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Sunday,
July 17, 2005
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July 18, 2005
Tuesday,
July 19, 2005
Oral Presentations Oral Presentations Oral Presentations
Poster Sessions Poster Sessions Poster Sessions

 

Monday, July 18, 2005

8:30 - 12:30    
Board No.

 

 POSTER HALL

 

P301   Poster Session:
MOLECULAR CARDIOLOGY, BASIC RESEARCH II

 
1

D-4F AN APOLIPOPROTEIN MIMETICPEPTIDE CAUSES THE MOVEMENT OF APOA-I FROM LARGER TO SMALLER HDL PARTICLES
C. Chyu, UCLA, Dept of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 
2

COLLAGEN AND PICROSIRIUS RED STAINING: A POLARIZED LIGHT ASSESSMENT OF FIBRILLAR HUE AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
L Rich, P Whittaker, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

 
3

HIGH DENSITY FORM PATIENTS WITH PERIODONTAL DISEASES IS NOT PROTECTIVE AGAINST LOW DENSITY OXIDATION 
A Meshakat,
UCLA Dentistry, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 
5

REGULATION OF CARDIAC MUSCARINIC RECEPTORS IN CHAGAS DISEASE: IN VIVO AND IN VITRO ANALYSES
K.R Peraza-Cruces, L.A Gutierrez-Guedez, D.D Castaneda-Perozo, C.R Alvarez-Yepez, C.S.R Lankford, C.C Rodriguez-Valenzuela, R.A Bonfante-Cabarcas,
Universidad Centro Occidental "Lisandro Alvarado", Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela

 
6

SUPPRESSION OF COLLAGEN PRODUCTION IN CARDIAC FIBROBLASTS USING TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINAL COMPOUNDS
C.M Yu
, Yu Huang, E.K.C Kong, K.P Chen, J.E Sanderson
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

 
7

ISCHEMIA OR REPERFUSION: WHICH IS A MAIN TRIGGER FOR CHANGES IN NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASES EXPRESSION
D Pevni, I Frolkis, L de Perini, I Shapira, A Kramer, G Bolotin, G Uretzky
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

 
8

INHIBITORY EFFECT OF HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF SANDIMMUNE ON CYTOCHROME  C OXIDASE-DEPENDENT MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION IS REVERSIBLE BY EXTERNAL CYTOCHROME C
A.V. Todor
, V.G. Sharov, H.N. Sabbah, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

 
9

ASTROCYTE SUPPORT OF SYNAPTOGENESIS IS AUGMENTED BY NORMAL HDL AND IS PREVENTED BY DYSFUNCTIONAL HDL
K. Navab
, UCLA Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 
10

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SPORT AND PATIENTS’ RECOVERY AFTER GENERAL SURGERIES AND ANESTHESIA IN RECOVERY UNITS OF SELECTED  HOSPITAL OF ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES IN 2004 
H. Farahmand, A. Fereshtehnejad, A. Fereshtehnejad, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran

 
 

 

 
 

P302   Poster Session: 
CARDIAC IMAGING

 
11

FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE RIGHT VENTRICLE MOTION USING CINE MRI IN PATIENTS REFERRED FOR SUSPECTED ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA
A. Azarine, X. Lyon, F. Hidden-Lucet, A. Redheuil, O. de Sauniere, E. Mousseaux, HEGP, Paris, France

 
12

MULTISLICE COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY FOR EVALUATION OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
G.J Friedrich, S Abbrederis, O Pachinger, D zurNedden, I Graziadei, E Gassner, W Vogel, G.M Feuchtner, University Hospital, Cardiology Dept, Innsbruck, Austria

 
13

MULTISLICE COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY FOR EVALUATION OF CORONARY ARTERY LESION MORPHOLOGY AND RELATION TO CLINICAL PRESENTATION
G.J. Friedrich, M. Frick, W. Dichtl, F. Weidinger, O. Pachinger, W. Grander, W Koelli, G.M Feuchtner, University Hospital, Cardiology Dept, Innsbruck, Austria

 
14

COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT HEART RATE-LOWERING BETA-BLOCKER PROTOCOLS FOR CORONARY CT-IMAGING 
A. Azarine
, X. Lyon, M. Sapoval, A. Redheuil, B. Mader, E. Mousseaux
HEGP, Paris, France

