Jul - Aug, 2007 Volume 59, No. 4 ISSN 0019-4832
Editorial

Hit by Thrombotic Events” Following Heparin—Think of HIT
Pankaj Manoria, Suman Bhandari

Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 297-298

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Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitors in Pulmonary Hypertension: A Hobson’s Choice for Indian Patients
Anita Saxena

Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 299-301
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State-of-the-Art Paper



Primary Angioplasty vs. Thrombolysis
Giuseppe De Luca, Harry Suryapranata, Paolo Marino
Division of Cardiology, Ospedale “Maggiore della Carità”, Università del Piemonte Orientale
“A. Avogadro”, Novara, Italy (GDL and PM), Department of Cardiology, ISALA Klinieken,
Hospital De Weezenlanden, Zwolle, The Netherlands (HS)

Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 302-310

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Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation—Pharmacologic Strategies
Satish R. Tiyyagura, Seth H. Goldbarg, Davendra Mehta
Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1 Gustave L Levy
Place, Box 1030, New York, NY 10029

Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 311-315

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Original Article



An Observational Study to Know the Association
of Leukocytosis and Fever with Infection in
Post Cardiac Surgery Patients

Satish Kumar, Yatin Mehta, Mayank Vats, Rajesh Chand, Pawan Kapoor, Naresh Trehan
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre
New Delhi, India
Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 316-322
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Efficacy and Safety of PDE-5 Inhibitor Tadalafil
in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Anil Bharani, Ashish Patel, Jitendra Saraf, Akhlesh Jain, Shubha Mehrotra, Basant Lunia
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, M.G.M. Medical College and M.Y. Hospital,
Indore, India
Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 323-328
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Oral Tadalafil in Pulmonary Artery Hypertension:
A Prospective Study

Pankaj Aggarwal, Ramesh K Patial, Parkash C Negi, Rajeev Marwaha
Departments of Medicine and Cardiology, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla
India
Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 329-335
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Sildenafil Improves Survival in Idiopathic Pulmonary
Arterial Hypertension

B. K. S. Sastry, B. Soma Raju, C. Narasimhan, G. Surya Prakash,
N. Krishna Reddy, B. Ananad
Department of Cardiology, CARE Hospitals, Hyderabad
India
Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 336-341
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Sildenafil for Pulmonary Hypertension Secondary
to Congenital Heart Diseases

Anuja Gupta, Prafulla Kerkar
King Edward Memorial Hospital—Cardiovascular & Thoracic Center, Mumbai
India
Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 342-345
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Trends in Prevalence of Coronary Risk Factors in An Urban
Indian Population: Jaipur Heart Watch-4

Rajeev Gupta1, Vijay Kaul2, Namita Bhagat3, Mukta Agrawal3, VP Gupta4, Anoop Misra5,
Naval K Vikram5
Departments of Medicine1 and Pathology 2, Monilek Hospital and Research Centre, Jaipur;
Departments of Home Science 3 and Statistics 4, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur; and
Department of Medicine 5, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi India
Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 346-353
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Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia Management
with Bivalirudin

R Meera, D Rachel, V Ramakrishnapillai, G Vijayaraghavan
Department of Cardiology, Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Trivandrum India
Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 354-355
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Leiomyoma in the Heart
Sarven Kumar S Rawat1, Krishna K Sharma1, Yatin Mehta1, Harpreet Wasir2,
Rajneesh Malhotra2, Naresh Trehan2
1Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care,
2 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi India
Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 356-359
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Electrocardiographic and Echocardiographic Findings
during the Recent Outbreak of Viral Fever in
National Capital Region

Vineet Bhatia, Ashok K Parida, Parneesh Arora, Ajay Mittal, Anand K Pandey, Gyanti Singh,
Girish C Vaishnava, Upendera Kaul
Department of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Fortis Hospitals, Sector-62, Noida – 201301, U.P, India
Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 360-362
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Transcatheter Coil Occlusion of IMA Graft Side Branches
for Relief of Coronary Steal

Vijay Trehan, Arima Nigam, Naresh Goyal, S. Ramakrishnan
GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi India
Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 363-365
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Prominent Isovolumic Relaxation Velocities in Mitral
and Tricuspid Inflows in Cardiac Tamponade:
Normalisation after Pericardiocentasis

J.C. Mohan, Deepak Tomar, Chander Shekhar, Moonish Aggarwal
Department of Cardiology, Metro Heart Institute, New Delhi, India
Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 366-369
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Perspective



Metabolic Modulation as a Target for Heart Failure Treatment:
Current Perspective

S Chenniapan1, S C Manchanda2
1Consultant Cardiologist, Ramkrishna Nursing Home, Coimbatore,
2Senior Consultant Cardiology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 370-374
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Seminar

Prevention of Contrast Induced Nephropathy—An Update

Sanjiv Gupta1, Brig M M Gupta2
1Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, SDM Hospital, Jaipur
2Consultant & Former Professor & Head of Department of Medicine, Armed Forces
Medical College, Pune

Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 375-377

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Brief Report

Non-cardiac Surgery in Patients with Drug Eluting Stents:
Considerations on Antiplatelet Therapy

Pankaj Manoria, Suman Bhandari
Department of Cardiology, Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi

Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 378-381
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Letter to Editor

Coil Embolization of Septal Artery as a Treatment for
Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy

Ajay Bahl
Department of Cardiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research,
Chandigarh, Punjab

Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 382-382
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Delayed Response Following Tran-scatheter
Ravi S Math1, Sandeep Singh1, Sandeep Seth1, Bhima Shankar1, Balram Bhargava1,
Sanjeev Sharma2, Gurpreet Gulati2
1Department of Cardiology, 2Department of Cardiac Radiology, Cardiothoracic Sciences Centre,
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 383-385
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Cardiovascular Images

Iatrogenic Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis

Sengottuvelu G, Amit Garg, Thanikachalam S
Department of Cardiology, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai
Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 386-386

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Multislice Ct for Femoral Pseudoaneurysm After Angioplasty

SHarish. A, Payal Khatri, Mohammed Musthafa. P.P.
Indian Heart Journal  Jul - Aug, 2007; 59:(4) 387-387

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