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Editor-in-ChiefÇetin Erol
EditorMustafa Kılıçkap
Advisory Board of This Issue
Mahmut Açıkel
Mehmet Ağırbaşlı
Serkan Asil
Uğur Canpolat
Teng Chen
Ali Çoner
Adem İlkay Diken
Fuat Dilmeç
Berkay Ekici
Hakan Ergün
Necip Ermiş
Şevket Görgülü
Nazmi Gültekin
Erkan İriz
Fatih Kahraman
Cemşit Karakurt
Kenan Keven
Nurdan Köktürk
Mehmet Melli
Tolga Özyiğit
Bahar Pirat
Korhan Soylu
Qiang Su
Gülten Taçoy
Abdullah Tunçez
Mustafa Yıldız
Dilek Çiçek Yılmaz
Serkan Yüksel
Volume: 21 Issue: 2 February 2019 Page: 57–122
The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology
Anatol J Cardiol • Volume 21 • Issue 2 • February 2019
Official journal of the
The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology
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Journal Citation Report 2017
Editorial
Medical Misinformation Vet the Message!Joseph A. Hill et al.; Dallas-USA
Original Investigations
Low free triiodothyronine is associated with contrast-induced acute kidney injury and long-term outcome in elderly patients who underwent percutaneous coronary interventionChunjin Lin et al.; Fuzhou-China
The impact of heart rate on patients diagnosed with heart failure with mid-range ejection fractionYanguo Xin et al.; Sichuan-China
Editorial comments: Heart rate in heart failure with mid-range ejection fraction Mehmet Birhan Yılmaz; Sivas-Turkey
Is endocan a biochemical marker for asymptomatic target organ damage in hypertensive patients?Mustafa Tarık Ağaç et al.; Sakarya-Turkey
Intravascular ultrasound-guided drug-eluting stent implantation for patients with unprotected left main coronary artery lesions: A single-center randomized trialXiao-Ming Liu et al.; Tangshan-China
Effect of omentin on cardiovascular functions and gene expressions in isolated rat heartsÖzden Kutlay et al.; Eskişehir-Turkey
Consensus Report
Turkish Society of Cardiology consensus paper on management of arrhythmia-induced cardiomyopathyTaner Ulus et al.; Eskişehir-Turkey
Editor-in-ChiefProf. Dr. Çetin Erol, Ankara, Turkey
EditorMustafa Kılıçkap, Ankara, Turkey
Editorial BoardRamazan Akdemir, Sakarya, TurkeyLevent Akyürek, Göteborg, SwedenAzin Alizadehasl, Tehran, IranNecmi Ata, Eskişehir, TurkeySaide Aytekin, İstanbul, TurkeyVedat Aytekin, İstanbul, TurkeyLjuba Bacharova, Bratislava, Slovak RepublicLuiggi P. Badano, Udine, ItalyAnzel Bahadır, Düzce, TurkeyAdrian Baranchuk, Kingston, Ontario, CanadaMurat Biteker, Muğla, TurkeyEugene Braunwald, Boston, MA, USACahid Civelek, St. Louis, MO, USAAli Emin Denktaş, Houston, TX, USAPolychronis Dilaveris, Athens, GreeceFırat Duru, Zurich, Switzerland
Ertuğrul Ercan, İzmir, TurkeyOkan Erdoğan, İstanbul, TurkeyÖzcan Erel, Ankara, TurkeyAli Gholamrezanezhad, Tahran, İranMichael Gibson, Boston, MA, USAOrhan Gökalp, İzmir, TurkeyBülent Görenek, Eskişehir, TurkeyOkan Gülel, Samsun, TurkeySema Güneri, İzmir, TurkeyYekta Gürlertop, Edirne, TurkeyMurat Güvener, Ankara, TurkeyCemil İzgi, London, UKDiwakar Jain, Philadelphia, USAErdem Kaşıkçıoğlu, İstanbul, TurkeyCihangir Kaymaz, İstanbul, TurkeyMustafa Kılıç, Denizli, Turkey
Serdar Küçükoğlu, İstanbul, TurkeyPeter Macfarlane, Renfrewshire, Scotland Robert W. Mahley, San Francisco, CA, USAGiuseppe Mancia, Milan, ItalyG.B. John Mancini, Vancouver BC, CanadaAnthony De Maria, San Diego, CA, USAPascal Meier, London, UKFranz H. Messerli, New York, USASanem Nalbantgil, İzmir, TurkeyNavin C. Nanda, Birmingham, AL, USAYılmaz Nişancı, İstanbul, TurkeyHakan Oral, Ann Arbor, MI, USANecla Özer, Ankara, TurkeyZeki Öngen, İstanbul, TurkeyMehmet Özkan, İstanbul, TurkeySotirios N. Prapas, Athens, Greece
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Associate EditorsAdnan Abacı, Ankara, TurkeyRüçhan Akar, Ankara, TurkeyBülent Behlül Altunkeser, Konya, TurkeySerdal Arslan, Sivas, TurkeyAhmet Kaya Bilge, İstanbul, TurkeyHakim Çelik, Şanlıurfa, TurkeyRecep Demirbağ, Şanlıurfa, TurkeyŞ. Remzi Erdem, Ankara, Turkeyİlkay Erdoğan, Ankara, TurkeySadi Güleç, Ankara, TurkeyAli Gürbüz, İzmir, TurkeySerdar Kula, Ankara, Turkey
