abnormalities in Elite Rugby Players

    Pagina :S165

    S. Kay, B. Shearer, D. Marshman, D. Seatton, M. Silbery, K. Aldridge, T. Laakso, K. Liddle, B. Khandheria

    
• • ·Aortic Valve Fenestration—An Under Reported Observation in Aortic Regurgitation (AR)

    Pagina :S165

    C. Cheruvu, G. Mathur, Z. Akhunji, P. Grant, H. Wolfenden, G. Cranney

    
• • ·Are Tissue Doppler and Strain Imaging Equivalent Methods for the Identification of Subclinical Myocardial Dysfunction in Patients with Normal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction?

    Pagina :S165

    K. Cheng, G. Romanelli, J. Cameron, S. Moir, R. Peverill, P. Mottram

    
• • ·Assessment of Inter-observer Reproducibility of Left Ventricular Global Longitudinal Strain between an Expert and Novice Observer

    Pagina :S166

    V. Speranza, A. Yamada, J. Cafaro, M. Ischenko, A. Benjamin, M. Harten, B. Anderson, D. Platts, C. Hamilton-Craig, D. Burstow, J. Chan

    
• • ·Can Aortic Stenosis Severity Assessment be Improved by Direct Measurement of Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Area by Computed Tomography?

    Pagina :S166

    S. Lockwood, P. Mottram, I. Meredith, J. Cameron, S. Moir

    
• • ·Cardiac Magnetic Resonance as an Adjunct Screening Modality in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

    Pagina :S167

    M. Seneviratne, S. Grieve, G. Figtree, D. Celermajer, R. Garsia, S. Adelstein, R. Puranik

    
• • ·Cardiac Mass and Myocardial Late Enhancement are Associated with Overall Disease Severity and Left Ventricular Pressure Load in Fabry Disease

    Pagina :S167

    R. Kozor, M. Tchan, D. Sillence, S. Grieve, G. Figtree

    
• • ·Cardiac Remodelling Identified by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Patients with Cirrhosis

    Pagina :S167

    P. Ngu, M. Butler, A. Taylor

    
• • ·Cardiovascular Associations and Prognostic Utility of Abdominal Aortic Calcification on Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry in Post-menopausal Women

    Pagina :S168

    T. Wang, M. Bolland, N. van Pelt, A. Grey, G. Gamble, P. Ruygrok, I. Reid

    
• • ·Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Imaging Produces Highly Reproducible Rodent Cardiac Volumetric and Functional Data Using a 1.5 Tesla Clinical Scanner

    Pagina :S168

    G. Kumarasinghe, C. Yu, K. Moffat, J. Otton, C. Holloway, J. McCrohon, A. Jabbour

     
• • ·Clinical Utility of Visual Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Assessment by Echocardiography: Comparison with Three-dimensional Echocardiography

    Pagina :S169

    S. Hillier, K. Guppy-Coles, K. Smith, A. Lo, J. Younger, J. Atherton, S. Prasad

    
• • ·Comparison of Left Atrial (LA) Volume Assessment by 2D Echocardiography (2DE) with Volumetric Analysis by Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography (CTCA)

    Pagina :S169

    L. Carr, C. Cosgrove, A. Dahiya, C. Chao, S. Prasad, J. Younger

    
• • ·Comparison of Radiation Doses Between Coronary CT and Conventional Coronary Angiography

    Pagina :S169

    K. Leong, P. Einsiedel, E. Lui, N. Better, S. Heinze, C. Neal, F. Langenberg, R. Gurvitch, D. Eccleston, S. Joshi

    
• • ·Computed Tomographic Angiographic Predictors of Functionally Significant Coronary Artery Stenoses—A Fractional Flow Reserve Correlated Study

    Pagina :S170

    B. Ko, D. Wong, D. Leong, J. Cameron, S. Seneviratne

    
• • ·Computed Tomography Guided In Vivo Cardiac Orientation and ECG Correlation in Individuals Without Structural Heart Disease

    Pagina :S170

    G. Gnaneswaran, G. Aggarwal, D. Friedman, S. Zahid, W. Chik, A. Thiagalingam

    
• • ·Contributions of Blood Pressure, Body Mass Index and Left Ventricular Length to Aging-related Changes in Left Ventricular Early Diastolic Filling and Long Axis Motion

    Pagina :S171

    R. Peverill, B. Chou, L. Donelan, P. Mottram, J. Gelman

    
• • ·CT Coronary Angiography is a Useful Diagnostic Test Following Equivocal Exercise Stress ECG in Troponin-negative Chest Pain

    Pagina :S171

    G. Lau, M. Rigolli, J. Wickham, H. Brannigan, J. Christiansen, C. Edwards, D. Cranefield, H. Hart, A. To

    
• • ·Deformation Imaging in Predicting Early Left Ventricular Remodelling After Acute Myocardial Infarction—3D Echo Study

    Pagina :S171

    M. Altman, C. Bergerot, A. Aussoleil, E. Bonnefoy, H. Thibault, G. Derumeaux

    
• • ·Diagnostic Utility and Economic Impact of Contrast Echocardiography

    Pagina :S172

    C. Tjahjadi, C. Hamilton-Craig, F. Syed, J. Chan, D. Burstow, D. Platts

    
• • ·Differential Involvement of Myocardial Fibres in Aortic Stenosis

    Pagina :S172

    M. Fung, M. Leung, L. Thomas, D. Leung

    
• • ·Discrepancies in the Assessment of Left Atrial Size Using M-mode Diameter, Left Atrial Area and Left Atrial Volumes with Echocardiography

    Pagina :S173

    L. White, K. Guppy-Coles, A. Lo, S. Prasad

    
• • ·Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography (DSE) of the Pulmonary Circulation: Non-invasive Determination of Pressure-flow Characteristics

    Pagina :S173

    E. Lau, P. Choudhary, L. Simmons, T. Corte, P. Torzillo, D. Celermajer

     
• • ·Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography (DSE) Assessment of Right Ventricular Contractile Reserve in Pulmonary Hypertension

    Pagina :S174

    P. Choudhary, E. Lau, L. Simmons, D. Celermajer

     
• • ·Dynamic Low Intensity Exercise Echocardiography for the Assessment of Strain After High Intensity Endurance Exercise

    Pagina :S174

    G. Stewart, A. Yamada, J. Chan, L. Haseler, J. Kavanagh, S. Sabapathy

    
• • ·E/E? Ratio as a Noninvasive Measure of Left Ventricular Filling Pressure in Patients with Non-ST-elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes (NSTEACS)

    Pagina :S175

    L. Carr, A. Camuglia, M. Dooris, A. Lo, J. Atherton, S. Prasad

    
• • ·Early Effects of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation and Aortic Valve Replacement on Myocardial Reversible and Irreversible Injury and Aortic Valve Haemodynamics: Insights from Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

    Pagina :S175

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

    
• • ·Echocardiographic Assessment of Pulmonary Vein Velocities Following Lung Transplantation

    Pagina :S176

    S. Hillier, D. Roper, M. Harten, P. Hopkins, D. Platts

    
• • ·Efficacy and Safety of Oral Ivabradine Versus Beta-blocker in Achieving Heart Rate Reduction Pre-Computed Tomography Coronary Angiogram (CTCA)

    Pagina :S176

    C. Liew, C. Wong, K. Soon

    
• • ·Evaluating the Diagnostic Utility of Coronary CT Angiography in Elderly Population

    Pagina :S176

    C. Liew, K. Soon, C. Wong

    
• • ·Evaluation of Inter-vendor Consistency and Reproducibility of Left Ventricular Two-dimensional Strain Measurements with Two Different High-end Ultrasound Systems

    Pagina :S177

    M. Ischenko, A. Yamada, J. Cafaro, V. Speranza, M. Harten, A. Benjamin, D. Platts, C. Hamilton-Craig, D. Burstow, J. Chan

    
• • ·Evaluation of Left Atrial Volume from Mid Diastolic 320 Slice CT Coronary Angiogram Studies: Which Method Should be Used and Are The Results Reliable?

