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BCS Abstracts 2011

• 1 Route of admission in stemi: do patients who present directly to a PCI-capable hospital differ from inter-hospital transfers? (9 June, 2011) Free

  D Austin, Z Adam, J Shome, M Awan, A G C Sutton, J A Hall, R A Wright, D F Muir, N M Swanson, J Carter, MA de Belder
• 2 A “direct” transfer protocol for patients with non ST-elevation myocardial infarction reduces time to coronary angiography (9 June, 2011) Free

  S M Gallagher, M J Lovell, D Jones, E Ferguson, S Antoniou, S Mohiddin, M Westwood, A Mathur, R A Archbold, C Knight, A K Jain
• 3 Survival following acute myocardial infarction in patients of South Asian and White European ethnicity in the UK (9 June, 2011) Free

  N N Gholap, R L Mehta, K Khunti, M J Davies, I B Squire
• 4 A rational approach to raised troponins on a hyperacute stroke unit: coping with the impact on cardiology services (9 June, 2011) Free

  S S Nijjer, G Banerjee, J Barker, S Banerjee, S Connolly, K F Fox
• 5 Implementation of a sensitive troponin I assay reduces death and recurrent myocardial infarction in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (9 June, 2011) Free

  K K Lee, N L Mills, A M D Churchhouse, A Anand, D Gamble, A Shah, E Paterson, M MacLeod, C Graham, S Walker, M A Denvir, K A A Fox, D E Newby
• 6 Cardiac morbidity and mortality can be accurately predicted in patients presenting with ACS using multiple biomarkers measured on an admission blood sample (9 June, 2011) Free

  I R Pearson, K Viswanathan, N Kilcullen, A S Hall, C P Gale, U M Sivananthan, J H Barth, C Morrell
• 7 In acute coronary syndromes, heart-type fatty acid binding protein is a more accurate predictor of long term prognosis than troponin (9 June, 2011) Free

  I R Pearson, A S Hall, C P Gale, U M Sivananthan, K Viswanathan, N Kilcullen, C Morrell, J H Barth
• 8 Does the addition of a radial artery graft improve survival after higher risk coronary surgery? A Propensity-Score analysis (9 June, 2011) Free

  C H Yap, P A Hayward, W Y Shi, D T Dinh, C M Reid, G C Shardey, J A Smith
• 9 Early hospital discharge at 48 h following primary PCI for myocardial infarction is both safe and feasible (9 June, 2011) Free

  O Guttmann, D A Jones, K S Rathod, M Akhtar, A Ludman, A K Jain, C Knight, A Mathur, S Mohiddin, A Wragg, E J Smith
• 10 Evaluating a nurse led triage process in treating patients with left bundle branch block (LBBB) referred for primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI) (9 June, 2011) Free

  N V Joshi, B R Bawamia, S Jamieson, A Zaman, R Edwards
• 11 Copeptin improves early risk stratification by Grace Score in non ST-elevation myocardial infarction; NT-proBNP does not (9 June, 2011) Free

  O S Dhillon, H K Narayan, P A Quinn, J Struck, I B Squire, J E Davies, L L Ng
• 12 The relationship between psychological factors and impaired health-related quality of life post ST-elevation myocardial infarction (9 June, 2011) Free

  L McGowan, H Iles-Smith, C Dickens, M Campbell, C Rogers, F Fath-Ordoubadi
• 13 Neutrophil activation at the culprit lesion in acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction with multiple complex coronary plaques (9 June, 2011) Free

  C J Marshall, J L Mckenzie, T Moccata, M Nallaratnam, J Blake, C Frampton, M Richards, A J Kettle, D R Mcclean
• 14 Dynamic changes of oedema and late gadolinium enhancement after acute myocardial infarction and their relationship to functional recovery and salvage index (9 June, 2011) Free

  E Dall'Armellina, N Karia, A Lindsay, T D Karamitsos, V Ferreira, M D Robson, P Kellman, J M Francis, C Forfar, B Prendergast, A P Banning, K Channon, R J Kharbanda, S Neubauer, R P Choudhury
• 15 Investigation of IL-1 inhibition in patients presenting with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction acute coronary syndromes (the MRC ILA Heart Study) (9 June, 2011) Free

  A C Morton, C Foley, A Rothman, J Gunn, J P Greenwood, A Hall, K Fox, B Lees, M Flather, D Crossman
• 16 Acute stent thrombosis resulting in ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is associated with worse clinical outcomes than STEMI due to native coronary thrombosis (9 June, 2011) Free

  E C Sammut, A Graham, D A Jones, K Rathod, S May, A Jain, S Mohiddin, C Knight, A Mathur, A Wragg
• 17 Sudden cardiac death and acute myocardial infarction: how has the picture changed? (9 June, 2011) Free

  G Mole, D Watson, C Davidson
• 18 Patients presenting with anaemia undergoing primary PCI appear at significantly higher risk of an adverse outcome (9 June, 2011) Free

  K R Rathod, D A Jones, B Rathod, A Graham, E Sammut, S Gallagher, J Behar, A K Jain, C Knight, A Mathur, A Wragg, R Amersey
• 19 Treatment of multivessel coronary artery disease in primary PCI for ST elevation myocardial infarction: culprit only revascularisation is associated with higher mace rates (9 June, 2011) Free

  K S Rathod, L A McGill, E Sammut, V S Rathod, D A Jones, R Weerackody, A Jain, C Knight, A Mathur, A Wragg
• 20 What happens to platelet function and vascular inflammation when clopidogrel is withdrawn? Insights using short thrombelastography (9 June, 2011) Free

