7 articles in this issue
Malladi Srinivasa Rao
Background: Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction is a potent predictor of mortality and morbidity following acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Despite the fact that elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has significantly decreased myoc... see more
Amit Varshney,Navneet Agarwal
Background: Our understanding of arrhythmias is minimal with SARS-CoV-2 virus and with the emergence of its double mutant, virtually nonexistent. Patients with the double mutant (B.1.617) SARS-CoV infection had more cardiac manifestations, ... see more
Kanchan Dongre,Yasmin Schmid,Luana Nussbaum,Clemens Winterhalder,Stefano Bassetti,Andreas Holbro,Lukas Degen,Anne B Leuppi-Taegtmeyer
Aim: Patients receiving oral anticoagulants with vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) and direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have an increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB). We compared cases of GIB associated with VKAs and DOACs in terms of risk f... see more
Deepak Sharma,Amit Rohila,Surender Deora,Mahendra Kumar Garg,Sanjeev Misra
Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It usually presents as a respiratory syndrome but also known to cause many cardiovascular complications during acute ... see more
Mustafa Musajee,Marisa Gasparini,Douglas J Stewart,Narayan Karunanithy,Manish D Sinha,Morad Sallam
Middle aortic syndrome is a rare form of renovascular disease that may present with severe hypertension during childhood. Narrowing of the abdominal aorta is often associated with narrowing of the renal and/or other visceral arteries and may be secondary ... see more
Yucel Colkesen
The existence and direction of an atrial shunt is normally diagnosed using echocardiography. A right-to-left atrial shunt, uncovered on routine computed tomography angiography, is presented. Transthoracic echocardiography verified the atrial shunt. TTE wi... see more
Bart A Mulder,Theo J Klinkenberg,Yuri Blaauw
Elimination of ventricular tachycardia with epicardial substrate may be limited due to close proximity of the phrenic nerve. In this case report we illustrate the use of a decapolar catheter in a Foley catheter for deviating the prenic nerve to safely per... see more