 
15

THE VALUE OF 18FDG COINCIDENCES SPECT FOR DETECTION MYOCARDIAL VIABILITY IN FASTING /GLUCOSE LOADING
H. Shi
, X. Zhang, S. Chen, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

 
 

 

 
 

P303   Poster Session: 
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

 
16

SEMIAUTOMATIC DETECTION OF LEFT VENTRICULAR CAVITY IN ATTENUATED HARMONIC CONTRAST IMAGES
S Yoshifuku
, S Chen, EM McMahon, I Ochiai, J Korinek, M Belohlavek, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA

 
17 ROLE OF FETAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF COMPLEX HEART DEFECTS WITH DECREASED PULMONARY BLOOD FLOW
L.A. Bockeria, E.D. Bespalova, A.I. Tyumeneva, O.G. Suratova, E.S. Sinkovskaya,
Bakoulev Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, Moscow, Russia
 
18

DOES CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IMPROVE LV VOLUME ANALYSIS IN A ROUTINE SETTING?
J S Silberbauer, W Taggu, M Hankins, A Topham, A Arya, J Vrahimides, N R Patel, G W Lloyd, Eastbourne District General Hospital, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK

 
19

EARLY CONTRACTILE DETERIORATION IN HYPERTENSIVE LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY
E.M Escudero
, A.L Tufare, V Ankudowicz, Italian Hospital, National University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

 
20

TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IS NOT NECESSARY PRIOR TO RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION OF ATRIAL FLUTTER
U.N Kumar
, S Akhtari, E Foster, B.K Lee, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

 
21

ACCURACY OF DOBUTAMINE STRESS ECG FOR DIAGNOSIS OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
S. Khoaropanah
, M Zafar, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

 
 

 

 

MONDAY, JULY 18, 2005

Board No.

 

 POSTER HALL

 

P304   Poster Session:
ANGIOPLASTY OR SURGERY FOR MULTIVESSEL CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE

 
22

EFFECTS OF GENDER AND CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS ON PLATELET AND NEUTROPHIL INTERACTIONS IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION (PCI)
Z-Y Jiang, N. Azzi, Y. Merhi, J-F Tanguay, Montreal Heart Institute, QC. Canada

 
23

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT IN HIV-INFECTED PATIENTS. A MULTICENTER CASE CONTROL STUDY
F. Boccara, G. Odi, E. Di Angelantonio, A. Cohen, G. Barbarini, G. Barbaro, Saint Antoine University Hospital, Paris, France

 
24

THE IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CAPACITY  OF THE HEART POST CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT SURGERY
A.Y Patwala, D Barker, S.G Williams, M Jackson, L.B Tan, D.J Wright, The Cardiothoracic Centre, Thomas Drive, Liverpool, Meseyside, UK

 
25

SEQUENTIAL ENDOVASCULAR COIL EMBOLIZATION FOR A TRAUMATIC CERVICAL VERTEBRAL AV FISTULA
C.L Hung
, YJ Wu, C.J.Y Hou, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

 
26

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE MODIFIED BOOT STRAP ANGIOPLASTY PROCEDURE FOR DOUBLE VESSEL CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
A.D. Vrachatis, M.A. Fraley, D.J. Nikas, A.A. Zacharoulis, M.A. Alpert,
St. John's Mercy Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, USA

 
 

 

 
 

P305   Poster Session:  
PRIMARY PREVENTION OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN THE HEALTHY ADULT AND CHILDREN

 
27

ACUTE EFFECTS OF NICOTINE AND VASOMOTOR ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION IN YOUNG MALE SMOKERS 
G.E. Roytberg
, M.A. Angelina, T.I. Ushakova, Russian State Medical University, Moscow, Russia

 
28

CHARACTERISTICS OF APPARENTLY HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS WITH VERY LOW C REACTIVE PROTEIN CONCENTRATIONS 
I. Shapira
, O. Rogowski, S. Toker, S. Melamed, A. Shirom, D. Zeltser, S. Berliner, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv and Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

 
29

THE INFLUENCE OF AGE AND SEX ON SYMPTOM PRESENTATION IN ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME 
S Moshar
, P Aghajanzadeh, Heshmet Hospital, Rasht, Iran

 
30

ASSOCIATION OF TEENAGE PREGNANCY WITH ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME IN MIDDLE AGE
M H Akbar,
Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht. Iran

