INDIAN HEART JOURNAL
Official Publication of the Cardiological Society of India
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Editorial Comment
Regenerative Therapy for the Heart: In Search of the “Adam’s Rib” 437
Pankaj Manoria, Suman Bhandari
State-of-the-Art Papers
Mechanical Valves: Current Perspective 440
Arkalgud Sampath Kumar, Velayudham Devagourou
Angiotensin Receptor Blockers: Current Status and Future Prospects 443
Sumit Kumar, C Venkata S Ram
Original Articles
Premedication for Coronary Angiography: Effects on Anxiety and Hemodynamic Status 454
Ali Kazemisaeid, Ali Mohammad Haji Zeinali, Gholamreza Davoodi, Alireza Amirzadegan, Mohammad Saheb Jam,
Maria Raissi Dehkordi, Farnoosh Azadbakht, Maryam Abedini
Percutaneous Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale without Echocardiographic Guidance 459
Peiman Jamshidi, Andreas Wahl, Stephan Windecker, Markus Schwerzmann,
Christian Seiler, Bernhard Meier
The Relation of HOMA Index with Endothelial Functions Determined by Flow Mediated
Dilatation Method among Hyperglycemic Patients 463
Turgut Karabag˘, Ahmet Kaya, Safa Yavuz, Coskun Kaya, Fatih Koc, Ekrem Yeter
Takayasu Arteritis: Clinical and CT- Angiography Profile of 25 Patients and A Brief Review
of Literature 468
Mukesh Kumar Yadav
The Potential of Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells to Form Colonies Is Inversely
Proportional to Total Vascular Risk Score in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease 475
Savneet Kaur, Karunakaran Jayakumar and Chandrasekharan C Kartha
Bone Marrow Cells for Myocardial Repair—A New Therapeutic Concept 482
Vinod K Shah, Vivek Tanavde, Arvind J Desai, Bhavin J Jankharia, Jagdish B Vasvani, Satish S Desai,
Mukesh M Desai, Bharat P Shah. Tilak K Lall, Manoj R Mashru, Kavita K Shalia
Case Reports
Acute Amiodarone Hepatotoxicity 491
Vaibhav Dedhia, SC Munsi
Weight Loss Supplement Provoked Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia 494
Shailendra Upadhyay, Mazhar Afaq, Shweta Upadhyay, Stuart Zarich, Craig McPherson
Atrial Fibrillation and Electrical Remodeling in Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis—Cause or Effect? 497
Harminder Singh, Yash Lokhandwala, Ganapati Bhat Keshavamurthy, Charanjit Singh
Tricuspid Atresia with Truncus Arteriosus: An Uncommon Association 503
Pankaj Bajpai, Sejal Shah, PV Suresh, Sunita Maheshwari, Shekhar Rao
Masquerading Sub Mitral Aneurysm 506
Vinayak Agarwal, Rahul Mehrotra, Simmi Manocha, Sunita Chugh, Ravi R Kasliwal
Submitral Aneurysm: A Rare Echocardiographic Finding 508
Pankaj Manoria, Hemang Baxi, Milan Chag
Images in Cardiology
An Interesting Rare Case of Anomalous Left Anterior Descending Artery Arising from the Right
Coronary Artery 509
Ryan J D’souza, Narayan G Gadkar, Haresh G Mehta
Nov–Dec, 2007
Volume 59, No. 6
ISSN 0019-4832
wOfficial Publication of the Cardiological Society of India
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Contents
Letter to the Editor
Feasibility and Safety of Autologous Intracoronary Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients of
Non Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy 511
Mohan Nair, S Mukherjee, NS Ahluwalia, AK Vaid, Neeraj Kumar
Guidelines
National Consensus Meeting on “Management of Congenital Heart Diseases in India”
Held on 26th August 2007 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi,
India, Supported by Cardiological Society of India 515
Amita Saxena
Trials and Guidelines
Recent Landmark Trials 2007 522
Peeyush Jain, Suman Bhandari
Interventional Council Data
The Report of the Coronary Cardiac Interventions Registry of India The Cardiological
Society of India for the year 2006 528
Sameer Dani, Nakul Sinha, Balram Bhargava, Vidyut Jain, YV Reddy, Pranab Biswas, Jayesh Prajapati
Book Review
Review of the Book Entitled “How to Beat the Heart Disease Epidemic Among South Asians” 531
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Indian Heart J 2007; 59(6): 437–439 437