March April, 2005 Volume 57, No. 2 ISSN 0019-4832
Editorial

Management-of-Valvular-Heart Disease during Pregnancy
S Anandaraja, SS Kothari, VK Bahl
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 101-108
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Review Articles Anti-Arrhythmic-Effects of Herbal Medicine
Rattapong Sungnoon, Nipon Chattipakornnsights into
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 109-113
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Original Articles Clinical-and-Angiographic Procedural and Mid-term Outcome with New versus
Reused Balloon Catheters in Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

Martin Unverdorben, Ralf Degenhardt, Dominique Erny, Manfred Scholz,
Eberhard Wagner, Henning Köhler, Heiner K Berthold, Christian Vallbracht
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 114-120
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Role-of-Endothelin-1 in Genesis of Coronary Artery Disease

Gurmukh S Sainani, Vibhuti G Maru, Arun P Mehra
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 121-127
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Real-Time-Three-Dimensional Transthoracic Echocardiography

Ravi R Kasliwal, Nagendra S Chouhan, Ashish Sinha, Pankaj Gupta,
Sharad Tandon, Naresh Trehan
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 128-137
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Increased-Beat-to-Beat-QT Variability in Patients with Congestive Cardiac Failure

DS Raghunandan, Nagaraj Desai, Mallika Mallavarapu,Ronald D Berger,
Vikram K Yeragani
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 138-142
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An-Experimental-Design-for-Induction of Non-Specific Aortoarteritis

R Dhingra, KK Talwar, P Chopra, R Kumar
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 143-150
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Lipid-Profile-and-Apolipoprotein E Polymorphism in Essential Hypertension

AB Bhavani, KB Sastry, N Krishna Reddy, T Padma
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 151-157
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Brief Reports M-Shaped-Doppler-Signal across Ventricular-Septal-Defect:
Potential Implications for Estimation of Right Ventricuilar Systolic Pressure
JC Mohan, LR Nath
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 158-160
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Transcatheter-Closure-of Aortopulmonary Window

Manojkumar Rohit, S Nandakumar, Ajay Bahl, S Kubba, KK Talwar
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 161-163
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Device-Closure-of-Residual Ventricular-Septal-Defect after Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot Using the Amplatzer Duct Occluder

B Vaidyanathan, BRJ Kannan, R Krishna Kumar
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 164-166
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Infective-Endocarditis Following Implantation of Amplatzer Atrial Septal Occluder

Ram Prakash Balasundaram, S Anandaraja,
Rajnish Juneja, Shiv Kumar Choudhary
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 167-169
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Successful-Closure-of-Coronary Artery Perforation Using Non-Conventional Embolic Material

Vijay Kumar Trehan, Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Jamal Yusuf, 
Umamahesh C Rangasetty, Ramesh Arora
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 170-1
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Calcified-Ductal-Aneurysm-with Severe Aortic Regurgitation

Saket Agarwal, Sunil K Kaushal, Parvathi U Iyer, Poonam Khurana, Krishna S Iyer
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 172-174
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Point Of View Leukotrienes and Atherosclerosis
Zeba Khan, CD Tripathi
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 175-180
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Cardiovascular Images Multiple-Coronary-and-Aortic Aneurysms in a Young Female:
A Diagnostic Dilemma

Vineet Bhatia, NO Bansal, Viswanathan V
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 181-182
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Letters-to-the-Editor
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Infra-Hisian Mobitz Type I/ Wenckebach Block

Mukul Misra, AK Mall, M J Khan,
Department of Medicine, BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 183-184
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Is it Possible to Prevent Rheumatic Fever

DV Nair, Fomerly Expert Committee Member WHO, ICMR
Kochi
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 184-184
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Thrombolytic-Therapy for Acute-Myocardial Infarction in Acute
Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pankaj Malhotra, Department of Internal Medicine
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research,
Chandigarh
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 185-185
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Selected-Summaries  (PDF File)

The Effect of Cardiac Resynchronization on Morbidity and Mortality in Heart-Failure

Cleland John GF et al. CARE-HF investigators N Engl J Med 2005; 352: 1539-1549
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 186-186
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Effect of Glucose-Insulin-Potassium Infusion on Mortality in Patients with Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

The CREATE-ECLA Trial Group Investigators JAMA 2005; 293: 437-446
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 187-187
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Effects of Reviparin, a Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin, on Mortality, Reinfarction and Strokes in Patients with Acute-Myocardial Infarction Presenting with ST-Segment Elevation

The CREATE Trial Group Investigators JAMA 2005; 293: 427-435
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 188-188
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Effectiveness and Safety of Sirolimus-Eluting Stents in the Treatment of Restenosis after Coronary Stent Placement
(TROPICAL study)

Franz-Josef Neumann et al. Circulation 2005; 111: 2107-2111
Indian Heart Journal  March - April, 2005; 57:(2) 189-189
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