    Pagina :S177

    T. Barton, A. Nasis, P. Mottram, S. Moir

    
• • ·Evaluation of LV Volume and Mass from Mid Diastolic 320 Slice CT Coronary Angiogram Studies: Where Should the Ventricle be Measured and are the Results Reliable?

    Pagina :S178

    T. Barton, A. Nasis, P. Mottram, H. Rehmani, S. Moir

    
• • ·Evaluation of Right Ventricular Haemodynamics by Two-dimensional Strain in Patients with Chronic Pulmonary Thromboembolism

    Pagina :S178

    A. Yamada, K. Sugimoto, K. Takada, K. Shiino, Y. Ozaki, L. Haseler, J. Chan

    
• • ·Evaluation of the Relationship Between Hiatal Hernia Size and Cardiac Volumes Using Cardiac Computed Tomography

    Pagina :S178

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

    
• • ·Experimental Validation of Non-invasive Central Aortic Wave Intensity Analysis Obtained with Conventional Echocardiography

    Pagina :S179

    R. Kowalski, J. Smolich, M. Cheung

    
• • ·Feasibility of 3D Speckle Tracking in the Assessment of Global Longitudinal Strain in a Cohort of Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis

    Pagina :S179

    A. Penhall, R. Perry, G. Crouch, J. Judd, M. Joseph, J. Selvanayagam

    
• • ·Feasibility of a Novel Echocardiographic Imaging Technique, Intracatheter Echocardiography, to Guide Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Cannulae Placement in a Validated Ovine Model

    Pagina :S180

    D. Platts, A. Hilton, S. Diab, C. MacDonald, M. Tunbridge, S. Chemonges, K. Dunster, K. Shekar, D. Burstow, J. Fraser

    
• • ·Gender Based Differences in the Clinical Utility of Computed-Tomography Coronary Angiography (CTCA)

    Pagina :S180

    D. Murdoch, R. Mason, A. Basavaraj, D. Tromp, R. Markham, R. Jayasinghe

    
• • ·Global Longitudinal Strain is a Superior Predictor of All-cause Mortality When Compared to Ejection Fraction in Patients with Mild to Moderate Chronic Kidney Disease

    Pagina :S180

    T. Stanton, R. Krishnasamy, R. Leano, B. Haluska, C. Hawley, N. Isbel, T. Marwick

    
• • ·High Definition Versus Standard Definition 64-slice CT Coronary Angiography in Detection of In-stent Restenosis

    Pagina :S181

    G. Leo, N. Kim, S. Eggleton, D. Friedman, A. Lau

    
• • ·IMaging and Clinical Predictors in Appropriate shoCk Therapy (IMPACT)

    Pagina :S181

    D. Natarajan, D. Flannery, P. Chan, J. Ye, A. Taeed, C. Wong

    
• • ·Impact of Increased Rotation Speed on Image Quality and Radiation Dose in 320 Multidetector Row Cardiac CT

    Pagina :S182

    M. Tung, N. Nerlekar, J. Cameron, J. Troupis, I. Meredith, S. Seneviratne

    
• • ·Improved Aortic Valve Haemodynamics Following TAVI with a Novel, Retrievable and Fully Repositionable Device

    Pagina :S182

    S. Lockwood, Q. Li, R. Gooley, P. Antonis, R. Moshinsky, S. Worthley, J. Montarello, R. Whitbourn, A. Newcomb, D. Allocco, V. Davila-Roman, I. Meredith

    
• • ·Increase in Lean Muscle Mass Results in Increased Left Ventricular Mass in Athlete's Heart

    Pagina :S183

    R. Perry, A. Penhall, C. De Pasquale, J. Selvanayagam, M. Joseph

    
• • ·Interstudy Reproducibility of Echocardiographic Parameters in the Serial Assessment of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function

    Pagina :S183

    M. Asrar Ul Haq, V. Mutha, N. Rudd, S. Stewart, M. Carrington, C. Wong

     
• • ·Intra-left Atrial Flow Changes During the Start of Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :S184

    M. Shibata, T. Yambe, K. Funamoto, T. Hayase

    
• • ·Is Low Gradient Severe Aortic Stenosis with Normal LV Ejection Fraction Explained by Miscalculation of Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Area? Utility of a Multi-modality Approach to Aortic Valve Area Calculation

    Pagina :S184

    S. Lockwood, H. Rehmani, P. Mottram, I. Meredith, J. Cameron, S. Moir

    
• • ·Left Atrial Appendage Filling Defects on 256-row Detector Cardiac CT Prior to Pulmonary Vein Isolation for Atrial Fibrillation—Specificity for Thrombus? An Analysis of Patient, CT and Contrast Related Factors

    Pagina :S185

    W. Yan, D. Brazier, M. Ward, P. Hansen, D. Whalley, L. Kanagaratnam, C. Choong, G. Figtree

    
• • ·Left Atrial Appendage Thrombus in the Modern Anticoagulant Era

    Pagina :S185

    G. Scalia, J. Humpheries, A. Rainbird, D. Cross, P. Cain, J. Presneill, B. Fitzgerald

    
• • ·Left Atrial Volume and Left Ventricular Mass: Prognostic Value and Risk Stratification in Chronic Kidney Disease

    Pagina :S186

    L. Hee, T. Nguyen, M. Watmough, J. Descallar, S. Kapila, J. French, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Left Ventricular Systolic Strain in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea is Reduced Independent of Co-morbid Obesity

    Pagina :S186

    T. von Lueder, H. Pham, S. Namtvedt, H. Røsjø, T. Omland, K. Steine

    
• • ·Index

    Pagina :S186

    
• • ·Long Term Prediction of Cardiovascular Death in a Population with End Stage Kidney Disease

    Pagina :S187

    M. Burrage, B. Haluska, R. Krishnasamy, C. Hawley, N. Isbel, T. Marwick, T. Stanton

    
• • ·Longitudinal Strain is Superior to Circumferential Strain in the Detection of Myocardial Ischaemia by Speckle Tracking during Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography

    Pagina :S187

    A. Yamada, D. Sathianathan, S. Luis, D. Platts, C. Hamilton-Craig, D. Burstow, L. Haseler, J. Chan

    
• • ·Mitral Leaflet Planimetry Location for MRI-derived Mitral Inflow Velocity Assessment of Diastolic Function is the Most Reproducible Method

    Pagina :S187

    S. Azarisman, J. Richardson, D. Wong, L. Samaraie, M. Cursaro, V. Schirripa, K. Williams, B. Koschade, M. Shirazi, J. Bradley, K. Teo, M. Worthley, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Myocardial Perfusion is Impaired in Asymptomatic Patients Post Renal Transplantation

    Pagina :S188

    S. Parnham, S. Grover, C. Bradbrook, C. De Pasquale, R. Woodman, J. Gleadle, J. Selvanayagam

    
• • ·Myocardial Perfusion Reserve is Reduced in Symptomatic Women with Microvascular Coronary Dysfunction Compared to a Matched Reference Control Group

    Pagina :S188

    L. Thomson, C. Shufelt, P. Goykhman, M. Agarwal, P. Mehta, T. Sedlak, N. Li, E. Gill, B. Samuels, B. Azabal, S. Kar, K. Kothawade, M. Minissian, P. Slomka, D. Berman, N. Bairey Merz

    
• • ·Myocardial Responses to Spironolactone in LV Dysfunction

    Pagina :S189

    L. Wright, C. Jellis, J. Sharman, W. Kosmala, P. Mottram

    
• • ·Nanoscale Distribution of Junctophilin-2 and Ryanodine Receptors in Cardiac Myocytes

    Pagina :S189

    Y. Hou, D. Baddeley, D. Crossman, C. Soeller

    
• • ·Non-cardiac Findings in Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography with Limited Field of View Using a Volume Detector Philips 256 Slice iCT Scanner

    Pagina :S189

    C. Chao, H. Sadler, M. Hansen, J. Younger

    
• • ·Non-invasive Estimation of Right Ventricular Function: Do the Cut-offs Need to be Redefined?

