| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveEditorials In Memoriam: Michael E. DeBakey, 1908–2008 Denton A. Cooley PMCID: PMC2565528 A Brief History of the Texas Heart Institute Denton A. Cooley PMCID: PMC2565532 Laboratory Investigation Validation of QwikStarCatheter for Left Ventricular Electromechanical Mapping with NOGA XP System Marlos R. Fernandes, Guilherme V. Silva, Yi Zheng, Edie M. Oliveira, Cristiano O. Cardoso, John Canales, Ricardo Sanz-Ruiz, Pilar Jimenez-Quevedo, Fred Baimbridge, and Emerson C. Perin PMCID: PMC2565544 Clinical Investigations Low Incidence of Neurologic Events during Long-Term Support with the HeartMate® XVE Left Ventricular Assist Device Mark S. Slaughter, Michael A. Sobieski, Colleen Gallagher, Muhyaldeen Dia, and Marc A. Silver PMCID: PMC2565527 Decreased Right Ventricular Function after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Farideh Roshanali, Mohammad Ali Yousefnia, Mohammad Hossein Mandegar, Hussein Rayatzadeh, and Shahriar Alinejad PMCID: PMC2565533 Endothelin Receptor Antagonists Improve Exercise Tolerance and Oxygen Saturations in Patients with Eisenmenger Syndrome and Congenital Heart Defects Puja K. Mehta, Leo Simpson, Eva K. Lee, Teresa A. Lyle, Michael E. McConnell, and Wendy M. Book PMCID: PMC2565520 Baseline Glutathione Peroxidase Activity Affects Prognosis after Acute Coronary Syndromes José Manuel García-Pinilla, Julio Gálvez, Fernando Cabrera-Bueno, Manuel Jiménez-Navarro, Juan José Gómez-Doblas, Milagros Galisteo, Desiré Camuesco, Carlos de Teresa Galván, Salvador Espinosa-Caliani, Antonio Zarzuelo, and Eduardo de Teresa-Galván PMCID: PMC2565519 Safety and Feasibility of Transulnar Cardiac Catheterization Alexis Vasiluk Knebel, Cristiano Oliveira Cardoso, La Hore Correa Rodrigues, Rogério Eduardo Gomes Sarmento-Leite, Alexandre Schaan de Quadros, and Carlos Antonio Mascia Gottschall PMCID: PMC2565534 Hurricane Katrina: Impact on Cardiac Surgery Case Volume and Outcomes Faisal G. Bakaeen, Joseph Huh, Danny Chu, Joseph S. Coselli, Scott A. LeMaire, Kenneth L. Mattox, Matthew J. Wall, Jr., Xing Li Wang, Salwa A. Shenaq, Prasad V. Atluri, Samir S. Awad, and David H. Berger PMCID: PMC2565551 Cardiovascular Spectrum in Williams-Beuren Syndrome: The Mexican Experience in 40 Patients Jesús De Rubens Figueroa, Luz María Olivares Rodríguez, José Luis Pablos Hach, Victoria Del Castillo Ruíz, and Héctor Osnaya Martínez PMCID: PMC2565537 Techniques A Modified Technique for Carotid Cannulation via the Transfemoral Approach, during Angioplasty and Stent Placement Kamal Gupta, Mazda Biria, and Ali Mortazavi PMCID: PMC2565529 Cooley Society 15th International Symposium Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy as an Adjunct to Conventional Surgical Treatment for Heart Failure Ugo F. Tesler, Guido Lanzillo, Eugenio Novelli, Gheorge Cerin, and Marco Diena PMCID: PMC2565518 Cardiac Autotransplantation for Malignant or Complex Primary Left-Heart Tumors Shanda H. Blackmon, Ashish R. Patel, Brian A. Bruckner, Erik A. Beyer, David C. Rice, Ara A. Vaporciyan, Zbigniew Wojciechowski, Arlene M. Correa, and Michael J. Reardon PMCID: PMC2565530 The Development of Cardiac Surgery in an Emerging Country: A Completed Project Vladimir Velebit, Michel Montessuit, Marek Bednarkiewicz, Gregory Khatchatourian, Xavier Mueller, and Peter Neidhart PMCID: PMC2565543 Reviews Cardiac Surgeryduring Pregnancy Anish Patel, Sanjay Asopa, Augustine T.M. Tang, and Sunil K. Ohri PMCID: PMC2565548 Aspirin and Clopidogrel Response Variability: Review of the Published Literature Angela D. Ferguson, Hisham Dokainish, and Nasser Lakkis PMCID: PMC2565550 Special Report Prolonged Survival in 2 Nonagenarians with Heart Failure and Severe Aortic Stenosis Charles Y. Lui and Nicole Alexander PMCID: