Abstract No.

P301    Poster Session
NOVEL DIAGNOSTIC METHODS AND IMAGING TECHNIQUES

COMPARISON OF LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION VALUES OBTAINED USING INVASIVE CONTRAST LEFT VENTRICULOGRAPHY, GSPECT AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
N. Garg, R. Singh, R. Garg, V. Gupta, T. Dresser, K. Aggarwal,
M. Alpert, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO, USA

INFLUENCE OF ESTROGEN AND PROGESTIN THERAPY ON PROGRESSION OF PERICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN
F. von Ziegler, M. Greif, J. Schenzle, H.C. Becker, A. Becker, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

IMPACT OF HYPERLIPIDEMIA ON SUBCLINICAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN ASYMPTOMATIC INDIVIDUALS
E.H. Park, G.M. Park, T.S. Kim, C.J. Kim, J.S. Cho, M.W. Park, S.H. Her, J.B. Kwon, Y.R. Cho, Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital, the Catholic University of Korea, Daejeon, Korea

ASSOCIATION OF GENDER AND BODY MASS INDEX WITH SUBCLAVIAN INNOMINATE ARTERY TORTUOSITY IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING RIGHT TRANS RADIAL CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION
P.L. Nalabothu, N. Nannapaneni, G. Sireesha, S.A. Gilani,
W. Khalife, A. Molham, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

THE USEFULNESS OF THE TDI TEI INDEX IN LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CHRONIC HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS. COMPARATIVE STUDY BEFORE AND AFTER DIALYSIS
I.E Lagos, G.D. Spyromitros, General Hospital Katerini, Katerini, Greece

P302    Poster Session
ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION / REPERFUSION THERAPY

IMPACT OF FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ARTERIAL AND/OR VENOUS THROMBOSIS ON ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID AND CLOPIDOGREL RESPONSE VARIABILITY IN PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME
E. Yalcinkaya, A. Iyisoy, T. Celik, S. Kozan, K. Kaptan, A. Oztuna, F.G. Oysul, S. Yasar, Aksaz Military Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Mugla, Turkey

PLASMA PHENYLALANINE / TYROSINE RATIO AS PREDICTOR OF QUERCETIN EFFECT ON LEFT VENTRICULAR REMODELING AFTER STEM
I O.B. Iaremenko, N.K. Iordanova, P.F. Dudka, T.M. Kuchmerovska, Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine

OUTCOMES OF BIVALIRUDIN VERSUS HEPARIN ALONE IN PERCUTEANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION
H.I. Chaudry, B.W. Andrus, D. Bhatt, J.T. DeVries, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA

TREATMENT DETERMINANTS OF NON CULPRIT VESSELS IN NOT COMPLICATED ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: SINGLE SESSION VS DEFERRED
J.M. Telayna, J.M.H. Telayna, R.A. Costantini, Hospital Universitario Austral, Pilar, Argentina

MAGNITUDE AND DECADE LONG TRENDS (2001-2011) IN PRE-HOSPITAL DELAY IN ELDERLY PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (AMI): INSIGHTS FROM THE WORCESTER HEART ATTACK STUDY
R. Makam, J. Gore, D. McManus, J. Yarzebski, R. Goldberg University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA

P303    Poster Session
DIABETES MELLITUS, OBESITY, THE METABOLIC SYNDROME AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS: BASIC AND CLINICAL

IMPACT OF DIABETES MELLITUS ON ACUTE HEART FAILURE
H.Y. Lee, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

OBESITY AND LIPID INDEXES IN PATIENTS SUFFERING A FIRST ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME
A.L. Arrebola-Moreno, J.P. Arrebola, D. Petrova, R. Garcia-Retamero, A. Catena, J.A. Ramirez-Hernandez, Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital, Granada, Spain

TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRICAL NERVE STIMULATION REDUCES METABOLIC DISTURBANCES INDUCED BY HIGH-FRUCTOSE DIET IN RATS
V.K. Spiridonov, Z.S. Tolochko, T.A. Korolenko, Institute of Physiology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia 

