EACTA awards – Antalya 2008
Oral Sessions1. Prize
Steffen Rex, Carlo Missant, Piet Claus, Wolfgang Buhre, Patrick Wouters
University Hospitals Aachen, Leuven, Köln, Ghent; Germany and Belgium
Effects of inhaled iloprost on right ventricular contractility and ventricular interdependence in acute pulmonary hypertension in pigs.
2. Prize
Rasmus Haarup Lie, John Michael Hasenkam, Torsten Toftegård Nielsen, Runa Poulsen, Erik Sloth
Aarhus University Hospital-Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark
Postconditioning reduced infarct size in an open-chest porcine acute ischaemia-reperfusion model.
3. Prize
Davud Yapici, Murat Ozeren, Apa Duygu, Balli Ebru, Tamer Lulufer, Atici Sebnem, Doruk Nurcan, Altunkan Zeliha, Oral Ugur
Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey
Levosimendan attenuates ischaemia-reperfusion injury of the heart better than ischaemic preconditioning during moderate hypothermia.
Poster Sessions
1. Prize
André P Lourenço, JF Viterbo, C Brás-Silva, F Vieira, AF Leite-Moreira
Faculty of Medicine and Hospital Sao Joao, Porto, Portugal
Acute haemodynamic effects of tezosentan in rats with monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension.
2. Prize
Sara Dahl Christensen, Kim Sivesgaard, Jens Erik Nielsen-Kudsk, J. Michael Hasenkam, Erik Sloth
Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Effects of sildenafil on left ventricular hypertrophy in a porcine model.
3. Prize
Mindaugas Balciunas, Loreta Bagdonate, Laimonas Griskevicius, Robertas Samalavicius, Alis Baublys, Alain Vuylsteke
Vilnius University Hospital & Papworth Hospital, Vilnius / Cambridge, Lithuania / United Kingdom
Preoperative high sensitivity C-reactive protein predicts cardiovascular morbidity after coronary artery bypass grafting.