  N Sambu, H Dent, T Warner, N Englyst, P Leadbeater, A Hobson, A Calver, S Corbett, H Gray, I Simpson, N Curzen
• 21 Influence of fractional flow reserve measurement on treatment-decisions in patients with recent acute non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (9 June, 2011) Free

  D Carrick, M Behan, F Foo, J Christie, J Norrie, K Oldroyd, C Berry
• 22 Comparison of 4-h heart fatty acid binding protein with 12-h troponin I to assess 6-month risk following percutaneous coronary intervention in acute coronary syndromes (9 June, 2011) Free

  I R Pearson, U M Sivananthan, J H Barth, C P Gale, A S Hall
• 23 Serum ngal identifies contrast nephropathy early in patients with diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease undergoing coronary angiography and angioplasty (9 June, 2011) Free

  A C Qureshi, R Rampat, S M Harwood, M Roughton, M M Yaqoob, A Kapur
• 24 Percutaneous mitral valve repair with the mitraclip device: a tertiary cardiac UK experience (9 June, 2011) Free

  J Dungu, C S R Baker, M F Bellamy
• 25 TAVI operator radiation dose compared to PCI and ICD operators: do we need additional radiation protection for trans-catheter structural heart interventions (9 June, 2011) Free

  M Drury-Smith, A Maher, C Douglas-Hill, R Singh, M Bhabra, J Cotton, S Khogali
• 26 The effects of pre-existing significant coronary artery disease upon outcome after transcatheter aortic valve implantation using the Edwards bioprosthesis (9 June, 2011) Free

  M Z Khawaja, H Haran, I Nadra, K Wilson, L Clack, K Macgillivray, J Hancock, C Young, V Bapat, M Thomas, S Redwood
• 27 Platelet monocyte aggregates are determinants of microvascular dysfunction during percutaneous coronary intervention for stable angina and non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (9 June, 2011) Free

  C A Mavroudis, B Majumder, M Lowdell, R D Rakhit
• 28 Low frame rate screening during percutaneous coronary angioplasty significantly reduces radiation exposure, gives good image quality without affecting patient outcome (9 June, 2011) Free

  S J Wilson, P Venables, O Gosling, V Suresh
• 29 Bivalirudin in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction: outcomes in a large real-world UK population (9 June, 2011) Free

  C Eftychiou, R J Shelton, A Liu, K Somers, P Tooze, L Makri, D Barmby, J M McLenachan, J M Blaxill, S B Wheatcroft, J P Greenwood, D J Blackman
• 30 Comparison of bivalirudin vs abciximab vs “unfractionated heparin only” for primary percutaneous coronary intervention in a high-volume centre (9 June, 2011) Free

  R Showkathali, J Davies, N Malik, W Taggu, J Sayer, R Aggarwal, P Kelly
• 31 Assessment of left ventricular function with cardiac MRI after percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusion (9 June, 2011) Free

  G A Paul, K Connelly, A J Dick, B H Strauss, G A Wright
• 32 Does complete revascularisation confers a long term survival benefit in patients with chronically occluded coronary vessels? (9 June, 2011) Free

  N H Shah, M F Khan, T Ungvari, P H Loh, L Buchanan, A Hoye, R M Oliver, S Thackray, J L Caplin, M F Alamgir
• 33 Completeness of revascularisation predicts mortality following percutaneous coronary intervention: utility of the BCIS-1 Jeopardy Score (9 June, 2011) Free

  K De Silva, G Morton, P Sicard, E Chong, A Indermeuhle, B Clapp, M Thomas, S Redwood, D Perera
• 34 Comparison of PCI vs CABG in insulin treated and non-insulin treated diabetic patients in the cardia trial (9 June, 2011) Free

  A Baumbach, S Kesavan, K Beatt, E Cruddas, M Flather, G Angelini, R Hall, A Kapur
• 35 Successful recanalisation of chronic total occlusions is associated with increased long term survival (9 June, 2011) Free

  J M Behar, D A Jones, R Weerackody, K Rathod, C J Knight, A K Kapur, A Jain, A Wragg, C A Thompson, A Mathur, E J Smith
• 36 In-stent restenosis presents as an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in 40% of cases: not simply a benign clinical entity (9 June, 2011) Free

  H Abu-Own, E Sammut, K Rathod, L A McGill, D A Jones, A Jain, C Knight, A Mathur, A Wragg
• 37 Decrease in mace rates associated with drug eluting stent use in patients with diabetes undergoing PCI in large diameter coronary arteries (9 June, 2011) Free

  A Dixit, S Nair, P Williams, A Wiper, B Clarke, C Deaton, M El-Omar, D Fraser, R Khattar, V Mahadevan, L Neyses, F Ordoubadi, M Mamas
• 38 False activation for primary percutaneous coronary intervention is not a benign phenomenon (9 June, 2011) Free

  U Chaudhry, C Mavroudis, R D Rakhit
• 39 A randomised controlled trial comparing conventional coronary artery bypass graft surgery with a composite arterial graft technique (9 June, 2011) Free

  A Alahmar, R A Perry, R H Stables
• 40 Patient vs physician reported angina before and after revascularisation of coronary artery disease: evidence from a large randomised controlled trial (the sos trial) (9 June, 2011) Free

  C Appleby, I Kemp, R H Stables
• 41 Reduced arterial wave reflection and enhanced LV relaxation contribute to warm-up angina (9 June, 2011) Free

