Volume 21 - Issue 11 - November, 2009

Muhammad Janjua, MD, Fatema M. Omran, MD, Tony Kastoon, MD, Mahmood Alshami, MD, *Amr E. Abbas, MD

From the Department of Internal Medicine and the *Department of Cardiology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted February 5, 2009, provisional acceptance given February 24, 2009, final version accepted March 9, 2009. Address for correspondence: Amr E. Abbas, MD, FACC, FSVM, FASE, 27901 Woodward Avenue, Suite #300, Berkley MI 48072. E-mail: aabbas@beaumont.edu

Mitsuyasu Terashima, MD, Sudhir Rathore, MD, MRCP(UK), Yasuyoshi Suzuki, BS, Yoshiaki Nakayama, BS, §Hideaki Kaneda, MD, Kenya Nasu, MD, Maoto Habara, MD, Osamu Katoh, MD, Takahiko Suzuki, MD

From the *Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Toyohashi Heart Center, Toyohashi, Japan, and §Okinaka Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Tokyo, Japan. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted April 24, 2009, provisional acceptance given June 3, 2009, final version accepted July 6, 2009. Address for correspondence: Mitsuyasu Terashima, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Toyohashi Heart Center, 21-1 Gobudori, Oyama-cho, Toyohashi, 441-8530, Japan. E-mail: mterashima-circ@umin.ac.jp

*Hiroki Ito, MD, MS, *Sheri Piel, MD, *Pranab Das, MD, *Vikram Chhokar, MD, *Ghazanfar Khadim, MD, §Robert Nierzwicki, MD, §Alexis Williams, MD, *Robert S. Dieter, MD, RVT, *Fred Leya, MD

From the *Division of Cardiology and the §Department of Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted May 13, 2009, provisional acceptance given June 23, 2009, final version expected August 14, 2009. Address for correspondence: Hiroki Ito, MD, MS, Division of Cardiology, Loyola University Medical Center, EMS Building 6th Floor, 2160 S. First Avenue, Maywood IL 60153. E-mail: itohiroki@gmail.com

Abdul Hakeem, MD, Faisal M. Khan, MD, Sabha Bhatti, MD, *Zainab Samad, MD, Mohamed A. Effat, MD, §Mark H. Eckman, MD, MS, Tarek Helmy, MD

From the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, the §Division of General Internal Medicine and Center for Clinical Effectiveness, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, and the *Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted May 28, 2009, provisional acceptance given July 6, 2009, final version accepted July 20, 2009. Address for correspondence: Abdul Hakeem, MD, University of Cincinnati Hospital, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Academic Health Center, P.O. Box 670542, Cincinnati, OH 45257-0542. E-mail: ahakeem@gmail.com

Stefan Toggweiler, MD, Yves Suter, MD, *Andreas W. Schoenenberger, MD, Mathias Kaspar, MD, Peiman Jamshidi, MD, Paul Erne, MD

From the Division of Cardiology, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland and the *Department of Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine, University of Bern Hospital Inselspital Bern, Bern, Switzerland. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted April 1, 2009, provisional acceptance given May 28, 2009, final version accepted August 3, 2009. Address for correspondence: Prof. Paul Erne, MD, FESC, Head of Division of Cardiology, Kantonsspital Luzern, CH-6000 Luzern 16, Switzerland. E-mail: Paul.Erne@ksl.ch

Mariko Ehara, MD, Mitsuyasu Terashima, MD, Masato Kawai, RT, Shunichi Matsushita, MD, Etsuo Tsuchikane, MD, Yoshihisa Kinoshita, MD, Masashi Kimura, MD, Kenya Nasu, MD, Nobuyoshi Tanaka, MD, Hiroshi Fujita, MD, Maoto Habara, MD, Tuyoshi Ito, MD, Sudhir Rathore, MD, Osamu Katoh, MD, Takahiko Suzuki, MD

Yuji Ikari, MD, PhD, Naoki Masuda, MD, Takashi Matsukage, MD, PhD, Nobuhiko Ogata, MD, Gaku Nakazawa, MD, Teruhisa Tanabe, MD, Yoshihiro Morino, MD

FULL TITLE: Early and Long-Term Outcomes after Surgical and Percutaneous Myocardial Revascularization in Patients with Non-ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes and Unprotected Left Main Disease *#Piotr P. Buszman, MD, *£Andrzej Bochenek, MD, *Magda Konkolewska, MD, *Blazej Trela, MD, ‡R. Stefan Kiesz, MD, £Mirosław Wilczyński, MD, £Marek Cisowski, MD, £Michał Krejca, MD, £Iwona Banasiewicz-Szkróbka, MD, #Marek Krol, MD, **Marek Kondys, MD, *‡Szymon Wiernek, MD, *Bartłomiej Orlik, §‡Jack L. Martin, MD, *£Michał Tendera, MD, *#£Pawel E. Buszman, MD

From the *Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, £Upper-Silesian Heart Centre, Katowice, Poland, ‡San Antonio Endovascular and Heart Institute and University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, #American Heart of Poland, Ustron, Poland, **American Heart of Poland, Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland, and §Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted March 5, 2009, provisional acceptance given May 21, 2009, final version accepted July 6, 2009. Address for correspondence: Pawel E. Buszman, MD, Katowice 40-635, Ziolowa 45/47 Street, Poland. E-mail: pbuszman@ka.onet.pl

Ariel Roguin, MD, PhD and Rafael Beyar, MD, DSc

From the Division of Interventional Cardiology, Rambam Medical Center, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Address for correspondence: Rafael Beyar, MD, DSc, MPH, Director, Rambam Health Care Campus (RHCC), Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Women's Division/Dr Phillip and Sarah Gotlieb Chair, Technion, 8 Ha'Aliyah St., Haifa 35254, Israel. E-mail: r_beyar@rambam.health.gov.il