INDIVIDUAL FACTORS, LIFE EVENTS AND GENETIC VARIABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH OBESITY, MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA
A.V. Valencia, B.R. Escobar, C. Gardner, C.A. Agudelo,
L.M. Martínez, J.S. Lopera, S. Rojas, L. Jaramillo, M. Zapata,
I. Ortiz, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Sede Central Medellín, Colombia

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ADMISSION FREE TESTOSTERONE LEVEL AND INSULIN-RESISTANCE IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
T. Nunohiro, M. Kurobe, K. Minami, S. Furudono, Y. Uchida,
S. Takeshita, H. Nakashima, K. Maemura, Nagasaki Harbor Medical Center City Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

BEST PREDICTOR OF METABOLIC SYNDROME: COMPARISON OF VARIOUS ANTHROPOMETRIC AND ATHEROGENIC PARAMETERS IN THE KAZAKH POPULATION IN XINJIANG PROVINCE
C.H. He, Y. Chen, Y.T. Ma, Y.N. Yang, X. Ma, X.M. Li, Z.Y. Fu,
X. Xie, Z.X. Yu, F. Liu, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China 

P304    Poster Session
LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY / HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY / DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION

YAMAGUCHI SYNDROME: A POTENTIALLY UNDER-RECOGNIZED ENTITY?
T.T. Choksi, S. Sapkota, A. Salei, E. Mizrahi, Mercy Catholic Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA (an affiliate of Drexel University College of Medicine)

TRANSTHYRETIN AMYLOID CARDIOMYOPATHY TREATMENT WITH AN ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE INHIBITOR OF TTR (ISIS-TTR RX)
M.D. Benson, E.J. Ackermann, B. Monia, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

P305    Poster Session
CARDIOMYOPATHIES: PATHOGENESIS AND TREATMENT

GENETICS AND GENOTYPE-PHENOTYPE CORRELATIONS IN FINNISH PATIENTS WITH DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY
O. Akinrinade, L. Ollila, S. Vattulainen, J. Tallila, M. Gentile,
H. Koillinen, S. Myllykangas, T.P. Alastalo, J.W. Koskenvuo,
T. Helio, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland  

THE CARDIOPROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF GRANULOCYTE-COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR (GCSF) IN PATIENTS RECEIVING ANTHRACYCLINE CHEMOTHERAPY
S. Lahsaei, D. Le, S. Rahmani, H. Ren, D. Irwin, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA 

HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS IN A HIGH RISK HEART FAILURE POPULATION MANAGED WITH A TEAM BASED APPROACH IN A LARGE URBAN HEALTHCARE DELIVERY MODEL
I. Kedan, R. Khandwalla, K. Birkeland, Cedars Sinai Hospital, Beverly Hills, CA, USA

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC PROFILE AND IMMUNOLOGIC FUNCTION IN HIV-INFECTED PATIENTS
V.B. Salvador, C. Ezenwa, F. Radparvar, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai/Queens Hospital Center, Jamaica, NY, USA

PHARMACIST INVOLVEMENT TO IMPROVE CARE OF HEART FAILURE PATIENTS AS THEY TRANSITION FROM HOSPITAL TO HOME
M.I. Achi, Houston Methodist Houston, Houston, TX, USA

ANDROGENIC ANABOLIC STEROIDS INDUCED DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY PRESENTED WITH ISCHEMIC STROKE
M.S. Salih, E. Leung, Y. Huang, C.K. Reiss, St Luke's Hospital, Chesterfield, MO, USA

STRUCTURED EATING PLAN IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE
S.M. Kim, H. Silvet, Loma Linda VA Healthcare System, Loma Linda, CA, USA 

FACTORS IN TAKO-TSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY
S. Banga, A. Aggarwal, N. Wiegley, C. Shaw, T. Lynch, S. Mungee, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, IL, USA 

P306    Poster Session
NEW INSIGHTS INTO PATHOGENESIS AND MANAGEMENT OF HEART FAILURE

IMPACT OF THE BETA-1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR POLYMORPHISM ON TOLERABILITY AND EFFICACY OF BISOPROLOL THERAPY IN HEART FAILURE PATIENTS
H.Y. Lee, Seoul National University Hospital, South Korea 

