Vol.
3, No2
,2009
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The Three Muskateers
F. Mason Sones, Jr. (1918 - 1985). He was the head of Pediatric
Cardiology in Cleveland Clinic. On October 1958, while working in the cath-lab
on a patient with rheumatic heart disease, they planned to inject contrast above
the aortic valve to assess the severity of aortic incompetence......
Dr. René Gerónimo Favaloro (1923–2000), was an Argentine cardiac surgeon who
created the technique for coronary bypass surgery. His biography (6-8) is very
interesting, his father was a carpenter and his parents were Sicilian
immigrants......
Andreas Roland Grüntzig (1939–1985), was a German cardiologist who was the first to develop successful balloon angioplasty for opening narrowed arteries.
He joined the Angiology Division of the University Hospital, in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1969.
Few years before working on peripheral arterial narrowing, Charles Dotter, 1964, published an article in Circulation journal (9), describing a new technique for dilatation of ilio-femoral
occlusions non-surgically......
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Editorial Article
Magdy Abdel Hamid, MD
A New Alternative to Warfarin in Atrial Fibrillation
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Adel M Zaki, MD
Can Sildenafil be Used for Treatment of Rheumatic Valvular Heart Disease and Pulmonary Hypertension?
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Azza Farag, MD
Tissue Doppler Imaging in Everyday Clinical Practice
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Hussien Heshmat
High Gradient Across the Aortic Prosthesis. Causes and Differentiation
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Amir AbdelWahab, MD
How Early Can We Use ICDs After Acute Myocardial Infarction?
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Clinical Article
Mai Salama MD., Rania Gaber MD., Hala El Shazly.
Right Ventricle Function Assessment in Doxorubicin Treated Children (Value of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography, Tissue Doppler Imaging)
Heart Mirror J
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Azza Farrag, MD.1, Naglaa Abdel Razek, MD.2, George Youssef, Msc.1 and Adel Zaki MD.1
Extracoronary Calcification May Help Prediction of Significant Coronary Atherosclerosis in Young Patients
Heart Mirror J
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3(2) :70-75
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Rayan M, MD.
Does the Admission HB1c Level Have an Impact on the Size of Myocardial Infarction and Residual Viability in Type II Diabetics Surviving Their 1st Myocardial Infarction?
Heart Mirror J
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3(2) :76-79
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Maged El-Gantiry; Salah El-Din Hamdy Demerdash; Mona Rayyan; Ramy Raymond; Wael El-Naggar; Nabil Farag; Mohamed El-Ramly; Sameh Thabet and Amr Hassan, MD.
Myocardial Perfusion in Patients With Total Occlusion of a Single Coronary Artery With and Without Collateral Circulation
Heart Mirror J
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Olfat Gamil Shaker, Heba Hamdy Eldemellawy, Hussien Heshmat Kassem.
Angiotensinogen Gene (M235T) Polymorphism and Coronary Artery Disease in the Egyptian Population. A genetic Association Study
Heart Mirror J
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3(2) :86-91
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Sameh Hozayen, Nabil Farag, Sameh.Sabet, Ramy Raymond, Mohammed El Ramly, Amr Hassan and Wael El Naggar
Characteristics and Outcome of Acute Heart Failure Patients in Egypt
Heart Mirror J
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