    Pagina :S190

    W. Vollbon, Y. Singbal, K. Rhodes, S. Wahi

    
• • ·Perflutren Microsphere Contrast Transthoracic Echocardiography Improves Endocardial Definition During Venovenous Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Validated Ovine Model

    Pagina :S190

    D. Platts, B. Sim, M. Tunbridge, S. Diab, K. Dunster, K. Shekar, D. Burstow, M. Maybauer, J. Chan, J. Fraser

    
• • ·Predicting Pre-A Wave LVEDP in Biomarker Positive Acute Coronary Syndrome using Lateral E/E? and Tei Index

    Pagina :S191

    M. Dooris, L. Carr, A. Camuglia, P. Stewart, S. Prasad

     
• • ·Predictive Value of Dynamic Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction During Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplant

    Pagina :S191

    R. Rayoo, J. Grewal, D. Patrick, S. Lovibond, K. Lu, P. Calafiore, P. Srivastava

    
• • ·Prevalence of Patent Foramen Ovale in Scuba Divers with Decompression Illness Referred from a Specialist Diving Medicine Clinic

    Pagina :S192

    K. Liou, D. Wolfers, R. Turner, M. Bennett, G. Cranney

    
• • ·Prognostic Value of Adenosine Stress Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Known Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :S192

    M. Rigolli, A. To, C. Edwards, P. Ding, J. Christiansen

    
• • ·Pulmonary Embolism Detection with Electrical Impedance Tomography

    Pagina :S192

    D. Nguyen, W. Chik, R. Kosobrodov, M. Barry, J. Pouliopoulos, C. Jin, A. McEwan, A. Thiagalingam

     
• • ·Quantitation of Late Gadolinium Enhancement in Tako-Tsubo Cardiomyopathy—A Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Study

    Pagina :S193

    N. Gaikwad, W. Strugnell, J. Chan, C. Hamilton-Craig

     
• • ·Radiation Risk Reduction in Cardiac Electrophysiology Through Use of a Gridless Imaging Technique

    Pagina :S194

    W. Stafford, I. Smith, J. Hayes, M. Adsett, J. Rivers

    
• • ·Real-world Clinical Application of Computed-tomography Coronary Angiography: A Single-centre Audit of 439 Consecutive Cases

    Pagina :S194

    R. Mason, D. Murdoch, D. Tromp, A. Basavaraj, R. Markham, R. Jayasinghe

    
• • ·Reimbursement for CT Coronary Angiography Did Not Lead to a Decrease in Invasive Coronary Angiography or Stress Echocardiography in Australia

    Pagina :S194

    I. Mohasseb, C. Gericke, J. Atherton, A. Dahiya, C. Chao, J. Younger

     
• • ·Reliability of Speckle Strain Echocardiography for the Assessment of Right Ventricular Function

    Pagina :S195

    T. Stanton, D. Holland, L. Short, R. Leano, B. Haluska, D. Burstow, J. Chan, C. Hamilton-Craig

     
• • ·Remote Myocardium Characterisation by Pre-contrast T1 and T2* Mapping Post Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S195

    S. Azarisman, A. Li, D. Wong, J. Richardson, L. Samaraie, K. Williams, B. Koschade, K. Teo, M. Worthley, S. Worthley

    
• • ·Right Atrial Pressure Evaluation Comparing Invasive Right Heart Catheterisation and Simultaneous Transthoracic Echocardiography Using Old and New ASE Guidelines

    Pagina :S196

    M. Brown, C. Hamilton-Craig, G. Javorsky, S. McKenzie, D. Platts, D. Burstow

    
• • ·Safe Nurse-led Pre-CTCA Beta-blockade Administration Can Be Achieved Without Intensive Medical Supervision

    Pagina :S196

    H. Brannigan, J. Wickham, M. Rigolli, J. Christiansen, C. Edwards, D. Cranefield, H. Hart, A. To

    
• • ·Segmental RV Systolic Function by Strain Analysis in Patients with Connective Tissue Disease

    Pagina :S196

    E. Chia, E. Lau, D. Celermajer, L. Thomas

    
• • ·Significant Radiation Dose Reduction Using Iterative Reconstruction in the 320-Slice CT Coronary Angiography System – Importance of Body Habitus

    Pagina :S197

    M. Rigolli, C. Edwards, J. Wickham, H. Brannigan, J. Christiansen, D. Cranefield, H. Hart, A. To

    
• • ·Subclinical Cardiac Dysfunction Detected by Strain Imaging Occurs During Chest Radiation with Persistent Changes Six Weeks Post Treatment

    Pagina :S197

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

    
• • ·Superior CT Coronary Angiography Image Quality at Lower Radiation Exposure with Second Generation 320-Detector-Row CT in Patients with Elevated Heart Rate – A Comparison with First Generation 320-Detector-Row CT

    Pagina :S198

    S. Soh, D. Wong, B. Ko, J. Cameron, A. Nasis, N. Nerlekar, J. Troupis, I. Meredith, S. Seneviratne

    
• • ·Temporal Changes in Left Ventricular Radial and Circumferential Strain During Venovenous Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation Following Acute Lung Injury in an Ovine Model

    Pagina :S198

    D. Platts, J. Cafaro, A. Maurice, K. Dunster, S. Diab, J. Fraser, K. Shekar, D. Burstow, L. Fung, J. Chan

    
• • ·The Correlation Between Tei Index and Left Ventricular Filling Pressures in Patients with Non-ST elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes (NSTEACS)

    Pagina :S199

    L. Carr, A. Camuglia, M. Dooris, A. Lo, J. Atherton, S. Prasad

    
• • ·The Impact of Continuous Flow From Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Cannulae on Tricuspid Valve Geometry and Function

    Pagina :S199

    D. Platts, S. Diab, C. MacDonald, M. Tunbridge, S. Chemonges, K. Dunster, K. Shekar, D. Burstow, D. Mullany, J. Fraser

    
• • ·The Impact of Increased Pulmonary Velocity on Estimated Pulmonary Artery Pressure During Exercise Stress Echocardiography

    Pagina :S200

    J. Lipshutz, G. Romanelli, T. Barton, P. Mottram, S. Moir

    
• • ·The Impact of Myocardial Scar Size and Systolic Function on Diastolic Dysfunction Following Acute ST Elevated Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Revascularisation

    Pagina :S200

    T. Nguyen, J. Phan, D. Richards, D. Moses, M. Serratore, J. Hogan, G. Schlaphoff, H. Dimitri, R. Rajaratnam, C. Juergens, J. French, L. Thomas

    
• • ·The Proximity of Implanted Pacemaker and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Leads to Coronary Arteries as Assessed by Cardiac Computer Tomography