  T P E Lockie, A Guilcher, C Rolandi, D Perera, K De Silva, R Williams, M Siebes, P Chowienczyk, S Redwood, M Marber
• 42 Retrospective calculation of syntax score in 200 patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI); are we following best practice? (9 June, 2011) Free

  L J Mullen, R Edwards, R Taylor, B Nyawo
• 43 Prognosis after primary percutaneous coronary intervention for stemi: can the syntax score help? (9 June, 2011) Free

  A J Brown, L M McCormick, N E J West
• 44 Primary percutaneous intervention: have we taken our eye off the medicine ball? (9 June, 2011) Free

  J D Jones, E Damm, M Nijjar, S Pettit, N M Hawkins, R Perry
• 45 Should primary percutaneous coronary intervention be the routine reperfusion strategy in octogenarians and non-agenarians presenting with ST elevation myocardial infarction? (9 June, 2011) Free

  R Showkathali, E Boston-Griffiths, J Davies, G Clesham, J Sayer, P Kelly, R Aggarwal
• 46 Prognostic value of baseline renal function on long term outcome in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (9 June, 2011) Free

  O P Guttmann, K Rathod, B Rathod, E Wicks, S Gallagher, D A Jones, A Jain, C Knight, A Mathur, A Kapur, A Wragg
• 47 Cardiovascular evaluation of English premiership rugby players (9 June, 2011) Free

  S Ghani, H Raju, A Zaidi, N Sheikh, S Gati, J Somauroo, S Kemp, S Sharma
• 48 Darbepoetin enhances endothelial-dependent vasomotor function in patients with stable coronary artery disease only after preceding ischaemia-reperfusion (9 June, 2011) Free

  L M Tilling, J Hunt, A Donald, B Clapp, P Chowienczyk
• 49 Ethnic variation in QT interval among highly trained athletes (9 June, 2011) Free

  H Raju, M Papadakis, V Panoulas, J Rawlins, S Basavarajaiah, N Chandra, E R Behr, S Sharma
• 50 Diagnostic role of exercise tolerance testing in familial premature sudden cardiac death (9 June, 2011) Free

  H Raju, M Papadakis, R Bastiaenen, A Zaidi, N Chandra, M Muggenthaler, N Spath, S Sharma, E R Behr
• 51 Low-dose sodium nitrite relieves myocardial ischaemia in patients with coronary artery disease: a targeted no-donor effect (9 June, 2011) Free

  T E Ingram, R A Bleasdale, C Templeton, C Williams, A Margulescu, A G Fraser, P E James
• 52 Brain natriuretic peptide predicts all cause mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes and normal ejection fractions (9 June, 2011) Free

  B R Szwejkowski, D H J Elder, A Dawson, A D Struthers
• 53 B-type natriuretic peptide performs better than current cardiovascular risk scores in identifying silent “pancardiac” target organ damage in already treated primary prevention patients (9 June, 2011) Free

  A Nadir, S Rekhraj, J Davidson, T M MacDonald, C C Lang, A D Struthers
• 54 Can microalbuminuria identify silent “pancardiac” target organ damage in a non-diabetic primary prevention population? (9 June, 2011) Free

  A Nadir, S Rekhraj, J Davidson, T M MacDonald, C C Lang, A D Struthers
• 55 Gene-gene interactions in coronary artery disease (9 June, 2011) Free

  M D Musameh, W Y S Wang, A J Balmforth, S G Ball, A S Hall, M Tomaszewski, N J Samani
• 56 Clinical and financial repercussions of the march 2010 national institute for health and clinical excellence (NICE) guideline “chest pain of recent onset” on the rapid access chest pain clinic (RACPC) (9 June, 2011) Free

  T Rogers, S Claridge, K Al Fakih
• 57 The impact of preoperative renal dysfunction and therapy type in patients with type 2 diabetes undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery (9 June, 2011) Free

  A Menon, J Hodson, D Pagano, J Mascaro, I C Wilson, S J Rooney, T R Graham, R S Bonser
• 58 Temporal evaluation of referral for and long-term survival from cardiac rehabilitation for acute myocardial infarction (9 June, 2011) Free

  C L Lewinter, M B Bland, P D Doherty, B L Lewin, A S H Hall, C P G Gale
• 59 Short term elevation of cholesterol level in neonatal life and long term changes in aortic stiffness: insights from use of intravenous lipids (9 June, 2011) Free

  A J Lewandowski, M Lazdam, E Davis, R Poole, J Diesch, J Francis, S Neubauer, A Lucas, A Singhal, B Kelly, P Leeson
• 60 Ethnic differences in repolarisation patterns and left ventricular remodelling in highly trained male adolescent (14–18 years) athletes (9 June, 2011) Free

  N Sheikh, M Papadakis, F Carre, G Kervio, J Rawlins, V Panoulas, N Chandra, H Raju, R Bastiaenen, E Behr, S Sharma
• 61 Five-min heart rate variability can predict obstructive angiographic coronary disease (9 June, 2011) Free

  D Kotecha, G New, M Flather, D Eccleston, H Krum
• 62 Will the New European AF guidelines lead to more patients receiving oral anticoagulation therapy? (9 June, 2011) Free

  T Kaier, R Williams, S Khan
• 63 Implications of a likelihood based approach to diagnostic testing in coronary artery disease: impact of the new nice guidelines (9 June, 2011) Free

  I U Haq, J S Skinner, P C Adams
• 64 Diagnostic accuracy of exercise stress testing in individuals without known coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis (9 June, 2011) Free

  A Banerjee, D Newman, A Van den Bruel, C Heneghan
• 65 Outcomes after cardiac surgery: are women of South Asian origin at increased risk? (9 June, 2011) Free