A RARE CASE OF CARDIAC TAMPONADE INDUCED BY CHRONIC RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
T. Yousuf, J. Kramer, S. Sanyal, J. Ziffra, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

 POSTER HALL

P401    Poster Session
SYNCOPE AND SUDDEN DEATH: RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT

INCIDENCE AND ELECTROGRAM CHARACTERISTICS OF NON-SUSTAINED VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY ELECTRICAL DISORDERS (Invited Presentation)
K-J. Choi, W.S. Lee, J. Kim, C.H. Kwon, J.H. Choi, U. Jo, Y.R. Kim, G.B. Nam, Y.H. Kim, J.H. Zo, Asan Medical Center, Ulsan University, Seoul, Korea 

EARLY EMERGENCY CALLS BEFORE PATIENT COLLAPSE AND SURVIVAL FROM OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST
H. Inaba, Y. Takei, T. Nishi, T. Kamikura, H. Iwasaki, A. Funada, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan 

COMPONENT ANALYSIS FOR EFFECTIVENESS OF VENTILATIONS AND COMPRESSIONS IN BYSTANDER CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
H. Inaba, T. Kamikura, H. Iwasaki, Y. Takei, T. Maeda, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

EARLY HEMODYNAMIC CHANGES OF TILT TABLE TESTING PREDICTS NEUROCARDIOGENIC RESPONSE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULATION
D. Ho, M. Ghods, S. Kumar, N. Warrier, H. Ilias Basha, J. Kassotis, SUNY Downstate, New York, NY, USA 

QUANTITATIVE SUDOMOTOR AXON REFLEX TEST (QSART) STUDY IN POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME (POTS)
C. Ashangari, A. Suleman, The Heartbeat Clinic -Department of Cardiology, Mckinney, TX, USA 

WHAT’S COMMON IS COMMON!
P.A. Patel, B. Gersh, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

CURIOSYNCOPY
V.O. Obi, N. Isber, D.A. Bloomfield, Richmond University Medical Center Staten Island, New York USA 

P402   Poster Session
ARRHYTHMIAS: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT – BASIC AND CLINICAL

PRO-ARRHYTHMIC EFFECTS OF CALMODULIN KINASE II (CAMKII) IN TIMOTHY SYNDROME ARISING FROM A NEW CACNA1C MUTATION
J.Y Bai, K.Q. Wang, H.G. Zhang, Harbin Institute Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China  

GASTROINTESTINAL DISTURBANCES IN POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME (POTS)
C. Ashangari, A. Suleman, The Heartbeat Clinic -Department of Cardiology, Dallas, TX, USA

VITAMIN B12 DEFICIENCY IN POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME (POTS)
C. Ashangari, A. Suleman, The Heartbeat Clinic -Department of Cardiology, Mckinney, TX, USA

AN UNUSUAL TYPE OF SHORT V-V TACHYCARDIA
A. Almomani, A. Abualsuad, H. Paydak, W. Maskoun, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, AR, USA

EFFECTS OF ANESTHESIA ON INDUCIBILITY DURING PEDIATRIC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY STUDIES
M. Gupta, A. Lawerence, C. Snyder, Rainbow Babies and Children's, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

RELATIONSHIP OF BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) AND POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME (POTS)
C. Ashangari, A. Suleman, The Heartbeat Clinic - Department of Cardiology, Mckinney, TX, USA

RECURRENT VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA IN A METHADONE DEPENDENT PATIENT WITH NON-COMPACTION CARDIOMYOPATHY
Y.E. Alansari, R.C. Hendel, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

WIDE COMPLEX TACHYCARDIA IN A YOUNG PATIENT
A. Abualsuod, A.A. Almomani, H. Paydak, D. Abhishek,
W. Maskoun, University or Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

P403    Poster Session
PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY AND CARDIAC SURGERY / CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

A RARE CASE OF PLATYPNEA-ORTHODEOXIA IN A PATIENT WITH PFO
S. Vinnakota, D.F. Kupsky, S.H. Wan, W. Miranda, C.S. Rihal, KMC Manipal, Manipal University, India  

