Nov - Dec, 2005 Volume 57, No. 6 ISSN 0019-4832

Editorial


Indian Heart Journal - Onward Expedition

V K Bahl
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 615-616
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Review Articles

Coronary Artery Disease in South Asians: Evolving Strategies for Treatment and Prevention
Prakash Deedwania, Vibhuti Singh
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 617-631
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Burden of Coronary Heart Disease in India
Rajeev Gupta
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 632-638
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Management of Hypertension: Diagnosis and Lifestyle Modification
Arun Chockalingam, Norm Campbell
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 639-643
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Management of Hypertension: Pharmacotherapy
Norm Campbell, Arun Chockalingam
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 644-647
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Original Articles

Comparative Efficacy of Once daily Parnaparin and Unfractionated Heparin in Unstable Angina Pectoris : PRIME CARE Study
PRIME CARE Study Investigators Group
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 648-654
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VWf Levels As A Circulating Marker of Endothelial Dysfunction in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Ercan Varol, Mehmet Ozaydin, Mehmet Sahin, Ahmet Altinbas, Feridun Kosar
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 655-657
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Profile-and-Prevalence of Aspirin Resistance in Indian Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
PA Sadiq, Aniket Puri, Madhu Dixit, A Ghatak, Sudhanshu K Dwivedi,
Varun S Narain, Ram K Saran, Vijay K Puri
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 658-661
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Morphometric-Analysis of Fossa Ovalis in Rheumatic Heart Disease
Rohan G Chaudhari, Sweety V Shinde, Jaya R Deshpande
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 662-665
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Acute Hemodynamic Effects of Nicorandil in Patients with Primary Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Rakesh Yadav, S Anandaraja, Balram Bhargava, Rakesh Jindal, Kewal C Goswami
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 666-669
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Prevalence, Prognostic Importance and Therapeutic Implications of Anemia in Heart-Failure
Trinath K Mishra, Sura K Mishra, Nirmal K Mohanty, Pravin K Rath
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 670-674
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Prevention of Atherosclerosis Progression Using Atorvastatin in Normolipidemic Coronary Artery Disease Patients - A Controlled Randomized Trial
Anand Shukla, Mukesh K Sharma, Alkesh Jain, Pravin K Goel
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 675-680
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Transradial Primary Angioplasty and Stenting in Indian Patients with Acute-Myocardial Infarction: Acute Results and 6-month Follow-up
Alok Ranjan, Tejas M Patel, Sanjay C Shah, Hemant Malhotra, Rajni Patel, Nishith Vayada,
Rasesh Pothiwala, Keith Fonseca, Narendra S Tanwar
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 681-687
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Port-Access Approach for Cardiac Surgical Procedures: Our Experience in 776 Patients
Yugal K Mishra, Surendra N Khanna, Harpreet Wasir, KK Sharma, Yatin Mehta, Naresh Trehan
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 688-693
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Left Ventricular Systolic and Diastolic Functions in Patients with Sickle Cell Anemia
Amar Taksande, Krishna Vilhekar, Mainsh Jain, Bharti Ganvir
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 694-697
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Transcatheter-Closure-of Perimembranous Ventricular Septal Defect with Amplatzer Membranous Occluder
SR Anil, Raghavan Sreekanth, Sanjay Bhalerao, R Nagarajan, Rohit Agarwal, NB Girish
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 698-703
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Brief Reports

