Kunal, Shekhar Sharma, Shashi Mohan Sharma, Sohan Kumar Gautam, Dinesh Bhatia, Harnish Mahla, Himanshu Sharma, Sandeep Bhandari, Sudhir
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Indian Heart Journal
Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to a widespread morbidity and mortality. Limited data exists regarding the involvement of cardiovascular system in COVID-19 patients. We sought to evaluate the cardiovascular (CV) complications and its impact on outcomes in symptomatic COVID-19 patients. Methods This was a single center observa...
Yadav, Rakesh Bansal, Ragav Budakoty, Sudhanshu Barwad, Parag
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Indian heart journal
Showkathali, Refai Yalamanchi, Radhapriya Sankeerthana, M.P. Kumaran, Selva Nandha Shree, Suvetha Nayak, Rajeshwari Oomman, Abraham Mahilmaran, Asha
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Indian Heart Journal
Few studies from various countries have reported decline in Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) admissions to hospital during COVID-19 pandemic. We studied the impact of COVID-19 strict lockdown on ACS admission in a tertiary referral hospital in India. This showed 43% decline in admissions ( n = 104 vs mean n = 183) and even in those who got admitted,...
Ramakrishnan, Sivasubramanian Jabir, Abdullakutty Jayagopal, Pathiyil Balagopalan Mohanan, Padinhare Purayil Nair, Venugopal Krishnan Das, Mrinal Kanti Mandal, Manoranjan Roy, Debabrata Reddy, Seemala Saikrishna Malviya, Amit
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Indian Heart Journal
Background COVID-19 pandemic has affected around 20million patients worldwide and 2.0 million cases from India. The lockdown was employed to delay the pandemic. However, it had an unintentional impact on acute cardiovascular care, especially acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Observational studies have shown a decrease in hospital admissions for AM...
Natarajan, Vaishnav Sekar, Tharani Chockalingam, Priya
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Indian Heart Journal
There is an increasing incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Indian men and women of younger ages but research related to CVD risk behaviors in college-going women in India is limited. A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey conducted among 554 students from two women's colleges in Chennai showed that there was an alarmingly high preval...
Yadav, Rakesh
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Indian Heart Journal
Khanra, Dibbendhu Mishra, Vikas Jain, Bhavna Soni, Shishir Bahurupi, Yogesh Duggal, Bhanu Rathore, Sudhir Guha, Santanu Agarwal, Sharad Aggarwal, Puneet
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Indian Heart Journal
In this largest meta-analysis consisting of 15 studies, comparing 6093 patients in PCI group and 4943 patients in OMT group, it has been found that, PCI of CTO has a better long term outcome in terms of MACE, cardiac death and all causes of mortality with similar unplanned revascularization. Higher age, TVD, CKD independently contribute to higher M...
Mostafa, Shaimaa El-Rabbat, Khaled Salah, Safaa Elkeishk, Eman
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Indian Heart Journal
Aim Assessment of the value of left atrial deformation indices for prediction of left atrial appendage functioning patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation. Method The study included 250 patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation and normal left atrial dimension. Trans-thoracic and trans-esophageal echocardiography were performed. Patient...
Krishnegowda, Chetana Puttegowda, Beeresha Krishnappa, Santhosh Ananthakrishna, Rajiv Mahadevappa, Nagesh C. Siddegowda, Sadananda K. Ramegowda, Raghu T. Manjunath, Cholenahally N.
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Indian Heart Journal
Aims To study the incidence, clinical and angiographic characteristics, management and outcomes of coronary artery perforation (CAP) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) at a high volume center in South-east Asia. Methods Data from patients who had CAP during PCI from January 2016 to December 2019 at our center were collected. Clinical f...
Satyamurthy, Akhila Prabhu, Nivedita Padmakumar, Ramachandran Babu, Abraham Samuel
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Indian Heart Journal
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is underutilised across the world and India. The use of simple algorithms is one way to facilitate CR, however, these algorithms need to be feasible to use across low resource settings. The objectives were to assess the feasibility of a CR algorithm following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute coronary sy...