Background: Takayasu arteritis (TA) and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) are distinct vascular disorders with complementary mechanisms of arterial injury. Their coexistence may create an inflammatory-thrombotic “double-hit” phenotype characterised by premature atherosclerotic-appe...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2026/v15i3560
Background: Concomitant severe rheumatic mitral stenosis (MS) and complex coronary artery disease (CAD) can presents as a major therapeutic challenge in an elderly patient with high prohibitive surgical risk. Case Summary: A 78-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary dis...
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Research Article10.9734/ajcr/2026/v9i1399
Background: Ventricular septal rupture (VSR) is an uncommon but potentially fatal mechanical complication of acute myocardial injury. Although surgical repair remains the conventional treatment, transcatheter closure is increasingly used in selected high-risk patients for whom de...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2026/v15i3564
Background: Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a chronic granulomatous large-vessel vasculitis that predominantly affects young women. Although vascular stenosis involving the aorta and its branches is characteristic, cardiac manifestations are heterogeneous and include coronary artery d...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2026/v15i3561