Nepalese Heart Journal

Vol 22 No 2 (2025)

Editorial

• Young Heart Health: A Call for Early Prevention and National Vigilance
  Rheecha Joshi, Smriti Mahaju Bajracharya, Dikshya Joshi

Original Articles

• Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation of Adult Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery in Nepal: Multidisciplinary Consensus Recommendations from a Modified Delphi Study
  Apurb Sharma, Sukirti Baba Panta, Bashu Parajuli, Ravi Ram Shrestha, Battu Kumar Shrestha, Bikal Ghimire, Anip Joshi, Rupesh Mukhiya, Roshan Raut, Amit Kumar Singh, Gajal Lakhe, Ram Kishor Sah, Parbesh Kumar Gyawali
• Epidemiological Profile and Projections of Incidence and Mortality of Ischemic Heart Disease in Nepal: An Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
  Yao He, Dipanker Prajapati, Yangjie Zhang, Keqin Gao, Bole Wang, Zifu Wang, Yongbin Liu
• Pilot Observational Cohort study to assess the feasibility of initiating a paediatric cardiac registry
  Amshu Shakya, Urmila Shakya, Manish Shrestha, Rabindra Bhakta Timala, Sidhartha Pradhan, Subash Chandra Shah, Nirmal Panthee, Shilpa Aryal, Vidhata Bhandari KC, Kul Ratna Thapa, Devaki Khadka
• Seven Years Single Center Experience of Combined Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery with Aortic Valve Replacement: retrospective cohort Study
  Navin Chandra Gautam, Rheecha Joshi, Nirmal Panthee, Sujan Bohara, Ashima Gautam, Aashutosh Chaudhary
• Percentage of Mitral Valve Replacement Patients on Warfarin within the Therapeutic Range of International Normalized Ratio (INR)
  Amit Kumar Singh, Pranil Man Singh Pradhan, Rajesh Kumar Shah, Aditya Mahaseth
• In-Hospital Mortality and Determinants in Patients with Prolonged Total Ischemia Time Undergoing Primary PCI in Nepal
  Arun Kadel, Binay Kumar Rauniyar, Sushant Kharel, Keshab Raj Neupane, Abishek Basnet, Aryan Parajuli, Nikosh Kunwar, Madhu Roka
• Evaluation of Optimization of Drug Therapy in Heart Failure Patients with reduced ejection Fraction in the Outpatient Department and Emergency Department of a Central Hospital
  Samir Kumar Poudel, Binayak Gautam, Kunjang Sherpa, Prabha Chapagain Koirala, Deepak Kumar Mishra, Manoj Subedi, Saroj Ghimire, Lata Gautam Poudel
• Prevalence of Elevated Lipoprotein A (Lp(A)) in Nepalese Patients with Traditional Risk Factors of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD)
  Suman Adhikari, Rajendra Poudel, Surya Bahadur Hamal Thakuri, Shankar Baral, Choodamani Nepal, Umesh Dhungana, Arjun Kumar Budha, Gobind Rawat, Sunita Ghimire, Sandesh Devkota, Manju Sharma, Deen Dayalu Ghimire, Ravi Sahi, Vijay Yadav, Varsha Manandhar
• Study of Clinico-angiographic profile, Risk Factors and procedural outcomes in patients undergoing Coronary Angioplasty in Dhulikhel Hospital
  Surya Raj Pathak, Rajendra Prasad Koju, Nishan Bhattarai, Sanjaya Humagain, Ram Kumar Mehta, Sujan Pathak
• Carotid artery intima–media thickness in non-diabetic hypertensive patients and their correlation with microalbuminuria: A cross-sectional study
  Khema Raj Bhusal, Umesh Khanal, Surya Pathak, Pratik Khanal, Madhur Bhattarai, Pradip Gyanwali, Rabindra Simkhada, Krishna Kumar Oli

Case Reports

• Transcatheter Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion: First Case of Nepal
  Chandra Mani Adhikari, Amrit Bogati, Birat Krishna Timalsena, Ravi Shahi, Sajjad Safi, Ram Kumar Shrestha, Dipanker Prajapati
• The Invisible Clot Maker: Eosinophilia Causing Recurrent Prosthetic Valve Thrombosis- A Case Report
  Rheecha Joshi, Sujan Bohara, Sachin Devkota, Jay Mangal Chaudhary, Esna Thapa, Manish Kumar Shah, Navin Chandra Gautam
• Blunt Traumatic Left Anterior Descending Artery Dissection
  Dinesh Upreti, Chandra Mani Poudel, Hemant Shrestha, Surya Devkota, Samir Shakya, Romila Chimoriya, Shovit Thapa, Sanjeev Thapa, Bhawani Manandhar, Vijay Yadav, Rajaram Khanal, Smriti Shakya, Ratna Mani Gajurel
• Refractory True Torsade de Pointes after Adalimumab Therapy in a Patient with Crohn’s Disease Successfully Treated by Stellate Ganglion Block: A Case Report
  Vijay Yadav, Ratna Mani Gajurel, Chandra Mani Poudel, Sanjeev Thapa, Bhawani Manandhar, Kundan Raj Pandey, Dhiraj Poudel, Ninadini Shrestha