1. Early sign of atherosclerosis in slow coronary flow and relationship with angiotensin-converting enzyme I/D polymorphism

   • Halil Tanriverdi
   • Harun Evrengul
   • Asuman Kaftan

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 26 January 2007 Pages: 1 - 8

2. Sex-related characteristics in hospitalized patients with acute coronary syndromes – the Greek Study of Acute Coronary Syndromes (GREECS)

   • Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos
   • Christos Pitsavos
   • Christodoulos Stefanadis

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 26 January 2007 Pages: 9 - 15

3. Persistent symptomatic pleural effusion following coronary bypass surgery: clinical and histologic features, and treatment

   • Jean-Christophe Charniot
   • Khaled Zerhouni
   • Jean-Yves Artigou

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 26 January 2007 Pages: 16 - 20

4. Impact of volume status on the incidence of atrial fibrillation following aortic arch repair

   • Kaoru Matsuura
   • Hitoshi Ogino
   • Soichiro Kitamura

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 26 January 2007 Pages: 21 - 24

5. Significance of transient left ventricular wall thickening in acute lymphocytic myocarditis

   • Shinya Hiramitsu
   • Shin-ichiro Morimoto
   • Hitoshi Hishida

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 26 January 2007 Pages: 25 - 29

6. Elevated carbohydrate antigen 125 levels in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients with heart failure

   • Ercan Varol
   • Mehmet Ozaydin
   • Ozkan Dede

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 26 January 2007 Pages: 30 - 33

7. Developmental changes in the expression of voltage-gated potassium channels in the ductus arteriosus of the fetal rat

   • Cuijiao Wu
   • Emiko Hayama
   • Toshio Nakanishi

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 26 January 2007 Pages: 34 - 40

8. RNA interference targeting embryonic myosin heavy chain isoform inhibited mRNA expressions of phenotype markers in rabbit cultured vascular smooth muscle cells

   • Seiji Shimada
   • Masanori Sunagawa
   • Tadayoshi Kosugi

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 26 January 2007 Pages: 41 - 47

9. Successful high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin therapy for a patient with fulminant myocarditis

   • Shigeru Kato
   • Shin-ichiro Morimoto
   • Hitoshi Hishida

   CASE REPORT 26 January 2007 Pages: 48 - 51

10. Primary cardiac lymphoma presenting as atrial flutter and total heart block

    • Joško Bulum
    • Ljiljana Banfić
    • Dražen Jelašić

    CASE REPORT 26 January 2007 Pages: 52 - 54

11. Atrial tachycardia originating at the tricuspid annulus

    • Yuji Okuyama
    • Hiroya Mizuno
    • Kazuhisa Kodama

    CASE REPORT 26 January 2007 Pages: 55 - 58

12. A case of takotsubo cardiomyopathy associated with epileptic seizure: reversible left ventricular wall motion abnormality and ST-segment elevation

    • Satoru Sakuragi
    • Naoto Tokunaga
    • Tohru Ohe

    CASE REPORT 26 January 2007 Pages: 59 - 63

13. Warfarin-induced skin necrosis after open heart surgery due to protein S and C deficiency

    • Bilgehan Savas Oz
    • Fatih Asgun
    • Harun Tatar

    CASE REPORT 26 January 2007 Pages: 64 - 66