Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
Open Access

4^th International Conference on Clinical & Experimental Cardiology

April 14-16, 2014 Hilton San Antonio Airport, TX, USA

Scientific Tracks Abstracts

• Atherosclerosis: Infection & inflammation envolvement, the continuous discussion

  Jose Antonio F. Ramires

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• Significance of neuropeptides for coexistence of disturbances in central cardiovascular control in heart failure, stress and depression

  Ewa Szczepanska-Sadowska, Cudnoch-Jedrzejewska A, Wsol A and Czarzasta K

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• Mineralocorticoid receptor blockade prevents hyperglycaemia aggravated RAGE expression during myocardial infarction

  Anastasia Susie Mihailidou, J Lim, TYL Le, M Mardini and AW Ashton

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• Cardiac amyloidosis: A changing landscape

  Ashutosh Wechalekar

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• Serpins as therapy: From virus to man

  Alexandra Lucas

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• Mineralocorticoid receptors in myocardial infarction – No good, just bad and ugly

  Anthony W. Ashton, TYL Le and CE Gomez-Sanchez and AS. Mihailidou

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• Association of significant myocardial stunning and cerebro- and cardiovascular events among acute aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage patients

  Augusto Parra

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• The implantable left ventricular assist device: A bridge to a destination

  Louis Samuels

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• Minimally invasive coronary arteries bypass grafting

  Arthur T. Martella

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• Role of short-term circulatory support in recovery, LVAD preparation and right ventricle support: Better solutions for better outcomes

  Basar Sareyyupoglu

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• The current ECMO (VV and VA-ECMO)

  Hitoshi Hirose

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• Experimental model of methacrylate-coated cardiopulmonary bypass circuit: Impact in complement system activation and index of thrombogenicity and platelet aggregation

  Edmo Gabriel

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• Circulatory support in cardiogenic shock

  George P. Batsides

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• Current ventricular assist device outcomes and future technology

  Allen Cheng and Mark S. Slaughter

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• Initial experience with epicardial left atrial appendage ligation using the lariat suture closure device

  Sheetal Chandhok and Antonis Pratsos

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• Extracorporeal life support and inter hospital transfer: Results of a specialized team

  Christoph Thomas Starck

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• The experience of medical staff about the use of CPAP via mask therapy to treat or prevent postsurgical atelectasis after CABG

  Fouad Al-Mutairi, Fallows S and Mason-Whitehead E

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• Open heart surgery

  Ricardo Del Castillo

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• Using cybertherapy to reduce postoperative anxiety in cardiac recovery intensive care units

  José Luis Mosso Vázquez, Amador Santander, Kenneth Gao, Brenda K. Wiederhold and Mark D. Wiederhold

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• Association of circadian genes polymorphisms with coronary heart disease

  Svetlana Gorokhova

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• Monocyte priming by metabolic stress: A novel NADPH oxidase 4-dependent mechanism for the development and progression of atherosclerosis

  Reto Asmis

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• Significance of ST-segment deviation in lead aVR for prediction of culprit artery and infarct size in acute inferior wall ST-elevation myocardial infarction

  Khaled Sayed Mahmoud, Tarek M. Abd Al Rahman, Hanytaha and Sherif Mostafa

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• Loss of Rubicon increases autophagic flux and protects against lipopolysaccharide-induced cardiac injury

  Hongxin Zhu

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• The potential of small RNAs as biomarker and as therapeutic tools for treating heart diseases

  Salah A. Mohamed

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• miR-140 regulates cardiomyocyte apoptosis by targeting mitofusin-1

  Peifeng Li, Wenhui Li and Zheng Cheng

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• Reactivation of fetal splicing programs in diabetic hearts

  Muge N. Kuyumcu-Martinez, Sunil K. Verma, Vaibhav Deshmukh, Patrick Liu, Curtis A. Nutter, Rosario Espejo, Ming-Lung Hung, Guey-Shin Wang and Gene W. Yeo

