Elusive Cardiac Angiosarcoma in a Young Pregnant Female: Rare Presentation With Fatal Outcome [0.03%]
年轻孕妇心脏血管肉瘤的罕见表现及致命结局
Abdelkarim Waness,Amal A Batoon,Imran Mirza et al.
Abdelkarim Waness et al.
Heart tumors are rare occurrences. They can present diagnostic challenges and severe complications especially in pregnant women. We report a rare case of angiosarcoma (AS) cordis of the right atrium in a young healthy pregnant female. Her d...
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Cardiology research. 2015 Jun;6(3):292-296. DOI:10.14740/cr402w 2015
Santosh Kumar Sinha,Chandra Mohan Verma,Vinay Krishna et al.
Santosh Kumar Sinha et al.
ALCAPA syndrome (anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery) is an exceedingly rare disease but lethal with clinical expression from myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure to death during early infancy a...
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Cardiology research. 2015 Jun;6(3):289-291. DOI:10.14740/cr400w 2015
Ping-Pong Mitral Stenosis: Left Atrial Myxoma With Mitral Stenosis and Pulmonary Hypertension in an Octogenarian [0.03%]
八旬老人房间隔黏液瘤合并二尖瓣狭窄和肺动脉高压一例——乒乓球效应现象
Prem Krishna Anandan,Natesh Bengaluru Hanumanthappa,Prabhavathi Bhat et al.
Prem Krishna Anandan et al.
Left atrial (LA) myxoma presenting with symptoms of mitral stenosis in elderly males is very rare accounting for 10% of the cases. We report an 80-year-old male who presented with symptoms of orthopnea and palpitations and was subsequently ...
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Cardiology research. 2015 Jun;6(3):286-288. DOI:10.14740/cr399w 2015
Waqas Jehangir,Michael Stanton,Rafay Khan et al.
Waqas Jehangir et al.
Cannabis is a substance that contains compounds that bind cannabinoid receptors, CB1 and CB2. Cannabis also contains substances that do not bind these receptors. Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the compound in cannabis responsible for...
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Cardiology research. 2015 Jun;6(3):283-285. DOI:10.14740/cr398w 2015
Association Between a Ban on Smoking in a Hospital and the In-Hospital Onset of Acute Myocardial Infarction [0.03%]
全面禁止医院内吸烟与急性心肌梗死发病之间的关系
Natsumi Morito,Shin-Ichiro Miura,Masaya Yano et al.
Natsumi Morito et al.
Background: Smoking is an important cardiovascular risk. We hypothesized that a ban on smoking in a hospital could decrease the in-hospital onset of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). ...
John W Eikelboom,Stuart J Connolly
John W Eikelboom
The new generation of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) have been welcomed as a convenient alternative to warfarin. Three new oral anticoagulants, dabigatran etexilate, rivaroxaban and apixaban have been approved for the ...
Jai Babu,Prashanth Kumar Malkiwodeyar,Shivashankara Tarikere et al.
Jai Babu et al.
Homocysteine has been recognized as a risk factor for various cardiovascular manifestations including thrombosis of arterial and venous system, spontaneous dissection involving various vessels in the body including coronaries and aneurysms....
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Cardiology research. 2015 Apr;6(2):263-265. DOI:10.14740/cr395w 2015
Prem Krishna Anandan,Patel Jigarkumar Shukkarbhai,Jimmy George et al.
Prem Krishna Anandan et al.
Tropical endomyocardial fibrosis is a rare entity in the present era. Restrictive cardiomyopathy due to tapioca consumption is very rare, although it has been reported in India, especially in state of Kerala. We report a rare case of restri...
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Cardiology research. 2015 Apr;6(2):260-262. DOI:10.14740/cr394w 2015
Santosh Kumar Sinha,Chandra Mohan Verma,Vinay Krishna et al.
Santosh Kumar Sinha et al.
A 38-year-old man underwent coronary angiography in our institution due to acute myocardial infarction as part of pharmaco-invasive strategy following thrombolysis. The patient showed total occlusion of mid left anterior descending (LAD) ar...
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Cardiology research. 2015 Apr;6(2):257-259. DOI:10.14740/cr392w 2015
A Very Rare Coronary Artery Anomaly: Two Circumflex Arteries Originating From Both Right and Left Coronary Sinuses of Valsalva [0.03%]
罕见冠状动脉异常：双侧冠状动脉窦发出两根旋支动脉
Mehmet Demir,Ahmet Tutuncu,Alper Karakus
Mehmet Demir
Coronary anomalies are found in less than 1% of diagnostic coronary angiograms. The clinical importance of coronary anomalies varies from insignificant to life-threatening. We report a very rare case of a patient with two circumflex arterie...
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Cardiology research. 2015 Apr;6(2):255-256. DOI:10.14740/cr381w 2015