    Pagina :S201

    B. Pang, S. Joshi, E. Lui, M. Tacey, J. Alison, S. Seneviratne, J. Cameron, H. Mond

    
• • ·The Rocking Right Ventricle Paradigm

    Pagina :S201

    D. Seaton, B. Shearer, K. Aldridge, F. Kermeen

    
• • ·The Role of Modern-Era Transthoracic Echocardiography for Detection of Cardiac Device-Related Infective Endocarditis

    Pagina :S201

    J. Sedgwick, A. Secomb, J. Sherman, A. Benjamin, R. Denman, D. Burstow, D. Roper

    
• • ·The Role of Transoesophageal and Serial Echocardiography with a Normal Transthoracic Study And Clinical Suspicion of Staphylococcus aureus Infective Endocarditis

    Pagina :S202

    S. Hillier, D. Burstow, D. Platts, J. Sedgwick

    
• • ·The Sensitivity and Specificity of Modern-Era 2D/3D Transoesophageal and Transthoracic Echocardiography for Diagnosis of Native and Prosthetic Valve Left-Sided Infective Endocarditis Compared with Surgical Findings

    Pagina :S202

    A. Maurice, J. Sherman, N. Daley, K. Collins, D. Burstow, D. Platts, J. Chan, G. Scalia, P. Tesar, A. Yamada, J. Sedgwick

    
• • ·Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Patients with Low Gradient Aortic Stenosis and Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction

    Pagina :S203

    S. Lockwood, P. Mottram, I. Meredith, J. Cameron, S. Moir

    
• • ·Transthoracic Echo Has Little Diagnostic Utility in Non-select Patients with Transient Ischaemic Attack

    Pagina :S203

    D. Balakrishnan, R. Perry, A. Lee, M. Joseph, J. Duncan

    
• • ·Transthoracic Echocardiography Guided Assessment of Pulmonary Vascular Resistance – Time for a New Formula

    Pagina :S203

    M. Brown, C. Hamilton-Craig, G. Javorsky, S. McKenzie, D. Platts, D. Burstow

    
• • ·Fibrillin-1 Fragment PF8 Enhances the Biocompatibility of PTFE

    Pagina :S204

    H. Mollahajian, S. Wise, P. Bannon, M. Ng

     
• • ·Improving Coronary Stent Biocompatibility with Plasma Deposited High Nitrogen Polymer Coating

    Pagina :S204

    Y. Yu, A. Kondyurin, M. Bilek, M. Ng

     
• • ·Intracranial Haemorrhagic Events with Continuous-Flow Centrifugal Left Ventricular Assist Devices: A Tertiary Centre Experience

    Pagina :S205

    A. Bhat, K. Muthiah, R. Markus, D. Robson, P. Macdonald, A. Keogh, E. Kotlyar, A. Jabbour, P. Spratt, E. Granger, K. Dhital, P. Jansz, C. Hayward

    
• • ·Performance of an Automated iPhone ECG Algorithm to Diagnose Atrial Fibrillation in a Community AF Screening Program (SEARCH-AF)

    Pagina :S205

    J. Lau, N. Lowres, L. Neubeck, D. Brieger, R. Sy, C. Galloway, D. Albert, S. Freedman

    
• • ·Plasmin Immobilisation for Reduced Thrombogenicity of Metallic Implants

    Pagina :S206

    S. Wise, P. Michael, M. Bilek, M. Ng

    
• • ·Rho Kinase Inhibition Improves Cross Bridge Cycling In Early Diabetic Heart Disease

    Pagina :S206

    M. Waddingham, A. Edgley, A. Astolfo, T. Inagaki, H. Tsuchimochi, D. Kelly, N. Yagi, M. Shirai, J. Pearson

    
• • ·Supine Ergometry Echocardiography (SEE) Reduces Invasive Cardiac Procedures in High Risk Pre-operative Patients

    Pagina :S206

    R. Davis, S. Mylabathula, H. Kandy, D. Foster, N. Hurst

    
• • ·Five Year Review of Success, Procedural Safety and Outcomes of Pericardiocentesis at The Prince Charles Hospital

    Pagina :S206

    T. Butler, A. Incani, D. Roper, D. Walters

    
• • ·A Premature Requiem for a Cardio-Protective Drug Rosiglitazone, in Europe and USA – Reassessment of Meta-analyses and Specific Seminal Trials

    Pagina :S207

    D. Colquhoun

    
• • ·A Study Comparing Diagnostic Accuracy of High Sensitivity Assays of Troponin I and Troponin T for Myocardial Infarction Within Two Hours of Presentation to the Emergency Room

    Pagina :S207

    W. Parsonage, L. Cullen, J. Greenslade, S. Aldous, P. George, A. Lamanna, C. Hammett, J. Ungerer, C. Pemberton, M. Richards, M. Than

    
• • ·A Study of the Effect of the Manufacturers Advised Recalculation of the High Sensitivity Troponin T Assay on the Early Detection of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department

    Pagina :S208

    W. Parsonage, J. Greenslade, J. Ungerer, J. Tate, C. Pretorius, C. Hammett, A. Lamanna, K. Chu, A. Brown, L. Cullen

    
• • ·Acute Myocardial Infarction Performance Measures in the CADOSA Registry

    Pagina :S208

    C. Zeitz, R. Tavella, R. Dreyer, M. Worthley, S. Worthley, D. Chew, M. Arstall, J. Beltrame

    
• • ·Age Adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index is an Independent Predictor of Mortality in Infective Endocarditis Over Long Term Follow-up

    Pagina :S208

    K. Lu, L. Kearney, M. Ord, E. Jones, L. Burrell, P. Srivastava

    
• • ·An Update on the Registry of Pregnancy and Cardiac Disease (ROPAC)

    Pagina :S209

    W. Parsonage, J. Roos-Hesselink, T. Ruys, M. Johnson, R. Hall

    
• • ·Analysis of the Relationship of PCSK9 and LDL Cholesterol Reductions in Patients in the Gauss Study

    Pagina :S209

    D. Sullivan, J. Elmasry, A. Veillard, A. Olsson, J. Kim, A. Xue, S. Wasserman, R. Scott, E. Stein

    
• • ·Aortic Stenosis Severity: Comparing Doppler Echocardiography with Cardiac Catheterisation

    Pagina :S210

    C. Samaranayake, A. Coverdale

    
• • ·Assessing Adverse Cardiac Outcomes in Obstetric Patient With Non-rheumatic Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy

    Pagina :S210

    K. Burns, R. Yadav

    
• • ·Cardiovascular Services Can Benefit from Corporate Modelling

    Pagina :S210

    S. Mylabathula, R. Harjit Singh, D. Cook

    
• • ·Cath Lab ‘Frequent Flyers’: Insights from Patient Logging Database

    Pagina :S211

    M. Dooris

     
• • ·Characteristics of Right Heart Infective Endocarditis: Six-Year Retrospective Study

    Pagina :S211

    T. Wang, T. Oh, J. Voss, J. Pemberton

    
• • ·Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes in Octogenarians Presenting with ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :S212

    V. Mutha, M. Asrar UlHaq, S. Tay, A. Al Kaisey, N. Rudd, N. Mehta, C. Lim, F. Ponnuthurai, S. Al Daher, K. Lim, W. Van Gaal, P. Barlis

    
• • ·Development of an Integrated, Digitally-Based & State-Wide Cardiac Clinical Management Network

    Pagina :S212

    P. Tideman, R. Tirimacco, P. Simpson, P. Cowley, M. Siew

    
• • ·Differences in the Microbiological Profile of Native Valve and Device Related Infection Using a State Wide Database

    Pagina :S212

    M. Anastasius, C. Ayoub, R. Sy, L. Kritharides

    
• • ·Efficacy of Cardioprotective Agents in Reduction of Chemotherapy Related Cardiotoxicity

