GENE TRANSFER THERAPY: A MODEL FOR NEOINTIMAL INHIBITION
Clinton T. Lloyd, Andrew H. Baker, Sarah J. George, Gianni D. Angelini
Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol Royal Infirmary,Bristol,BS2 8HW

NEOINTIMAL RESPONSE TO VASCULAR INJURY IN NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE (INOS) KNOCKOUT MICE.
P.Yiu, D.Rees*, W.Pugsley, J.McEwan.
Cardiovascular Repair and Remodelling Group (The Hatter institute), University College Hospital; and *Cruciform Project, UCL, London.

EFFECTS OF APROTININ ON LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION AND EXTRAVASATION
*G Asimakopoulos, R Thompson, S Nourshargh, DO Haskard, *CP Ratnatunga, *KM Taylor, RC Landis.
Cardiovascular Medicine and *Cardiothoracic Unit, Imperial College School of Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital, London.

DOWN REGULATION OF ANTI-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE INTERLEUKIN (IL-10) INCREASES MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY FOLLOWING ROUTINE CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTS
A El-Gamel, S Quershi, J Hutchinson, NA Yonan, AK Deiraniya, IV Hutchinson.
Cardiothoracic Department, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester.

HEPARINISATION, PLATELET ACTIVATION AND CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS
EW Muriithi, EM Milne, #P Wanikiat, #RA Armstrong, DJ Wheatley, PR Belcher
University of Glasgow Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, & #Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh.

A SHEEP MODEL FOR PREDICTION OF THROMBOEMBOLISM ASSOCIATED WITH HEART VALVE PROSTHESES
L Raco, I Sim*, DJ Wheatley, PR Belcher
University of Glasgow, Departments of Cardiac Surgery and Medicine and & Therapeutics*.

INCREASED PLATELET ACTIVATION FOLLOWING MECHANICAL AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT: EVIDENCE FOR THE NEED FOR ANTI-PLATELET THERAPY?
Ira Goldsmith1,2, Gregory YH Lip2, Andrew D Blann2, Ramesh L Patel1
1Department of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry
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2Haemostasis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Unit, University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham, England

A PILOT STUDY TO COMPARE THE SINGLE AORTIC CROSS CLAMP TECHNIQUE WITH THE SIDE CLAMP TECHNIQUE FOR CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY.
M.Dar., F. Ciulli., T. Gillot., G.J. Cooper.
Department Of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield.

ATP DEPENDENT POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKADE ABOLISHES PRECONDITIONING IN ADULT RAT HEARTS BUT DOES NOT ATTENUATE POST-ISCHAEMIC RECOVERY OF FUNCTION IN NEONATES
Wael I Awad, Michael J Shattock, David J Chambers.
Cardiovascular Research, The Rayne Institutr, St Thomas' Hospital, London

ISCHAEMIC PRECONDITIONING THE HUMAN MYOCARDIUM: DOSE AND FREQUENCY OF ADMINISTRATION AND TIME WINDOW OF PROTECTION
S Ghosh, N B Standen *, M Galiñanes
Dept Cardiac Surgery and *Cell Physiology ,Glenfield Hosp, Univ. of Leicester Leicester, UK

A RANDOMISED COMPARISON OF INTERMITTENT AORTIC CROSS CLAMPING AND WARM BLOOD CARDIOPLEGIA FOR ELECTIVE CORONARY SURGERY
Jonathan Hyde, John Isaac, Robert Cramb, Timothy Graham and Bruce Keogh
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom B15 2TH

INCREASE IN PULMONARY ENDOTHELIAL PERMEABILITY TO WATER AFTER COLD ISCHAEMIA IS NOT SECONDARY TO AN INCREASE IN ALBUMIN PERMEABILITY
Rooney SJ, Levine AJ, Parkes K ,Revell M, Shimada I, Farnetti P, Bonser RS
Cardiothoracic Surgical Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.

PHOSPHATE BUFFERED RAFFINOSE - A SIMPLE SOLUTION FOR LUNG GRAFT PRESERVATION.
NC Wright, DN Hopkinson, TE Shaw & TL Hooper.
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK.

NUMERICAL PREDICTION AND EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENT OF CARDIAC ASSISTANCE FROM SKELETAL MUSCLE VENTRICLES
DM Pullan, JC Jarvis, AP Shortland and S Salmons.
Depts of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology (JCJ, DMP, SS) and Clinical Engineering (APS), The University of Liverpool, UK and The Cardiothoracic Centre, Liverpool NHS Trust (DMP).

A LOW COST, LOW STRESS METHOD FOR MINIMAL ACCESS CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY
SS Shah, S Bennett, S Griffin
Castle Hill Hospital, Hull, East Yorkshire

HARVESTING THE RADIAL ARTERY FOR MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES TISSUE PERFUSION OF THE HAND BUT DOES NOT AFFECT FUNCTION
J R Sadaba, C M Munsch, A Parkin, M Burniston, J Maughen, J L Conroy
Yorkshire Heart Centre, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds LS1 3EX

NICORANDIL GIVEN PRIOR TO CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT SURGERY IS NOT NEUROPROTECTIVE AND DOES NOT APPEAR TO CONFER ADDITIONAL MYOCARDIAL PROTECTION.
A Geraghty, R Grant, J Stygall, M Sumeray, M Harrison, S Newman, D Yellon & W Pugsley
The Middlesex Hospital and University College London Medical School

DOES THE EUROSCORE PREDICT MORTALITY FOLLOWING ADULT CARDIAC SURGERY IN THE UK?
E McLaughlin, K Wynne-Jones, B Fabri, M Jones and B Bridgewater
Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Clinical Audit Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester and The Cardiothoracic Centre - Liverpool NHS Trust, Liverpool

LV REMODELLING AND REVASCULARISATION IN ADVANCED ISCHAEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY: A FOLLOW-UP STUDY.
JD Aitchison, U Lukowand, Q Lau, SR Large
Papworth Hospital, Cambs, CB3 8RE UK