CHYLOUS TAMPONADE DUE TO CATHETER INDUCED SUPERIOR VENA CAVAL OBSTRUCTION IN A PREMATURE INFANT
P. Asrani, M. Sahni, A.M. Aly, S.K. Jain, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA 

HYPERALDOSTERONISM COMPLICATING CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE DUE TO A LEFT TO RIGHT SHUNT IN A PREMATURE INFANT
S. Dasgupta, A.M. Aly, S.K. Jain, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

P404    Poster Session
HEART VALVE DISEASE – CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

WATCHFUL OBSERVATION VERSUS EARLY AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT FOR SYMPTOMATIC LOW-GRADIENT SEVERE AORTIC STENOSIS
D-H Kang, J-Y Jang, S-J Park, S-M Lee, D-H Kim, K-J Choi, J-H Zo, J-W Lee, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea 

USE OF CONDUITS IN PATIENTS WITH PROHIBITIVE ILIO-FEMORAL ARTERY ANATOMY FOR TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT
V.A. Doraiswamy, M. Trinidad, K. Subramanian, M. Szerlip,
A. Abidov, K. Lotun, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE VELOCITY IMPROVEMENT POST TRANSCATHEER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT RESULTS IN BETTER OUTCOMES
T. Ando, D. Slovut, C. Taub, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, NY, USA

BALLOON MITRAL VALVULOPLASTY IN MIRROR IMAGE DEXTROCARDIA WITH RHEUMATIC MITRAL STENOSIS
P.K. Grant, C.N. Makhale, V.V. Nivargi, J.B. Bhalke, S.J. Subhedar, S.N. Deore, Ruby Hall Clinic -Grant Medical Foundation, Pune, India

SEVERE BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE (BAV) REGURGITATION IN A DYSFUNCTIONAL AND DILATED NON-COMPACTED LEFT VENTRICLE: A CASE REPORT
A.L. Schenone, A.H. Cohen, D. Majadalany, Cleveland Clinic Medicine Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA

HEPARIN VERSUS BIVALIRUDIN IN TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION
M. Greif, P. Lange, S. Sadoni, D. Jochheim, J. Mehilli, S. Massberg, C. Kupatt University of Munich Department of Cardiology, Munich, Germany

IMPACT OF LVH BY ECG VOLTAGE CRITERIA ON TRANS-CATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT OUTCOMES
A.G. Marthy, A. Delago, A. Elkharbotly, B. Bulibek, M. El-Hajjar,
M. Torosoff, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC FUNCTION AFTER CLOSED MITRAL VALVOTOMY
D. Kaushal, S.K. Singh, R. Kumar, V. Devenraj, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India  

ROLE OF UNUSUAL PREDICTORS OF PERIVALVULAR AORTIC REGURGITATION POST TRANS-CATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT
S. Banga, A. Aggarwal, K. Narala, M. Barzallo, S. Mungee, OSF St. Francis Medical Center, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, IL, USA 

OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING CONCOMITANT AORTIC AND MITRAL VALVE SURGERY IN THE PHILIPPINE HEART CENTER FROM YEAR 2000 - 2013
A.C.L. Jayme, Philippine Heart Center, QC, Philippines  

P405    Poster Session
ADVANCES IN CARDIAC SURGERY: SURGICAL REVASCULARIZATION, MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT / CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION / CARDIAC MYXOMA

AN UNUSUAL CAUSE OF HEMOPTYSIS DURING PREGNANCY
A. Singh, S. Kort, Suny-Stonybrook University Hospital, Stonybrook, New York, USA

POST ORTHOTOPIC HEART TRANSPLANTATION COMPLICATED BY DISSEMINATED BLASTOMYCES
T. Yousuf, H. Keshmiri, J. Kramer, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA 

LEFT ATRIAL MYXOMA PRESENTING AS PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
M.A. Zulqarnain, A. Ali, M. Ali, M.K. Syed, M.T. Mujtaba, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA 

PREGNANCY RELATED SPONTANEOUS CORONARY ARTERY DISSECTION: WHEN PCI WAS NOT ENOUGH
M.A. Zulqarnain, M.T. Mujtaba, M. Ali, M.K. Syed, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA