





CONTENTS
Editorial :
Management of acute myocardial infarction in India — status 2017
— Dhiman Kahali 7
Original Articles :
DAPT and HEPARIN non-inferior to lytics within 90 mins of STEMI
— Dhiman Kahali, Asit Das, Tanuja De, Maqbul Ahmed ..............................9
Assessmentofventricularfunctioninpatientsofatrialseptaldefect bystrainimagingbeforeandaftercorrection
— Prashant Kumar, Dhiman Kahali, Achyut Sarkar, Asit Das........................11
Special Articles:
Acute MI — status 2017 — Dhiman Kahali, Asit Das, Tanuja De, Paramita Banerjee, Vivek Singh Rathore ...................................16
Dilatedcardiomyopathywithatrialfibrillation
— Dhiman Kahali, Asit Das...........................................................................21
Medicallytreatedacutecoronarysyndrome:roleofantiplateletdrugs
— Dhiman Kahali, Asit Das, T De, Paramita Banerjee ..................................27
Non-thrombolysedSTEMI
— Dhiman Kahali, Asit Das, Tanuja De .........................................................32
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