    Pagina :S213

    K. Kalam, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Evaluation of Appropriateness Use Criteria for Diagnostic Angiography in the CADOSA Registry

    Pagina :S213

    C. Zeitz, R. Tavella, R. Dreyer, M. Worthley, S. Worthley, D. Chew, M. Arstall, J. Beltrame

    
• • ·Feasibility and Role of FOcused Cardiac Ultrasound Service (FOCUS) in the Coronary Care Unit: A Single Centre's Preliminary Results

    Pagina :S214

    V. Lee, D. Natarajan, K. Cowie, S. Sawant, C. Wong

    
• • ·Feasibility of Exercise vs. Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography for Cardiac Risk Assessment in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Prior to Renal Transplantation

    Pagina :S214

    N. Nerlekar, T. Barton, S. Ramkumar, H. Rehmani, S. Moir, P. Mottram

    
• • ·Gender Differences in Outcomes Amongst Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography

    Pagina :S215

    M. Arstall, R. Dreyer, R. Tavella, M. Worthley, S. Worthley, D. Chew, C. Zeitz, J. Beltrame

    
• • ·Glomerular Filtration Rate Derived from Cystatin C is More Predictive of Death Following Cardiac Surgery Than Creatinine Based Estimates

    Pagina :S215

    J. Mooney, C. Chow, B. Cuthbertson, B. Croal, G. Hillis

    
• • ·Have the Recent Marine n?3 Clinical Trials Undermined the NHFA Recommendations?

    Pagina :S216

    D. Colquhoun, A. Reeve, A. Ferreira-Jardim

    
• • ·Heparin is the Anticoagulant of Choice for a Busy Cardiology Unit?

    Pagina :S216

    T. Mallard, K. Tsang, J. Assad, S. Lo, C. Juergens, J. French

    
• • ·Identifying Patients with Infective Endocarditis in an Australian Tertiary Hospital: 2001–2011

    Pagina :S216

    A. Lin, E. Buratto, M. Wright, P. Conaglen, A. Newcomb, P. Davis, J. Darby, A. Wilson

    
• • ·Imaging for Complications of Infective Endocarditis

    Pagina :S217

    E. Buratto, P. Conaglen, A. Lim, M. Wright, J. Darby, A. Wilson, P. Davis, A. Newcomb

    
• • ·Improved Door to Reperfusion Time (DTRT) for ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Patients Receiving Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) in Central Auckland: 2006–2007 to 2012

    Pagina :S217

    A. Lin, M. Alawami, T. Oh, K. Chow, K. Looi, J. Looi, M. Webster, J. Stewart, J. Ormiston, G. Gamble, C. Ellis, P. Ruygrok

    
• • ·Improving Interventional Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Patients in New Zealand (NZ): A Comparison of the 2002, 2007 and 2012 National ACS Audits

    Pagina :S218

    C. Ellis, G. Gamble, A. Hamer, P. Matsis, M. Williams, G. Devlin, J. Elliott, S. Mann, J. French, M. Richards, R. Troughton, H. White, For the NZ Regional Cardiac Society ACS Audit Group and the CSANZ ‘SNAPSHOT’ ACS Audit Group

    
• • ·Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia – Experience with Ivabradine

    Pagina :S218

    J. Hammond

    
• • ·Krill Oil Claims: Fact or Fiction? An Analysis of the Literature

    Pagina :S218

    D. Colquhoun, A. Reeve

    
• • ·Long Term Outcomes in Patients with the Coronary Slow Flow Phenomenon

    Pagina :S219

    L. Khor, R. Tavella, J. Beltrame

    
• • ·Major Bleeding in Patients Treated with Novel Anticoagulants: Prevalence and Predictors

    Pagina :S219

    S. Mirzaee, G. Birdsey, J. Amerena

    
• • ·Microbiological Profile of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: The Impact of Age and Timing

    Pagina :S220

    M. Anastasius, C. Ayoub, R. Sy, L. Kritharides

    
• • ·Index

    Pagina :S220

    
• • ·Non-invasive Cardiac Tests are at Least as Good at Predicting Future Adverse Cardiac Events as Coronary Angiography in Kidney Transplant Candidates

    Pagina :S220

    L. Wang, P. Masson, R. Turner, S. Lord, L. Baines, J. Craig, A. Webster

    
• • ·One year Australian Outcome Results of Cohort 1 of the Global Anticoagulant Registry in the Field (GARFIELD) Study

    Pagina :S221

    H. Gibbs, A. Kakkar

    
• • ·Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) for ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Patients: The 2012 Auckland/Northland Experience

    Pagina :S221

    A. Lin, T. Oh, M. Alawami, K. Chow, K. Looi, J. Looi, C. Ellis, M. Webster, S. El-Jack, D. Scott, J. Stewart, J. Ormiston, G. Armstrong, A. Khan, P. Kay, W. Harrison, G. Gamble, P. Ruygrok

    
• • ·Prospective, Randomised Trial of Coronary CT Angiography Compared to Stress ECG in Emergency Department Chest Pain (CT-COMPARE)

    Pagina :S222

    C. Hamilton-Craig, M. Pincus, A. Fifoot, M. Hansen, D. Walters, K. Branch

    
• • ·Risk Stratification of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department of the Gold Coast Hospital with Possible Cardiac Chest Pain: A Clinical Audit

    Pagina :S222

    P. O’Boyle, D. Murdoch, R. Jayasinghe

    
• • ·Safety of a Combination of Heparin and Aspirin as an Alternative to Warfarin in Peri-operative Thromboprophylactic Management for Pulmonary Venous Isolation

    Pagina :S222

    S. Dassanayake, S. Thomas, D. Ross

    
• • ·Screening Education and Recognition in Community pHarmacies of Atrial Fibrillation to Prevent Stroke (SEARCH-AF Stroke Prevention Study)

    Pagina :S223

    N. Lowres, L. Neubeck, J. Redfern, A. McLachlan, I. Krass, A. Bennett, T. Briffa, G. Selkeld, D. Brieger, R. Sy, A. Baumann, S. Freedman

    
• • ·Significance of Abnormal Troponin I Results in Blunt Chest Trauma

    Pagina :S224

    D. Harrop, M. Fryer, V. Indrajith, S. Butterly, B. Lowe, A. Ng, W. Wang

    
• • ·Significant Delays to Access Cardiac Angiography for Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Patients in New Zealand (NZ): A Comparison of the National 2002, 2007 and (SNAPSHOT) 2012 ACS Audits

    Pagina :S224

    C. Ellis, G. Gamble, G. Devlin, J. Elliott, P. Matsis, M. Williams, A. Hamer, S. Mann, J. French, M. Richards, R. Troughton, H. White, For the NZ Regional Cardiac Society ACS Audit Group and the CSANZ ‘SNAPSHOT’ ACS Audit Group

     
• • ·State and Hospital Variations in ACS Care and Outcome: Observations from SNAPHOT ACS

    Pagina :S225

    D. Chew, C. Astley, J. Redfern, B. Aliprandi-Costa, J. Lefkovits, D. Brieger, G. Gamble, C. Ellis, T. Briffa, J. French, S. Bloomer

     
• • ·Strong Independent Relationship Between Renal Impairment and High-sensitivity Troponin Levels

    Pagina :S226

    C. Legge, P. Larsen, S. Mann, S. Harding, R. Cooke

    
• • ·Surgical Thyroidectomy in Cardiac Patients with Amiodarone-Induced Thyrotoxicosis

    Pagina :S226

    N. Patel, W. Inder, C. Sullivan, G. Kaye

    
• • ·The Effect of Severity of Diabetes on Platelet Reactivity in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome(ACS)