Selma Metintaş, Eskişehir, TurkeyKurtuluş Özdemir, Konya, TurkeyMurat Özeren, Mersin, TurkeyLeyla Elif Sade, Ankara, TurkeyAsife Şahinarslan, Ankara, TurkeyAhmet Temizhan, Ankara, TurkeyErcan Tutar, Ankara, TurkeyOmaç Tüfekçioğlu, Ankara, TurkeyF. Ajlan Tükün, Ankara, TurkeyTaner Ulus, Eskişehir, TurkeyAylin Yıldırır, Ankara, TurkeyMehmet Birhan Yılmaz, Sivas, Turkey
Editor-in-Chief ConsultantSuna Kıraç, Lefkoşe, KKTC
Senior Consultant in BiostatisticsKazım Özdamar, Eskişehir, Turkey
Consultant in BiostatisticsFezan Mutlu, Eskişehir, Turkey
Anatol J Cardiol, Vol: 21, Issue: 2, February 2019The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology®
Previous Editor-in-ChiefBilgin Timuralp, Eskişehir, Turkey
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EDITORIALS
''Medical Misinformation - Vet the Message'' 57Çetin Erol; Ankara-Turkey
Medical Misinformation Vet the Message! 58Joseph A. Hill et al.; Dallas-USA
ORIGINAL INVESTIGATIONS
Low free triiodothyronine is associated with contrast-induced acute kidney injury and long-term outcome 60in elderly patients who underwent percutaneous coronary interventionChunjin Lin, Kaiyang Lin, Yansong Guo, Zhebin You, Weiping Zheng, Fan Lin, Tailin Guo, Pengli Zhu; Fuzhou-China
The impact of heart rate on patients diagnosed with heart failure with mid-range ejection fraction 68Yanguo Xin, Xin Chen, Yinan Zhao, Wenyu Hu; Sichuan, Chongqing, Shenyang-China
Editorial Comment: Heart rate in heart failure with mid-range ejection fraction 75 Mehmet Birhan Yılmaz; Sivas-Turkey
Is endocan a biochemical marker for asymptomatic target organ damage in hypertensive patients? 76Mustafa Tarık Ağaç, Behlül Kahyaoğlu, Muhammed Murat Necati Aksoy, Fatma Behice Cinemre, Mehmet Bülent Vatan, Yasemin Gündüz; Sakarya-Turkey
Intravascular ultrasound-guided drug-eluting stent implantation for patients with unprotected left main 83coronary artery lesions: A single-center randomized trialXiao-Ming Liu, Zuo-Ming Yang, Xiao-Kun Liu, Qi Zhang, Chang-Qing Liu, Quan-Le Han, Jian-Hua Sun; Tangshan-China
Effect of omentin on cardiovascular functions and gene expressions in isolated rat hearts 91Özden Kutlay, Ziya Kaygısız, Bilgin Kaygısız; Eskişehir-Turkey
CONSENSUS REPORT
Turkish Society of Cardiology consensus paper on management of arrhythmia-induced cardiomyopathy 98AUTHORS: Taner Ulus, Kaan Okyay, Hasan Kutsi Kabul, Emin Evren Özcan, Özcan Özeke, Hakan AltayREVIEWERS: Bülent Görenek, Aylin Yıldırır, Sercan Okutucu, Abdullah Tekin; Eskişehir, Ankara, İzmir, İstanbul, Adana-Turkey
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CASE REPORTS
A dramatic example of severe premature atherosclerosis successfully treated by percutaneous 107coronary interventionGökhan Altunbaş, Ertan Vuruşkan, Osman Başpınar, Murat Sucu; Gaziantep-Turkey
A Port-A-Cath silent embolization to the left distal pulmonary artery: A novel percutaneous approach 110for a challenging caseElnur Alizade, Ahmet Güner, İsmail Balaban, İlahe Abdurahmanova, Selçuk Pala; İstanbul-Turkey, Baku-Azerbaijan
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
‘‘Learning curve’’ in congenital cardiac surgery 114Orhan Gökalp, Hasan İner, Nihan Karakaş Yeşilkaya, Şahin İşcan; İzmir, Adıyaman, Tunceli-Turkey
About the saphenous vein graft patencies after coronary artery bypass surgery 115Habib Çakır, İsmail Yürekli, Börteçin Eygi, Kamil Aşar, Mert Kestelli; İzmir-Turkey
Predictive factors for longer length of hospital stay in patients with heart failure 117Can Ramazan Öncel; Antalya-Turkey
Length of hospital stay, diuretic dosing, and regression strategies 117Göksel Çinier, İbrahim Halil Tanboğa; Rize, İstanbul-Turkey
E-PAGE ORIGINAL IMAGES
Vibrating heart E-4Bilgin Emrecan; Denizli-Turkey
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, versus fibrosing mediastinitis E-4Kiara Rezaei Kalantari, Hadi Malek, Ahmad Amin, Jamal Moosavi, Omid Shafe, Parham Sadeghipour; Tehran-Iran
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