Background: Patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) complicated by heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) are at increased risk for malignant ventricular arrhythmias due to ischemia-related electrical instability and impaired repolarization reserve (Al-Khatib et...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2026/v15i1523
Background: Severe valvular pulmonary stenosis (PS) in adults and elderly patients is uncommon and technically challenging due to large annuli, dysplastic or calcified valves, and suboptimal performance of standard balloons. The Accura balloon—originally designed for mitral valvo...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2026/v15i1522
Background: Although Plasmodium falciparum is classically associated with severe malaria, Plasmodium vivax—once thought to cause only benign disease—is now recognized as capable of producing life-threatening complications, including acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), ren...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2025/v14i4517
Kalyan Munde, Rahul Sonawane, Samkit Mutha, Anant Munde, Ruchit Shah, Khalil Shaikh, Jaykrishna Nihari, Anagh T S, Prasad Jain, Vaishali Gaba, Divya Kantak, Sandip Ghoti, Suvarna Thorat & Dhanlaxmi Chettiar·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2025
We describe a 72-year-old female with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), atrial fibrillation, and a large ostium secundum atrial septal defect (ASD), who presented with progressive dyspnea, hypoxemia, and acute COPD exacerbation. Despite advanced age, lung disease, arr...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2025/v14i4509
Iatrogenic left main (LM) dissection is a rare but life-threatening complication of PCI that can result in abrupt occlusion of both LAD and LCX, especially when the LCX is dominant, leading to hemodynamic collapse and conduction disturbances such as complete heart block (CHB). We...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2025/v14i4508
Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is present in approximately 20–25% of the general population but is implicated in only a small subset of ischemic strokes, particularly in young adults with cryptogenic events. Stroke in individuals under 45 years accounts for only 10–15% of all ischemi...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2025/v14i4503
Kalyan Munde, Gaurav Kothari, Prasad Jain, Samkit Mutha, Anant Munde, Ruchit Shah, Jaykrishna Nihari, Salman Shaikh, Khaleel Shaikh, Vaishali Gaba, Vighnesh Rane & Anil Kumar Gupta·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2025
Paravalvular leaks (PVLs) are increasingly recognized after valve replacement procedures, resulting from factors such as incomplete sealing, suture dehiscence, or annular calcification. Mitral PVLs are particularly common and can lead to symptoms ranging from mild dyspnea to seve...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2025/v14i2487
The main objective of Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty (BMV) is to relieve the symptoms of Mitral stenosis (MS) by percutaneous approach and avoiding valve replacement surgery. However, complications like rupture of the Aortic root or heart chamber can lead to hemopericardium and eve...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2024/v13i4446
Situs inversus with dextrocardia is a rare congenital disorder. There is a rare coincidence of rheumatic severe mitral stenosis in a patient with situs inversus and dextrocardia. Most of these patients undergo surgery due to technical difficulty, here we report a case of a 41-yea...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2024/v13i2412
Background: Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a chronic granulomatous large-vessel vasculitis that predominantly affects young women. Although vascular stenosis involving the aorta and its branches is characteristic, cardiac manifestations are heterogeneous and include coronary artery d...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2026/v15i3561
Background: Takayasu arteritis (TA) and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) are distinct vascular disorders with complementary mechanisms of arterial injury. Their coexistence may create an inflammatory-thrombotic “double-hit” phenotype characterised by premature atherosclerotic-appe...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2026/v15i3560
Holt-Oram syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by upper limb abnormalities in association with congenital heart lesions. We present you a 42 years old female having ostium secundum atrial septal defect (OS-ASD) and congenital upper limb deformity. Her X-ray of...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2024/v13i4461
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) diagnosis can be challenging, particularly in young patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We report a 10-year-old female presenting with suspected sinus venosus atrial septal defect (ASD) with Eisenmengerisation, later diagnosed with primar...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2024/v13i4439
Chronic mesenteric ischemia (intestinal angina) is a condition that is caused by stenosis or occlusion of the mesenteric arteries (Superior mesenteric artery, inferior mesenteric artery and celiac artery) and usually manifest as abdominal pain which is usually post - prandial in...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2021/v10i230164
Coronary trifurcation lesions are a complex group of lesions. Percutaneous intervention of such trifurcation lesions which involve left anterior descending artery, left circumflex artery and RAMUS artery is difficult task. Trifurcating coronary artery disease is a complex atheros...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2021/v10i230163
Background: Ventricular septal rupture (VSR) is an uncommon but potentially fatal mechanical complication of acute myocardial injury. Although surgical repair remains the conventional treatment, transcatheter closure is increasingly used in selected high-risk patients for whom de...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2026/v15i3564
Aim: Single coronary artery is a rare anomaly. Patients may present with syncope, angina or rarely sudden cardiac death. Presentation of Case: Patient presented with dyspnea on exertion for one year. On 2D Echo patient had small restrictive VSD. On coronary angiography single cor...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2020/v9i430139
Stent Entrapment is a rare complication of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention if left in situ may cause intracoronary or systemic embolization, thrombus formation, emergent coronary artery bypass graft surgery, or death. We here present a case of 2 unexpanded Drug eluting stent e...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430121