    Pagina :S226

    S. Plunkett, L. Johnston, A. Holley, P. Matsis, P. Larsen, S. Harding

    
• • ·A Transgenic Zebrafish Model of a Human Cardiac Sodium Channel Mutation Exhibits Bradycardia, Conduction-System Abnormalities and Early Death

    Pagina :S227

    I. Martin, G. Trivedi, A. Jacoby, S. Mann, J. Vandenberg, D. Fatkin

    
• • ·Cardiovascular Deaths in Schizophrenia: A Postmortem Analysis

    Pagina :S227

    J. Sweeting, J. Duflou, C. Semsarian

    
• • ·Characterising L-type Ca²⁺ Channel Function and Mitochondrial Function in Two Murine Models of Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S228

    H. Viola, T. Tsoutsman, C. Semsarian, C. Seidman, L. Hool

    
• • ·Determining Pathogenicity of Genetic Variants in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Experience from a Multidisciplinary Clinic

    Pagina :S228

    J. Kizhakkepatt, J. Ingles, R. Bagnall, C. Semsarian

    
• • ·Establishing an Australian and New Zealand Registry for Patients with Familial Hypercholesterolaemia

    Pagina :S229

    I. Hamilton-Craig, G. Watts, E. Hammond, D. Sullivan, P. George, P. Clifton, S. Nicholls, F. van Bockxmeer, W. Bishop, R. O’Brien, D. Bell

    
• • ·Evaluating the Diagnostic Yield of Familial Cardiac and Targeted Gene Testing for Inherited Arrhythmias in Sudden Unexplained Death and Aborted Cardiac Arrest Syndromes

    Pagina :S229

    S. Peters, S. Kumar, T. Thompson, N. Morgan, I. Macciocca, A. Trainer, D. Zentner, I. Winship, J. Vohra

    
• • ·Impact of Telephoning the Requestors of Individuals Found to be at High Risk of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia

    Pagina :S230

    D. Bell, A. Hooper, G. Edwards, L. Southwell, J. Pang, F. van Bockxmeer, G. Watts, J. Burnett

    
• • ·Incremental Utility of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Assessing Adult Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Mutation Carriers

    Pagina :S230

    L. McCormack, J. Younger, A. Lo, L. Hunt, J. McGaughran, J. Atherton

    
• • ·Inherited Non-syndromal Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection (TAAD) – An Unrecognised Threat

    Pagina :S230

    E. Robertson, R. Jeremy

    
• • ·Insight into the Myocardial Mechanics of Genotype Positive Phenotype ‘Negative’ Patients with Suspected Preclinical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S231

    A. Lo, A. Dahiya, L. McCormack, L. Hunt, A. Ng, J. McGaughan, J. Atherton

    
• • ·Knowledge and Perceptions of Genetic Cardiac Diseases Amongst Medical Students – A Pilot Survey

    Pagina :S231

    J. Marathe, K. Ogden

    
• • ·Knowledge and Practices Regarding Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Among General Practitioners

    Pagina :S232

    D. Bell, J. Garton-Smith, A. Vickery, A. Kirke, J. Pang, L. Kear, T. Bates, G. Watts

    
• • ·Psychological Wellbeing and Posttraumatic Stress Associated with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Therapy in Young Adults with Genetic Heart Disease

    Pagina :S232

    J. Ingles, T. Sarina, N. Kasparian, C. Semsarian

    
• • ·Telomere Length is Shorter in DNA from Circulating Leukocytes and Heart of a Model with Cardiac Hypertrophy

    Pagina :S233

    F. Marques, S. Booth, S. Harrap, P. Lewandowski, F. Charchar

    
• • ·The Australian Genetic Heart Disease Registry: The First Five Years

    Pagina :S233

    J. Ingles, T. Sarina, V. Connell, J. Kozlovski, L. Yeates, J. Kawa, L. Hunt, K. Ogden, A. Davis, R. Weintraub, D. McTaggart, J. McGaughran, J. Atherton, C. Semsarian

    
• • ·Transcriptional Analysis of Caveolin and Cavin Expression in the Normoxic and Post-ischaemic Ageing Mouse Heart

    Pagina :S234

    C. Kiessling, M. Reichelt, J. Headrick, K. Ashton

    
• • ·Treatment of mdx Mice with Antisense Oligomers to Induce Exon Skipping of Dystrophin Exon 23 Restores Mitochondrial Function in mdx Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :S234

    H. Viola, A. Adams, S. Fletcher, L. Hool

    
• • ·Using an Expert Computer System to Augment the Detection of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia in a Community Laboratory

    Pagina :S234

    D. Bell, G. Edwards, A. Hooper, J. McMahon, F. van Bockxmeer, G. Watts, J. Burnett

    
• • ·WENDS-FH Morocco: The Wendish Emigration National Detection Study of FH Morocco in Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: Results of Cascade Family Screening

    Pagina :S235

    I. Hamilton-Craig, F. van Bockxmeer, F. Faiz

    
• • ·Aortic Valve Replacement in Over 80 Year-olds: Before and After the Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Implantation Era

    Pagina :S235

    T. Wang, J. Sathananthan, T. Ramanathan, M. Webster, P. Ruygrok

    
• • ·Assessing Surgical Risk for Aortic Valve Surgery in Octogenarians: A Comparison of Three Risk Calculators

    Pagina :S236

    J. Sathananthan, T. Wang, P. Ruygrok, M. Webster

    
• • ·Index

    Pagina :S236

    
• • ·Body Mass Index and Outcomes After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Is There an Association?

    Pagina :S236

    T. Wang, T. Ramanathan, R. Stewart, G. Gamble, H. White

    
• • ·Comparison of EuroSCORE I, EuroSCORE II and AusSCORE for Detecting Outcomes After Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

    Pagina :S237

    T. Wang, A. Li, T. Ramanathan, G. Gamble, R. Stewart, H. White

    
• • ·Contemporary Risk Scores for Predicting Outcomes After Endocarditis Surgeries: Implications for Model Utility and Development

    Pagina :S237

    T. Wang, T. Oh, J. Voss, N. Kang, J. Pemberton

    
• • ·Isolated Aortic Valve Replacement in Octogenarians Compared to Septuagenarians: Five-Year Experience of a Single Centre

    Pagina :S237

    T. Wang, J. Sathananthan, N. Chieng, G. Gamble, D. Haydock, P. Ruygrok

    
• • ·Long Term Mortality Risk Prediction Following Isolated Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery for the Australian Population

    Pagina :S238

    M. Huq, B. Billah, C. Reid

    
• • ·Mitral Valve Repair for Mitral Valve Prolapse: The Auckland Experience

    Pagina :S238

    J. Sathananthan, P. Raudkivi, A. Kerr

    
• • ·Outcomes After Isolated CABG Surgery Related to Smoking Status

    Pagina :S239

    S. Bappayya, A. Saxena, L. Shan, D. Dinh, J. Smith, G. Shardey, A. Newcomb

    
• • ·Predictors of Mortality After Aortic Valve Replacement for Severe Aortic Stenosis: The Auckland Experience

    Pagina :S239

    T. Oh, D. Eade, K. Sidhu, N. Kang, R. Stewart

    
• • ·Saphenous Vein to Internal Mammary Artery End to End Composite Grafts for Coronary Artery Bypass: Late Follow Up

    Pagina :S239

    J. Thakkar, H. Paterson, K. Byth, A.R. Denniss

    
• • ·Seven-year Cohort Study of Valvular Repair or Replacement for Active Mitral Endocarditis

