POSTER SESSION III Tuesday, March 9, 2004   —  9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon Exhibit Hall B and C CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOLOGY 18 Non-Invasive Carotid Artery Endothelial Injury Detection by High Frequency Real Time Low Mechanical Index Imaging of Retained Microbubbles: Confirmation with Scanning Electron Microscopy (232) SJ Radio, JM Tsutsui, F Xie, TR Porter - University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 19 TAT-Mediated Protein Transduction of Apoptosis Repressor with Caspase Recruitment Domain (ARC) in Endothelial and Smooth Muscle Cells (227) AL Hunter, YL Chen, SC Chen, AB Gustafsson, RA Gottlieb, BM McManus, DJ Granville - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 20 Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Induces Endothelial Cell Hyperpermeability to Low Density Lipoproteins (239) BWC Wong, D Wong, Z Luo, S Loo, B Yanagawa, D Yang, BM McManus - UBC McDonald Research Laboratories / The iCAPTURE Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada 21 Role of Sensory Neuropeptides in Cardiac and Renal Target Organ Damage in Hypertension (231) P Patel, S Supowit, D DiPette, H Zhao, K Katki, A Rao - Scott & White Memorial Hospital, Temple, TX 22 Hypersensitivity Carditis in Explanted Hearts (217) S Anwar, L Zisman, C Canver, T Nazeer, JS Ross, S Hussain, K Nair, TA Jennings - Albany Medical College, Albany, NY 23 Quilty Lesions, Anti-HLA Antibodies, and Coronary Artery Disease Following Heart Transplantation (224) KE Chu, EK Ho, L de la Torre, ER Vasilescu, N Suciu-Foca, CC Marboe - Columbia University, New York, NY 24 Heart and Liver Disease in 32 Patients with Biopsies of Both Organs: Implications for Patients Undergoing Heart or Liver Transplantation (230) JJ Ocel, WD Edwards, HD Tazelaar, LM Petrovic, BS Edwards, PS Kamath - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 25 A Phosphorothioate Antisense Oligodeoxynucleotide Specifically Inhibits Coxsackievirus B3 Replication in Cardiomyocytes and Mouse Hearts (241) J Yuan, PKM Cheung, H Zhang, D Chau, B Yanagawa, C Cheung, H Luo, Y Wang, A Suarez, BM McManus, D Yang - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 26 Expression and Activation of MMPs and TIMPs Following Coxsackievirus-Induced Myocarditis (222) C Cheung, B Yanagawa, H Luo, A Suarez, JCK Lai, JC Zhang, F Sirianni, BM McManus - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 27 Viral Detection and Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Profile in Tracheal Aspirate from Children with Clinical Suspicion of Myocarditis (221) F Calabrese, E Carturan, Y Kato, Y Kato, O Milanesi, G Thiene - University of Padua Medical School, Padua, Italy; Medical School Toyoake, Japan 28 Gene Profiling in Enteroviral Heart Disease (240) B Yanagawa, L Honglin, D Teresa, C Caroline, Y Ji, J Zhang, D Yang, BM McManus - St. Paul's Hospital/Providence Health Care-University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Vascular Biology, Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA 29 Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Clinical, Histologic, and Immunophenotypic Features of Five Cases of a Rare Disorder (229) AF Nascimento, GL Winters, GS Pinkus - Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 30 Pulmonary Vascular Changes in 33 Adults with Isolated Atrial Septal Defects (235) AN Sahin, GW Moore, GM Hutchins - The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 31 Morphologic Features of Autosomic Dominant Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Due to Desmoplakin Mutation (220) C Basso, B Bauce, A Rampazzo, A Nava, GA Danieli, G Thiene - University of Padua, Padua, Italy 32 Myocardial Ultrastructural Alterations in Heritable Cardiac Disease (219) PB Baker, EA Sparks, HL Graber, H Boudoulas, SD Nelson, CF Wooley - Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH; The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 33 Distinct Patterns of Myocardial Fibrosis in Heritable Cardiac Disease (218) PB Baker, EA Sparks, HL Graber, H Boudoulas, SD Nelson, CF Wooley - Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH; The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH