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From Affiliated Egyptian Universities and Cardiology Centers

Vol. 5, No3 ,2011
-    The indications for statin use in the last 20 years have expanded from secondary prevention in patients after acute myocardial infarction (MI) to primary prevention among those at high predicted cardiovascular risk (1).
   The National Cholesterol Education Program’s Adult Treatment Program (ATP), first published in 1988, recommended using the LDL cholesterol level as the marker to start statin treatment as well as for reaching therapeutic target goals (2). In 2002, the NCEP III guidelines, recommended that those patients who have documented coronary disease should have their LDL cholesterol lowered to less than 100mg/dL (3). The current ACC/AHA-guidelines provide a Class I, Level of Evidence: A-recommendation for initiating statin therapy pre-discharge regardless of the baseline LDL level (3, 4). Furthermore, the guidelines also provide a Class I, Level of Evidence: A-recommendation for LDL target of <100mg/dl and Class IIa, Level of Evidence: A for LDL target of <70mg/dl in ACS (4, 5).

 

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Mini-Editioral

Hussien Heshmat, MD
Embolization During Carotid Artery Stenting
Heart Mirror J 2011; 5(3) :368-373 [PDF ]

 

Clinical Artical

Mona Abo El-Soud, MD; Nader Zaki, MSc and Wael El Kilany, MD
Correlation Between Left Atrial Linear Dimensions and Left Atrial Volume Index
Heart Mirror J 2011; 5(3) :374-377 [ PDF ]

 

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Kevin Ongeti, PhD
Blood Pressure and Other Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Young Black Adults
Heart Mirror J 2011; 5(3) :378-380 [ PDF ]

 

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Shaimaa Mustafa, MD1 and Zeinab Ashour, MD2
Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension Exhibit Right Ventricular Dyssynchrony, a Tissue Doppler Study
Heart Mirror J 2011; 5(3) :381-386 [ PDF ]

 

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Raghda Ghonimy, MD1; Mona Adel, MD1; Mohamed Hegab, MD2; Osama Abdelaziz, MD1 and Ebraheem Khairee, MD3
Strain Rate Imaging For the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Function After Patent Ductus Arteriosus Closure
Heart Mirror J 2011; 5(3) :387-392 [ PDF ]

 

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Sameh Bakhoum, MD1; Azza Farrag, MD1 and Sayed Farghali, MSc2
The Warm-Up Phenomenon in Diabetic Patients with Chronic Stable Angina Pectoris: Effect of Three Different Sulphonylurea Drugs
Heart Mirror J 2011; 5(3) :393-398 [ PDF ]

 

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Hala Mahfouz, MD1; Mohamed Elnoamany, MD1; Maha Saber, MD2; Ahmed Elshereef, MD3; Ayman Farhan, MD3; Yasser Nassar, MD3 and Magdi Yacoub, MD, FRS4
Characterization of Myocardial Deformation in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Using Speckle Tracking: Comparison with Physiological Hypertrophy
Heart Mirror J 2011; 5(3) :399-408 [ PDF ]

 

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Mazen Tawfik, MD; Rania Samir, MD; Hayam Eldamnhoury, MD; Said Khaled, MD and Haitham Badran, MD
Biventricular Versus Left Univentriculr Pacing in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure
Heart Mirror J 2011; 5(3) :409-415 [ PDF ]

 

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Khalid Abd El Salam, MD and Maha El Sebaie, MD
The Validity of a Global Tissue Doppler Index in Estimating Left Ventricular End-Diastolic Pressure in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease and Intermediate E/E'
Heart Mirror J 2011; 5(3) :416-421 [ PDF ]

 

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Hesham Boshra, MD1; Yasser Abdel Hady, MD1; Amr Adel, MD2 and Nader Galal, MD1
The Added Value of the Changes in Functional Indices and The Transient Ischemic Dilatation Using Gated SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging In Diabetic Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome
Heart Mirror J 2011; 5(3) :422-428 [ PDF ]

 

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Ayman Sallam, MD1; Abdelfatah Elasfar, MD, FACP2; Sameh Sayed, MD1 and Abdulaziz Al Baradai, FRCP(C)1
Late Neurological Complications of Left Ventricular Pseudo-Aneurysm with Challenges in Diagnosis and Surgical Repair
Heart Mirror J 2011; 5(3) :429-431 [ PDF ]