Volume 20 - Issue 10 - October, 2008

Walid Ahmar, BSc(Hons), PhD, MBBS, FRACP, Yuvaraj Malaiapan, MRCP, FRACP,
Ian T. Meredith, BSc(Hons), PhD, MBBS, FRACP

Author Affiliations:

From the Monash Cardiovascular Research Centre, MonashHEART, Southern Health & Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne Australia.
The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein.
Manuscript submitted April 18 and accepted May 2, 2008.
Address for correspondence: Yuvaraj Malaiapan, MonashHeart, Monash Medical Center, Clayton Road, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.  E-mail: yuvi.malaiapan@southernhealth.org.au

Nobuyoshi Tanaka, MD,  Mitsuyasu Terashima, MD,  Yoshihisa Kinoshita, MD,  Masashi Kimura, MD,
Kenya Nasu, MD,  Mariko Ehara, MD,  Etsuo Tsuchikane, MD,  Tetsuo Matsubara, MD,
Yasushi Asakura,  Osamu Katoh, MD,  Takahiko Suzuki, MD

Author Affiliations:

From the Department of Cardiology, Toyohashi Heart Center, Toyohashi, Japan.
The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein.
Manuscript submitted March 25, 2008, provisional acceptance given May 27, 2008, manuscript accepted June 19, 2008.
Address for correspondence; Nobuyoshi Tanaka, MD, Department of Cardiology, Toyohashi Heart Center, 21-1 Gobudori, Oyama-cho, Toyohashi, 441-8530, Japan.  E-mail: ntanaka@heart-center.or.jp
 

Sedat Turkoglu, MD,  Vedat Simsek, MD,  Timur Timurkaynak, MD

Ravi S. Math, DM,  Sandeep Singh, DM,  Vinay Bahl, DM

Dee Dee Wang, MD,  Christos Kasapis, MD,  Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, MD, MPH

Wael F. Al-Husami , MD and Thomas Piemonte, MD

*,§Bryan P. Yan, MBBS, FRACP,  §Thomas J. Kiernan, MD, MRCPI,  §Kenneth Rosenfield, MD

Eugene B. Wu, MRCP, MD,  Wilson W.M. Chan, FRCP,  Cheuk-Man Yu, MD

*M. Kettani, MD,  §Belghiti Hasnaa, MD,  *N. El Haitem, PhD

Eugenia Nikolsky, MD and Roxana Mehran, MD