 
31

HIGH RATES OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS IN SUBJECTS RISK STRATIFIED AS LOW RISK PER FRAMINGHAM
K.O Akosah
, V.L McHugh, A.M Schaper, S.I Barnhart, M.A Mathiason, P.A Perlock, Gundersen Lutheran Health System, La Crosse and University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, USA

 
32

PREVALENCE OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN KUWAIT
F.A Al Assomi, Surra Health Center, Ministry of Health, Kuwait City, Kuwait

 
33

ON-SITE CASE MANAGEMENT IS BETTER THAN TELEPHONIC MONITORING FOR WEIGHT LOSS
D.A Marshall, E.M Walizer, M.N Vernalis
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

 
 

 

 
 

P306   Poster Session:  
MODIFICATION OF LIPOPROTEINS AND CORONARY DISEASE

 
35

BROAD-SPECTRUM ANTIOXIDANT PEPTIDES DERIVED FROM HIS RESIDUE-CONTAINING SEQUENCES PRESENT IN HUMAN PARAOXONASE1 
S.D Nguyen, M.R Kim, D.E Sok,
Chungnam National University, Daejon, South Korea

 
36

THE EFFECTS OF FOLATE ON SERUM LIPOPROTEINS,HOMOCYSTEINE AND TOTAL ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITY IN HYPERCHOLESTOLEMIC PERSONS
F. Shidfar
, R. Homayonfar, A. Kalani, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

 
37

EFFECTS OF SOY PROTEIN ISOFLAVONES ON LIPID PROFILE AND SERUM HORMONES IN HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIC MEN
R Amani, A Zand-Moghaddam, Ahvaz Jundi-Shapour University, Ahvaz, Iran

 
 

 

 
 

P307   Poster Session:  
PHARMACOLOGIC MODULATION OF VASCULAR-ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION

 
39

NCX 6550, A NITRO-DERIVATIVE OF PRAVASTATIN IMPROVES ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION IN SHR
C Presotto
, D Miglietta, R Olivieri, A Monopoli, Nicox Research Institute, Bresso, MI, Italy

 
40

CHRONIC SILDENAFIL THERAPY IMPROVES RESPONSIVENESS OF ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION IN DIABETIC PATIENTS
G.M.C Rosano
, C Vitale, M Fini, G Marazzi, M Volterrani, Fondazione San Raffaele IRCCS - Roma, Italy

 
41

A THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY USING SUBCUTANEOUS MAGNESIUM TO REDUCE SPACE FLIGHT ISCHEMIC INJURIES
W.J. Rowe
, Medical College, Ohio at Toledo, USA

 
42

THE EFFECTS OF STATINS ON PLASMA ADIPONECTIN LEVELS IN NON-DIABETICS, HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIC PATIENTS
Y.A Ding
, P.F Hsu, T.M Lu, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

 
43

AN OPEN LABEL CROSSOVER TRIAL OF EFFECTS OF METRONIDAZOL ON HYPERLIPIDAEMIA
K Shamkhani, M.A Pira, M.H. Akbar, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran

 
44

INHIBITION OF CYCLIC STRAIN-INDUCED ENDOTHELIN-1 SECRETION BY TRILINOLEIN
W. Ko, P. Chan, T. Cheng, Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

 
45

AUTONOMIC FUNCTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
E Onrat
, C Kilit, D Evcik, N Kara, T Cakir, M Melek, A Avsar, V Kavuncu, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyon, Turkey

 
 

 

 

MONDAY, JULY 18, 2005

Board No.

 

POSTER HALL

 

P308   Poster Session:
MISCELLANEOUS II

 
46

DIFFERENT ORTHOSTATIC INTOLERANCE SYNDROMES PATTERNS IN HEAD-UP TILT EVALUATION
J. Freitas, R. Santos, M. Carvalho, F. Boomsma, A. Meiracker, F. Rocha-Goncalves, Hospital de Sao Joao, Porto, Portugal

 
47 ADHERENCE TO STATINS, BETA-BLOCKERS, AND ACE INHIBITORS FOLLOWING A CARDIOVASCULAR EVENT.  A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY
D.F. Blackburn, R.T. Dobson, J.L. Blackburn, T.W. Wilson, M.R. Stang, W.W. Semchuk, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
 