    Pagina :S240

    T. Wang, J. Voss, T. Oh, J. Pemberton, N. Kang

    
• • ·Significance of Gender Discrepancies in Mortality Rates After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

    Pagina :S240

    T. Wang, T. Ramanathan, R. Stewart, G. Gamble, H. White

    
• • ·Utility of High-sensitivity Troponin T After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting to Diagnose Peri-operative Myocardial Infarction and to Predict Mortality

    Pagina :S240

    T. Wang, R. Stewart, T. Ramanathan, N. Kang, G. Gamble, H. White

    
• • ·Advantages of Electronic Post Cardiac Catheterisation Follow Up Questionnaire Form (AD109) Integrated into the Digital Medical Record (DMR) at Western Health

    Pagina :S241

    S. Cecchin

    
• • ·Index

    Pagina :S241

    
• • ·Early Radial Decompression Protocol Post Transradial Procedures Is Feasible in a Busy Coronary Care Unit

    Pagina :S241

    J. Chandrasekhar, P. Taverner, F. Smith, K. Simpson, M. Squires, J. Flaherty, J. Montgomery, Y. Robbie, R. Armstrong, K. Butcher

    
• • ·Home Heart Walk to Improve Self-care in Chronic Heart Failure: A Randomised Controlled Trial

    Pagina :S242

    P. Newton, H. Du, B. Everett, Y. Salamonson, P. Davidson

    
• • ·Outcome of a Nurse Led External Cardioversion Service at a Tertiary Cardiac Centre

    Pagina :S242

    L. Slater, M. Riedy, J. Hill, P. Gould, G. Kaye

    
• • ·Procedure Change to Reduce Radial Artery Compression Device Bleeding Following Radial-approach Angiography: A Single Centre's Preliminary Results

    Pagina :S242

    V. Lee, T. Davey, D. Lloyd, K. Cowie, N. Cox

    
• • ·Cardiac Outcomes in Adults Post Arterial Switch Operation for Transposition of the Great Arteries

    Pagina :S243

    A. Ng, L. Grigg, D. Zentner

    
• • ·Contemporary Australian Children Have Longer Exercise Duration Compared to 1978 Reference Values

    Pagina :S243

    L. Shearer, J. Mishra, B. Sherridan, S. Hope

     
• • ·Gender Specific Reference Ranges for Heart Rate in Australian children

    Pagina :S244

    J. Mishra, L. Shearer, B. Sheridan, S. Hope

    
• • ·Increased Cardiac Output During Exercise is Augmented by Reduced Pulmonary Regurgitation in Adults with Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot

    Pagina :S244

    S. O’Meagher, P. Choudhary, P. Munoz, D. Tanous, D. Celermajer, R. Puranik

    
• • ·Late MRI Surveillance of Adult Patients with Repaired Aortic Coarctation

    Pagina :S245

    R. Padang, M. Dennis, C. Semsarian, P. Bannon, D. Tanous, D. Celermajer, R. Puranik

    
• • ·Long Term Follow Up of Aortic Root Size After Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot

    Pagina :S245

    M. Dennis, P. Choudhary, S. O’Meagher, S. Padang, D. Tanous, D. Celermajer, R. Puranik

    
• • ·Markedly Improved Survival but Ongoing Morbidity – Late Complications of Coarctation Repair in Adult Survivors

    Pagina :S245

    P. Choudhary, D. Jackson, D. Tanous, R. Puranik, D. Celermajer

     
• • ·Mortality at Less Than One Year of Age with Congenital Heart Disease in New Zealand 2006–2010

    Pagina :S246

    L. Eckersley, E. Parry, K. Finucane, T. Gentles

    
• • ·Normalisation of Right Ventricular Volumes After Pulmonary Valve Replacement in Adults with Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot

    Pagina :S246

    S. O’Meagher, D. Tanous, P. Munoz, D. Celermajer, R. Puranik

    
• • ·Outcomes for Antenatally Diagnosed Hypoplasia of the Left Ventricle

    Pagina :S247

    M. Yeong, A. Gooi, C. Ward, K. Eagleson, T. Karl, R. Justo

    
• • ·Paediatric Ventricular Assist Device for Mechanical Circulatory Support: 10-year Experience of a Single Centre

    Pagina :S247

    T. Wang, J. Luo, N. Chou, I. Chiu, C. Chang, Y. Chen, S. Huang, I. Wu, N. Chi, H. Lai, S. Wang

    
• • ·Pregnancy Outcome in Women with Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot

    Pagina :S247

    A. Lamanna, K. Lust, N. Fagermo, R. Kimble, W. Parsonage

    
• • ·Prevalence of Prehypertension After Coarctation Repair in Infancy in Patients with a Hypoplastic Arch

    Pagina :S248

    M. Lee, S. Rakhra, R. Kowalski, M. Cheung, I. Konstantinov, C. Brizard, Y. d’Udekem

    
• • ·Progress of Aortic Root Dilatation in Adults with Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot and Pulmonary Atresia with Ventricular Septal Defect

    Pagina :S248

    C. Chan, P. Choudhary, L. Pressley, P. Robinson, D. Tanous, R. Puranik, D. Celermajer

    
• • ·Progress of Right Ventricular Dilatation in Adults with Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot

    Pagina :S249

    S. O’Meagher, D. Tanous, D. Celermajer, R. Puranik

    
• • ·Pulmonary Hypertension in Adult Congenital Heart Disease: The ANZ PAH-CHD Registry

    Pagina :S249

    D. Celermajer, G. Strange, M. Rose, R. Wientraub

    
• • ·Sudden Cardiac Death in Patients with Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries: A Single Centre Experience

    Pagina :S249

    A. McCombe, F. Touma, D. Jackson, P. Choudhary, L. Pressley, P. Robinson, D. Tanous, D. Celermajer

    
• • ·Index

    Pagina :S250

    
• • ·Cardiovascular Characteristics of Indigenous Versus Non-Indigenous Haemodialysis Patients in a Regional Australian Setting

    Pagina :S250

    L. Garg, D. Anand, R. Yadav

    
• • ·Challenges of Surveillance: Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) in Pregnancy

    Pagina :S251

    G. Vaughan, C. McLintock, J. Sherwood, W. Walsh, K. Tune, F. Mahony, E. Sullivan

    
• • ·Development of a Culturally Specific Heart Failure Self-care iPad teaching tool for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

    Pagina :S251

    R. Clark, B. Fredericks, M. Adams, J. Atherton, J. Howie-Esquivel, K. Dracup, J. Wu, N. Buitendyk

    
• • ·Ethnic Disparities in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: Comparing Maori and Europeans in New Zealand

    Pagina :S252

    T. Wang, T. Ramanathan, R. Stewart, S. Crengle, G. Gamble, H. White

    
• • ·Heart Transplantation in New Zealand Maori: A Comparison of Demographics and Outcomes with Non-Maori

    Pagina :S252

    F. Stewart, P. Ruygrok, H. Gibbs, K. Sidhu, C. Wasywich, A. Coverdale

    
• • ·Impact of On-site 2D Echocardiography at the Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) Redfern

    Pagina :S252

    A. Traeger, V. Booth, R. Puranik

    
• • ·Key Factors Influencing Primary Health Service Performance in Prevention Of Recurrent ARF and RHD

    Pagina :S253

    M. Fittock, K. Edwards

    
• • ·Outcomes of Cardiac Catheterisation Procedures in Indigenous Australians

    Pagina :S253

    C. Zeitz, A. Brown, R. Tavella, M. Worthley, S. Worthley, D. Chew, M. Arstall, J. Beltrame

    
• • ·Serious Statin Associated Myotoxicity (SSAM) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

    Pagina :S254

    G. Gabb, A. Vitry

    
• • ·The Economic Savings of Queensland's Indigenous Cardiac Outreach Program

    Pagina :S254

    S. McKenzie, A. Goodman, R. Mahoney, R. Corpus, M. Brown

    
• • ·The Value of Cardiac Risk Score Evaluation in Patients with Rheumatic Heart Disease in Pregnancy

    Pagina :S254

    K. Burns, R. Yadav

    
• • ·A Cross-sectional Study on Employment After Heart Transplantation in New Zealand

    Pagina :S255

    C. Samaranayake, P. Ruygrok, H. Gibbs, C. Wasywich, A. Coverdale

    
• • ·Coronary Angiography Access Via four French Femoral Versus six French Radial Routes: From the Patients’ Perspective

    Pagina :S255

    R. Hilling-Smith, V. Turaga, G. Toogood

    
• • ·CPR Discussion: How Good are We?

