Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 28 No 5 (September/October 2017)
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Editorial |
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Cardiovascular Topics |
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Is there a role for combination anti-remodelling therapy for heart failure secondary to chronic rheumatic mitral regurgitation? |
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Prevalence of rheumatic valvular heart disease in Rwandan school children: echocardiographic evaluation using the World Heart Federation criteria |
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Factors affecting interest in cardiothoracic surgery among junior surgical residents in Nigeria |
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Atorvastatin inhibits cholesterol-induced caspase-3 cleavage through down-regulation of p38 and up-regulation of Bcl-2 in the rat carotid artery |
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New World’s old disease: cardiac hydatid disease and surgical principles |
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Right ventricular strain as predictor of pulmonary complications in patients with femur fracture |
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Electrocardiographic abnormalities in treatment-naïve HIV subjects in south-east Nigeria |
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Red cell distribution width is correlated with extensive coronary artery disease in patients with diabetes mellitus |
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Prevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural Senegal: new insight on the epidemiological transition in West Africa |
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Review Articles |
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Anaemia and iron deficiency in heart failure: epidemiological gaps, diagnostic challenges and therapeutic barriers in sub-Saharan Africa |
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Congress News |
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Case Reports |
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Atrial myxoma: a rare cause of hemiplegia in children |
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Liddle’s syndrome in an African male due to a novel frameshift mutation in the beta-subunit of the epithelial sodium channel gene |
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