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CONTENTS
Vol 29, No 1, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018
43 Coronary stent restenosis and the association with allergy to metal content of 316L
stainless steel
D Slodownik • C Danenberg • D Merkin • F Swaid • S Moshe • A Ingber • H Lotan • R Durst
46 Short-term rehospitalisation or death and determinants after admission for acute heart
failure in a cohort of African patients in Port Harcourt, southern Nigeria
MR Akpa • O Iheji
REVIEW ARTICLE
51 Left ventricular remodelling in chronic primary mitral regurgitation: implications for
medical therapy
K McCutcheon, P Manga
PUBLISHED ONLINE (Available on and in PubMed)
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
e1 Risk assessment of the occurrence of sudden death related to hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy in Dakar
[Evaluation du risque de mort subite lié à la cardiomyopathie hypertrophique à Dakar]
K Babaka • SA Sarr • B Dodo • F Aw • M Bodian • MB Ndiaye • A Kane • M Diao • SA Ba
CASE REPORTS
e6 Coronary artery bypass grafting and paraparesis; is there a correlation?
I Samiotis • NG Baikoussis • V Patris • M Argiriou • P Dedeilias • C Charitos
e9 Acute type A aortic dissection involving the iliac and left renal arteries, misdiagnosed
as myocardial infarction
PN Tolefac • A Dzudie • S Mouliom • L Aminde • R Hentchoya • MH Abanda • CM Mvondo •
VD Wanko • HN Luma