48

CLINICAL SYMPTOMS AND NON-INVASIVE TESTING FAIL TO PREDICT THE PRESENCE OF SIGNIFICANT CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN MEN AND WOMEN UNDERGOING CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY
W Taggu
, AF Cooper, N.R Patel, Guy Lloyd, Eastbourne DGH, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK

 
50

THE EFFECT OF TONGXINLUO ON ET-1 IN A MINI-SWINE MODEL OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND REPERFUSION 
J.L Zhao
, Y.J Yang, J,L Chen, Fuwai Heart Hospital, Beijing, China

 
51

USEFULNESS OF MEASUREMENT OF DIABETIC CONTROL INDEX AS A POINT OF CARE
S.E Alansari, Armed Forces Hospital, Ministry of Defense, Kuwait

 
52

EFFICACY OF PLASMA SEPARATION IN COMPLEX THERAPY OF OLD PATIENTS WITH POSTINFARCTIONAL CARDIOSCLEROSIS AND  HEART FAILURE
R.M. Zaslavskaya
, G.V Lilitsa, M.I Kalinina, M.M Tejbloom
Hospital No. 60, Moscow, Russia

 
53

COMPARISION OF PLASMA LEPTIN LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH NORMAL, LOW, MODERATE AND HIGH RISK  MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION SCAN
A.H. Bagheri, R.Olamaei, A. Khosravi  M.S Khosravi M. Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahroud Faculty of Medical Sciences, Islamic Republic of Iran

 
14:00 - 18:00    

MONDAY, JULY 18, 2005

Board No.

 

POSTER HALL

 

P401   Poster Session:
VASCULAR BIOLOGY, BASIC RESEARCH II

 
 1

REPETITIVE EXPOSURE TO HIGH TGRLS:  A CAUSE OF EARLY VASCULAR INJURY?
F.N. Mbai, J.C. Rutledge, A.A. Knowlton
, University of California, Davis, and VA Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA

 
 2

MIXTURE OF NATURAL NUTRIENTS REDUCES COLLAGEN MATRIX CONTRACTION DRIVEN BY AORTIC SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS
V Ivanov, S Ivanova, MW Roomi, A Niedzwiecki, M Rath, Matthias Rath Research Institute, Santa Clara, CA, USA

 
 3

IS SUCCESSFUL CORONARY SINUS LEAD PLACEMENT PREDICTABLE IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY?
C Suga
, K Matsumoto, R Kato, H Ishida, S Nakahara, T Namiki, S Nishimura, Saitama Medical School, Saitama, Japan
 

 
 4

COMPARISON OF  INDICES OF ARTERIAL ELASTICITY  IN PROGRESSIVE AGE RELATED ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION IN TWO DIFFERENT ETHNIC POPULATIONS  IN PUNE AND GOA IN INDIA
N.M Kulkarni
, J.S Hiremath, G.V Prabhu, M Mehta, Poona Hospital & Research Institute Pune India, Poona, India

 
 5

THE EFFECT OF GENISTEIN ON MYOCARDIAL PROTECTION AND PRECONDITIONING IN HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA 
E Sbarouni
, G Vlachou, I Andreadou, A Zoga, EK Iliodromitis, DTh Kremastinos, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece

 
 

 

 
 

P402   Poster Session:
ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: THROMBOLYSIS AND REPERFUSION

 
 6

INSULIN IMPROVES CARDIAC FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY WITHOUT INCREASING MYOCARDIAL OXYGEN CONSUMPTION IN MI/R DOGS
H.C Wang, J.H Huo, H.X Zhang, Q.J Zhang, L.Z Xiong, H Su, W.Y Guo, F Gao, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, XiˇŻan, China

 
 7

BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF NICORANDIL ON MYOCARDIAL NO-REFLOW IN A MINI-SWINE MODEL OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND REPERFUSION 
Y.J Yang
, J.L Zhao, R.L Gao, J.L Chen, Fuwai Heart Hospital, Beijing, China

 
 8

FOSINOPRIL IS EFFECTIVE IN PREVENTING MYOCARDIAL NO-REFLOW AFTER AMI AND REPERFUSION
Y.J Yang
, J. Zhao, R. Gao, J.Chen, S.J.You, Fuwai Heart Hospital, Beijing, China

 
 9 MYOCARDIAL INTOLERANCE TO OXIDATIVE STRESS PEAKS AT MIDDLE AGE IN MALE RATS 
J.W. Starnes
, B.J. Mathis, R.P. Taylor, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
 