    Pagina :S255

    K. Khokhar, G. Porter, A. Davies

     
• • ·Initial Presentation to a Non-tertiary Hospital Results in a Prolonged Pre-operative Hospital Stay and an Increased Risk of Nosocomial Infections in Patients Requiring In-patient Transfer to a Tertiary Centre for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery: A Multi-centre Analysis in Metropolitan Melbourne

    Pagina :S256

    S. Prabhu, M. Stokes, A. Kras, S. Arunothayaraj, H. Yi, L. Kong, K. Peck, J. Casan, D. Blusztein, D. Jackson, G. Toogood

    
• • ·National Heart Foundation of Australia Consensus Statement on Depression in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease: Recommendations for Screening, Referral and Treatment

    Pagina :S256

    D. Colquhoun, S. Bunker, D. Clarke, N. Glozier, D. Hare, I. Hickie, J. Tatoulis, D. Thompson, G. Tofler, A. Wilson, M. Branagan

    
• • ·Rising Injecting Drug Use Associated Endocarditis: A Major Regional Centre Experience From 2003 to 2012

    Pagina :S257

    M. Tung, M. Light, R. Giri, A. Appelbe, S. Lane, E. Athan

    
• • ·Some Experiences and Reflections of New Zealand Maori Heart Transplant Recipients

    Pagina :S257

    F. Stewart, P. Ruygrok, W. Harrison, H. Gibbs

    
• • ·The National Heart Foundation of Australia Consensus Statement on Psychosocial Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease

    Pagina :S258

    N. Glozier, G. Tofler, D. Colquhoun, S. Bunker, D. Clarke, D. Hare, I. Hickie, J. Tatoulis, D. Thompson, A. Wilson, M. Branagan

    
• • ·Acceptability and Utility of a Text Message-based Intervention for the Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)

    Pagina :S258

    L. de Keizer, C. Chow, M. Jacobs, A. Thiagalingam, J. Redfern

    
• • ·Age-specific Risk of Incident and Recurrent Atherothrombotic Cerebrovascular Disease Depends on Presence of Other Vascular Disease

    Pagina :S258

    L. Nedkoff, T. Briffa, M. Knuiman, J. Hung, G. Hankey

    
• • ·Bi-national Snapshot Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Assessment of Guideline Recommendations for In-hospital Lifestyle Advice and Preventive Therapies

    Pagina :S259

    T. Briffa, J. Redfern, C. Astley, I. Ranasinghe, C. Hammett, H. Parker, B. Aliprandi-Costa, T. Howell, G. Gamble, S. Thompson, B. Carr, K. Lintern, K. Hyun, C. Ferry, J. Lofkovits, C. Chow, C. Ellis, D. Chew

     
• • ·Choice of Health Options in Prevention of Cardiovascular Events (CHOICE) Implementation Pilot in Privately Insured Patients

    Pagina :S259

    J. Redfern, S. Freedman, T. Briffa, N. Lowres, L. Neubeck

    
• • ·Claudication Pain Time May Be More Robust Than Ankle-brachial Index in Identifying Functional Improvement in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease

    Pagina :S260

    B. Haluska, S. McLennan, L. Wright, T. Stanton, S. Stewart, T. Marwick

    
• • ·Complementary Medicines in Cardiovascular Disease – Review of the Evidence by the National Institute of Complementary Medicine 2013

    Pagina :S260

    D. Colquhoun, A. Bensoussan, L. Braun, K. Hill, A. Keech, K. Kostner, F. Rosenfeldt, R. Walker, G. Watts

    
• • ·Efficacy of Comprehensive Cardiac Rehabilitation in Lowering Total Cholesterol and Triglycerides in Patients On Stable Lipid Lowering Medication

    Pagina :S261

    A.R. Denniss, J. Baihn, Y. Chai, J. Hungerford, G. Lindsay, M. Owen, J. Thelander, V. Beck, R. Zecchin

    
• • ·Exercise Now On a Par with Drug Therapy for Treatment of Patients with Coronary Heart Disease and Depression?

    Pagina :S261

    D. Colquhoun, G. Egger

    
• • ·Failure to Treat Severe Hypercholesterolaemia Occurs Frequently in Rural Primary Care and Represents a Missed Opportunity for CVD Prevention

    Pagina :S261

    I. Hamilton-Craig, K. Kostner, C. Michaelides

    
• • ·High Calcium Scores in Patients (PTS) with a Low Framingham Risk of Cardiovascular (CVS) Disease. Re-Interpreting CVS Risk Assessment: Should We Focus on the Patient or the Population?

    Pagina :S262

    C. Ellis, M. Legget, C. Edwards, J. Ormiston, N. Van Pelt, R. Gabiel, B. Lowe, J. Christiansen, H. Winch, M. Osborne, G. Gamble

     
• • ·Improved Long-term Survival in Patients on Combination Therapies Following Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Longitudinal Population-based Study

    Pagina :S262

    A. Gunnell, K. Einarsdottir, H. Sanfilippo, D. Liew, C. Holman, T. Briffa

    
• • ·Medication Support Services (MSS) in Australian Outreach Cardiovascular Programs

    Pagina :S263

    A. Bennett, E. Lehnbom, R. Clark, P. Davidson, J. Brien, A. McLachlan

    
• • ·Monitoring Surrogates of Optimal Cannula Practice Can Prevent Infection and Staphylococcal Bacteraemia in a Tertiary AUDIT of Intravenous Cannulation in a Cardiology Centre

    Pagina :S263

    M. Anastasius, L. Kritharides

    
• • ·Nurse-led Outpatient Smoking Cessation Clinic for Cardiology Patients

    Pagina :S264

    P. Camp, W. Senior

    
• • ·Patient Perceptions of Text Message-based Intervention for Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events

    Pagina :S264

    J. Thakkar, J. Redfern, L. De Keizer, A. Thiagalingam, C. Chow

    
• • ·Room for Improvement in Delivery of Smoking Cessation Therapy in Current Smokers Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

    Pagina :S264

    J. Sathananthan, A. McGeorge, J. Pemberton, M. Gillham

    
• • ·Smoking Cessation Following Acute Coronary Syndrome

    Pagina :S265

    J. Sathananthan, M. Lee, A. Kerr, A. McLachlan

    
• • ·Telephone Coaching to Promote Healthy Weight and Physical Activity for Urban and Rural People with Cardiac Disease – A Randomised Controlled Trial

    Pagina :S265

    J. Sangster, S. Furber, M. Allman-Farinelli, P. Phongsavan, J. Redfern, M. Haas, J. Church, A. Mark, A. Bauman

    
• • ·The Cost of Atherothrombotic Disease in Western Australian Tertiary Hospitals

    Pagina :S266

    E. Atkins, E. Geelhoed, L. Nedkoff, T. Briffa