| | Editorials The “Father of Modern Interventional Pediatric Cardiology” Retires Robert J. Hall PMCID: PMC1847919 Guest Editorial: These Are the Days: The Internship Revisited Herbert L. Fred PMCID: PMC1847908 Editorial Commentary: Cardiovascular Disease in Africa James J. Livesay PMCID: PMC1847935 Guest Editorial: Open-Heart Surgery in Nigeria: Indications and Challenges John C. Eze and Ndubueze Ezemba PMCID: PMC1847931 Laboratory Investigation Systemic Infections Cause Exaggerated Local Inflammation in Atherosclerotic Coronary Arteries: Clues to the Triggering Effect of Acute Infections on Acute Coronary Syndromes Mohammad Madjid, Deborah Vela, Hessam Khalili-Tabrizi, S. Ward Casscells, and Silvio Litovsky PMCID: PMC1847934 Surgical Techniques Management of Air Embolism during HeartMate® XVE Exchange Igor D. Gregoric, Timothy J. Myers, Biswajit Kar, Pranav Loyalka, Stephane Reverdin, Saverio La Francesca, Peggy Odegaard, Courtney J. Gemmato, and O. H. Frazier PMCID: PMC1847928 Body Perfusion in Surgery of the Aortic Arch Gianantonio Nappi, Lucio Maresca, Michele Torella, and Maurizio Cotrufo PMCID: PMC1847933 Modified Inferior Vena Caval Anastomosis to Reduce Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation after Heart Transplantation Daniel Marelli, Scott C. Silvestry, Donna Zwas, Paul Mather, Sharon Rubin, Anthony F. Dempsey, Louis Stein, Evelio Rodriguez, James T. Diehl, and Arthur M. Feldman PMCID: PMC1847922 Clinical Investigations Percutaneous Ventricular Assist during Aortic Valvuloplasty: Potential Application to the Deployment of Aortic Stent-Valves Koji Tanaka, Krishnan Rangarajan, Babak Azarbal, and Jonathan M. Tobis PMCID: PMC1847938 Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism with Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Management and Results Igor E. Konstantinov, Pankaj Saxena, Miriam D. Koniuszko, John Alvarez, and Mark A.J. Newman PMCID: PMC1847913 Surgical Treatment of Post-Infarction Left Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm: A Two-Decade Experience Ercan Eren, Nilgun Bozbuga, Mehmet Erdem Toker, Cuneyt Keles, Murat Bulent Rabus, Ozgur Yildirim, Mustafa Guler, Mehmet Balkanay, Omer Isik, and Cevat Yakut PMCID: PMC1847932 Effects of Carvedilol on Plasma Levels of Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines in Patients with Ischemic and Nonischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy Turhan Kurum, Ersan Tatli, and Mahmut Yuksel PMCID: PMC1847909 Reviews Iliac Vein Stenting for Chronic Venous Insufficiency Firas F. Mussa, Eric K. Peden, Wei Zhou, Peter H. Lin, Alan B. Lumsden, and Ruth L. Bush PMCID: PMC1847929 Inherited Arrhythmic Disorders: Long QT and Brugada Syndromes Amirali Nader, Ali Massumi, Jie Cheng, and Mehdi Razavi PMCID: PMC1847921 Case Series Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy, or Broken-Heart Syndrome Salim S. Virani, A. Nasser Khan, Cesar E. Mendoza, Alexandre C. Ferreira, and Eduardo de Marchena PMCID: PMC1847940 Intravenous Adenosine for Surgical Management of Penetrating Heart Wounds John Kokotsakis, Panagiotis Hountis, Nikolaos Antonopoulos, Elian Skouteli, Thanos Athanasiou, and Achilleas