 10

COMPARISON OF ST-SEGMENT RESOLUTION IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION TREATED WITH BOLUS INTRAVENOUS OF HEPARIN AND FRAXIPARIN
I Balla
, N Kuke, A Gace, G Bardhaj, A Kondili, University Hospital Center "Mather Tereza" Tirana, Albania
 

 
 12

THE RISK OF UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING AND THE USE OF PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS IN ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES
M. Abdallah
, K. Barada, A. Sharara, H. Tamim, H. Dakik, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
 

 
 13

BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING ON MYOCARDIAL NO-REFLOW IN A MINI-SWINE MODEL OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND REPERFUSION
Y.J Yang
, J.L Zhao, R.L Gao, J.L Chen, Fuwai Heart Hospital, Beijing, China

 
 14 ASO TITER AND EFFICACY OF STREPTOKINASE IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
M.A Ostovan
, M.R Kalantar, S.H. Hooshmand, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
 
 15

MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT WITH LOW RISK CHEST PAIN AT THE TIME OF ADMISSION
A.R Ziaei Torbati
, M Ziaei Torbati, R Parvizi, University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

 
 

 

 
 

P403   Poster Session:
SECONDARY PREVENTION, PROGNOSIS, RISK STRATIFICATION, CARDIAC REHAB

 
 17

FAMILIAL PREMATURE CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE MORTALITY AND OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA
A.S. Gami, S Rader, A Svatikova, R Wolk, M Winnicki, VK Somers, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA

 
 18

OUTCOMES IN HEART FAILURE PATIENTS WITH PRESERVED LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC FUNCTION. ONE-YEAR FOLLOW-UP RESULTS
S Stawicki, M Roik, MH Starczewska, A Solarska, D Kosior, O Warszawik, G Opolski, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
 

 
 19

RESISTANCE TO ROUTINE ANTIPLATELET MEDICATION AND THE EFFICACY OF LONG-TERM ASPIRIN AND THIENOPYRIDINE THERAPIES
T Alexy
, Z Marton, B Horvath, K Koltai, G Feher, G Stef, L Szapary, G Kesmarky, L Czopf, K Toth, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
 

 
 20

THE EFFECT OF RALOXIFENE ON NEW MARKERS OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK
E Sbarouni
, E Psarros, I Fostinis, D Kremastinos, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece
 

 
 21

IMPLEMENTING SELF-CARE IN THE CARDIAC REHABILITATION PROGRAM
H.J. Kennedy-Symonds
, Burnaby Hospital, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
 

 
 22

MILD OR MODERATE CREATINE KINASE MB ELEVATION AFTER CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ADVERSE SHORT TERM CLINICAL OUTCOME
Y.Y. Abdelmonem
, M. A. Abdelhameed, H. I. Kandil, Sh. F. Eltobgi, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
 

 
 23

ANEMIA IN PATIENTS WITH DIASTOLIC AND SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE – CLINICAL PICTURE, PREVALENCE AND PROGNOSIS
M. Roik,
S. Stawicki, M.H. Starczewska, A. Solarska, O. Warszawik, D. Kosior, G. Opolski, 1st. Department of Cardiology, Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
 

 
 24

THE EFFECTS OF HEMODIALYSIS ON AUTONOMIC FUNCTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE
M Melek, S Yuksel, A Celik,
E Onrat, I Dogan, A Avsar, G Acarturk, I Uslan, Afyon Kocatepe University, School of Medicine, Afyon, Turkey
 

 
 25

CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT ATHEROSCLEROSIS OF CAROTID ARTERIES AND CORONARY ARTERY CHANGES
M. Krotin
, O. Stojanovic, B. Milovanovic, N. Ninkovic, B. Zivanovic, S. Hinic, S. Djordjevic, D. Vukovic, D. Celektic, M. Ostojic, University Hospital Bezanijska Kosa, Belgrade, Serbia
 

 
 26

THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION AND CONNEXIN CHARACTERIZATION MARITAL RELATION AMONG MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED IN CCUS
M. Moeini,
T. Mehrabi, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran
 

 
 27

NEW DIAGNOSTIC GUIDELINE OF RESTENOSIS AFTER CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY IN OLD PEOPLE
TC Chang
, GP Jong, T Ma, Armed- Force Taichung General Hospital, Taiping, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
 

 

MONDAY, JULY 18, 2005

Board No.