  D A George, D Morrice, A M Nevill, M Bhabra
• 66 Ethnic differences in carotid intimal medial thickness and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity are present in UK children (9 June, 2011) Free

  P H Whincup, C M Nightingale, A Rapala, D Joysurry, M Prescott, A E Donald, E Ellins, A Donin, S Masi, C G Owen, A R Rudnicka, D G Cook, J E Deanfield
• 67 Spontaneous cardiac hypertrophy and adverse LV remodelling in a novel human relevant mouse model of diabetes; a mechanistic insight (9 June, 2011) Free

  S M Gibbons, Z Hegab, M Zi, S Prehar, T M A Mohammed, R D Cox, E J Cartwright, L Neyses, M A Mamas
• 68 Rare alleles in genetic predisposition to coronary artery disease: insights from the novel analysis of gene-centric array (9 June, 2011) Free

  P Christofidou, R Debiec, C P Nelson, P S Braund, L D S Bloomer, S G Ball, A J Balmforth, A S Hall, M Tomaszewski, N J Samani
• 69 Genome wide methylation analysis in coronary artery disease (9 June, 2011) Free

  K J Dick, C P Nelson, P S Braund, A H Goodall, N J Samani
• 70 Gene expression at the 9p21 locus and cad risk (9 June, 2011) Free

  C P Nelson, P Lundmark, V Codd, A H Goodall, A C Syvänen, N J Samani
• 71 A genome-wide association study in Indian Asians identifies four susceptibility loci for type-2 diabetes (9 June, 2011) Free

  J Sehmi, D Salaheen, Y Yeo, W Zhang, D Das, M I McCarthy, E S Tai, J Danesh, J Kooner, J Chambers
• 72 Angiogenesis in response to upregulated hypoxic signalling is dependent on haemodynamic flow (9 June, 2011) Free

  O J Watson, F J van Eeden, C Gray, T J A Chico
• 73 Heritability of coronary flow reserve (9 June, 2011) Free

  R Ahmed, P Muckett, S Cook
• 74 Mechanistic Study for the role of advanced glycation end products in the development of diabetic heart failure (9 June, 2011) Free

  Z Hegab, T M A Mohammed, L Neyses, M Mamas
• 75 Optimisation of medical therapy after cardiac resynchronisation: a nursing opportunity not to be missed (9 June, 2011) Free

  S J Russell, J Bell, L Edmunds, J Davies, H Rose, Z R Yousef
• 76 Expanding the role of cardiac care unit nurses to reduce time to treatment for patients requiring primary angioplasty (9 June, 2011) Free

  S Young, G Pretsell, A Gibbins, G Dixon, A de Belder
• 77 Screening first degree relatives for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: 12-month experience of a cardio-genetics nurse service (9 June, 2011) Free

  S Finch, S Russell, D Kumar, Z R Yousef
• 78 First year experience of a dedicated “radial lounge” for patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary procedures (9 June, 2011) Free

  S Brewster, R Weerackody, K Khimdas, A Little, N Cleary, A Penswick, M Rothman, A Archbold
• 79 Remaining clothed for radial diagnostic coronary angiography: an improvement in the patient journey (9 June, 2011) Free

  S Eve, M Sinha, T A Wells
• 80 PPCI: is there a role for the ACS ANP? (9 June, 2011) Free

  V Oriolo, J Tagney
• 81 Dyssynchronous three plane motion and impaired left ventricular twist in patients with heart failure and normal ejection fraction (9 June, 2011) Free

  Y T Tan, F W G Wenzelburger, F Leyva, J E Sanderson
• 82 Management of advanced heart failure in the UK: trends in heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support (9 June, 2011) Free

  A Emin, C A Rogers, H L Thomas, S Tsui, S Schueler, G MacGowan, A Simon, R S Bonser, J Parameshwar, N R Banner
• 83 Clinical and haemodynamic status beyond 3 months of mechanical support with the heartware ventricular assist device (9 June, 2011) Free

  B Gordon, A McDiarmid, N Robinson, N Wrightson, G Parry, S Schueler, G MacGowan
• 84 Treatment of refractory right heart failure after implantation of a left ventricular assist device. is the levitronix centrimag right heart support a solution? (9 June, 2011) Free

  B Zych, A F Popov, A Barsan, M Hedger, R Hards, N R Banner, A R Simon
• 85 Prediction of response to biventricular pacing from dyssynchrony indices: the absolute limit on predictability, and its clinical implications (9 June, 2011) Free

  S S Nijjer, P Pabari, B Stegemann, V Palmieri, N Freemantle, A Hughes, D P Francis
• 86 How often is important adjustment of pacing intervals required for optimal response following CRT? (9 June, 2011) Free

  V Nayar, F Z Khan, A Rawling, L Ayers, M S Virdee, D Begley, D P Dutka, P J Pugh
• 87 Optimisation of VV delay of CRT is more reproducible using peak velocities than using velocity time integral, as well as being quicker (9 June, 2011) Free

  P A Pabari, A Kyriacou, M Moraldo, C Manisty, A D Hughes, J Mayet, D P Francis
• 88 Evaluation of the impact of AV delay variation on the acute mechanoenergetic efficiency of cardiac resynchronisation therapy and assessment of performance of non-invasive vs invasive haemodynamic optimisation (9 June, 2011) Free

