Volume 20 - Issue 12 - December, 2008

*Teruo Okabe, MD, §Gary S. Mintz, MD, *Sung Yun Lee, MD, *Bongryeol Lee, MD, *Probol Roy, MD, *Daniel H. Steinberg, MD, *Tina Pinto-Slottow, MD, *Kimberly A. Smith, BS, *Zhenyi Xue, MS, *Lowell F. Satler, MD, *Kenneth M. Kent, MD, *Augusto D. Pichard, MD, *Joseph Lindsay, MD, *Ron Waksman, MD, *Neil J. Weissman, MD Author Affiliations: From the *Cardiovascular Research Institute / MedStar Research Institute, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C., and §Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, New York. Disclosures: Dr. Waksman has received speaker honoraria from Volcano Corporation and research grants from Boston Scientific Corporation. Dr. Xue has received speaker honoraria from Volcano Corp. and Boston Scientific Corp., as well as research grants from Boston Scientifc Corp. and Volcano Corp., and owns stock in Volcano Corp. Manuscript submitted June 11, 2008, provisional acceptance given July 14, 2008, manuscript accepted October 2, 2008. Address for correspondence: Neil J. Weissman, MD, Washington Hospital Center, 100 Irving St. N.W., Suite EB 5123, Washington, D.C. 20010. E-mail, neil.j.weissman@medstar.net

*Daniela Frey, BA, *Michael Billinger, MD, *Pascal Meier, MD, §Olgica Beslac, RN, *Raphael Grossenbacher, RN, £Beat Hänni, ST, *Otto M. Hess, MD Author Affiliations: From the *Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Bern, the §Experimental Surgery Institute Bern, and the £Institute of Anatomy, Experimental Morphology Unit, University of Bern, Switzerland. Disclosure: Supported by an educational grant of Vascular Concepts, Inc., Fremont, California. No author has a direct financial relationship or owns shares of Vascular Concepts Inc. Manuscript submitted July 7, 2008. provisional acceptance given September 12, 2008, and final version accepted September 29, 2008. Address for correspondence: Otto M. Hess, MD, FAHA, FESC, Professor of Cardiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, University Hospital, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland. E-mail: otto.hess@insel.ch