Alveolar hemorrhage (AH) is a rare yet severe clinical condition marked by significant bleeding into the alveolar spaces, often leading to high mortality. AH can occur following systemic thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), a complication that is infrequent but pot...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2025/v14i4504
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, including coronary artery disease (CAD). Traditional risk factors for CVD can only partially account for the 50-fold rise in the incidence of atheroscle...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2025/v14i3501
Iatrogenic left main (LM) dissection is a rare but life-threatening complication of PCI that can result in abrupt occlusion of both LAD and LCX, especially when the LCX is dominant, leading to hemodynamic collapse and conduction disturbances such as complete heart block (CHB). We...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2025/v14i4508
Kalyan Munde, Rahul Sonawane, Samkit Mutha, Anant Munde, Ruchit Shah, Khalil Shaikh, Jaykrishna Nihari, Anagh T S, Prasad Jain, Vaishali Gaba, Divya Kantak, Sandip Ghoti, Suvarna Thorat & Dhanlaxmi Chettiar·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2025
We describe a 72-year-old female with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), atrial fibrillation, and a large ostium secundum atrial septal defect (ASD), who presented with progressive dyspnea, hypoxemia, and acute COPD exacerbation. Despite advanced age, lung disease, arr...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2025/v14i4509