  A Kyriacou, P Pabari, K Willson, R Baruah, S Sayan, D W Davies, J Mayet, N S Peters, P Kanagaratnam, Z Whinnett, D P Francis
• 89 Electromechanical interaction in patients undergoing cardiac resynchronisation therapy: comparison of intracardiac activation maps and early septal contraction in left bundle branch block (9 June, 2011) Free

  S G Duckett, O Camara, M Ginks, J Bostock, P Chinchapatnam, M Sermesant, A Pashaei, J S Gill, G Carr-White, A F Frangi, R S Razavi, B H Bijnens, C A Rinaldi
• 90 Invasive acute haemodynamic response to guide LV lead implantation predicts chronic remodelling in patients undergoing cardiac resynchronisation therapy (9 June, 2011) Free

  S G Duckett, M Ginks, A Shetty, J Bostock, J S Gill, S G Hamid, S Kapetanakis, E Cunliffe, R S Razavi, G Carr-White, C A Rinaldi
• 91 Right ventricular dysfunction identifies clinical outcomes following cardiac resynchronisation therapy (9 June, 2011) Free

  K Guha, F Alpendurada, S Prasad, T McDonagh, M R Cowie, R Sharma
• 92 Identifying patients with chronic heart failure: a comparison of the gold standards framework with a clinical prognostic model (9 June, 2011) Free

  K K Haga, S A Murray, J Reid, A Ness, M O'Donnell, D Yellowlees, M A Denvir
• 93 Optimal medical therapy in heart failure: is there space for additional heart rate control? (9 June, 2011) Free

  S Russell, M Oliver, H Rose, J Davies, H Llewellyn-Griffiths, A Raybould, V Sim, Z R Yousef
• 94 A comparison of functional and echocardiographic outcomes in nice compliant and non-compliant patients undergoing CRT in the real world (9 June, 2011) Free

  S J Russell, I Rees, P O'Callaghan, Z R Yousef
• 95 Impaired cardiac energetics in dilated cardiomyopathy: magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 3T (9 June, 2011) Free

  R M Beadle, L K Williams, M Kuehl, S Bowater, K Abozguia, F Leyva Leon, M P Frenneaux
• 96 A test to confirm maximal oxygen uptake in chronic heart failure patients without the need for secondary criteria (9 June, 2011) Free

  T S Bowen, D T Cannon, G Begg, V Baliga, K K Witte, H B Rossiter
• 97 Increasing skeletal muscle oxygenation by prior moderate-intensity exercise increases aerobic energy provision in chronic heart failure (9 June, 2011) Free

  T S Bowen, D T Cannon, S R Murgatroyd, K K Witte, H B Rossiter
• 98 High prevalence of undiagnosed cardiac dysfunction in the oldest old: findings from the Newcastle 85+ Study (9 June, 2011) Free

  F Yousaf, J Collerton, A Kenny, T Kirkwood, C Jagger, A Kingston, B Keavney
• 99 Is Vo_2max/Kg a reliable indicator of cardiac dysfunction in overweight heart failure patients?

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  S Chinnappa, N Lewis, D Barker, L B Tan
• 100 Pressure vs flow as a guide for pacemaker optimisation? The acute haemodynamic effects of changes to atrioventricular delay (9 June, 2011) Free

  C H Manisty, B Unsworth, R Baruah, P Pabari, Z I Whinnett, J Mayet, D P Francis
• 101 What degree of pulmonary hypertension predicts poor outcome in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction? A 10-year follow-up study (9 June, 2011) Free

  B R Szwejkowski, D H J Elder, A M J Choy, S D Pringle, A D Struthers, C C Lang
• 102 Ethnic differences in endothelial function in chronic heart failure (9 June, 2011) Free

  E Shantsila, P S Gill, G Y H Lip
• 103 Senile systemic amyloidosis: a common cause of heart failure in the elderly? (9 June, 2011) Free

  J H Pinney, H J Lachmann, J D Gillmore, A Wechalekar, S D J Gibbs, P Sattianayagam, S M Banypersad, J Dungu, N Wassef, C A McCarthy, P N Hawkins, C J Whelan
• 104 Prognostic utility of calculated plasma volume status in chronic heart failure (9 June, 2011) Free

  H Z Ling, N Aung, J Flint, S Aggarwal, S Weissert, A Cheng, D P Francis, J Mayet, M Thomas, S Woldman, D O Okonko
• 105 Clinical and echocardiographic determinants of n-terminal pro b-type natriuretic peptide level in patients with stable chronic obstructive airways disease: a prospective observational study of 140 patients (9 June, 2011) Free

  C P Gale, J White, A Hunter, J Owen, J Watson, I R Pearson, I Holbrook, N Durham, M Pye
• 106 CHF patients are vitamin D deficient and hyperparathyroid, with levels of each related to markers of severity (9 June, 2011) Free

  G A Begg, L Kearney, A C Wheatcroft, R Byrom, S Barnes, J Gierula, J Barth, R Cubbon, M T Kearney, K K Witte
• 107 Expansion of the red cell distribution width and evolving iron deficiency as predictors of poor outcome in chronic heart failure (9 June, 2011) Free

  N Aung, H Z Ling, S Aggarwal, J Flint, S Weissert, A Cheng, T Richards, D P Francis, J Mayet, M Thomas, D O Okonko
• 108 4D-flow CMR demonstrates the regional distribution of aortic flow disturbance in Marfan syndrome (9 June, 2011) Free

  A Pitcher, T E Cassar, J Suttie, J M Francis, P Leeson, E Blair, B P Wordsworth, J C Forfar, M Markl, S N Neubauer, S E Petersen
• 109 3T MRI of acute atherosclerotic plaque rupture and downstream embolic injury (9 June, 2011) Free