 

POSTER HALL

 

P404   Poster Session:
DIABETES MELLITUS, OBESITY, INSULIN AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS

 
 28

THE IMPACT OF METABOLIC SYNDROME ON LATE OUTCOME AFTER PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION 
E.E. Guerios, R.R.L. Bueno, J.C.E. Tarastchuk, D.C. Nercolini, P.M.P. Andrade, A.L.A. Pacheco, F.T. Ultramari
Interventional Cardiology Dept, Hospital Universitario Evangelico, Curitiba, Brazil

 
 29

THE O-SIGN IN THE OBESE-NORMAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAM
W. Li
, D. Bloomfield, St. Vincent Catholic Medical Center, Staten Island, NY, USA
 

 
 30 LONG-TERM AEROBIC EXERCISE IMPROVES INSULIN SENSITIVITY IN THE HEART: KEY ROLE OF NOS
Q.J. Zhang
, Q.X. Li, K.R. Zhang, H. Su, W.Y. Guo, H.C. Wang, F. Gao, Fourth Military Medical University, China
 
 31

ACCUMULATION OF CHYLOMICRON REMNANTS (CR) IN DIABETIC PATIENTS IN RELATION TO CORONARY HEART DISEASE (CHD) -- ANALYSIS BY A NOVEL ELISA FOR APO B-48
S Yamashita
, T Sugimoto, K Tsujii, M Koseki, I Shimomura, Y Uchida, N Sakai, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan
 

 
 32

EFFECT OF L-CARNITINE ON LIPID METABOLISM AND CARDIAC PERFORMANCE IN EXPERIMENTAL TYPE 2 DIABETES
J L Patel
, P A Bhatt, R K Goyal, S. K. Patel College of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Ganpat Vidyanagar, Mehsana, Gujarat, India
 

 
 33

IMPACT OF BODY MASS INDEX ON OUTCOMES OF OBESE PATIENTS UNDERGOING PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION 
E.E. Guerios
, R.R.L. Bueno, J.C.E. Tarastchuk, D.C. Nercolini, P.M.P. Andrade, A.L.A. Pacheco, F.T. Ultramari, Hospital Universitario Evangelico, Curitiba, Brazil
 

 
 34

STRESS TEST IMAGING IN PATIENTS WITH METABOLIC SYNDROME AND DIABETES MELLITUS 
R. Mastouri
, M. Meda, F. Azzouz, M. Kamalesh, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
 

 
 35

EVALUATING THE CONTROL OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS (CRF) IN TYPE 2 DIABETIC PATIENTS SUBMITTED TO CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY (CA)
M A Cosso, M.C. Moreira, M Marino, C C Cesar, L C Brant, M Paiva, L M Diniz,
School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

 
 36

EVALUATION OF METABOLIC DISORDERS AND INFLAMMATION MARKERS IN PATIENTS WITH VISCERAL TYPE OF OBESITY
N. Kipshidze
, T. Gamezardashvili, T. Talakvadze, G. Nikolaishvili, National Center of Therapy, Tbilisi, Georgia

 
 37

THE DETECTION OF LOW-GRADE AND SMOLDERING INTERNAL INFLAMMATION IN OBESE INDIVIDUALS
I. Shapira
, O. Rogowski, D. Samocha-Bonet, Y. Goldin, T. Tolshinsky, T. Mardi, D. Zeltser, S. Berliner, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

 
 38

ACCURACY OF VASCULAR DUPLEX IN PREDICTING CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE. THE IMPACT OF DIABETES MELLITUS
A.M. AbdelWahab
, E. Baligh, M. Mokhtar, A. M. Zaki, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

 
 

 

 
 

P405   Poster Session:
DILATED CARDIOMYPATHY: VARIOUS ETIOLOGIES

 
 40

MYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS AND LEFT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION ARE ASSOCIATED WITH AN IMBALANCE IN THE MATRIX-DEGRADATING-SYSTEM IN CVB-3 INDUCED CHRONIC MYOCARDITIS
S Rutschow, M Pauschinger, Charite - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

 
 41

RAPID UPTITRATION OF CARVEDILOL IS SAFE IN PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED WITH SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE
I Castillo, M Martinez-Selles, T Datino,
N Barrueco, A Pascual, M Dominguez, Hospital Gregorio Maranon. Madrid, Spain