Lioulias PMCID: PMC1847917 Isolated Chylopericardium after Intrapericardial Procedures: Possible Role of Inadvertent Right Efferent Lymphatic Trunk Injury Chung-Dann Kan, Jieh-Neng Wang, Jing-Ming Wu, and Yu-Jen Yang PMCID: PMC1847923 Case Reports Pericardial Effusion as an Expression of Thyrotoxicosis Shmouel Ovadia, Lyudmila Lysyy, and Tatiana Zubkov PMCID: PMC1847910 Infective Coronary Aneurysms: A Complication of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Guillermo Salinas, Darren Kumar, Scott Lick, Vani Vijayakumar, Mohammed Rahman, and Barry F. Uretsky PMCID: PMC1847918 Aspergillus Endocarditis of the Mitral Valve in a Lung-Transplant Patient Pankaj Saxena, Belinda Clarke, and John Dunning PMCID: PMC1847926 Transvenous Right Atrial and Left Ventricular Pacing after the Fontan Operation: Long-Term Hemodynamic and Electrophysiologic Benefit of Early Atrioventricular Resynchronization J. Alberto Lopez PMCID: PMC1847939 C-Ring Mitral Annuloplasty: 27-Year Follow-Up Tomer Z. Karas, George J. Reul, and Denton A. Cooley PMCID: PMC1847912 Color Doppler Imaging of the Ophthalmic Artery during Antegrade Selective Cerebral Perfusion Paolo Cattaneo, Paolo Marchetti, Vito Domenico Bruno, Giovanni Mariscalco, and Andrea Sala PMCID: PMC1847924 Transfusion-Free Cardiac Reoperation in an 11-kg Jehovah's Witness Child by Use of a Minimized Cardiopulmonary Bypass Circuit Michael Huebler, Wolfgang Boettcher, Andreas Koster, Brigitte Stiller, Hermann Kuppe, and Roland Hetzer PMCID: PMC1847937 Gastric Volvulus after Ventricular Assist Device Explantation and Cardiac Transplantation Divay Chandra, Sachin Gupta, Raghu M. Reddy, Igor D. Gregoric, and Biswajit Kar PMCID: PMC1847914 Bivalirudin Anticoagulation for Cardiopulmonary Bypass: An Unusual Case Nicolas Nikolaidis, Theodore Velissaris, and Sunil K. Ohri PMCID: PMC1847925 Intimal Sarcoma of the Pulmonary Artery with Retrograde Extension into the Pulmonic Valve and Right Ventricle Cengiz Ozbek, Bilgin Emrecan, Aylin Orgen Calli, and Ali Gurbuz PMCID: PMC1847907 Left Atrial Myxosarcoma with Previously Detected Intestinal Metastasis Yoshiyuki Takami, Hiroshi Masumoto, Akihiro Terasawa, Michio Kanai, and Hiroshi Sugiura PMCID: PMC1847916 Images in Cardiovascular Medicine Left Atrial Hemangioma Presenting as Cardiac Tamponade A. Melissa Solum, Steven C. Romero, Samuel Ledford, Robin Parker, Michael M. Madani, and Joelle M. Coletta PMCID: PMC1847930 Large Left Ventricular Capillary Hemangioma with Cavernous Areas Kyriakos St. Rammos, Demetrios G. Ketikoglou, and Ioannis G. Hatzibougias PMCID: PMC1847915 Inferolateral Left Ventricular Aneurysm Preventing Mitral Regurgitation Sakir Arslan, H. Yekta Gurlertop, M. Kemal Erol, Fuat Gundogdu, and Huseyin Senocak PMCID: PMC1847920 Metastatic Cardiac Carcinoid Satish Sivasankaran, Anthony T. Sonn, David M. Venesy, Sherif B. Labib, Bruce S. Tronic, Todd D. Shuster, and Sergio Waxman PMCID: PMC1847927 Correspondence Acute Spinal Cord Ischemia during Aortography Vito Paolillo and Daniela Gastaldo PMCID: PMC1847936 Acute Myocardial Infarction with Normal Coronary Arteries in a Patient with Hodgkin's Disease L. Julian Haywood PMCID: PMC1847911 |
