Latest Heart Mirror Issue

[on The cover of HMJ]

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).

[Clinical] Statins; the Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

Adel Zaki, MD

[Clinical] Embolization During Carotid Artery Stenting

Hussien Heshmat, MD

[Clinical] Short QT Syndrome

Amir Abdel Wahab, MD

[Clinical] Correlation Between Left Atrial Linear Dimensions and Left Atrial Volume Index

Mona Abo El-Soud, MD; Nader Zaki, MSc and Wael El Kilany, MD

[Clinical] Blood Pressure and Other Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Young Black Adults

Kevin Ongeti, PhD

[Clinical] Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension Exhibit Right Ventricular Dyssynchrony, a Tissue Doppler Study

Shaimaa Mustafa, MD1 and Zeinab Ashour, MD2

[Clinical] Strain Rate Imaging For the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Function After Patent Ductus Arteriosus Closure

Raghda Ghonimy, MD1; Mona Adel, MD1; Mohamed Hegab, MD2; Osama Abdelaziz, MD1 and Ebraheem Khairee, MD3

[Clinical] The Warm-Up Phenomenon in Diabetic Patients with Chronic Stable Angina Pectoris: Effect of Three Different Sulphonylurea Drugs

Sameh Bakhoum, MD1; Azza Farrag, MD1 and Sayed Farghali, MSc2

[Clinical] Characterization of Myocardial Deformation in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Using Speckle Tracking: Comparison with Physiological Hypertrophy

Hala Mahfouz, MD1; Mohamed Elnoamany, MD1; Maha Saber, MD2; Ahmed Elshereef, MD3; Ayman Farhan, MD3; Yasser Nassar, MD3 and Magdi Yacoub, MD, FRS4

[Clinical] Biventricular Versus Left Univentriculr Pacing in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure

Mazen Tawfik, MD; Rania Samir, MD; Hayam Eldamnhoury, MD; Said Khaled, MD and Haitham Badran, MD

[Clinical] 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'

Khalid Abd El Salam, MD and Maha El Sebaie, MD

[Clinical] 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

Hesham Boshra, MD1; Yasser Abdel Hady, MD1; Amr Adel, MD2 and Nader Galal, MD1

[Clinical] Late Neurological Complications of Left Ventricular Pseudo-Aneurysm with Challenges in Diagnosis and Surgical Repair

Ayman Sallam, MD1; Abdelfatah Elasfar, MD, FACP2; Sameh Sayed, MD1 and Abdulaziz Al Baradai, FRCP(C)1