| | Editorials A Word from the Dark Side James J. Ferguson PMCID: PMC2322906 Passing of the Editorship to Dr. James Willerson James T. Willerson PMCID: PMC2322885 In Memoriam: Tetsuzo Akutsu 1922–2007 O. H. Frazier PMCID: PMC2322897 In Memoriam: Addendum Denton A. Cooley PMCID: PMC2322900 Guest Editorial Dishonesty in Medicine Revisited Herbert L. Fred PMCID: PMC2322888 Laboratory Investigation Targeted Gene Silencing of Tumor Necrosis Factor Attenuates the Negative Inotropic Effects of Lipopolysaccharide in Isolated Contracting Cardiac Myocytes R. S. Ramabadran, Amanda Chancey, Jesus G. Vallejo, Philip M. Barger, Natarajan Sivasubramanian, and Douglas L. Mann PMCID: PMC2322883 Clinical Investigation Evaluation of Left Ventricular Long-Axis Function in Cases of Rheumatic Pure Mitral Stenosis with Atrial Fibrillation Sule Buyukkaya, Eyup Buyukkaya, Sakir Arslan, Enbiya Aksakal, Serdar Sevimli, Fuat Gundogdu, and Huseyin Senocak PMCID: PMC2322880 Coronary Anomalies “Acute Takeoff” of the Circumflex Artery: A Newly Recognized Coronary Anatomic Variant with Potential Clinical Consequences Paolo Angelini, Alexander Trujillo, Fadi Sawaya, and Vei-Vei Lee PMCID: PMC2322910 Surgical Technique ALCAPA with the Ectopic Orifice at the Non-Facing Sinus: Successful Anatomic Repair by Creation of an Autologous Extrapulmonary Tunnel Ralf Sodian, Darius Rassoullian, Andres Beiras-Fernandez, Markus Loeff, Christoph Schmitz, Bruno Reichart, and Sabine Daebritz PMCID: PMC2322911 Editorial Commentary Anomalous Origin of the Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery: The Location of the Ectopic Ostium and the Course of the Proximal Left Coronary Artery Make a Difference Paolo Angelini PMCID: PMC2322899 Case Series Contrast Echocardiography for Right-Sided Heart Conditions: Case Reports and Literature Review Harvinder Arora, Salim S. Virani, Leo Simpson, and Raymond F. Stainback PMCID: PMC2322893 Case Reports Contained Ascending Aortic Rupture Disguised as a Right Atrial Mass Philip S. Marzolino, Justin H. Reynolds, Joseph S. Coselli, and Alina M. Grigore PMCID: PMC2322908 Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device Support in a Patient with a Postinfarction Ventricular Septal Defect Igor D. Gregoric, Mark C. Bieniarz, Harvinder Arora, O. H. Frazier, Biswajit Kar, and Pranav Loyalka PMCID: PMC2322901 Distal Embolization and Proximal Stent-Graft Deployment: A Dual Approach to Endovascular Treatment of Ruptured Superior Gluteal Artery Aneurysm Germano Melissano, Massimo Venturini, Domenico Baccellieri, Fabio Calliari, Alessandro Del Maschio, and Roberto Chiesa PMCID: PMC2322904 Transvenous Biventricular Pacing for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Patients with Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava and Right Superior Vena Cava Atresia J. Alberto Lopez PMCID: PMC2322890 Transcatheter Closure of a Coronary Fistula with an Amplatzer® Vascular Plug: Should a Retrograde Approach Be Standard? Seyed Ebrahim Kassaian, Mohammad Alidoosti, Hakimeh Sadeghian, and Maria Raissi Dehkordi PMCID: PMC2322903 Intraoperative Anticoagulation Management during Cardiac Transplantation for a Patient with Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia and a Left Ventricular Assist Device Yasmin Wadia, John R. Cooper, Jr., Arthur W. Bracey, Katheleen Pinto, and O. H. Frazier PMCID: PMC2322889 Spontaneous Rupture of the Superficial Femoral Artery Treated via an Endovascular Approach Andrea Siani, Isaac Flaishman, Luca Maria Siani, Federica Mounayergi, Alvaro Zaccaria, Annalisa Schioppa, and Emanuele Baldassarre PMCID: PMC2322902 Resection of a Left Atrial Hemangioma Report of a Case and Overview of the Literature on Resected Cardiac Hemangiomas Cipriano Abad, Serguei de Varona, Miguel A. Limeres, Juan Morales, and José Marrero PMCID: PMC2322892 Brief Communications Atypical Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: Dobutamine-Precipitated Apical Ballooning with Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction John Cherian, Seema Kothari, Dimitrios Angelis, Amr Atef, Brian Downey, and Joseph Kirkpatrick, Jr. PMCID: PMC2322887 Methemoglobinemia in a Young Man Yasmin S. Hamirani, Wayne Franklin, Ronald G. Grifka, and Raymond F. Stainback PMCID: PMC2322912 Images in Cardiovascular Medicine Left Cervical Aortic Arch with Right Ligamentum Arteriosum Forming a Vascular Ring Fong-Lin Chen, Giles W. Vick, and Shuping Ge PMCID: PMC2322898 Double Aortic Arch Suspected upon Transthoracic Echocardiography and Diagnosed upon Computed Tomography Cem Koz, Mehmet Yokusoglu, Mehmet Uzun, and Mustafa Tasar PMCID: PMC2322907 Atypical Carotid Body Tumor Gokhan Ilhan, Omer Tetik, Haydar Yasa, Bulent Pamuk, and Ali Gurbuz PMCID: PMC2322895 Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of the Heart Hafize Yaliniz, Orhan Kemal Salih, and Acar Tokcan PMCID: PMC2322882 Nonischemic Anterior and Inferior Wall Stunning in the Setting of Severe Diabetic Ketoacidosis Dong Huang, Fang-Yun Jiang, Jing-Yu Hang, Zhi-Gang Lu, and Meng Wei PMCID: PMC2322909 Correspondence The Origin of Echocardiography? Harvey Feigenbaum PMCID: PMC2322886 The Origin of Echocardiography? Siddharth Singh and Abha Goyal PMCID: PMC2322905 Lambl's Excrescences: Is Surgical Excision Really Necessary? Rowlens M. Melduni, Kyle W. Klarich, Gillian C. Nesbitt, and Clarence Shub PMCID: PMC2322891 Lambl's Excrescences: Is Surgical Excision Really Necessary? Faisal Aziz and Frank A. Baciewicz, Jr. PMCID: PMC2322894 On the Death of Arthur Keats Lawrence Noriega PMCID: PMC2322884 History of Streptokinase Use in Acute Myocardial Infarction Fidel M. Cáceres-Lóriga PMCID: PMC2322881 Erratum Right ventricular thrombus with Behçet's syndrome: Successful treatment with warfarin and immunosuppressive agents PMCID: PMC2322896 Corrects: Sait M. Dogan, et al. Right Ventricular Thrombus with Behçet's Syndrome: Successful Treatment with Warfarin and Immunosuppressive Agents. Tex Heart Inst J. 2007; 34(3): 360–362. |
