May - June, 2002 Volume 54, No. 3 ISSN 0019-4832
Editorial

Primary-Pulmonary Hypertension An Update
SS Kothari, VK Bahl
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  255-260
 
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Review Articles


Renal Artery Stenosis: Diagnosis and Management
Robin G Woolfson, M Khalilur Rahman, Shahzad Saeed

Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  261-265 

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Original Articles


Racial-Variation-in Risk-Factors-and-Occurrence-of Acute  Myocardial Infarction: Comparison Between Arab and South  Asian Men in Kuwait
Cheriyil G Suresh, Mohammad Zubaid, Lukman Thalib, 
Wafa Rashed, Thomas David
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  266-270 

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Congenital-Coronary-Anomalies-of Origin and Distribution in Adults:  A Coronary Arteriographic Study 
S Harikrishnan, Sonney P Jacob,  Jaganmohan Tharakan, 
Thomas Titus, VK Ajith Kumar,  Anil Bhat, S Sivasankaran, 
Francis Bimal,  KM Krishna Moorthy, R Padma Kumar
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  271-275 

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Pulmonary-Autograft-Mitral-Valve Replacement: Initial Experience With the Ross II Procedure
S Roy, A Mohanty, A Sampath Kumar
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  276-278
 
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Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery 
Yugal Mishra, Mitesh Sharma, Ramesh Bapna, 
Rajneesh Malhotra, Yatin Mehta, Krishan Kant Sharma, 
Sameer Shrivastava, Naresh Trehan
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  279-283 

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Relation-of-C-Reactive-Protein-Levels-to-Presence, Extent, and Severity of Angiographic Coronary Artery Disease
J Auer, M Rammer, R Berent, T Weber, E Lassnig, B Eber
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  284-288 

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Autologous-Right-Atrial-Patch-for Closure of Atrial Septal Defect
Arkalgud Sampath Kumar, Shiv Kumar Choudhary, Ruma Ray, 
Sachin Talwar, Rajnish Juneja
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  289-291 

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Brief Reports


Unusual ST-T Changes in Ebstein's Anomaly With Occlusion of a Nondominant Coronary Artery

Ravinder Batra, Mohan Nair, Sanjiv Bhardwaj, UA Kaul, Ramesh Arora
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  292-294 

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Massive Primary Chylopericardium in an Infant
Sivadasan Radha Anil, Padmanaban Manoj, Aarti Hejmadi, R Krishna Kumar
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  295-296
 
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Sildenafil-in-the-Management-of-Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
Balbir Singh, Ripen Gupta, Vandana Punj, Tapan Ghose, 
Rakesh Sapra, DN Grover, Upendra Kaul
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  297-300 

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Aortoarteritis-with-Systemic-Lupus Erythematosus and Secondary  Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome: A Rare Association
Ajay Gupta, Nishith Chandra, TS Kler
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  301-303 

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Left-Ventricle-Dynamics-During-Pulsus Alternans:  Insights From Tissue Velocity Imaging
Partho P Sengupta, Jagdish C Mohan, Samanjay Mukherjee, Ramesh Arora
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  304-305 
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Interventional-Therapy-for-Multiple Cardiac Defects
Neurovascular Rescue for Embolic Stroke Following  Atrial Septal Defect Closure
MA Joy, Anand Kumar, KV Hariprasad, Prakash Kamath, KK Haridas
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  309-311 

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Current Perspective
Management-of-Atrial-Fibrillation with Reference to Valvular Heart Disease
Davendra Mehta, Joydeep Ghosh
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  312-320 

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Cardiovascular Images
Isolated-Left-Ventricular Noncompaction in an Adult
G Karthikeyan, Anita Saxena
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  321-322

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Letters-to-the-Editor (
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Pollution, Cytokines and Atherosclerosis: An Indian Perspective
Anoop Misra and Naval K Vikram
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  323-324 

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5-Fluorouracil-Associated Cardiotoxicity
Sushil Kumar Roosia
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  325-325
 
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Graded Balloon Atrial Septostomy in Severe Pulmonary Hypertension
R Tandon
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  326-326 
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Selected-Summaries  (PDF File)

Randomized Trial of a Distal Embolic Protection Device During  Percutaneous Intervention of Saphenous Vein Aorto-Coronary
Bypass Grafts

SAFER Trial Investigators. Circulation 2002; 105: 1285 1290
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  327-327 
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Efficacy and Safety of Ezetimibe Co-Administered With  Atorvastatin or Simvastatin in Patients With Homozygous 
Familial Hypercholesterolemia
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2475
Ezetimibe Study Group. Circulation 2002; 105: 2469
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  328-328 
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Impact of Clinical Syndrome Acuity on the Differential Response  to Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitors in Patients Undergoing Coronary Stenting
The TARGET Trial Investigators. Circulation 2002; 105: 2347-2354
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  329-329 
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Efficacy and Safety of Intravenous Levosimendan Compared with Dobutamine  in Severe Low-Output Heart-Failure  (The LIDO Study): a Randomized Double-Blind Trial
Levosimindan Infusion versus Dobutamine (LIDO) Study 
Investigators. Lancet 2002; 360: 196-202
Indian Heart Journal May - June, 2002;54:(3)  330-330 
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