Echocardiography: Usefulness of Tissue Doppler Imaging Versus Radionuclide Scintigraphy in Evaluation of Right Ventricular Myocardial Involvement in Acute Inferior Wall Myocardial Infarction Randa Aly, Sameh El Maraghi, Ahmed El Sherif Value of Tissue Doppler Imaging in Assessing Effect of Hypertension on Systolic and Diastolic Function Nagwa Elmahalawy, Inas Eweida, Iman Esmat, Fadia Elzoghby Hypertension: Impaired Endothelial Function is a Novel Marker of Subclinical Organ Damage in Hypertensive Patients Mohammed A Abdel Wahab Importance of Inflammatory Cytokines and Endothelial Peptides in Predicting Hypertensive Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Omyma G Ahmed, Hatem A Helmy, Osama A Ibrahiem, Marwa A Ahmed, Asma F Hassan Ambulatory Arterial Stiffness Index and its Correlation with Target Organ Damage in Patients with Essential Hypertension Mohamed M Saad, Mohammed A Abdel Wahab Relevance of Homocysteine on Brachial Flow-Mediated Vasodilation and Carotid and Femoral Intima-Media Thickness in Siblings of Hypertensive Patients Mohamed Fahmy Elnoamany, Hala Mahfouz Badran, Hesham Hasan Ebraheem, Ahmed Ashraf Reda, Neven Abelmonem Elsheekh Coronary Heart Disease: Significant Value of Oxidized LDL Serum Level in Diabetic Coronary Artery Disease Patients Ihab Mostafa Abdel-Fattah, Hesham Hassan, Walaa Farid, Maather El Shafie, Mostafa Hamed, Abdallah Mostafa Effect of Glucose Insulin Infusion on High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein and Left Ventricular Global Systolic Function in Diabetic Patients Presenting with ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Osama Abdel Aziz Rifaie, Iman Esmat Sayed Ibrahim, Ahmed Mohammed Onsy, George Ghaly Girgus Serum Adiponectin Levels in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Mohamed Fahmy Elnoamany, Ihab Mohamed Abdelfa ttah, Ashraf Abdelraouf Dawood, Abdalla Mostafa Kamal, Samah Abdelsamea Zahran Clinical Implications of Adipocytokine, Serum Resisten in Diabetics with Coronary Artery Disease Mahmoud Soliman, Waleed Fathey, Adel Abdel Elghany, Amira Abd El Kader, Gehan Kamal THE EGYPTIAN HEART JOURNAL (EHJ) TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 205 219 225 231 243 249 261 267 277 289 Volume 62 Number 2 June 2010 • •