Elnagi Y. Hago, Amir A. Bashir, Isam M. Abdalla, Elmutaz E. Taha, Abdelmuhsin H. Mohamed, Kamal Awad, Abdarahiem A. Abeadalla, Ibrahim A. Ali & Omer A. Musa·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2023
Introduction: Blood pressure is one of the most often measured clinical parameters, and assessment of blood pressure has a considerable impact on diagnostic decisions. Objectives: To establish blood pressure normal reference values in Sudanese. Methods: A cross-sectional study wa...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i4351
S. Manoj, Jay Shah, Dilip Kumar, Akshaya Pradhan, Amit B. Kinare, Ashwani Kumar Sharma, M. S. Aditya, Ram Anil Raj, Akhter Amin Raina, Ashish Patel, Biswajit Das, Dipak Suresh Bathe, Sameer Muchhala & Kunal Jhaveri·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2023
Background and Objective: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with high-risk patients requiring effective management to reduce their risk of cardiovascular events. Bempedoic acid is a novel therapeutic agent recently approved...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i4350
A coronary fistula is defined as a direct connection between a coronary artery and a heart chamber, great vessel, or other vascular structure that "bypasses" the myocardial capillary bed. This is a rare pathology that is usually not discovered until later in life, and exceptional...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i4349
Harouna Idrissa Seydou, Mahoungou-Mackonia Noel Maschell, Fadoul Adam Fadoul Taher, Nassour Brahim, Haboub Meryem, Salim Arous, El Ghali Bennouna, Drighil Abdessamad, Azzouzi Leila & Habbal Rachida·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2023
Pacemaker infective endocarditis is a more real diagnostic problem than a therapeutic one. The precise impact is not well known. Its incidence is poorly known, and it is a serious infection with an estimated mortality of around 25%. It is with this in mind that we report 2 clinic...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i4348
Background: Gensini (G score) is one of the most widely used scoring systems in cardiology. It is an objective method to determine the coronary artery disease severity according to angiographic findings. The aim of this work was to assess the relation between G score and the chro...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i4347
Leonardo Leiria de Moura da Silva, Bibiana de Borba Telles, Jamile Dutra Correia, Daniélle Bernardi Silveira, Ernani Bohrer da Rosa, Maurício Rouvel Nunes, Diego da Costa Cardoso, Daniel Hoyer de Carvalho Barcellos, Paulo Ricardo Gazzola Zen & Rafael Fabiano Machado Rosa·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2023
Aim: Surgical correction of congenital heart defects (CHD) often requires interruption of blood flow through cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and aortic cross-clamping (ACC), for which duration(s) are considered to be prognostic factors, along with intensive care unit (ICU) length of...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i4346
Junior Rocyr Ibara Onguema, Rim Zerhoudi, Franck Bienvenu Ekoba Othende, Khaoula Bourzeg, Mohammed Eljamili, Saloua El Karimi & Mustapha Elhattaoui·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2023
Introduction: Infective endocarditis is defined as infection of a native or prosthetic heart valve, endocardial surface, or cardiac device. The causes and epidemiology, as well as the microbiology of the disease have evolved over the last few decades with the doubling of the aver...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i4345
Background: Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most frequent cardiac arrhythmia found in clinical practice. The assessed frequency of AF in adults is between 2% and 4%, with greater incidence and frequency rates in developed nations [1,2]. AF prevalence increases with advancing age,...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i4344
Junior Rocyr Ibara Onguema, Rim Zerhoudi, Franck Bienvenu Ekoba Othende, Khaoula Bourzeg, Mohammed Eljamili, Saloua El Karimi & Mustapha Elhattaoui·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2023
Introduction: Infective Endocarditis (IE) is a serious disease whose prognosis depends on early management. Aortic localization is characterized by its progression to myocardial failure and the high number of complications motivating early recourse to surgery. The diagnosis of AR...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i4343
Takayasu's disease is the first cause of inflammatory aortitis in young subjects. The disease preferentially affects the women. Takayasu's disease could be a mode of non-specific reaction of the aorta to various infectious or dysimmune etiological factors. Aortic insufficiency i...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i4341
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common non-ischemic cardiomyopathy with a prevalence of 1:500 in the general population, based on the recognition of the phenotype. HCM is defined by the presence of increased left ventricular (LV) wall thickness that is not solely ex...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i4342
Noël Mahoungou-Mackonia, Maria Khalil, Karim Fatiha, Imad Nouamou, Salim Arous, Ghali Benouna, Abdenasser Drighil, Leila Azzouzi & Rachida Habbal·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2023
Introduction: Benign intracardiac tumours are the most common of the 5% of primary tumours and account for 90% of intracardiac tumours. Myxoma, which is the main benign tumour, rarely localizes to the mitral valve, in the order of 1-5%, associated with severe symptoms and enormou...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i4340
Joumana Elmasrioui, Youssef Islah, Mohammed Eljamili, Saloua El Karimi, Mustapha Elhattaoui, Oualid Benfaddoul, Mariem Ouali Idrissi & Najat Cherif Idrissi El Ganouni·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2023
Infective endocarditis involving the right side of the heart occurs rarely and often involves the tricuspid valve. The isolated pulmonary valve infective endocarditis (IPVIE) is a less common condition that occurs in specific population. The double outlet right ventricle (DORV) i...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i4339
Objective: The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels and blood pressure variability among hypertensive patients aged over 40 years. Methods: The study recruited 120 patients from a cardiology outpatient clinic who had b...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i4337
Introduction: Coronary bifurcation lesions are considered one of the challenging entities in the field of coronary intervention due to the risk of side branch loss and higher risk of stent thrombosis. However, there is limited data about the proper management of such lesions in t...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2023/v12i4338