Vol 6, No 1 (February 26, 2016): Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy

Original Article

Safety of anticoagulation with uninterrupted warfarin vs. interrupted dabigatran in patients requiring an implantable cardiac device
Shivanshu Madan, Purushothaman Muthusamy, Katie L. Mowers, Darryl A. Elmouchi, Bohuslav Finta, Andre J. Gauri, Alan K. Woelfel, Timothy D. Fritz, Alan T. Davis, Nagib T. Chalfoun
Spectrum of heart diseases in children: an echocardiographic study of 1,666 subjects in a pediatric hospital, Yaounde, Cameroon
David Chelo, Félicitée Nguefack, Alain P. Menanga, Suzanne Ngo Um, Jean C. Gody, Sandra A. Tatah, Paul O. Koki Ndombo
Percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy in juvenile mitral stenosis
Chandra Mani Adhikari, Rabi Malla, Rajib Rajbhandari, Urmila Shakya, Poonam Sharma, Nagma Shrestha, Bishal KC, Deepak Limbu, Man Bahadur KC
Anatomic distribution of culprit lesions in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and normal ECG
Abdelmoniem Moustafa, Bernard Abi-Saleh, Mohammad El-Baba, Omar Hamoui, Wael AlJaroudi
HDL function and subclinical atherosclerosis in juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Preethi Mani, Kiyoko Uno, MyNgan Duong, Kathy Wolski, Steven Spalding, Elaine Husni, Stephen J. Nicholls
Evaluation of fetal echocardiography as a routine antenatal screening tool for detection of congenital heart disease
Krishnananda Nayak, Naveen Chandra G S, Ranjan Shetty, Pratap Kumar Narayan

Review Article

Cardiac sarcoidosis—state of the art review
Edward Hulten, Saira Aslam, Michael Osborne, Siddique Abbasi, Marcio Sommer Bittencourt, Ron Blankstein

Imaging in Cardiology

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for myocardial perfusion and diastolic function—reference control values for women
May Bakir, Janet Wei, Michael D. Nelson, Puja K. Mehta, Afsaneh Haftbaradaran, Erika Jones, Edward Gill, Behzad Sharif, Piotr J. Slomka, Debiao Li, Chrisandra L. Shufelt, Margo Minissian, Daniel S. Berman, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Louise E. J. Thomson

Case Report

Direct communication between the left circumflex and the right coronary arteries: a very rare coronary anomaly circulation
Marcos Danillo Peixoto Oliveira, Rafael R. César Cavalcanti, Alexandre H. Kajita, Thais Miranda, Luiz J. Kajita, Pedro E. Horta, Expedito E. Ribeiro, Pedro Alves Lemos

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