  A C Lindsay, L Biasiolli, J M Lee, I Kylintireas, H Watt, W Kuker, A Handa, M D Robson, S Neubauer, J Kennedy, R P Choudhury
• 110 Myocardial systolic strain and subclinical atherosclerosis in young adult life (9 June, 2011) Free

  A J Lewandowski, M Lazdam, E Davis, R Poole, J Diesch, J Francis, D Augustine, R Banerjee, J Suttie, S Neubauer, P Leeson
• 111 Single centre prospective cardiac CT study to determine the prevalence of patients with coronary artery disease with a zero coronary artery calcium score and associated non-cardiac incidental findings (9 June, 2011) Free

  A J Shah, D R Obaid, D Gopalan, J Babar, J H F Rudd
• 112 Computed tomographic coronary angiography to screen for allograft vasculopathy after heart transplantation (9 June, 2011) Free

  M G Panicker, A G Mitchell, N R Banner, T K Mittal
• 113 Dual energy ct improves differentiation of coronary atherosclerotic plaque components compared to conventional single energy CT (9 June, 2011) Free

  D R Obaid, P A Calvert, J H F Rudd, D Gopalan, M R Bennett
• 114 Radiation doses trends from cardiac CT using a cardiac specific conversion factor: system understanding & an optimisation strategy significantly reduces the dose to the patients in a clinical service (9 June, 2011) Free

  O E Gosling, S Iyengar, R Loader, G Morgan-Hughes, W D Strain, C Roobottom
• 115 Atrial high rate episodes and atrial fibrillation burden: do they have similar association with cardiac remodelling? (9 June, 2011) Free

  C W Khoo, S Krishnamoorthy, G Dwivedi, B Balakrishnan, H S Lim, G Y H Lip
• 116 CRT optimisation: improving echocardiographic techniques by accommodating biological variability within different echocardiographic parameters (9 June, 2011) Free

  P A Pabari, A Kyriacou, M Moraldo, B Unsworth, N Sutaria, J Mayet, A D Hughes, D P Francis
• 117 Tricuspid valve annular dynamics in normal vs dilated right hearts; a 3D TOE Study (9 June, 2011) Free

  L Ring, B Rana, R A Rusk
• 118 High-resolution cardiac magnetic resonance perfusion imaging vs positron emission tomography for the detection and localisation of coronary artery disease (9 June, 2011) Free

  G D J Morton, M Ishida, A Chiribiri, A Schuster, S Baker, S Hussain, D Perera, M O'Doherty, S Barrington, E Nagel
• 119 Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) detects subclinical cardiomyopathy in asymptomatic patients with left bundle branch block (LBBB) and normal echocardiography (9 June, 2011) Free

  M Mahmod, T DJ JS GSJ M KaramitsosSuttieMyersonNeubauerFrancis, T DJ JS GSJ M KaramitsosSuttieMyersonNeubauerFrancis, T DJ JS GSJ M KaramitsosSuttieMyersonNeubauerFrancis, T DJ JS GSJ M KaramitsosSuttieMyersonNeubauerFrancis, T DJ JS GSJ M KaramitsosSuttieMyersonNeubauerFrancis
• 120 Comparison and reproducibility of standard and high temporal resolution myocardial tissue tagging in patients with severe aortic stenosis (9 June, 2011) Free

  C D Steadman, N A Razvi, K I E Snell, J P A Kuijer, A C van Rossum, G P McCann
• 121 Incidental extra-cardiac findings on clinical cmr; a comparison of 3 haste techniques (9 June, 2011) Free

  R B Irwin, T Newton, C Peebles, A Borg, D Clark, C Miller, N Abidin, M Greaves, M Schmitt
• 122 WITHDRAWN (9 June, 2011) Free
• 123 Cardiovascular risk in asymptomatic potential simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant recipients is determined by myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (9 June, 2011) Free

  V M S Stoll, N S Sabharwal, O O Ormerod
• 124 Validation of the BCIS-1 myocardial Jeopardy score using cardiac MRI (9 June, 2011) Free

  G D J Morton, K De Silva, M Ishida, A Chiribiri, A Indermuhle, A Schuster, S Redwood, E Nagel, D Perera
• 125 Assessing patient benefit from the revascularisation of chronically occluded coronary arteries by advanced cardiovascular MRI techniques (9 June, 2011) Free

  N J Artis, A Crean, A Zaman, S Sorbron, A N Mather, S G Ball, S Plein, J P Greenwood
• 126 The impact of nice guidelines for the investigation of chest pain on outpatient cardiology services in the UK (9 June, 2011) Free

  C Patterson, E Nicol, L Bryan, T Woodcock, S Padley, D Bell
• 127 Timing of cardiovascular MRI after acute myocardial infarction: effect on estimates of infarct characteristics and prediction of late ventricular remodelling (9 June, 2011) Free

  A N Mather, T A Fairbairn, N J Artis, J P Greenwood, S Plein
• 128 Bright blood t2 weighted MRI has higher diagnostic precision and accuracy than dark blood stir MRI for assessment of the ischaemic area-at-risk and myocardial salvage in acute myocardial infarction (9 June, 2011) Free

  A R Payne, M Casey, J McClure, R McGeoch, A Murphy, R Woodward, A Saul, J Gilchrist, C Clark, K G Oldroyd, N Tzemos, C Berry
• 129 Myocardial salvage during primary PCI can be predicted in the Cath lab (9 June, 2011) Free

