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Sep 2022 DOI 10.14302/issn.2329-9487.jhc-22-4252
Rama Kumari NuthalapatCorresponding author
Background Prevalence of coronary artery disease is between 7-13 percent in urban and 2-7 % in rural India1. The alarm in rise in the prevalence of coronary risk factors like diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking, central obesity and physical inactivity2. The correlation between these risk f…
Dec 2023 DOI 10.14302/issn.2329-9487.jhc-23-4848
Dangwe Temoua NaibeCorresponding author
Introduction Rheumatic heart disease is mostly common in low-income or developing parts of the world, such as Sub-Saharan Africa, with a high morbidity and mortality rate. There are few data that are available in Chad on rheumatic heart disease. Our objective was to study the clinical, echocardiogra…
Apr 2019 DOI 10.14302/issn.2641-5518.jcci-19-2700
Andrew S LaneCorresponding author
Rheumatic heart disease is becoming far less common in the developed world, and therefore expsoure to its complications are been seen less by clinicians. With the increasing ease of world travel, patients with less commonly seen medical conditions are increasingly presenting to Hospitals requiring m…
Nov 2016
Mukhamad Sami ValidCorresponding author
Right atrial thrombi are a remarkable phenomenon especially when witnessed live on the monitor during echocardiographic study. They represent a clot en passant caught in the middle of travel to final destination in the pulmonary vasculature. In this paper we present two cases that show us the ambiva…
Jan 2013 DOI 10.14302/issn.2329-9487.jhc-12-63
Carsten WunderlichCorresponding author
Introduction: Elevated serum troponin levels are a reliable indicator of right ventricular wall stress in patients with acute pulmonary artery embolism (PE). Raised troponin levels have been shown to predict adverse clinical outcome in these individuals. In this context it was our aim to determine t…