Contents Editorial


American Healthcare Reform Agonistes Sylvan Lee Weinberg, MD, MACC


Original Contributions


Something Old, Something New—Computed Tomography Studies of the Cardiovascular System in Ancient Egyptian Mummies


Adel H Allam, MD, Abdelhalium Nureldin, PhD, Gomma Adelmaksoub, PhD, Ibrahem Badr, PhD, Hany Abdel Amer, PhD, Muhamed Al-Tohamy Soliman, PhD, Gregory S Thomas, MD, MPH, Randall C Thompson, MD, Michael I Miyamoto, MD, Ian G Thomas,Adam Thompson, and Samuel Wann, MD


The Impact of Provider-specific Report Cards on Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Volume


Thomas R McLean, MD, JD, FACS, ESQ


Transradial Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention— Observations on Its Place in the Catheterization Laboratory


George T Broderick, Jr, MD, FACP, FACC, FSCAI Using Modern Communications to Manage Chronic Heart Disease


Alfred A Bove, MD, PhD


Percutaneous Mitral Valvuloplasty—A New Method for Balloon Sizing Based on Maximal Commissural Diameter to Improve Procedural Results


Hamid Reza Sanati, MD, Majid Kiavar, MD, Negar Salehi, MD, Farshad Shakerian, MD, Ata Firoozi, MD, Saeed Alipour Parsa, MD, Neda Behzadnia, MD, Hooman Bakhshandeh, MD, PhD, Mohammad Mehdi Peighambari, MD and Majid Maleki, MD


Special Report


Patient Demographics, Complications, and Hospital Utilization in 250 Consecutive Device Implants in a New Community Hospital Electrophysiology Program—Implications for ‘Niche’ Hospitals


Jeffrey L Williams, MD, MS, FACC, David Lugg, BS, RCIS, Robert Gray, BSN, RN, Douglas Hollis, RCIS, Michelle Stoner, BS, CVT and Robert Stevenson, MD


Commentaries


Unintended Consequences of Healthcare Reform—Patients Beware Elizabeth Klodas, MD, FACC


Where Have All the Patients Gone? The Decrease in the Volume of Work of Cardiologists


Gregory S Thomas, MD, MPH, Joshua M Sugino, BS and Samuel Wann, MD, MACC Coronary CT Angiography Clinic


Computed Tomography Angiography for Right Ventricular Function in an Adult with Complex Congenital Heart Disease


David J Nicholson, DO, Edward L Passen, MD, FACC and Samuel Wann, MD, MACC ECG Clinic


Left Bundle Branch Block—Significance of the Spatial QRS Axis (Vector) David H Spodick, MD, DSc, FACC


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