Volume 20 - Issue 12 - December, 2008

*Marc Del Rosario, MD, *Nipun Arora, MD, §Vishal Gupta, MD, MPH Author Affiliations: From the *University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, and §Borgess Medical Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The authors have disclosed no conflict of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted November 7, 2008 and accepted November 18, 2008. Address for correspondence: Vishal Gupta, MD, MPH, Director, Medical Device Research Lab, Associate Director, Cardiovascular Research, Borgess Research Institute, Borgess, Associate Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program, Medical Center, Kalamazoo, MI 49048. E-mail: vishalgupta@borgess.com

Sedat Turkoglu, MD, Serhat Balcioglu, MD, Murat Ozdemir, MD Author Affiliations: From the Department of Cardiology, Gazi University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted February 4, 2008, provisional acceptance given February 19, 2008, manuscript accepted March 3, 2008. Address for correspondence: Sedat Turkoglu, MD, Gazi University School of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, 06500, Besevler, Ankara, Turkey. E-mail: turkoglusedat@gmail.com

Paul T. L. Chiam, MBBS, MRCP, Laurence M. Schneider, MBBS, FRACP, Carlos E. Ruiz, MD, PhD Author Affiliations: From the Department of Cardiac and Vascular Interventional Services, Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute of New York, New York. Disclosure: Dr. Carlos Ruiz is a consultant to AGA Medical Corporation. Neither Dr. Chiam nor Dr. Schneider have reported conflicts related to the content herein. Manuscript submitted June 5, 2008, provisional acceptance given July 14, 2008 and final version accepted July 16, 2008. Address for correspondence: Carlos E. Ruiz, MD, PhD, Director Structural and Congenital Heart Intervention, Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute of New York, Cardiac and Vascular Interventional Services, 130 East 77th Street, 9th Floor Blackhall, New York, NY 10075. E-mail: cruiz@lenoxhill.net

Robert Horvath, MD, Andrea Towgood, RT, Satinder K. Sandhu, MD Author Affiliations: From the Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center, Miami, Florida. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted November 7, 2008 and accepted November 12, 2008. Address for correspondence: Satinder K. Sandhu, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, 1611 N.W. 12th Avenue, #5043 East Tower, Miami, FL 33136.

Laurence M. Schneider, MD, Vladimir Jelnin, MD, Carlos E. Ruiz, MD, PhD Author Affiliations: From the Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute, New York, New York. Manuscript submitted August 7 2008, provisional acceptance given October 1, 2008, and final version accepted October 2, 2008. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Address for correspondence: Laurence M. Schneider, MD, Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute, 130 East 77th Street, New York, NY 10021. E-mail: lschneidermd@gmail.com

*Sanjeev Kumar Agarwal, MD, DM, †Fayaz Shawl, MD, †Venkatesh K. Raman, MD, *Azan Salim Binbrek, FRCP Author Affiliations: From the *Department of Cardiology, Rashid Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the †Department of Cardiology, Washington Adventist Hospital, Takoma Park, Maryland. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted June 10, 2008, provisional acceptance given July 8, 2008, final version accepted September 16, 2008. Address for correspondence: S. K. Agarwal, MD, DM, Consultant Cardiologist, Rashid Hospital, P.O. Box 4545, Dubai, UAE. E-mail: skacardio@yahoo.com

Francesco De Felice, MD, Rosario Fiorilli, MD, Antonio Parma, MD, Marco Stefano Nazzaro, MD, Alban Dibra, MD, Carmine Musto, MD, Antonella De Santis, MD, Roberto Violini, MD Author Affiliations: From U.O. Cardiologia Interventistica Ospedale S. Camillo, Roma Italy. The authors report no conflict of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted May 15, 2008, provisional acceptance given June 30, 2008, final version accepted July 10, 2008. Address for correspondence: Francesco De Felice, MD, U.O. Cardiologia Interventistica, Ospedale S. Camillo, C.ne Gianicolense n. 87, 00152 Roma, Italy. E-mail: f.defelice@lycos.com

*Bon-Kwon Koo, MD, PhD, *Masao Yamasaki, MD, PhD, *Junya Ako, MD, *Katsuhisa Waseda, MD, *Yasuhiro Honda, MD, *Peter J. Fitzgerald, MD, PhD, §Alexandre Abizaid, MD, PhD, £Robert J. Whitbourn, MD Author Affiliations: From *Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, §Dante Pazzanese of Cardiology, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and £St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. Disclosures: Drs. Alexandre Abizaid and Peter J. Fitzgerald are advisory board members of CardioMind® and Drs. Alexandre Abizaid and Robert Whitbourn are principal investigators of the CARE I study. Dr. Bon-Kwon Koo has received research grant from the CardioVascular Research Foundation, Korea (CVRF). Manuscript submitted July 3, 2008, provisional acceptance given September 30, 2008, and final version accepted October 8, 2008. Address for correspondence: Peter J. Fitzgerald, MD, PhD, Center for Cardiovascular Technology, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Room H3554, Stanford, CA 94305-5637. E-mail: crci-cvmed@stanford.edu

Giorgio Gimelli, MD and Matthew R. Wolff, MD Author Affiliations: From the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin. The authors report no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein. Manuscript submitted July 8, 2008, provisional acceptance given August 5, 2008, and final version accepted September 15, 2008. Address for correspondence: Giorgio Gimelli, MD, H6/360 CSC, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792. E-mail: gxg@medicine.wisc.edu

Steven L. Goldberg, MD Author Affiliations: From the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington. The author reports no conflict of interest regarding the content herein. Address for correspondence: Steven L. Goldberg, MD, Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA E-mail: stevgold@u.washington.edu