Volume 40, Number 2 • April 2013
Website Features and Table of Contents

The website features include the following full-text articles and associated motion images. Links to the PDFs are provided below and within the table of contents.

Case Reports

Cardiac Amyloidosis Presenting with Prolonged QT Interval and Recurrent Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia [Website Feature includes motion images] 

Images in Cardiovascular Medicine

Quadricuspid Aortic Valve Revealed by Real-Time, 3-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography [Website Feature includes motion images] 

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Full-text electronic versions of past issues (including website features) of the Texas Heart Institute Journal (ISSN 0730-2347) are available online at PMC.

Editorial    

Little Black Bags, Ophthalmoscopy, and the Roth Spot
Herbert L. Fred, MD, MACP
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):115-6)

Special Reports

Some Thoughts about the Historic Events that Led to the First Clinical Implantation of a Total Artificial Heart
Denton A. Cooley, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):117-9)

Proper Use of the Stethoscope: Three Heads and One Tale
Ira Martin Grais, MD, FACC
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):120-2)

Peabody's Corner   

Hearing Voices
André L. Churchwell, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):123-4)

Review  

Preventing Deep Wound Infection after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Review
Charles S. Bryan, MD, MACP, William M. Yarbrough, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):125-39)

Laboratory Investigation  

Simvastatin Activates the PPARγ-Dependent Pathway to Prevent Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Associated with Inhibition of RhoA Signaling
Cao Zou, MD, Hongtao Qi, MD, Zhi-hua Liu, MB, Lianhua Han, MM, Caiming Zhao, MD, Xiangjun Yang, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):140-7)

Forthcoming Clinical Investigation

Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes: In Search of Evidence-Based, Cost-Effective Screening
Paolo Angelini, MD, Mladen I. Vidovich, MD, FACC, Christine E. Lawless, MD, FACC, MacArthur A. Elayda, MD, PhD, J. Alberto Lopez, MD, FACC, Dwayne Wolf, MD, James T. Willerson, MD, FACC
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):148-55)

Clinical Investigation

Predicting Early Death after Cardiovascular Surgery by Using the Texas Heart Institute Risk Scoring Technique (THIRST)
Saurabh Sanon, MD, Vei-Vei Lee, MS, MacArthur A. Elayda, MD, PhD, Sreedevi Gondi, MD, James J. Livesay, MD, George J. Reul, MD, James M. Wilson, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):156-62)

Is Rheumatic Mitral Valve Repair Still a Feasible Alternative? Indications, Technique, and Results
Ihsan Bakir, MD, Burak Onan, MD, Ismihan Selen Onan, MD, Mehmet Gul, MD, Nevzat Uslu, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):163-9)

Techniques

Surgical Approach to Aortic Valve Replacement after Previous Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Grafting
Jacob Zeitani, MD, PhD, Marta Pugliese, MD, Charles Mve Mvondo, MD, Giovanni Chiariello, MD, Kiriakos Bellos, MD, Giovanni Simonetti, MD, Luigi Chiariello, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):170-2)

Coronary Anomalies

Excising a Giant: Report of a 7-cm Coronary Artery Aneurysm
John F. Lazar, MD, Margaret Compton, BS, Faqian Li, MD, PhD, Peter Knight, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):173-5)

Case Reports

Endovascular Treatment of Acute Type B Dissection Complicating Aortic Coarctation
Seyed Ebrahim Kassaian, MD, FACC, Kyomars Abbasi, MD, Mehdi Mousavi, MD, Mohammad Sahebjam, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):176-81)

Complex Endovascular Repair of a Large Dissection of the Ascending Aorta in a 70-Year-Old Man
Bahaeddin Shabaneh, MD, Igor D. Gregoric, MD, Pranav Loyalka, MD, Zvonimir Krajcer, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):182-5)

Primary Cardiac Angiosarcoma in a 25-Year-Old Man: Excision, Adjuvant Chemotherapy, and Multikinase Inhibitor Therapy
Renato Bellitti, MD, Marianna Buonocore, MD, Nicolina De Rosa, MD, Franco Enrico Covino, MD, Beniamino Casale, MD, Pasquale Santè, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):186-8)

Mediastinal Paraganglioma between the Great Vessels in an 81-Year-Old Woman
Maaz A. Ghouri, MD, MRCS, Elangovan Krishnan, MD, PhD, Awinderpreet Singh, MD, MS, Tariq Zaman, MD, Charles H. Hallman, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):189-92)

Cardiac Amyloidosis Presenting with Prolonged QT Interval and Recurrent Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
Nisha A. Gilotra, MD, Grant V. Chow, MD, Oscar H. Cingolani, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):193-5)
[Website Feature includes motion images]

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in a Nonagenarian
Abby Kneitz, William Clifton, MD, Biswajit Kar, MD, Reynolds M. Delgado III, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):196-7)

Single-Stage Repair of Aortic Coarctation and Multiple Concomitant Cardiac Lesions through a Median Sternotomy
Umit Kervan, MD, Okan Yurdakok, MD, Bahadir Genc, MD, Anil Ozen, MD, Ahmet Saritas, MD, Seref Alp Kucuker, MD, Mustafa Pac, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):198-200)

Perioperative Management of a Levoatrial Cardinal Vein in the Absence of the Brachiocephalic Vein
Olcay Murat Disli, MD, Bektas Battaloglu, MD, Nevzat Erdil, MD, Cemsit Karakurt, MD, Ozlem Elkiran, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):201-3)

Fertile Eunuch Syndrome in Association with Biventricular Noncompaction, Bicuspid Aortic Valve, Severe Aortic Stenosis, and Talipes Equinovarus
Kazim Serhan Ozcan, MD, Damirbek Osmonov, MD, Servet Altay, MD, Baris Gungor, MD, Mehmet Eren, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):204-6)

Images in Cardiovascular Medicine

Quadricuspid Aortic Valve Revealed by Real-Time, 3-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography
Rolf Alexander Janosi, MD, Tinatin Lind, MD, Thomas Buck, MD, FESC, Raimund Erbel, MD, FESC
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):207-8)
[Website Feature includes motion images]

Quadruple-Valve Infective Endocarditis and Ventricular Septal Defect
Morteza Tavakkoli Hosseini, MD, Cesare Quarto, MD, Toufan Bahrami, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):209-10) 

Correspondence

Computed Tomography Aids Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery
Antonio Manenti, MD, Enrico Giuliani, MD, Dario Colasanto, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):211)

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm with Double Rupture into the Retroperitoneum and the Inferior Vena Cava
Antonio Manenti, MD, Enrico Giuliani, MD, Tiziano Curti, MD
(Tex Heart Inst J 2013;40(2):211-12)