Editorial

From Editor-in-Chief: Concluding year 2018

Gulmira Kudaiberdieva

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Original Research

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Predictors of left ventricular hypertrophy development in patients with essential hypertension: role of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines

Larisa G.Tsoi, Andrei G. Polupanov,  Ibragim S. Sabirov, Tazagul B. Zalova, Flora T. Rysmatova, Bishkek, Osh, Kyrgyz Republic

Original Research

106

Bipolar versus unipolar energy in the surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation in patients with mitral valve surgery

Leonardo Canale, Bruno Azevedo, Marcelo Correia, Ernesto Chavez, Erica Macedo, Cintia Mattoso, Roberta Lima, Juliana Vieira, Cristiane Lamas, Clara Weksler, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Review

113

Advances in echocardiography: global longitudinal strain, intra-cardiac multidirectional flow imaging and automated 3d volume analysis

Oben Baysan, Ezgi Polat Ocakli, Yasemin Saglam, Tugba Kayhan Altuner, Ankara, Turkey

Case report

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Anomalous origin of right coronary artery from left coronary sinus associated with aneurysm of aortic root

Rustem M. Tuleutayev, Daurenbek O. Urazbekov, Kuat B. Abzaliyev, Kuanysh O. Ongarbayev, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Quiz

130

Quiz: Pacemaker

Mykhaylo Sorokivskyy, Lviv, Ukraine

In memoriam

132

In memory of Professor Usen B. Baisakov

Heart, Vessels and Transplantation

Answer to quiz and case discussion

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Answer to Quiz:  Pacemaker on page…

Mykhaylo Sorokivskyy, Lviv, Ukraine

Author index 2018

135

Reviewer index 2018

137

Content index 2018

138