Vol 6, No 1 (February 26, 2016) - Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy

Editorial

Youyou Tu: significance of winning the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Wenxiu Liu, Yue Liu

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Original Article

Safety of anticoagulation with uninterrupted warfarin vs. interrupted dabigatran in patients requiring an implantable cardiac device

Shivanshu Madan, Purushothaman Muthusamy, Katie L. Mowers, Darryl A. Elmouchi, Bohuslav Finta, Andre J. Gauri, Alan K. Woelfel, Timothy D. Fritz, Alan T. Davis, Nagib T. Chalfoun

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Spectrum of heart diseases in children: an echocardiographic study of 1,666 subjects in a pediatric hospital, Yaounde, Cameroon

David Chelo, Félicitée Nguefack, Alain P. Menanga, Suzanne Ngo Um, Jean C. Gody, Sandra A. Tatah, Paul O. Koki Ndombo

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Percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy in juvenile mitral stenosis

Chandra Mani Adhikari, Rabi Malla, Rajib Rajbhandari, Urmila Shakya, Poonam Sharma, Nagma Shrestha, Bishal KC, Deepak Limbu, Man Bahadur KC

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Anatomic distribution of culprit lesions in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and normal ECG

Abdelmoniem Moustafa, Bernard Abi-Saleh, Mohammad El-Baba, Omar Hamoui, Wael AlJaroudi

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HDL function and subclinical atherosclerosis in juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Preethi Mani, Kiyoko Uno, MyNgan Duong, Kathy Wolski, Steven Spalding, Elaine Husni, Stephen J. Nicholls

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Evaluation of fetal echocardiography as a routine antenatal screening tool for detection of congenital heart disease

Krishnananda Nayak, Naveen Chandra G S, Ranjan Shetty, Pratap Kumar Narayan

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Review Article

Cardiac sarcoidosis—state of the art review

Edward Hulten, Saira Aslam, Michael Osborne, Siddique Abbasi, Marcio Sommer Bittencourt, Ron Blankstein

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Commentary

Coronary heart disease in sub-Saharan Africa: still rare, misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed?

Clovis Nkoke, Engelbert B. Luchuo

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Perspective

Cardiovascular diseases in Ghana within the context of globalization

Richard Ofori-Asenso, Daireen Garcia

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Imaging in Cardiology

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for myocardial perfusion and diastolic function—reference control values for women

May Bakir, Janet Wei, Michael D. Nelson, Puja K. Mehta, Afsaneh Haftbaradaran, Erika Jones, Edward Gill, Behzad Sharif, Piotr J. Slomka, Debiao Li, Chrisandra L. Shufelt, Margo Minissian, Daniel S. Berman, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Louise E. J. Thomson

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Case Report

Direct communication between the left circumflex and the right coronary arteries: a very rare coronary anomaly circulation

Marcos Danillo Peixoto Oliveira, Rafael R. César Cavalcanti, Alexandre H. Kajita, Thais Miranda, Luiz J. Kajita, Pedro E. Horta, Expedito E. Ribeiro, Pedro Alves Lemos

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