 
 42

MANAGING LIFE THREATENING VIRAL MYOCARDITIS WITH DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY BY DROTRECOGIN ALFA AND CIRCULATORY ASSISTED DEVICES
T.P Tsai
, SM Tsao, YL Wu, JM Yu, KC Chan, KC Ueng, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

 
 43

STRUCTURAL MYOCARDIAL CHANGES AND ELEVATION OF BLOOD PRESSURE IN PULMONARY CIRCULATION IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC VIRAL HEPATITIS C
E.V. Shlyakhto, A.Y. Gudkova, E.N. Semernin, O.V. Voronova, S.N. Proshin, A.N. Krutikov, E.A. Poretskova, A.D. Lioznov, T.V. Antonova, T.V. Belyava
Pavlov State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation 

 
 

 

 
 

P406   Poster Session:
PULMONARY CIRCULATION ASPECTS, PULMONARY HYPERTENSION

 
 44

STUDY OF SILDENAFIL IN IMPROVING SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
B.K.S Sastry, NK Reddy, C Narasimhan, BS Raju, GS Prakash, NV Rayudu, B Anand, CARE Hospital, Hyderabad, AP, India

 
 45

COAGULATION AND RHEOLOGICAL PROFILE IN PATIENTS WITH CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS AND PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
M.G. Plyusch, N.N. Samsonova, L.G. Klimovitch, S.V. Gorbachevsky, V.V. Shverdina, S.B. Zaets, UMDNJ – New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA

 
 46

HEART RATE TURBULENCE IN PATIENTS WITH SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME
E Onrat, M Unlu, A Karakas, A Celik, F Fidan, L Tetik, M Melek, D Kaya, Z Kara, C Kilit, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyon, Turkey

 
 47

ASYMPTOMATIC DISSECTION OF THE LEFT PULMONARY ARTERY IN A PATIENT WITH PRIMARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
F. Bosa Ojeda, M. Vargas Torres, A. Lara Padron, A. Bonilla, M. Cruz, A. Rodriguez Gonzalez, M. Bethencourt Munoz, S. Samimi, F. Marrero Rodriguez,
Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Spain

 

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P407   Poster Session:
EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY IN HEART FAILURE

 
 48

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN EXERCISE TESTING PERFORMANCE
Y. Charuzi, J. Mirocha, T.W. Lang, B. Coleman, S. Goland, Cedars Sinai Medical Center/UCLA

 
 49

EFFECTS OF EXERCISE TRAINING ON PLASMA ET-1.BNP AND TNF-ALPHA , AUTOMATIC BALANCE AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN ELDERLY HEART FAILURE SECONDARY TO CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
X.H Zeng
, X.J Zeng, Y.Y Li, Y.H Huang,
Chengdu University. Chengdu, China

 
 50

USING ELECTRICAL VAGAL STIMULATION TO INCREASE LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC FUNCTION IN PATIENTS HAVING CAD WITH DECREASED EJECTION FRACTION 
E. Pavlioukova
, A. Afanasjev Sergei, V. Efimova Elena, S. Karpov Rostislav, Institute of Cardiology, Tomsk, Russia

 
 51

DOES VENTRICULAR SYNCHRONY CHANGE DURING MAXIMAL AEROBIC EXERCISE IN HEALTHY MALE SUBJECTS?
J Silberbauer, P Mullan, G Carr-White, G Brickley, G W Lloyd, Eastbourne District General Hospital, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK

 
 

 

 
 

P408   Poster Session:
NEUROHUMORAL, IMMUNOLOGIC AND CYTOKINE ASPECTS OF HEART FAILURE

 
 52

EARLY STATINS THERAPY IN CORONARY BYPASS SURGERY: IMMUNOMODULATION OF INTERLEUKIN-6 (IL-6) AND C-RECTIVE PROTEIN (CRP)
C Caorsi, F Pineda, C Munoz,
INTA, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

 
 53

ADRENOMEDULLIN ADMINISTRATION IMMEDIATELY AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AMELIORATES PROGRESSION OF HEART FAILURE IN RATS
R Nakamura, J Kato, K Kitamura, H Onitsuka, T Imamura, Y Cao, K Marutsuka, Y Asada, K Kangawa, T Eto, Miyakonojo Resional Medical Center, Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan

 
 

 

 

 

 

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July 17, 2005
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July 18, 2005
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July 19, 2005
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