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CONTENTS
Vol 26, No 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015
234 High-sensitivity cardiac troponin T is more helpful in detecting peri-operative
myocardial injury and apoptosis during coronary artery bypass graft surgery
EF Kocak • C Kocak • A Aksoy • OO Isiklar • R Akcilar • IF Ozdomanic • C Unsal • M Celenk •
I Altuntas
242 Lack of cardioprotection by single-dose magnesium prophylaxis on isoprenaline-
induced myocardial infarction in adult Wistar rats
C Garson • R Kelly-Laubscher • D Blackhurst • A Gwanyanya
250 Drug trends in cardiology
251 CARDIO NEWS
PUBLISHED ONLINE (Available on and in Pubmed)
Case Reports
e1 Dyspnoea and chest pain as the presenting symptoms of pneumomediastinum:
two cases and a review of the literature
H Kara • HG Uyar • S Degirmenci • A Bayir • M Oncel • A Ak
e5 Iatrogenic left main-stem dissection extending to the circumflex artery and retrogradely
involving the left and non-coronary sinuses of Valsalva: iatrogenic aortocoronary
dissection
R Zwoli ński • A Marcinkiewicz • K Szymczyk • R Pietruszy ń ski • R Jaszewski
e8 A rare case of aortic dissection presenting as pure transient global amnesia
H Kaveeshvar • R Kashouty • V Loomba • N Yono
e10 Application of thoracic endovascular dissecting aneurysm repair for secondary type B
aortic dissection
O Karahan • O Tezcan • S Demirtas • A Caliskan • C Yavuz