Newsletter

Editor's Column

The SCA Newsletter content continues to expand. In this issue, four additional excellent Drug and Innovation Reviews that are listed below can be found only on the SCA website at www.scahq.org. In addition to "web only" articles, full versions of printed articles along with references can be also accessed at the SCA website. Finally, reprints of past SCA Newsletter articles and references can be found in the Newsletter archives on the SCA website.

Was your copy of the SCA Newsletter lost in a pile of clutter, accidentally thrown out with the junk mail, or left indefinitely in a sorting bin at the intramural mail distribution center? To solve this problem, each future issue of the Newsletter will be accompanied by an email notification to members that contains a link to electronic version of the Newsletter on the SCA website. Developing the electronic version of the Newsletter will also enable us to expand our content to include medical images and TEE cases. To assist us in this effort, please forward or update your email address to hallie@societyhq.com or heather@societyhq.com if you have not done so already.

Sincerely,

Albert T. Cheung, MD
Editor, SCA Newsletter
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St., Dulles 6
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283

Tel: 215 662-3785
FAX: 215 349-8133
email: cheungA@uphs.upenn.edu

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Table of Contents:

• President's Message
• Editor's Column
• The SCA Newsletter is Your Forum
• Call for Nominations
• SCA Research Starter and Mid-Career Grants
• Literature Reviews
  • Statins are Associated with a Reduced Incidence of Perioperative Mortality in Patients Undergoing Major Noncardiac Vascular Surgery
  • Glucose Control and Mortality in Critically Ill Patients
  • Chronic Renal Failure after Transplantation of a Nonrenal Organ
• Drug & Innovation Review
  • Drug-Eluting Coronary Stents
  • Tifacogin, Recombinant Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor
  • Recommendation for Application of Therapeutic Hypothermia to Cardiac Arrest Victims
  • Fondaparinux
  • Awake Heart Surgery: Useful Technique or "Trick"?
  • Mitral Valve Regurgitation: Replace?, Repair?, Revascularize?
  • Inhibition of Na/H Exchange in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

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