Angioplasty of Congenital Pulmonary Vein Stenosis
Harminder Singh, Charanjit Singh, Naveen Aggarwal, Anil Kumar
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 709-712
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Single Therapeutic Catheterization for Treatment of Native Coarctation-of-Aorta and Large Patent Ductus Arteriosus Using a Covered Stent
Snehal Kulkarni, J Vimala, Ramesh Parmar
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 713-716
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Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillatory Implantation in a Patient with Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava and Right Superior Vena Cava Atresia
Vanita Arora, Jitender Singh, TS Kler
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 717-719
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Balloon-Expandable Covered Stent Repair of Massive Abdominal Pseudo Aneurysm Pravin K Goel, Anand Shukla
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 720-722
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Heart-Failure: A Unique Presentation of Typical Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
Satish C Toal, Anand Rao, Sheetal Shetty, Yash Lokhandwala
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 723-724
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Left Internal Mammary Artery to Pulmonary Vasculature Fistulae Closed with Particle Embolizaton: New Form of Percutaneous Intervention
Rajiv Passey, Vipin K Talwar, Rajneesh Jain, Vijay K Chopra, Shakir Hussain, Purshottam K Khanna
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 725-727
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Complete Heart Block following Occlusion of the First Septal Perforator after Coronary Stenting
Ramakrishna Pillai V, Rachel Daniel, Dennis J Joseph
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 728-730
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A Case of Giant Aneurysm following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Monotosh Panja, Soumik Basu, Saroj Mondol
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 731-733
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Acute-Myocardial Infarction Secondary to Myocardial Bridge Treated with Drug-Eluting Stent
Harminder Singh, Charanjit Singh, A Kumar, N Aggarwal, A Banerji
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 734-737
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Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease In Indians: A Case-Control Study from Eastern India
Santanu Guha, Arnab Ghosh, Niloy Chatterjee, Subrata Pal, Sharmila Guha,
Sourangshu Chatterjee, Pradip Kumar Deb, Buddhadeb Dawn
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 738-740
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Recanalization of a Single Functioning Kidney
Paul V George, Purendra Kumar Pati, Sunil Thomas Chandy, Satya Gupta, Viji Samuel
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 741-743
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Isolated Thrombus-producing Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction: An Unusual Presentation of Primary Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
Anisha Prabhakar, Ravi S Dalmia, Namrata Gaur, Poonam Khurana, Naresh Trehan
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 744-746
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Current Perspective

Peripheral Vascular Diseases : An Update on Endovascular Therapy
Michel Henry, PC Rath, Chris Klonaris, Athanasios Katsargyris, Isabelle Henry, Michéle Hugel
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 747-766
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Point Of View

Induced Subcutaneous Nodules in the Diagnosis of Acute Rheumatic Fever
R Tandon
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 767-768
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Short QT Syndrome. What is it? Where is it?
VK Puri, SK Dwivedi, Aniket Puri, Karun Behal
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 769-771
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COX-2 Inhibitors and Heart
Pankaj Manoria, PC Manoria
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 772-777
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APSC Report

50 Years of the Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology in Retrospect: Long-Term Perspective
S Padmavati
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 778-779
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Cardiovascular Images  

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Effusive Constrictive Pericarditis
Gaurav Khera, Veena Chowdhury, Sapna Singh, Rashmi Dixit
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 780-782
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Letters-to-the-Editor  (PDF File)  

Traumatic Pseudoaneurysm and Arteriovenous Fistula of Common Carotid Artery
Vijay Trehan, Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Jamal Yusuf, Mohit D Gupta,
P Nand Kishore, Vimal Mehta, Sanjay Tyagi
GB Pant Hospital and Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 783-784
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ST Elevation is Not Always a Sign of Coronary Artery Disease

Parag Gharde, Sandeep Chauhan, Sanjeev Patra
Departments of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Cardiology,
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 785-785
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Mild Mitral Regurgitation on Color Doppler Echocardiography: A Diagnostic Dilemma
Savitri Shrivastava
Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 786-786
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Screening for Pre-Clinical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy by Tissue Doppler Imaging
George Thomas, Indira Gnadhi Co-operative Hospital, Kochi
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 787-787
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Transmitral Doppler Flow Velocities in Uncomplicated Maturity Onset Diabetics below 50 years
SR Mittal
XI/101, Brahampuri, Ajmer, Rajasthan
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 788-788
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Acute Effects of Smoking on Blood Pressure: Implications for Blood Pressure Measurements
M Vaz, D Nazareth, Sucharita S
St John's Medical College, Bangalore
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 789-789
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Selected-Summaries  (PDF File) 

Rescue Angioplasty after Failed Thrombolytic-Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction
Gershlick AH et al. For REACT investigators. N Engl J Med 2005; 353: 2758-2768
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 790-790
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High-Dose Atorvastatin vs Usual- Dose Simvastatin for Secondary Prevention after Myocardial Infarction

Pedersen TR et al. For IDEAL study group. JAMA 2005; 294: 2437-2445
Indian Heart Journal  November - December, 2005; 57:(6) 791-791
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