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• CCTA in real not-so-developed world

  Mladen Jukic

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• Activation of circulated immune cells and inflammatory immune adherence are involved in the whole process of acute venous thrombosis

  Fan Yang and Qiang Lin Duan

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• A retrospective study on the profile of ischemic heart disease [IHD] cases admitted in KMC Attavar, Mangalore

  Harsha Kumar H. N

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• Percutaneous intervention in isolated left main ostial stenosis

  Bhanu Duggal and Mayur Jain

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• 12 and 15 lead electrocardiograms in diagnosis of acute posterior myocardial infarction

  S. M. Tajdit Rahman

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• Platypnea Orthodeoxia Syndrome: The consequential inconsequential PFO, a look at 4 cases cured with PFO closure

  Nassir Azimi, Curtis Pfahler, Kris Kumar and Dimitri Sherev

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• Roles of HCN2 channels in congenital heart diseases

  Nian-Qing (Nan) Shi

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• 2014 update on cardio pulmonary resuscitation

  Amballur D. John

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• Simultaneous transcatheter valvuloplasty and atrial septal occlusion in cases of trilogy of fallot

  Bhanu Duggal and Tukaram Aute

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• Hemodynamic effects of laparoscopic surgery in infants with cardiac anomalies

  Christine Burgmeier

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• Case series: Paediatric repair of coarctation of the aorta and pulmonary hypertension

  Natasa Chrysodonta

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• Congenital heart diseases among the hospital live birth in Bangladesh: A retrospective study in a tertiary medical college hospital

  Md Sazid Rezwan

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• Serum mediated activation of macrophages reflects TcVac2 vaccine efficacy against Chagas disease

  Nisha Jain Garg, Shivali Gupta, Jessica E. Osizugbo and Trevor S Silva

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• Reverse translation in cardiovascular drug discovery

  Mark D. Rekhter

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• Relationship between oxidative stress and energy metabolism in hypertension induced cardiac remodeling

  Renuka R. Nair

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• Activation of g-protein coupled estrogen receptor 1 protects the heart against ischemia/reperfusion injury by inhibiting the mPTP opening via MEK/ERK/GSK-3β pathway

  Jean C. Bopassa

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• Effect of telmisartan and atorvastatin on angiogenic responsiveness in coronary endothelial cells of normal and streptosotocin induced diabetic rats

  Anita A. Mehta

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• Pulse pressure and apolipoprotein B/apolipoprotein A1 in relation to the metabolic syndrome and its components

  Galya Naydenova Atanasova, Marin Marinov and Milen Atanasov

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• Quality of anticoagulation management with warfarin among outpatients in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  Tamrat Assefa

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• Wrong about β Blockers! Wrong about positive inotropes! Wrong about thyroid hormone treatment of heart failure?

  A. Martin Gerdes

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• New interpretation of electrocardiograms (ECGs) by invisible biochemical & microbial information found on recorded ECGs to detect serious side-effects of chemotherapy by measurement of cardiac troponin I at the “Vulnerable Period for Ventricular Fibrillation” at the rising part of the T-Wave

  Yoshiaki Omura

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• Control of mitochondrial oxidative stress prevented the evolution of cardiomyopathy in chronic chagasic rodents

  Nisha Jain Garg, Jian-Jun Wen and Monisha Dhiman

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• Mechanosensing and regulation of cardiac function

  David E. Dostal

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• β-arrestin1-biased β1-adrenergic receptor signaling-mediated microRNA regulatory network: A new player in cardiac protection

  Il-man Kim

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• Inhibition of gene expression of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I and heart fatty acid binding protein in cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide-induced acute cardiomyopathic rat models

  Mohamed M. Sayed-Ahmed, Meshan L. Aldelemy, Othman A. Al-Shabanah and Mohamed M. Hafez

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• Advanced cardiac imaging: Update in the era of earlier disease recognition and focus on outcomes driven approach

