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CONTENTS
Vol 26, No 4, JULY/AUGUST 2015
Review Articles
188 Glycaemic, blood pressure and cholesterol control in 25 629 diabetics
Y Pinchevsky • N Butkow • T Chirwa • FJ Raal
193 Why is control of hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa poor?
YK Seedat
Case Report
196 First Melody
®
valve implantations in Africa
DG Buys • C Greig • SC Brown
200
Cardio News
PUBLISHED ONLINE
(Available on
www.cvja.co.za,Pubmed and in Pubmed Central)
Cardiovascular Topic
e1 The prevalence of symptomatic infantile heart disease at Louga Regional Hospital, Senegal
GAB Ba Ngouala • DA Affangla • M Leye • A Kane
Case Reports
e6 Unrepaired persistent truncus arteriosus in a 38-year-old woman with an uneventful
pregnancy
D Abid • E Daoud • SB Kahla • S Mallek • L Abid • H Fourati • Z Mnif • S Kammoun
e9 Exudative pericarditis in the evolution of a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
C Bagacean • A Tempescul • J-C Ianotto • V Marion • D Pop • M Zdrenghea
e12 Intermittent symptomatic functional mitral regurgitation illustrated by two cases
A Aydin • T Gurol • O Soylu • B Dagdeviren
e15 Unusual complication of aortic dissections: intimo–intimal intussusception
U Vural • AY Balci • AA Aglar • M Kizilay •
İ
Yekeler • AK Tuygun
e19 Bare-metal stent thrombosis two decades after stenting
A Acibuca • DM Gerede • VK Vurgun