Brahim Nassour A., Hissein Hagguir, Noel Mahoungou, Harouna Seydou, Fadoul Adam, Salim Arous, Leila Azzouzi, Abdel Nasser Dirghil & Rachida Habbal·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2021
Spontaneous psoas haematoma in patients on anti-coagulant therapy is a rare phenomenon. It poses a real diagnostic problem and a real therapeutic challenge. We report the case of a 51 year old patient, under anti-vitamin K (acenocoumarone) following a stenosante and tricuspid mit...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2021/v10i430177
Background: Individuals with prediabetes have multiple disturbances in lipoprotein metabolism resulting from multiple combinations of insulin deficiency, insulin resistance and hyperglycemia. Dyslipidemia is the commonest complication of prediabetes and diabetes, and it predispos...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2021/v10i430176
Mariana Molinar Mauad Cintra, Matheus Ribeiro Bizuti, Octávio Barbosa Neto, Marlene Antônia dos Reis, Lenaldo Branco Rocha & Débora Tavares de Resende e Silva·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2021
Background: Hypertension is the most prevalent of all cardiovascular diseases, reaching target organs such as the heart. Blood pressure control is critical for preventing organ damage induced by hypertension. Objective: To analyze blood pressure, heart rate, left ventricular thic...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2021/v10i430175
Background: Coronary heart disease is a major cause of mortality and this health problem is reaching pandemic in both developed, and developing countries. ACS carries significant morbidity and mortality and the prompt diagnosis, and appropriate treatment is essential. HR was iden...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2021/v10i430174
Aim: The aim was to validate the Systolic Time Intervals (STI) measured by Ballistocardiography (BCG) with STI derived from simultaneously performed Transthoracic Echocardiogram (TTE) and attempt to create an AI algorithm that automatically calculates Tei Index from BCG tracings....
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2021/v10i430173
Background: Non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia with a prevalence as high as 1.5±2.0% in the general population. This arrhythmia remains one of the major causes of stroke, heart failure, sudden death, and cardiovascular morbidity in the wor...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2021/v10i330172
Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the effect of Calamari Oil on lipid profile levels in diabetes streptozotocin induced diabetic Rats. Study design: An experimental study. Place and duration of study: Animal House, Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers St...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2021/v10i330171
Background: Coronary artery disease is considered a major cause of death in both male and female subjects in the developed world and carries a risk of several complications. Multiple scores have been developed in order to set risk stratification and predict the outcomes for ische...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2021/v10i330170
Recurrent attacks of rheumatic fever can lead to mitral stenosis. In a country like India mitral stenosis can develop in the first decade of life. Our patient presented with recurrent mitral stenosis at twelve years of age. He had undergone balloon mitral valvotomy at the age of...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2021/v10i330169
Carla Eugenia Arenas Alvarez, Juan Carlos Marin Mireles, Hebert Israel Flores Leal, Ana Norma Griselda Becerril Gonzalez & Carlos Mario Guzman Sanchez·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2021
Aims: To describe a case of neonatal lupus and complete atrioventricular block in Mexico. Presentation of case: A 38 years old pregnant patient at 28 + 6 weeks of gestational age, diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus six years ago, under treatment with hydroxychloroquine...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2021/v10i330168
This was a comparative cross-sectional study where the left ventricular dimensions and functional parameters of 41 children (aged 1 to 18 years) with sickle cell anaemia were compared with those of 52 age-and-sex matched HbAA controls using transthoracic echocardiography. Majorit...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2021/v10i230167
Background: Double Inlet Left Ventricle (DILV) with transposition of the great vessels is rare in children with congenital heart disease. We present two cases seen at a paediatric echocardiography centre. Baby ND is a 28-day old female who presented with respiratory distress and...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2021/v10i230166
Background: The CHA2Ds2-VASC was was revealed to be a predictor for thromboembolism event in patients who do not have atrial fibrillation or who have supra ventricular arrhythmia. The aim of this work was to evaluate the role of CHA2DS2 – VASC score in prediction of coronary arte...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2021/v10i230165
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