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Myocardial Revascularisation - Current Perspectives and Controversies-Juniper Publishers

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JUNIPER PUBLISHERS - OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY & CARDIOVASCULAR THERAPY Abstract The current management of coronary heart disease comprises medical, percutaneous and surgical therapies with significant advancement in each arm of treatment. We shall outline the contemporary history of the treatment of coronary heart disease, revascularisation guidelines and appropriateness criteria for different modalities of treatment, various randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and their meta-analyses comparing different methods of revascularisation for different categories of disease, the usefulness of multidisciplinary heart teams, the role of fractional flow reserve (FFR) estimation in guiding percutaneous interventions, the importance of surgical revascularisation without cardiopulmonary bypass, the parallel advances in percutaneous and surgical streams of treatment, risk prediction for the various modalities of treatment and informed consent. We shall conclude by summari

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Case Report of Cardiac Mass in an Infant-Juniper Publishers

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JUNIPER PUBLISHERS - OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY & CARDIOVASCULAR THERAPY Abstract Cardiac tumors can be benign or malignant. Primary cardiac tumors are rare in paediatric practice with a prevalence of 0.0017 to 0.28 in autopsy series. In contrast, the incidence of cardiac tumors during fetal life has been reported to be approximately 0.14%. We are presenting a case of an infant born in good condition with three intra-cardiac masses in which two of them attached to each other adjacent to RVOT. The Case Baby of S.R. born at term 37 gestational weeks, maternal age 32 years old, maternal screen for (HIV, HBV, Syph, GBS) were negative. Fetal scanning showed intra-cardiac echogenic foci at the level of AV junction. He born with good apgars 8/9/9 at 1/5/10 minutes. On examination He looks comfortable in himself, active, well perfused, no distress, precordium looks normal. CVS: S1 normal +S2 splitted, can hear addition

Diabetes Mellitus and Heart Diseases-Juniper Publishers

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JUNIPER PUBLISHERS - OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY & CARDIOVASCULAR THERAPY Abstract Diabetes mellitus is recognized by WHO experts as a non-communicable epidemic and represents a serious medical and social problem. In 2012, suffered of diabetes mellitus about 6.4% (285 million) of the world’s inhabitants. By 2030, the number of patients is expected to increase to 7.7% (439 million people) [ 1 ]. Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death in patients with diabetes [ 2 ], with 90% of these patients suffering from type 2 diabetes (diabetes mellitus 2) [ 3 ]. Keywords: Breast cancer; Oncogynaecology; Gynaecology; Oncology; Surgery Introduction The presence of diabetes is associated with the emergence of all forms of coronary heart disease - angina pectoris, painless myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death [ 4 ]. At the same time, macrovascular complications, including coronary hear