March - April, 2004 Volume 56, No. 2 ISSN 0019-4832

Editorial


Prehospital-Thrombolysis: A Reappraisal

Sandeep Singh, VK Bahl
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 93-98

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Review Articles

Remodeling in Systolic Heart-Failure: Therapeutic Implications

Kanu Chatterjee
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 99-109

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Original Articles

Control-of-Rate-versus-Rhythm-in-Rheumatic-Atrial Fibrillation: A Randomized Study

Amit Vora, Dilip Karnad, Venkat Goyal, Ajay Naik, Anup Gupta,
Yash Lokhandwala, Hema Kulkarni, Bramah Singh
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 110-116

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Carotid-Intima-Media-Thickness-and-Brachial-Ankle Pulse Wave Velocity in Patients with and without Coronary Artery Disease

Ravi R Kasliwal, Manish Bansal, Kartikeya Bhargava, Hansa Gupta,
Sharad Tandon, Vinayak Agrawal
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 117-122

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Coronary-Angioplasty-in-a-Case-of-Quadriostial-Origin-of Coronary Arteries from Right Aortic Sinus
Aditya Kapoor, Sudeep Kumar, Nakul Sinha
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 123-128

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Terminalia Arjuna
Reverses Impaired Endothelial Function in Chronic Smokers
Anil Bharani, Lalit Kumar Ahirwar, Neeraj Jain
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 129-131

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Prevalence-of-Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with Rheumatic Heart Disease in the Current Era
V Jacob Jose, Satya N Gupta, George Joseph, Sunil Thomas Chandy,
Oommen K George, Purendra Kumar Pati, Bobby John, Paul George
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 132-139

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Transcatheter-Closure-of-Coronary-Artery-Fistulas
Vijay Trehan, Jamal Yusuf, Saibal Mukhopadhyay,
Umamahesh C Rangasetty, Vimal Mehta, Mohit D Gupta, DS Gambhir, R Arora
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 140-142

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Effect-of-Smoking-on-QT-Interval-QT-Dispersion-and-Rate Pressure Product

K Singh
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 143-146

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Brief Reports

Balloon-Valvuloplasty-of-Stenosed-Carpentier-Edwards Bioprosthesis at Pulmonary Position
Abraham Oomman, P Ramachandran, K Subramanyan
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 147-149

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Right Ventricular Pacing via Left Superior Vena Cava

Santosh Kumar Dora, Jagan Mohan Tharakan, Ajith Kumar
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 150-151

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Effect-of-Smoking-on-QT-Interval-QT-Dispersion-and-RateAortic Stenosis and Coronary Ostial Stenosis in Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia

J Srimannarayana, RS Varma, S Satheesh, R Anilkumar, J Balachander
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 152-154

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Unruptured-Sinus-of-Valsalva-Aneurysm-Presenting-as Acute Coronary Syndrome
A Sharda, OP Yadava, Sumir Dubey, R Ghadiok
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 155-157

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Difficult-Percutaneous-Transvenous-Mitral Commissurotomy:

A New Technique for Left Atrium to Left Ventricular Entry
Vijay Trehan, Vimal Mehta, Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Jamal Yusuf, UA Kaul
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 158-162

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Current Perspective

Role-of-Oxidative-Stress-in-Coronary-Heart-Disease
Jiawei Chen, Jawahar L Mehta
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 163-173

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Cardiovascular Images

Blood-Filled-Cysts-of-Heart

V Jacob Jose, Satya N Gupta, Saji Jose, Binila Chacko,
Prakash K Abraham, OC Abraham, Bobby John, Sunil Thomas Chandy
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 174-175

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Letters-to-the-Editor (PDF File)


Adverse Interactions between Low-Dose Aspirin/ Warfarin and Garlic / Ginseng / Ginkgo biloba

Jaswant Rai
Department of Pharmacology, Government Medical College, Amritsar
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 176-176

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Use of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in the Context of Electrocardiographic Criteria Needs Reconsideration
Uttam Kumar Patnaik
Department of Cardiology, SCB Medical College, Cuttack
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 177-177

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The-Modified-Inoue-Technique: A Simple Trouble Shooting Approach to Proximal Segment Tear of an Inoue Balloon

Rakesh B Gupta, Suniel B Dalal
Department of Cardiology, NHL Municipal Medical College
and VS General Hospital, Ahmedabad
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 178-178
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Intraoperative Endocardial Ablation of Chronic Atrial Fibrillation along with Mitral Valve Surgery using High Frequency Ultrasound with a Ball-tipped Harmonic Scalpel Probe
Amit Banerjee, Sandeep Singh, Deepak K Tempe
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Anaesthesiology
GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 178-180

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Selected-Summaries  (PDF File)


A Randomized Trial Comparing Myocardial Salvage Achieved by Coronary Stenting versus Balloon Angioplasty in Patients with Acute-Myocardial Infarction considered Ineligible for Reperfusion Therapy
A Kastrati et al.STOP-AMI 3 study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004; 43: 734-741
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 181-181

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Impact of Sirolimus-Eluting Stents on Outcome in Diabetic Patients

I Moussa et al. SIRIUS substudy. Circulation 2004; 109: 2273-2278
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 182-182

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Comparison of Intensive and Moderate Lipid Lowering with Statins after Acute Coronary Syndromes

Christopher P Canon et al. PROVE IT - TIMI22 Study N Engl J Med 2004; 305: 1495-1504
Indian Heart Journal March - April, 2004;56:(2) 183-183

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