Volume 21 - Issue 5 - May, 2009

Dimpi Patel, MD, J. David Burkhardt, MD, Javier E. Sanchez, MD, Luigi Di Biase, MD, Rodney P. Horton, MD, Andrea Natale, MD From St. David’s Medical Center, Austin, Texas. Disclosures: Dr. Andrea Natale has received speaker honoraria from Biosense Webster and St. Jude Medical, and is a consultant to Biosense Webster. Dr. Rodney Horton has received speaker honoraria from Boston Scientific Corp. and is a consultant to Biosense Webster. Dr. Javier Sanchez has received speaker honoraria from Biosense Webster, Boston Scientific Corp. and St. Jude Medical. Dr. David Burkhardt has received speaker honoraria from Biosense Webster and Stereotaxis, Inc. and is a consultant to Stereotaxis, Inc.. Address for correspondence: Andrea Natale, MD, St. David’s Medical Center, 919 East 32nd Street, Austin, TX 78705. E-mail: dr.natale@gmail.com

Stephen C. Vlay, MD From the Stony Brook Arrhythmia Study and Sudden Death Prevention Center, Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York. The author reports no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Address for correspondence: Stephen C. Vlay, MD, SUNY Health Sciences Center T16-080, Stony Brook, NY 11794–8167. E-mail: svlay@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Manivannan Srinivasan, MBBS, MRCP and Abhiram Prasad, MD, FRCP From the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Department of Internal Medicine Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted September 29, 2008, provisional acceptance given December 11, 2008 and final version accepted December 18, 2008. Address for correspondence: Abhiram Prasad, MD, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905. Email: prasad.abhiram@mayo.edu

Refat Jabara, MD, Radhika Gadesam, MD, Lakshmana Pendyala, MD, Nicolas Chronos, MD, Spencer B. King, MD, Jack P. Chen, MD From the Saint Joseph’s Cardiovascular Research Institute/Saint Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta, Georgia. The authors report no financial relationships or conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted November 18, 2008 and accepted December 30, 2008. Address for correspondence: Refat Jabara, MD, FACC, Saint Joseph’s Cardiovascular Research Institute, Saint Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta, GA, 5673 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Suite 675, Atlanta, GA 30342. E-mail: rjabara@sjha.org

Gilles Lemesle, MD, Axel de Labriolle, MD, Laurent Bonello, MD, Tina L. Pinto Slottow, MD, Rebecca Torguson, MPH, Kimberly Kaneshige, BS, Daniel H. Steinberg, MD, Probal Roy, MD, Zhenyi Xue, MS, William O. Suddath, MD, Lowell F. Satler, MD, Kenneth M. Kent, MD, PhD, Joseph Lindsay, MD, Augusto D. Pichard, MD, Ron Waksman, MD From the Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C. Disclosures: Dr. Waksman has received speaker honoraria from Medtronic, Inc., is a consultant to that company, and has received research grants from the same. Manuscript submitted November 19, 2008, provisional acceptance given December 30, 2008, final version accepted February 11, 2009. Address for correspondence: Ron Waksman, MD, Washington Hospital Center, 110 Irving Street, N.W., Suite 4B-1, Washington, D.C. 20010. E-mail: ron.waksman@medstar.net

Daniel L. Jurewitz, MD, Antonio Pessegueiro, MD, Raymond Zimmer, MD, Ravi Bhatia, MD, Jonathan Tobis, MD, Michael S. Lee, MD From the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (Division of Cardiology), Los Angeles, California. Michael S. Lee is on the speaker’s bureau for Boston Scientific Corporation, Bristol Myer Squibb, and Schering-Plough; Jonathan Tobis is on the speaker’s bureau for Boston Scientific Corporation. Manuscript submitted December 15, provisional acceptance given February 9, 2009, manuscript accepted February 25, 2009. Address for correspondence: Michael S. Lee, MD, UCLA Medical Center, Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Room BL-394 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095. E-mail: mslee@mednet.ucla.edu

George Vetrovec, MD From the Kimmerling Professor of Medicine and Chair of Cardiology at VCU Pauley Heart Center, Medical College of Virginia Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. The author reports no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Address for correspondence: George W. Vetrovec, MD, Box 980036, VCU Medical Center, Cardiology Division, Room 607, West Hospital, Richmond, VA 23298-0036. E-mail: gvetrovec@mcvh-vcu.edu

Chrisopher Lawson, MD and Lawrence A. Garcia, MD From the Section of Interventional Cardiology and the Vascular Medicine Program, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, and Tuft’s University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Address for correspondence: Lawrence A. Garcia, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chief, Section Interventional Cardiology, Associate Director, Vascular Medicine Program, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, Tuft’s University School of Medicine, 736 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02135. E-mail: lawrence.garcia@caritaschristi.org

David Lao, MD and Yerem Yeghiazarians, MD From the University of California San Francisco, Division of Cardiology, San Francisco, California. Address for correspondence: David Lao, MD, University of California San Francisco, Division of Cardiology, 505 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0103, San Francisco, CA 94143-0103. E-mail: david.lao@ucsf.edu