PMC2565531 Editorial Commentary Two Cases of Accessory Valves PMCID: PMC2565545 Special Reports Accessory Mitral Valve without Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction in an Adult Juan Carlos Rozo, Dajhana Medina, Cesar Guerrero, Ana Maria Calderon, and Andrés Mesa PMCID: PMC2565538 Accessory Tricuspid Valve Leaflet in an Asymptomatic Adult Andrew Yoon, Hussein Shaqra, Miles Levin, Barry Rudin, and Jonathan N. Bella PMCID: PMC2565517 Case Series Use of Fractional Flow Reserve and Intravascular Ultrasonography to Evaluate Ambiguous Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis Harvinder Arora, William Posligua, and Andrés Mesa PMCID: PMC2565540 Adequate Systemic Perfusion Maintained by a CentriMag during Acute Heart Failure Roberto R. Favaloro, Alejandro Bertolotti, Mirta Diez, Liliana Favaloro, Carmen Gomez, Margarita Peradejordi, Julio Trentadue, Lorena Hellman, Yanina Arzani, and Pilar Varela Otero PMCID: PMC2565526 Case Reports Bridge to Transplantation with the TandemHeart: Bending the Indications in a Chronic Aortic Dissection Patient with Postcardiotomy Shock Stephane Reverdin, Igor D. Gregoric, Biswajit Kar, Pranav Loyalka, Mark C. Bieniarz, Scott A. LeMaire, Joseph S. Coselli, and O. H. Frazier PMCID: PMC2565541 Ascites Secondary to Indolent Pacemaker Infection in a Fontan Patient C. Tania Condurache, Christopher L. Johnsrude, Kristina Bryant, and Michael R. Recto PMCID: PMC2565547 Heart Failure Due to a Post-Traumatic Calcified Pericardial Hematoma Amit H. Manhas, Robert T. Martin, George J. Reul, and Raymond F. Stainback PMCID: PMC2565525 Usefulness of Multidetector-Row Computed Tomography in Evaluating Adult Cor Triatriatum Chieh-Shou Su, I-Chen Tsai, Wei-Wen Lin, Tain Lee, Chih-Tai Ting, and Kae-Woei Liang PMCID: PMC2565522 First Use of Cryoplasty to Treat In-Stent Renal Artery Restenosis John L. Jefferies, MPH, Kathryn Dougherty, and Zvonimir Krajcer PMCID: PMC2565524 Atrial Tachycardia Originating from the Pulmonary Vein: Importance of the Stimulation Sites Wendel Moreira, Carl Timmermans, Hein J.J. Wellens, and Luz-Maria Rodriguez PMCID: PMC2565539 Silent Aortic Dissection Presenting as Transient Locked-In Syndrome Wadih Nadour, Brian Goldwasser, Robert W. Biederman, and Kevin Taffe PMCID: PMC2565549 The Use of Two Amplatzer® “Cribriform” Septal Occluders to Close Multiple Postinfarction Ventricular Septal Defects Malgorzata Szkutnik, Jacek Kusa, and Jacek Bialkowski PMCID: PMC2565523 Images in Cardiovascular Medicine Previous Left Main Coronary Artery Dissection Detected upon Multislice Computed Tomography Preethi Nambi, Ranjita Sengupta, and Benjamin Y.C. Cheong PMCID: PMC2565536 Delayed Enhancement Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a Patient with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Melissa D. Guillaume, Colin K.L. Phoon, MPhil, Anne J.L. Chun, and Monvadi B. Srichai PMCID: PMC2565516 Kawasaki Disease Causing Giant Saccular Aneurysms of the Coronary Arteries: Echocardiographic and 64-Slice Computed Tomographic Angiographic Findings Jennifer A. Naiser, Frederick A. Schaller, Rim Bannout, and Tahir Tak PMCID: PMC2565546 Entrapped Thrombus in a Patent Foramen Ovale Complicated by Pulmonary Embolism without Paradoxical Embolism Bilgehan Erkut, Serdar Sevimli, Azman Ates, Ali Fuat Erdem, Nazim Dogan, and Mecit Kantarci PMCID: PMC2565542 Correspondence Was Systemic Venous Thrombosis Really Due to the Administration of Recombinant Factor VIIa? Or Was It Possibly a Manifestation of Lemierre Syndrome? Giovanni Saeed, George Ganster, and Norbert Friedel PMCID: PMC2565521 Was Systemic Venous Thrombosis Really Due to the Administration of Recombinant Factor VIIa? Or Was It Possibly a Manifestation of Lemierre Syndrome? Sharif Al-Ruzzeh PMCID: PMC2565535 |
