Vol 23 No 1 (2026)

Editorial

• Small Questions, Big Changes
  Dikshya Joshi

CREDES Consensus Document

• Cardiac Society of Nepal Consensus Recommendations for INR Monitoring and Warfarin Management
  Dikshya Joshi, Apurb Sharma, Bijoy G. Rajbanshi, Chandra Mani Adhikari, Raamesh Koirala, Anil Bhattarai, Anil Acharya, Bipin Nepal, Lucky Sharma, Sanjeev Thapa, Sidhartha Pradhan, Marisha Aryal, Lokesh Jaiswal, Lokesh Yadav, Prabhat Khakurel, Rajesh Nepal, Parash Koirala, Bhagawan Koirala

View Point

• Telephone Follow-Up After Cardiac Surgery: A Strategy to Reduce Readmissions and Unnecessary Emergency Visits
  Navin Chandra Gautam, Rheecha Joshi, Dharmendra Joshi, Apurba Thakur, Vivek Jha, Nishesh Basnet, Biswo Pokhrel, Sabin Poudel, Prakrit Dhakal, Gaurav Upreti, Bijoy Gopal Rajbanshi

Original Articles

• Echocardiographic Screening for Diagnosis of Rheumatic Heart Disease by Nurses: A Diagnostic Accuracy Study in Nepal
  Prakash Raj Regmi, Urmila Shakya, Raja Ram Dhungana, Durga Sapkota, Shyam Thapa
• Association of the Triglyceride-Glucose Index with Severity of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography for Ischemic Heart Disease
  Samir Kumar Poudel, Shambhu Khanal, Lekhnath Lamsal, Prabha Koirala, Kunjang Sherpa, Binayak Gautam, Deepak Kumar Mishra, Lata Gautam Poudel
• Angiographic Profile among Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome in Tertiary Care Centre: A descriptive cross-sectional study
  Shyam Raj Regmi, Asraf Hussain, Bishnu Mani Dhital, Ram Narayan Kurmi, Dhiranjan Kumar Shah
• Excessive Salt Intake Among Hypertensive Patients in Nepal: A Multicenter Observational Study
  Suman Acharya, Suraj Shrestha, Sanjeev Kharel, Ashru Neupane, Naresh Bahadur Khadka, Anjan Bhattarai, Mahesh Raj Sigdel, Dibya Singh
• Patient characteristics and outcome of IVUS-facilitated Management in Intermediate Coronary Lesion
  Prashant Mani Tripathi, Manish Dahal, Raja Ram Khanal, Surya Devkota, Ratna Mani Gajurel, Chandra Mani Poudel
• Safety and Outcomes of Overnight Discharge Following Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention at a Tertiary Cardiac Centre in Nepal
  Ravi Sahi, Rabindra Simkhada, Keshab Raj Neupane, Rikesh Tamrakar, Dharmanath Yadav, Birat Krishna Timalsena, Suman Adhikari
• Prevalence of Type II Diabetes Mellitus and Perioperative Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery with Cardiopulmonary Bypass at a Tertiary Cardiac Center in Nepal
  Ashish Amatya, Ashok Pudasaini, Smriti M. Bajrachaya, Battu K Shrestha, Sandip Bhandari, Abhay Khadka, Prasanna Pandey, Swastika Poudel

Case Reports

• Transcatheter Closure of Ruptured Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm: Early Experience from Nepal
  Manish Shrestha, Subash Shah, Reeju Manadhar, Dharmanath Yadav, Subodh Bir Singh Kansakar, Sujeeb Rajbhandari, Shilpa Aryal, Dipanker Prajapati, Chandra Mani Adhikari
• Successful Percutaneous Retrieval of an Embolized Umbilical Venous Catheter Fragment Lodged in the Left Atrial Appendage: A Case Report
  Subhash Chandra Shah, Amshu Shakya Bajracharya, Urmila Shakya, Manish Shrestha
• Puzzle of the Fifth Ventricle: Left Ventricular Dissection Post Myocardial Infarction Resulting into Formation of a Neo-cavity: A Case Report and Literature Review
  Rajib Neupane, Daniel Shield, Ajay Adhikaree