Volume 21 - Issue 1 - January, 2009

Nisar H. Shah, MBBS, MRCPI, FCPS and Anthony Scriven, MD, FRCP

*Emre Gurel, MD, *Nihal Ozdemir, MD, §Cihan Cevik, MD, *Cihangir Kaymaz, MD

Clarissa Cola, MD, Victoria Martín Yuste, MD, Manel Sabaté, MD, PhD

*Paolo Pagnotta, MD, Carlo Briguori, MD, PhD, §Cesare Massa Saluzzo, MD, *Patrizia Presbitero, MD

*Lookman Lawal, MD, §Richard Lange, MD, §Steven Schulman, MD

Uzoma N. Ibebuogu, MD, Deepak Kapoor, MD, Vincent J.B. Robinson, MD Author Affiliations: From the Section of Cardiology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted June 30, 2008 and accepted August 29, 2008. Address for correspondence: Uzoma N. Ibebuogu, MD, Section of Cardiology, Medical College of Georgia, 1120 15th Street (BBR 6518), Augusta, GA 30912. E-mail: ibebuogu@yahoo.com

Angel Sanchez-Recalde, MD, Santiago Jiménez-Valero, MD, Raul Moreno, MD Author Affiliations: From the Interventional Cardiology Unit, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted August 27, 2008 and accepted October 29, 2008. Address for correspondence: Angel Sanchez-Recalde, MD, Interventional Cardiology Unit, Planta 1ª Diagonal, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Paseo de la Castellana 261, 28046, Madrid, Spain. E-mail: asanchezr.hulp@salud.madrid.org

*Hutton P. Brantley, DO, *Jennifer L. Kiessling, MD, §Hugh B. Milteer Jr., £Farrell O. Mendelsohn, MD Author Affiliations: From *Baptist Health System, Inc., §The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, and £Cardiology P.C., Birmingham, Alabama. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript August 1, 2008, provisional acceptance given September 15, 2008, and final version accepted September 16, 2008. Address for correspondence: Hutton P. Brantley, DO, 267 Oxmoor Place, Birmingham, AL 35211. E-mail: hbrantley@gmail.com