Heart valve replacements are commonly performed these days in India with mitral valve replacement being most common of all. Thromboemboli are a major source of morbidity in patients with prosthetic heart valves. The incidence of clinically recognizable events ranges from 0.6% to...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2020/v9i230130
In countries like India rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is still a common problem, and with improvements in diagnosis and treatment, the lifespan of these patients is increased. With increase in the lifespan, these patients may develop coronary artery disease (CAD) and present as a...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430111
Congenital obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract comprises a heterogeneous group of disorders, with obstruction potentially occurring below, above, or at the level of the aortic valve. Subvalvular stenosis is the second most common type of left ventricular outflow tra...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430112
Super-dominant right coronary artery and the absent left circumflex artery is a rare congenital coronary anomaly, with only a few cases reported in the literature. Left anterior descending artery arises directly from the left anterior coronary cusp. Rare coronary anomalies are so...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430114
Electrocardiographic changes in myocarditis mimic a wide range of ECG diagnoses ranging from ST-elevation myocardial infarction to complete heart block. We report a case of acute myocarditis in a young female with a wide range of ECG changes that mimic ST-elevation myocardial inf...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430117
Transcatheter device closure is the treatment of choice in patients with secundum atrial septal defects with adequate rims. It is technically safe, feasible and has the obvious advantage of being a nonsurgical technique. Patient is free from the scar especially young, unmarried f...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430115
Post-infarction ventricular septal rupture (VSR) is a rare but lethal mechanical complication of acute myocardial infarction. The incidence of VSR has decreased from 1-3% following ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the pre-reperfusion era to 0.17-0.31% following prima...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430119
Patent ductus arteriosus accounts for 5 – 10% of all congenital heart disease in children. Currently, transcatheter closure is standard of care. Device closure in PDA is usually done by an antegrade technique where PDA is crossed from the PA side. In some patients, this universa...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430122