March  - April, 2002 Volume 54, No. 2 ISSN 0019-4832
Editorial

Takayasu’s Arteritis Revisited 
VK Bahl, Sandeep Seth
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 147-151 
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Review Articles


Congenital Long Q–T Syndromes in Children
 
R Subramanyan, P Venugopalan
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 152-158 
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Original Articles


Beating Heart Versus Conventional Reoperative Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery 

Yugal Mishra, Harpreet Wasir, Vijay Kohli, Zile Singh Meharwal, 
Ramesh Bapna, Yatin Mehta, Naresh Trehan
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 159-163 
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Graded Balloon Atrial Septostomy in Severe Pulmonary Hypertension 
SS Kothari, A Yusuf, R Juneja, R Yadav, N Naik
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 154-169 
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Efficacy of Terminalia arjuna in Chronic Stable Angina:  A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Crossover Study Comparing 
Terminalia arjuna
with Isosorbide Mononitrate
Anil Bharani, Arunangshu Ganguli, LK Mathur, Yogendra Jamra, PG Raman
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 170-175 
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Management of Cardiomyopathy Resulting from Incessant Supraventricular Tachycardia in Infants and Children

R Juneja, S Shah, N Naik, SS Kothari, A Saxena, KK Talwar
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 176-180 
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Prospective Evaluation of the Risk of Bacteremia Induced by Transesophageal Echocardiography

K Latchumana Dhas, R Hemalatha, CV Umesan, Susan Verghese, 
B Sudha, AS Mullasari
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 181-183 
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Coronary Angiography Using 4 French Catheters with Power Injection:  A Randomized Comparison with 6 French Catheters

Parneesh Arora, Nitish Naik, VK Bahl, S Mishra, R Yadav, 
S Sharma, SC Manchanda
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 184-188 
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Brief Reports


Bioptome-Assisted Coil Occlusion of Coronary Artery Fistula
 
Sivadasan Radha Anil, Kothandam Sivakumar, R Krishna Kumar
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 189-192 
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Familial Primary-Pulmonary Hypertension 
S Shanmugasundaram
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 193-195 
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Left Ventricular Thrombi in the Presence of Normal  Left Ventricular Function 
S Sivasankaran, S Harikrishnan, JM Tharakan
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 196-198 
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Thromboembolism: A Rare Complication of Cardiac Hydatidosis 
Vijay Trehan, Prasad Shah, Jamal Yusuf, Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Girish M Nair, R Arora
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 199-201 
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Extrinsic Obstruction of the Main Coronary Arteries in a Child with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Biswajit Bandyopadhyay, Snehal Kulkarni, Rohit Mody, KM Cherian
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 202-205 
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Reduction of Pacemaker-Induced Pectoral Muscle Stimulation Using an Insulating Patch
Maneesh Shrivastav, Raj Shrivastav
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 206-207
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Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Association With  Takayasu’s Arteritis 
O Sai Satish, A Ravikumar, George Koshy, AN Patnaik, D Seshagiri Rao
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 208-211
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Current Perspective
Drug-Eluting Stents in the Treatment of Atherosclerotic Coronary Heart Disease 
Pedro A Lemos, Evelyn Regar, Patrick W Serruys
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 212-216
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Cardiovascular Images Loop the loop 
Anoop K Gupta, Yash Y Lokhandwala
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 217-217
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Letters-to-the-Editor (Full PDF File)

Clopidogrel and Cardiac Surgery
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 218-219
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Prognostic Significance of Rapid Bedside Cardiac Troponin  T Testing in Unstable Angina
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 220-220
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Is Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy Really Different in Elderly Patients? A Case of Typical HOCM Detected 
in a 94-Year-Old Female

Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 221-221
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Selected-Summaries (Full PDF File)

Losartan Intervention For End-point Reduction in Hypertension Study (LIFE): a Randomized Trial Against Atenolol

Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 222-222
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Comparison of Angioplasty with Stenting, With or Without  Abciximab, in Acute-Myocardial Infarction
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 223-223
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Effect of Nicorandil on Coronary Events in Patients with Stable Angina:The Impact of Nicorandil in Angina (IONA) Randomized Trial
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 224-224
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Bosentan Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension:  Bosentan Randomized Trial of Endothelin Antagonist 
Therapy (BREATHE-I) Study

Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2002;54:(2) 225-225
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