Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

HJC 2015, Volume 56, Issue 6 November - December

HJC 2015, Volume 56, Issue 6 November - December

  • Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: A Review of Pathophysiology and Clinical Applications
  • Aspirin for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases: Current Concepts, Unanswered Questions and Future Directions
  • A Greek Prospective Observational Study of Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
  • Rhythm or Rate Control Management of Atrial Fibrillation: An Overrated Dilemma
  • Relationship between Sympathetic Overactivity and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Resistant Hypertension
  • Sympathetic Nervous System Activation and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy: Reflections of the Same Portrait of Resistant Hypertension?
  • Left Atrial Appendage Closure. Initial Single-Center Experience with the Watchman Device
  • Are Left Ventricular Rotational Mechanics Non-Inverted in Situs Inversus Totalis? (A case from the three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiographic MAGYAR-Path Study)
  • Traumatic Tricuspid Insufficiency Requiring Valve Repair in an Acute Setting
  • Right Ventricular Strain in Patients with Moderate Heart Failure
  • Left Internal Mammary Arterial Angiography Via the Right Radial Approach: Description of Technique, Single-Centre Experience, and Brief Review of the Literature
  • Acute Coronary Syndromes and Atrial Fibrillation
  • SPRINT Results Are Life-Saving, Guideline-Changing, and Hypertension Research-Intensifying

Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: A Review of Pathophysiology and Clinical Applications [PDF]
S. SIDERIS1, K. TRACHANAS1, I. KELESIDIS2, K. GATZOULIS3, P. ARSENOS3, D. TOUSOULIS3, I. KALLIKAZAROS1
1State Cardiology Division, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece; 2Cardiology-Electrophysiology Division, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA; 3First Department of Cardiology, National University of Athens, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece

Aspirin for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases: Current Concepts, Unanswered Questions and Future Directions [PDF]
Y. CASTRO-TORRES1, R.E. KATHOLI2, N. YAR KHAN3
1Hospital Universitario Celestino Hernández Robau, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba; 2Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and Prairie Education and Research Cooperative, Springfield, IL, USA; 3Policlínico Docente Universitario Aracelio Rodríguez Castellón, Cumanayagua, Cienfuegos, Cuba

A Greek Prospective Observational Study of Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation [PDF]
P. VARDAS1, G. ANDRIKOPOULOS2, B. BAROUTSOU3; the ODYSSEY investigators
1Cardiology Department, Heraklion University Hospital, Heraklion, Crete, 2Department of Cardiology, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, 3Sanofi, Medical Affairs Department, Athens, Greece

Rhythm or Rate Control Management of Atrial Fibrillation: An Overrated Dilemma [PDF]
A.S. MANOLIS
Third Department of Cardiology, Athens University School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

Relationship between Sympathetic Overactivity and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Resistant Hypertension [PDF]
E. ÖZEL, A. TAŞTAN, A. ÖZTüRK, E. EVREN ÖZCAN
Şifa University Cardiology Department, Turkey

Sympathetic Nervous System Activation and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy: Reflections of the Same Portrait of Resistant Hypertension? [PDF]
C. TSIOUFIS, K. DIMITRIADIS, D. TOUSOULIS
First Cardiology Clinic, University of Athens, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Greece

Left Atrial Appendage Closure. Initial Single-Center Experience with the Watchman Device [PDF]
K. TOUTOUZAS, G. TRANTALIS, S. SIDERIS, G. BENETOS, A. MICHELONGONA, C. AGGELI, C. STEFANADIS, D. TOUSOULIS
First Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

Are Left Ventricular Rotational Mechanics Non-Inverted in Situs Inversus Totalis? (A case from the three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiographic MAGYAR-Path Study) [PDF]
A. NEMES1, P. DOMSIK1, A. SZABó-BICZóK2, G. BOGáTS2, A. KALAPOS1, T. FORSTER1
1Second Department of Medicine and Cardiology Center, 2Department of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiology, Medical Faculty, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Center, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

Traumatic Tricuspid Insufficiency Requiring Valve Repair in an Acute Setting [PDF]
Y. ENOMOTO, Y. SUDO, T. SUETA
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kimitsu Chuo Hospital, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan

Right Ventricular Strain in Patients with Moderate Heart Failure [PDF]
Y. KOZA, O. BIRDAL
Ataturk University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Erzurum, Turkey

Left Internal Mammary Arterial Angiography Via the Right Radial Approach: Description of Technique, Single-Centre Experience, and Brief Review of the Literature [PDF]
S. PATSILINAKOS 1, P. TSINIVIZOV1,2, E. PAPADAKIS1, V. KYRIAKOPOULOS 1, S. MARINOS1, L. POULIMENOS1,2
1Department of Cardiology, Konstantopoulio General Hospital, Nea Ionia, 2Department of Cardiology, Asklepeion General Hospital, Voula, Athens, Greece

Acute Coronary Syndromes and Atrial Fibrillation [PDF]
S. FOUSSAS
Cardiology Department, Tzaneio State Hospital, Piraeus, Greece

SPRINT Results Are Life-Saving, Guideline-Changing, and Hypertension Research-Intensifying [PDF]
C. TSIOUFIS, D. TOUSOULIS
First Department of Cardiology, "Hippokration" Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece

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