  A R Payne, C Berry, O Doolin, M B McEntegart, R Woodward, A Saul, S D Robb, M C Petrie, I Ford, K G Oldroyd
• 130 Comparison of harmonic phase imaging with local sine wave modelling for the assessment of circumferential myocardial strain using tagged cardiovascular magnetic resonance images (9 June, 2011) Free

  A N Borg, C A Miller, C D Steadman, G P McCann, M Schmitt
• 131 Aetiological role of folate deficiency in congenital heart disease: evidence from Mendelian randomisation and meta-analysis (9 June, 2011) Free

  V Mamasoula, T Pierscionek, D Hall, J Palomino-Doza, A Topf, T Rahman, J Goodship, B Keavney
• 132 Non-synonymous SMAD6 mutations impaired inhibition of bmp signalling in patients with congenital cardiovascular malformation (9 June, 2011) Free

  H L Tan, E A Glen, A L Topf, D H Hall, J J O'Sullivan, L Sneddon, C Wren, P Avery, R J Lewis, P ten Dijke, H M Arthur, J A Goodship, B D Keavney
• 133 Activity and psychosocial health in adolescents with congenital heart disease (CHD) (9 June, 2011) Free

  M L Morrison, A J Sands, C G McCusker, P P McKeown, M McMahon, J Gordon, B G Craig, F A Casey
• 134 Mutations in the sarcomere protein gene MYH7 in Ebstein's anomaly (9 June, 2011) Free

  T Rahman, J Goodship, A Postma, K Engelen, B Mulder, S Klaassen, B Keavney
• 135 Gene screening of the secondary heart field network in tetralogy of fallot patients (9 June, 2011) Free

  A Töpf, H R Griffin, D H Hall, E Glen, B D Keavney, J A Goodship, The Change Study Collaborators
• 136 Should familial screening be routinely offered to patients with bicuspid aortic valve disease? (9 June, 2011) Free

  R Panayotova, S Hosmane, A Macnab, P Waterworth
• 137 A cited2->Vegfa pathway couples myocardial and coronary vascular growth in the developing mouse heart

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  S D Bamforth, S T MacDonald, J Braganca, C-M Chen, C Broadbent, J E Schneider, R Schwartz, S Bhattacharya
• 138 Cell-specific role of NOX2 NADPH oxidase in development of angiotensin ii-induced cardiac fibrosis in vivo (9 June, 2011) Free

  S Chaubey, C E Murdoch, A Ivetic, B Yu, D Vanhoutte, S Heymans, A Brewer, A M Shah
• 139 Endothelial specific insulin resistance promotes the development of atherosclerosis (9 June, 2011) Free

  M C Gage, N Yuldasheva, C Jackson, M Kearney, H Imrie, H Viswambharan, M Kahn, J Smith, S Galloway, R Cubbon, P Sukumar, A Aziz, S Wheatcroft
• 140 In vivo depletion of endoglin results in significant left ventricular remodelling (9 June, 2011) Free

  B J Davison, R Redgrave, B Keavney, A Blamire, H Arthur
• 141 Tissue factor pathway inhibitor regulates vascular development in zebrafish (9 June, 2011) Free

  E W Holroyd, C K Pierret, V M Bedell, J Townend, S C Ekker, R D Simari
• 142 Atrial sources of reactive oxygen species vary with the substrate and duration of atrial fibrillation: implications for the antiarrhythmic effect of statins (9 June, 2011) Free

  S Reilly, R Jayaram, C Anroniades, S Verheule, K M Channon, N J Alp, U Schotten, B Casadei
• 143 Tissue factor pathway inhibitor regulates angiogenesis independently of tissue factor via inhibition of vascular endothelial growth factor signalling (9 June, 2011) Free

  E W Holroyd, K Larsen, R G Vile, D Mukhopadhyay, R D Simari
• 144 A druggable inhibitor of cardiac hypertrophy identified through an innovative chemical library screen (9 June, 2011) Free

  R Abou Leisa, T M A Mohamed, D Oceandy, S Prehar, M Zi, F Baudoin, L Neyses, E J Cartwright
• 145 Characterisation of fractionated atrial electrograms critical for maintenance of AF: a randomised controlled trial of ablation strategies (the CFAE af trial) (9 June, 2011) Free

  R J Hunter, I Diab, M Tayebjee, L Richmond, S Sporton, M J Earley, R J Schilling
• 146 Is there an association between thrombogenesis markers and atrial fibrillation burden in pacemaker population? (9 June, 2011) Free

  C W Khoo, S Krishnamoorthy, G Dwivedi, B Balakrishnan, HS Lim, G Y H Lip
• 147 Thromboembolic risk stratification, anti-thrombotic and anticoagulation use for patients with atrial fibrillation, a clinical audit (9 June, 2011) Free

  R A Veasey, R Kulanthaivelu, P Patel, D W Harrington
• 148 The assessment of transient loss of consciousness: we're still not asking the right questions (9 June, 2011) Free

  A E Bewick, A Gasson, L Ala, R A Bleasdale
• 149 Automated analysis of atrial ablation-scar using delayed-enhanced cardiac MRI (9 June, 2011) Free

  L Malcolme-Lawes, R Karim, C Juli, P B Lim, T V Salukhe, D W Davies, D Rueckert, N S Peters, P Kanagaratnam
• 150 Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator lead complications and clinical effectiveness in patients with inherited cardiac conditions (9 June, 2011) Free

  R Bastiaenen, S Ben-Nathan, S Jones, D Ward, M Gallagher, S Sharma, E R Behr
• 151 Risk of recurrence following extraction of cardiac implantable electronic devices for infection: when should a new device be re-implanted? (9 June, 2011) Free

