Volume 20 - Issue 10 - October, 2008

Ravi K. Ramana, DO, Peter Varga, MD, Ferdinand Leya, MD

Author Affiliations:
From the Division of Cardiology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois.
The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein.
Manuscript submitted July 2, 2008, provisional acceptance given July 28, 2008, manuscript accepted August 5, 2008.
Address for correspondence: Ravi K. Ramana, DO, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Loyola University Medical Center, 2160 South First Avenue, Maywood, IL  60153.  E-mail: rkramana@earthlink.net

*Santhosh K.G Koshy, MD, DM, #Neal S. Kleiman, MD, *Lekha K. George, MD, †Vijay Misra, MD,
†William B. Hillegass, MD, MPH, †Brigitta C. Brott, MD

Author Affiliations:
From the *Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee; #Methodist DeBakey Heart Center, Houston, Texas;   and the †Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama.
The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein.
Manuscript submitted May 27, 2008 and accepted July 10, 2008.
Address for correspondence: Santhosh K.G. Koshy, MD, DM, FACC, FSCAI, Director of Interventional Cardiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 1211 Union Avenue, Suite 340, Memphis, Tennessee 38104. E-mail: skoshy@utmem.edu

Mazullah Kamran, MD, Amrit Guptan, MD, Monika Bogal, MD

Author Affiliations:
From the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York.
The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein.
Manuscript submitted March 7, 2008, provisional acceptance given March 28, 2008, manuscript accepted May 27, 2008
Address for correspondence: Dr. Mazullah Kamran, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, The Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Box 1030, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York 10029. Email: Mazullah.Kamran@msnyuhealth.org

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

*Jonathan Byrne, MD, §Mark Spence, MD, £Laurent Haegeli, MD, £Eric Fretz, MD, £Anthony Della Siega, MD,
£Malcolm Williams, MD, £David Kinloch, MD, £Richard Mildenberger, MD, ¶Peter Klinke, MD,
¶David Hilton, MD

Author Affiliations:
From the *Division of Cardiology, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, United Kingdom, §Belfast Royal Infirmary, Belfast, United Kingdom, £Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and ¶Victoria Heart Institute Foundation, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein.
Manuscript submitted March 28, 2008, provisional acceptance given May 12, 2008, manuscript accepted June 11, 2008.
Address for correspondence: Jonathan A. Byrne, MD, PhD, Cardiology, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 9RS, United Kingdom.  E-mail: jonbyrne@yahoo.com

*Saleem Sharieff, MD, §Kanwal Aamir, MBBS, *Waseem Sharieff, MD, PhD, §Habiba Tasneem, MBBS,
§Tariq Masood, MD, §Tahir Saghir, MBBS, §Khan Shah-e-Zaman, MBBS, MRCP

Author Affiliations:
From the §National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), Rafiqui Shaheed Road, Opposite Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, Pakistan and *Hamilton General Hospital, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein.
Manuscript submitted April 29, 2008, provisional acceptance given May 8, 2008, manuscript accepted July 28, 2008.
Address for correspondence: Saleem Sharieff, MD, Grand River Hospital, Medicine, 835 King Street West, Kitchener, Ontario N2G 1G3, Canada. E-mail: saleem_sharieff@hotmail.com

Pavel Cervinka, MD, PhD, Marian Bystron, MD, Radim Spacek, MD, Martin Kvasnak, MD,
Sunil Adhikari, MD, Jozef Jakabcin, MD

Author Affiliations: 
From the Department of Cardiology, Masaryk Hospital, and the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyne, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.
The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein.
Manuscript submitted March 26, 2008, provisional acceptance given May 9, 2008, manuscript accepted July 28, 2008.
Address for correspondence: Pavel Cervinka, MD, PhD, FESC, FSCAI, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Cardiology, Masaryk Hospital Ústí nad Labem, Sciální péãe 3316/12A, 401 13 Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. E-mail: pavel.cervinka@mnul.cz

Faizel Osman, MD, MRCP, Nigel Buller, MD, FRCP, Rick Steeds, MA, MD, MRCP

Author Affiliations:
From the Department of Cardiology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein.
Manuscript submitted January 2, 2008, provisional acceptance given February 8, 2008, and accepted February 18, 2008.
Address for correspondence:  Faizel Osman, MD, MRCP, Department of Cardiology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TH.  E-mail: faizel.osman@btinternet.com