View Point

• How do the cardiology services for patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes compare between developing and developed countries?

  Dominic Mears

Short Communications

• Health information system as an integral component of cardiovascular surveillance system in Nepal

  Sahadeb Prasad Dhungana, Robin Man Karmacharya, Prajjwal Pyakurel, Archana Shrestha, Abhinav Vaidya
• Recent experience on atrial septal defect device closure at Shahid Gangalal National Heart Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal

  Chandra Mani Adhikari, Manish Shrestha, Amrit Bogati, Sachin Dhungel, Kiran Acharya, Urmila Shakya, Poonam Sharma, Shilpa Aryal, Jagat Adhikari, Rabi Malla

Original Articles

• Effectiveness of awareness raising interventions on knowledge about Rheumatic Heart Disease and change in care seeking behavior for throat infection in Lalitpur, Nepal

  Prakash Raj Regmi, Keshab Sanjel
• Prevalence and associated risk factor of hypertension among individuals of age 18-59 years in South-eastern Nepal: A cross-sectional study

  Prajjwal Pyakurel, Deepak Kumar Yadav, Jeevan Thapa, Nishant Thakur, Pramita Sharma, Niraj Koirala, Suraj Kumar Yadav, Akanksha Chaurasia, Sumit Sharma, June Thapa, Santosh Thapa, Amit Shah, Pratigya Panta, Rajina Shrestha, Arpana Dangi, Bijay Acharya, Ujjwal Pyakurel, Nilambar Jha
• Clinical characteristics, risk factors and angiographic profile of acute coronary syndrome patients in a tertiary care center of Nepal.

  Abhishesh Shakya, Sunil Chandra Jha, Ratna Mani Gajurel, Chandra Mani Poudel, Ravi Sahi, Hemant Shrestha, Surya Devkota, Sanjeev Thapa
• Measurement of Hepatocyte Growth Factor, Interleukin 6 and Tumor necrosis factor α in Acute Myocardial Infarction

  Asadallah Keshmiri, Ali Reza Derakhshan, Afsoon Fazlinejad, Reza Farid-Hosseini
• Non alcoholic fatty liver disease is a predictor of subclinical Carotid Atherosclerosis in the presence of Metabolic Syndrome

  Cemal Kemaloglu, Melek Didem Kemaloglu
• Awareness regarding cardiac rehabilitation among patients with coronary heart disease attending a cardiac care centre, Kathmandu valley

  Rosy Shrestha, Sajeeb Shrestha

Case Reports

• Transcatheter device closure of atrial septal defect in dextrocardia with situs inversus totalis

  Kiran Prasad Acharya, Chandra Mani Adhikari, Aarjan Khanal, Sachin Dhungel, Amrit Bogati, Manish Shrestha, Deewakar Sharma
• Solitary coronary artery: An unusual cause of atypical chest pain

  Laxman Dubey, Ridhi Adhikari, Suresh Deep
• Stroke in young secondary to infective endocarditis complicating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy – A case report

  Abhishek Bhandari, Bhupendra Shah, Aditya Mahaseth, Sanjib Kumar Sharma