  H E Thomas, M Das, D Twomey, C J Plummer, E J Shepherd
• 152 Real-time cardiac MR anatomy and dyssynchrony overlay to guide left ventricular lead placement in CRT (9 June, 2011) Free

  A Shetty, S Duckett, M Ginks, Y Ma, M Sohal, P Mehta, S Hamid, J Bostock, G Carr-White, K Rhode, R Razavi, C A Rinaldi
• 153 Ventricular pacing along individual branches of the coronary sinus using a quadripolar LV pacing lead (9 June, 2011) Free

  A K Shetty, P Mehta, S Duckett, J Bostock, M Ginks, S Hamid, M Sohal, R Razavi, Y Ma, K Rhode, A Arujuna, C A Rinaldi
• 154 Patients receiving standard pacemaker generator replacements frequently have impaired left ventricular function and exercise intolerance, related to the percentage of right ventricular pacing (9 June, 2011) Free

  G A Begg, J Gierula, Z L Waldron, K K Witte
• 155 Incidence screening of patients following ST elevation myocardial infarction for primary prevention implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation has a low therapeutic yield (9 June, 2011) Free

  E L Berry, H C Padgett, A J Ahsan, A D Staniforth
• 156 A single centre experience of Ivabradine and Clonidine for inappropriate sinus tachycardia (9 June, 2011) Free

  P P Sadarmin, T R Betts
• 157 An insight into implanters' practices of ICD implantation: a physician survey (9 June, 2011) Free

  P P Sadarmin, K C K Wong, K Rajappan, Y Bashir, T R Betts
• 158 Is it cost effective to use a plugged LV port? (9 June, 2011) Free

  M A Jones, T R Betts, K Rajappan, Y Bashir, K C K Wong, N Qureshi
• 159 Pilot Study exploring the regional repolarisation instability index in relation to myocardial heterogeneity and prediction of ventricular arrhythmia and death (9 June, 2011) Free

  W B Nicolson, C D Steadman, P Brown, M Jeilan, S Yusuf, S Kundu, A J Sandilands, P J Stafford, F S Schlindwein, G P McCann, G A Ng
• 160 High dose octreotide; a novel therapy for the treatment of drug refractory postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome in patients with joint hypermobility syndrome (9 June, 2011) Free

  A E French, C Shepherd, A Horne, C Parker, J Tagney, J Pitts-Crick, T Johnson, G Thomas
• 161 Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation on uninterrupted warfarin using standard and duty cycled radiofrequency energy: safe and effective (9 June, 2011) Free

  J R J Foley, N C Davidson, B D Brown, D J Fox
• 162 The clinical management of relatives of young sudden arrhythmic death victims; icds are rarely indicated (9 June, 2011) Free

  J C Caldwell, Z Borbas, N Moreton, N Khan, L Kerzin-Storrar, K Metcalfe, W Newman, C J Garratt
• 163 The United Kingdom transcatheter aortic valve registry - outcomes to December 2009 and update (9 June, 2011) Free

  P F Ludman
• 164 Early haemodynamic changes and myocardial injury after transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) (9 June, 2011) Free

  R Dworakowski, A Bhan, B Brickham, O Wendler, M Monaghan, A M Shah, P MacCarthy
• 165 The oxvalve study: echocardiographic screening for valvular heart disease in the community setting: methodology, feasibility and preliminary results (9 June, 2011) Free

  J L d'Arcy, D Ebbs, P Grimwade, A J Farmer, D Mant, B D Prendergast
• 166 Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) tagging identifies differential ventricular remodelling in patients with bicuspid vs tricuspid aortic valve disease (9 June, 2011) Free

  S Bull, J Suttie, N Blundell, J M Francis, T D Karamitsos, A Pitcher, J D'Arcy, B Prendergast, S Neubauer, S G Myerson
• 167 Aortic regurgitation quantification with cardiovascular magnetic resonance predicts clinical outcome (9 June, 2011) Free

  S G Myerson, J D'Arcy, R Mohiaddin, J P Greenwood, T D Karamitsos, J M Francis, A P Banning, J P Christiansen, S Neubauer
• 168 β-Blocker therapy improves clinical outcomes in patients with moderate to severe mitral regurgitation (9 June, 2011) Free

  A Nadir, D H Elder, M G MacArtney, S D Pringle, A M Choy, A D Struthers, C C Lang
• 169 Mid-wall fibrosis is an independent predictor of mortality in patients with aortic stenosis (9 June, 2011) Free

  M R Dweck, S Joshi, T Murigu, A Gulati, F Alpendurado, R Mohiaddin, J Pepper, D Pennell, D Newby, S Prasad
• 170 Ethnic differences in phenotypic expression of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (9 June, 2011) Free

  N Sheikh, M Papadakis, N Chandra, H Raju, A Zaidi, S Ghani, M Muggenthaler, S Gati, S Sharma
• 171 The right ventricle of the endurance athlete: the relationship between morphology and deformation (9 June, 2011) Free

  D Oxborough, R Shave, G Whyte, K Birch, N Artis, K George, S Sharma
• 172 Increasing anti-oxidant capacity reverses iron overload mediated dysfunction in cardiomyocytes (9 June, 2011) Free

  F R Millar, D T Baptista-Hon, S C O′Neill, M E Díaz
• 173 A generic method to assess the adequacy of individual maternal cardiac reserve to tolerate the demands of pregnancy and labour (9 June, 2011) Free

  D Barker, N Lewis, G Mason, L B Tan