Volume 20 - Issue 8 - August, 2008

Jeffrey J. Popma, MD Author Affiliations: From Caritas St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Brighton, Massachusetts. Disclosures: Dr. Popma discloses that he has received speaker honoraria and consulting fees from Boston Scientific Corp., Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Cordis Corporation. Medtronic, Inc., Pfizer, Inc., and Sanofi-Aventis. Dr. Popma has also received research grants from Abbott Vascular, Boston Scientific Corp., Cordis Corp., ev3, Inc., and Medtronic, Inc. Address for correspondence: Jeffrey J. Popma, MD, Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Caritas St. Elizabeth Medical Center, 736 Cambridge Street, Brighton, MA 02135. E-mail: Jeffrey.popma@caritaschristi.org

David Antoniucci, MD Author Affiliations: From the Division of Cardiology, Careggi Hospital, Florence, Italy. The author reports no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Address for correspondence: David Antoniucci, MD, Careggi Hospital, Viale Morgagni, Florence, I-50134, Italy. E-mail: david.antoniucci@virgilio.it

Tariqshah Syed, MD, Jacqueline Tamis-Holland, MD, David Coven, MD, PhD, Mun K. Hong, MD Author Affiliations: The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. From the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Interventional Cardiology, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York. Address for correspondence: Mun K. Hong, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Interventional Cardiology, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, 1111 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10025. E-mail: mkhong@chpnet.org

Bilal Murad, MD Author Affiliations: From the North Heart Center Cardiovascular Consultants, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Disclosure: Dr. Murad discloses that he has received the following from Possis Medical, Inc.: speaker honoraria and funding to conduct the animal studies. No funding was received from Possis Medical for the human studie, and Possis was not involved in the preparation of this manuscript. Address for correspondence: Bilal Murad, MD, North Heart Center Cardiovascular Consultants, 3300 Oakdale Avenue North, Suite 200, Minneapolis, MN 55422. E-mail: mbilalmurad@gmail.com

Augustin DeLago, MD Mohammad El-Hajjar, MD Mikhail Kirnus, MD Author Affiliations: From Albany Medical Center, Albany, New York. The author reports no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Address for correspondence: Augustin DeLago, MD, FACC, Albany Medical Center, Department of Cardiology, 43 New Scotland Avenue, Room C-716, MC15, Albany, NY 12208. E-mail: delagoa@mail.amc.edu

Timothy A. Mixon, MD, Gregory J. Dehmer, MD, Raul A. Santos, MD, D. Scott Gantt, DO, Mark E. Lawrence, DO, Linley E. Watson, MD Author Affiliations: From the Texas A&M Health Science Center, Scott & White Clinic, Division of Cardiology, Temple, Texas. Disclosure: Dr. Mixon discloses that he has received speaker honoraria from Possis Medical, Inc. The other authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Address for correspondence: Timothy A. Mixon, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Scott & White Clinic, Division of Cardiology, 2401 S. 31st Street, Temple, TX 76504. E-mail: tmixon@swmail.sw.org

Dennis W.X. Zhu, MD Author Affiliations: Disclosure: Dr. Zhu has received speaker honoraria from Possis Medical, Inc. From Regions Hospital Heart Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Address for correspondence: Dennis W.X. Zhu, MD, FACC, Regions Hospital Heart Center, 640 Jackson Street, Saint Paul, MN 55001. E-mail: dennis.w.zhu@healthpartners.com

Jeffrey J. Popma, MD Author Affiliations: From Caritas St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Brighton, Massachusetts. Disclosures: Dr. Popma discloses that he has received speaker honoraria and consulting fees from Boston Scientific Corp., Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Cordis Corporation. Medtronic, Inc., Pfizer, Inc., and Sanofi-Aventis. Dr. Popma has also received research grants from Abbott Vascular, Boston Scientific Corp., Cordis Corp., ev3, Inc., and Medtronic, Inc. This special supplement was made possible through a grant from Possis Medical, Inc. Address for correspondence: Jeffrey J. Popma, MD, Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Caritas St. Elizabeth Medical Center, 736 Cambridge Street, Brighton, MA 02135. E-mail: Jeffrey.popma@caritaschristi.org

Shailendra Upadhyay, MD and *Asad Sawar, MD

Yoshitaka Shiratori, MD, Yuji Oikawa, MD, Junji Yajima, MD