1. Web alert

   News Pages: 481 - 482

2. Literature alert

   Abstract Pages: 483 - 485

3. Canadian implantable defibrillator study: What does it mean after the antiarrhythmics versus implantable defibrillators trial?

   • Davendra Mehta

   Clinical Trials Report Pages: 489 - 491

4. Prevention of ventricular arrhythmias in the congenital long QT syndrome

   • Sami Viskin
   • Roman Fish

   OriginalPaper Pages: 492 - 497

5. Ventricular tachycardia catheter ablation in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia: A 16-year experience

   • Guy Fontaine
   • Joelci Tonet
   • Robert Frank

   OriginalPaper Pages: 498 - 506

6. The Brugada syndrome

   • Pedro Brugada
   • Ramon Brugada
   • Josep Brugada

   OriginalPaper Pages: 507 - 514

7. Management of ventricular tachycardia in patients with clinically normal hearts

   • Sei Iwai
   • Bruce B. Lerman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 515 - 521

8. Ventricular arrhythmias, sudden death, and prevention in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

   • Barry J. Maron

   OriginalPaper Pages: 522 - 528

9. Catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia related to coronary artery disease: The role of noncontact mapping

   • Anthony W. C. Chow
   • Richard J. Schilling
   • D. Wyn Davies

   OriginalPaper Pages: 529 - 536

10. Strategies for catheter ablation of scar-related ventricular tachycardia

    • William G. Stevenson
    • Etienne Delacretaz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 537 - 544

11. Review of stroke in octogenarians undergoing coronary artery surgery with and without cardiopulmonary bypass

    • Valavanur A. Subramanian
    • Nilesh U. Patel

    Clinical Trials Report Pages: 547 - 548

12. Minimal access aortic root, valve, and complex ascending aortic surgery

    • John G. Byrne
    • Alexandros N. Karavas
    • David H. Adams

    OriginalPaper Pages: 549 - 557

13. Closed chest totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass surgery: Fantasy or reality?

    • Utz Kappert
    • Jens Schneider
    • Stephan Schueler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 558 - 563

14. Surgical alternatives to transplantation and assist devices in the treatment of heart failure

    • Joseph J. DeRose Jr.
    • Mehmet C. Oz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 564 - 571

15. Minimal access reoperative mitral and aortic valve surgery

    • Eugene A. Grossi
    • Angelo LaPietra
    • Stephen B. Colvin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 572 - 574

16. Coronary anastomotic devices: Theory and patented ideas on micromechanical fastening

    • Jules S. Scheltes
    • Cornelius Borst

    OriginalPaper Pages: 575 - 579