  Ahmad M. Slim

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• Differential response of lung and heart endothelial cells to hypoxia exposure

  Nadia Jahroudi

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• Prognostic factors for hospital mortality in STEMI patients in Serbia

  Zorana Vasiljevic and Gordana Krljanac

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• Genotoxic risk for workers from São Paulo city, Brazil, due to occupational exposure to traffic air pollution

  Monica V. Marquezini

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• Cochlear implantation and cardiac associations

  Senthil Vadivu Arumugam

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• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and direct cardiac injury: Evidence of fractured coronary arteries and his bundle hemorrhage

  Richard J. Frink

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• Building a consensus for more flexible guidelines in heart failure with comorbidities: Why this is important for remote Australian patients

  Pupalan Iyngkaran

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• Ticagrelor, but not clopidogrel, protects the heart and limits myocardial infarct size

  Yochai Birnbaum

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• Renal denervation and other novel strategies for management of resistant hypertension

  Santhosh K. G. Koshy

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• Current status and remaining problems of balloon pulmonary angioplasty for the treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

  Hiromi Matsubara

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• Ceramic coating prevents corrosion of cardiovascular stainless steel stents

  Víctor Moles, Lucila Navarro, Julio Luna, David Vetcher and Ignacio Rintoul

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• DUSP protein phosphatases modulates the development of dilated cardiomyopathy

  Mannix Auger-Messier

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• Cardiovascular implications of incretins after SAVOR and EXAMINE in diabetes patients

  Robert J. Chilton

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• Disrupting KATP channels diminishes the estrogen-mediated protection in female mutant mice during ischemia-reperfusion

  Nian-Qing (Nan) Shi

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• Perioperative right ventricular systolic functional assessment and value analysis of pediatric right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction with echocardiography

  Guo-Zhen Chen

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• Aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation as predictors of atrial fibrillation

  Veronica Widgren

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• Hold that thought: Induction of erythropoietin to protect the ischemic brain

  Robert Mallet

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• Detection of clinically important invisible biochemical information & various microbial infections from each part of recorded ECGs

  Yoshiaki Omura

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• Pain and psychotherapy, in the light of evidence psychological treatment methods of chronic pain based on evidence

  Noemi Csaszar-Nagy, Stoll D, Bagdi P and Vas J.P

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• The cardiac atrial appendage stem cell: A new candidate for myocardial repair

  Karen Hensen

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• N-methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists and their targets in the heart

  Anna Bogdanova

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• Alternative RNA splicing and regulation of nitric oxide signaling

  Iraida G. Sharina

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• Revascularization of a chronic total occlusion of the infra-renal aorta in a patient with triple vessel disease: Report of a case treated by endovascular approach

  Mahek K. Shah, Khalid Chaudhry, Isaac Opoku-Asare, Rahul Sinha and Sean Janzer

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• Four electron leak pathways of mitochondrial respiratory chain and their physiological functions

  Xu Jian-xing

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• Contemporary approach to diagnosis and management of cardiovascular implantable electronic device infections

  M. Rizwan Sohail

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• A cross-sectional study on awareness and perception about Basic Life Support (BLS)/Cadio- Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) among undergraduate medical students from coastal South India

  Harsha Kumar H. N

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• Targeting calcium signaling as a novel therapeutic strategy for cardiac hypertrophy and failure

  Tamer M. A. Mohamed

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• The importance of psychological assessment and support in patients suffering from cardiovascular disease or undergoing cardiac treatment

  Daniel Peter Stoll, Császár N., Bagdi P., Pataki N., Harkai V., Horváth D. and Mezei Á

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• A case of cardiac amyloidosis with a negative biopsy from a noncardiac site

  Affan Irfan, Bisma Irfan, Sarwar Orakzai and Krishan K. Kataria

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• The risk of coarctation of the aorta in pregnancy original case report

  Manuela Stoicescu

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