Vol. 5 No. 1 Sup (2010)

Athens Cardiology Update 2010

• Chest-Compression Alone Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Newer Data for a More Practical Approach/ Cardio-Cerebral Resuscitation

  Dimosthenis Avramidis, et al

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• Advances in Post-Resuscitation Care: the Role of Therapeutic Hypothermia

  Androula C Papastylianou

  11

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• Caring for the Heart Failure Patient: Contemporary Nursing Interventions

  Dimitra Angelidou

  22-29

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• Transradial Approach: Another Way to Success

  Grigorios Tsigkas, Dimitra Malami, Dora Egarxou

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• Handling Pain in the Coronary Care Unit

  Daphne Georgaka, Aikaterini Michalopoulou, Elena Alichanidou

  31-37

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• Nurse???s Role in the Modern Resuscitation Era

  Aggela- Beth Terzi

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• Problems Arising From the Prolonged Use of Aspirin and Clopidogrel Imposed by Drug-Eluting Stents / Conundrums in Triple Antithrombotic Therapy: Newer Suggestions

  Constantinos Stratos, Alexandros Kouloubinis

  39-46

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• Heart Failure: Will There be Any light at the End of the Tunnel with Stem Cell Therapy?

  Michael J Bonios, John V Terrovitis

  48-50

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• Primary PCI: Thromboaspiration, IIb/IIIa Infusion and the No-Reflow Phenomenon

  Petros Dardas

  53-54

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• Blood Transfusion After Myocardial Infarction: Friend, Foe or Double-Edged Sword?

  Georgios I Papaioannou

  55-57

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• Staged Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) for Multivessel STEMI Patients?

  Nikolaos D Papamichael, Lampros K Michalis

  58-59

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• Brugada Syndrome and Vasovagal Syncope

  Georgios Almpanis, et al

  62-64

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• Dilated Right Ventricle with Impaired Systolic Function

  Anastasios Theodosis-Georgilas, Dimitris Beldekos

  65-66

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• Bicuspid Aortic Valve and Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm

  Panagiotis Spanos, Constantinos Evdoridis, Athanasios Trikas

  72-73

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• Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy and Severe Mitral Regurgitation due to Chordae Tendinae Rupture

  Eleni M Kalkandi, et al

  74-76

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• Post-Infarction Ventricular Rupture

  Anna Dagre, Christoforos Olympios

  77-78

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• Partially Protected Left Main Stenting in a Patient with Complete Obstruction of Left Internal Mammary Graft

  Ilias Karabinos, Vassilis Spanos

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• Acute Aortic Syndromes: Surgical, Endovascular or Medical Treatment?

  John Kokotsakis, et al

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• Late Reoperation for Proximal Aortic Complication in a Marfan Patient Following Ascending Aortic Grafting

  Efthymia G Rouska, et al

  87-91

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• Coronary Artery Disease, Nicotine Addiction, and Depression: The Tragic Triad

  Andreas Asimakos, Paraskevi Katsaounou

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• Left Ventricular Lead Implanted in the Right Ventricle Through a Thrombotic Subclavian Vein

  Skevos Sideris, et al

  99-100

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• Persistent Bradycardia in a Patient With Coronary Artery Disease and Concomitant Carotid Artery Disease

  Adamantia Polydorou, et al

  101-104

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• Differential Diagnosis of a Left Atrial Mass: Role of 3D Transesophageal Echocardiography

  Christos A Michalakeas, Constantinos H Papadopoulos

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• Obstructive Thrombosis of a Mitral Valve Prosthesis and Live Three-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography

  Elektra Papadopoulou, Petros Nihoyannopoulos

  106-108

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• Challenging Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Complicated Inferior Wall Myocardial Infarction

  George Sitafidis, et al

  109-111

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• Shock After a Caesarian Section for Placenta Previa

  Eliana C Charalambous, I M Kazakou, George T Vrouchos

  112-113

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• Is There a Place for Endovascular Treatment in Aortic Arch Pathology?

  Marios Patronis, et al

  114-117

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• Non-invasive Coronary Angiography: the Present and Future of Multi-slice Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography

  Arkadios C Roussakis

  118-122

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• Bare Metal Stents Versus Drug Eluting Stents - How do we Choose?

  Gregory Pavlides

  125-126

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• Optimal Timing of Coronary Angiography and Potential Intervention in Non-ST Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes

  Demosthenes G Katritsis

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• Radial Approach to Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

  Konstantinos Triantafyllou

  128-136

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• Atrial Fibrillation: Obviating the Need for Anticoagulants With Percutaneous Closure of Left Atrial Appendage/ PLAATO & PROTECT-AF Trials

  Andreas Synetos

  137-140

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• Do the New Data on Second-Generation Drug Eluting Stents Provide Reassurance on Safety, Efficacy, Even for Off-Label Use?

  Ioannis Iakovou

  141-144

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• Challenges and Caveats for Stents of New Technology /Are all the Drug- Eluting Coronary Stents the Same?

  Konstantinos Toutouzas

  145-146

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• Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair: Is there a Future?

  Apostolos Tzikas, Nicolo Piazza, Patrick W Serruys, Peter P.T. de Jaegere

  149-150

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• Current Trends and Future Developments in Robotic Cardiac Surgery

  Amna Suliman, Hutan Ashrafian, Thanos Athanasiou

  151-156

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• Patient Inclusion Criteria for Left Ventricular Assist Device

  Sotirios Xydonas

  157-158

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• Optimizing Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Device Programming

  Pantelis Gounopoulos, Spyridon Koulouris, Antonis S Manolis, MD, FACC, FESC, FHRS

  162-166

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• Secretory Phospholipase A2 and Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A2 as Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Disease and Therapeutic Targets

  Alexandros D Tselepis

  169-171

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• Intermediate Coronary Artery Disease Risk Patients: Reclassification With Coronary Calcium Scoring or Statin Therapy?

  Dimitris Tsilakis

  172-177

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• New Developments in the Field of RAS Inhibition

  Haralambos Gavras

  178-179

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• Therapeutic Advances: Hypertension in the Elderly

  Haralambos Gavras

  182-183

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• Hypolipidemic Therapy and HDL

  Ioannis A Chaveles

  184-192

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