2010 Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition 2010 Annual ...

MAY 1PostersSaturday AfternoonPO-99: 2 Alterations in Aortic Wave Reflection withVasodilation and Vasoconstriction in AnesthetizedDogsJohn V. Tyberg, 1 Nigel G. Shrive, 1 Jiun-Jr Wang. 21 University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, CA and 2 Fu-JenUniversity Medical School, TW.PO-99A: 1 Effect of β-Blockers on Central Systolic Pressureand Pulse Pressure Amplification in HypertensiveAfrican-Americans (AA)Jason Lazar, Haroon Kamran, Vinod Namana, SergeiPushilin, Vyacheslav Mikheyev, Parag Kumar, LouisSalciccioli. Downstate Medical Center/State Universityof NY, Brooklyn, NY, US.PO-99B: 1 Brachial Artery Diameter and Pulse Wave VelocityResponses to Consonant vs Dissonant MusicListeningMarcellus Merritt, 2 Haroon Kamran, 1 LouisSalciccioli, 1 Vinod Namana, 1 Sergei Pushilin, 1Vyacheslav Mikheyev, 1 Jason Lazar. 1 1 DownstateMedical Center/State University of NY, US and2 University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, US.Cardiac Structure and Function/ImagingPO-100: 1PO-101: 1PO-102: 1PO-103: 1PO-104: 1Left Ventricular Dysfunction and the Intima-MediaThickness: A Tissue-Doppler StudyCristiana Catena, GianLuca Colussi, Alessandro DiFabio, Cristina Petri, Marica Valeri, Luigi Marzano,Leonardo A. Sechi. Hypertension Unit, Department ofInternal Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, IT.Cardiorenal Syndrome in Old Patients with MildChronic Kidney Disease (CKD)Marcos Alvinair Gomes, Sebastiao RodriguesFerreira-Filho. Universidade Federal de Uberlandia,Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, BR.Central Aortic Blood Pressure Measurement andCorrelation with Left Ventricular Mass in Pre-HypertensionTarek M. Mousa, Mark Balek, Sofya Kostanyan, OlaAkinboboye. The New York Hospital Medcial Centerof Queens, Flushing, NY, US.Mortality Risk in Patients with Severe and VerySevere Left Ventricular HypertrophyVasilios Papademetriou, 1 Michael Doumas, 2 CharlesFaselis, 2 Costas Tsioufis, 1 Peter Kokkinos. 1 1 VAMCand Georgetown University, Washington, DC, US and2 VAMC and George Washington University, US.Impairment of Coronary Microcirculation isAccompanied by Left Ventricular DiastolicDysfunction in Essential HypertensivesD. Tsiachris, C. Tsioufis, D. Roussos, K. Dimitriadis, H.Tatsis, E. Tsiamis, I. Kallikazaros, C. Stefanadis. FirstCardiology Clinic, University of Athens, HippokrationHospital, Athens, GR.1 Pathobiology Track 2 Translational Track 3 Therapy Track120