Current Issue January 2012, Vol. 21, No. 1

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Clinical Spotlight: Pericardial Tamponade: A Life Threatening Complication of Laparoscopic Gastro-oesophageal Surgery

Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Provides Long-Term Results Superior to Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
January 2012(Vol. 21 | No. 1 | Pages 1-11)
Franklin L. Rosenfeldt, Mark D. Wilson, Brian F. Buxton, Silvana F. Marasco

High on Treatment Platelet Reactivity
January 2012(Vol. 21 | No. 1 | Pages 12-21)
Omar Ait-Mokhtar, Laurent Bonello, Saida Benamara, Franck Paganelli

Reduction of Post-surgical Pericardial Adhesions Using a Pig Model
January 2012(Vol. 21 | No. 1 | Pages 22-29)
Ali M. Alizzi, Phillip Summers, Virginia H. Boon, John-Paul Tantiongco, Teresa Thompson, Belinda J. Leslie, David Williams, Mike Steele, Benjamin P. Bidstrup, Al-Mutazz A. Diqer

Porcelain Aorta, Left Arterio-Venous Fistula and Critical Ostial Coronary Artery Disease
17 October 2011
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Imaging of Left Main Coronary Artery Thrombus with CT Coronary Angiography
17 October 2011
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Left-Ventricular Non-Compaction with Congenital Left Ventricular Diverticulum
17 October 2011
Prashanth Panduranga, Eapen Thomas, Mohammed Al-Mukhaini
Left-ventricular non-compaction may be isolated or associated with other cardiac or noncardiac anomalies. Left-ventricular non-compaction associated with left ventricular diverticulum is very rare. We...
Approach to the Difficult Transseptal: Diathermy Facilitated Left Atrial Access
17 October 2011
Hany S. Abed, Muayad Alasady, Dennis H. Lau, Han S. Lim, Prashanthan Sanders
Percutaneous transseptal left atrial (LA) access is increasingly becoming a routine procedure in the electrophysiology and cardiac catheterisation laboratories. Our aim was to review an unselected lar...
Stroke, Aortic Vegetations and Disseminated Adenocarcinoma – A Case of Marantic Endocarditis
17 October 2011
Gregory M. Scalia, Anmol K. Tandon, Jessica A. Robertson
Herein we describe a case of marantic endocarditis (non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis) that presented with coronary, cerebral and peripheral emboli, fevers and malaise, and negative blood cultures...

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Heart, Lung and Circulation publishes articles integrating clinical and research activities in the fields of basic cardiovascular science, clinical cardiology and cardiac surgery, with a focus on emerging issues in cardiovascular disease. The journal promotes multidisciplinary dialogue between cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, cardio-pulmonary physicians and cardiovascular scientists.

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