Volume 1 Issue 2 - 2020


Research article

Stepwise interpretation of low density lipoprotein hypercholesterolemia and total lipid profile in clinical and subclinical hypothyroidism

Maria Marcílio Rabelo1, Lisia Marcílio Rabelo1, Anita L. R. Saldanha2, André Luis Valera Gasparoto2, Ana Paula Pantoja Margeotto3 and Tania Leme da Rocha Martinez2*

The association between hypothyroidism and atherosclerosis is a most important clinical theme and as such hypothetized by the lipid alterations concurrent with the condition .This issue is being more relevant in the recent papers on the issue of coincidence or etiology

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Research article

Severe Coronary Artery Tortuosity: an Approximate Method to Diagnose Its Hemodynamic Significance

A. O. Borysyuk*

A method is developed to allow cardiologists to find changes in the blood flow rate in larger coronary arteries, caused by the appearance of their pathological tortuosity, and a hemodynamic significance of those changes based on the data taken from the appropriate coronarographies only

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Review article

Ischemic Heart Diseases Mortality for Bulgaria Partly Depends on Solar Corpuscular Radiation?

Nikolay Takuchev*

Introduction: 20% of Bulgarians die of ischemic heart disease. A study was conducted in order to get moreinformation on whether and to what extent mortality from ischemic disease in Bulgaria is related to external causes – in particular to the corpuscular solar radiation.

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Case Report

Minoca due to Recurrent Coronary Vasospasm: A Case Report

Barbosa RR1,2*, Padilha Jr.JE2, Picallo GP2, Campanati SSE2, RolimVMB1, Lima PD1, de Barros LC1, Serpa RG1,2, Calil OA1,2, and Barbosa LMF1,2

Coronary vasospasm is defined as an exaggerated contractile response of the smooth muscle from the epicardial coronary artery. Its presentation is variable and may differ from asymptomatic to acute myocardial infarction (MI) or sudden death...

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Case Report

Mitral Valve Infective Endocarditis with Intracranial Septic Emboli and Haemorrhage

Shwe Yee Oo1, Adel Ekladious2* and Yee Phyo Hein2

A 70-year-old man presented with fever and delirium. His past medical history included mitral regurgitation, palindromic rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, and thrombocytopenia. The main positive examination findings included harsh systolic murmurs in the mitral area and at the lower sternal border...

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