Contents

Editorial: Airway pressure and xenon anaesthesia
Jan-H. Baumert
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Airway pressure distribution during xenon anesthesia:  The insufflation phase at constant flow (volume controlled mode)
Ira M. Katz, Andrew R. Martin, Chia-Hsiang Feng, Caroline Majoral, Georges Caillibotte, Thomas Marx, Jean-Etienne Bazin, Christian Daviet
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Endocardial microwave ablation in patients following mitral valve surgery
Michael Knaut, T. Link, Friedrich Jung, Stefan Brose, Klaus Matschke
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Clinical significance of factor V G1691A- and prothrombin G20210A-mutations in cerebral infarction and patent foramen ovale
Bernhard Stephan, Joachim-Friedrich Schenk, Aida Beye, Gerhard Pindur
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Physiological systolic and diastolic changes of the left and right heart during exercise stress echocardiography
Stefan A. Lange, Martin U. Braun, Jens Jung
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Chronic Chagas’ heart disease – From pathogenesis to treatment regimes
Silvia Gilkas Munoz-Saravia, Annekathrin Haberland, Gerd Wallukat, Ingolf Schimke
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Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and myocarditis:  Classification, clinical and autoimmune features
Alida L. P. Caforio, Stefania Bottaro, Sabino Iliceto
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Pathophysiology of autoimmune-associated congenital heart block
Yongxia Qu, Mohamed Boutjdir
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The new 2010 ERC resuscitation guidelines – Relevance for cardiac surgery patients
Jan Runte, Julika Schön, Armin Frank, Frank Hackmann, Hauke Paarmann, Matthias Heringlake
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