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CONTENTS
Vol 30, No 3, MAY/JUNE 2019
168 Characteristics and 12-month outcome of patients with atrial fibrillation at a tertiary
hospital in Botswana
JC Mwita • C Ocampo • OJ Molefe-Baikai • M Goepamang • E Botsile • JG Tshikuka
REVIEW ARTICLE
174 Remodelling in atrial fibrillation: the impact of amiodarone
AI Grosu • D Radulescu • LC Grosu • D Pop
SHORT COMMUNICATION
181 An integrated model of materno-foetal cardiac dysfunction in severe pre-eclampsia
I Bhorat
SAHS COMMENTARY
184 South African Hypertension Society commentary on the American College of
Cardiology/American Heart Association hypertension guidelines
B Rayner • E Jones • Y Veriava • YK Seedat
PUBLISHED ONLINE (Available on and in PubMed)
CASE REPORTS
e1 A patient with anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery
(ALCAPA syndrome) and 13 live births
M Yolcu • MS Bilal • MK Avsar • O Yildirim
e3 Second recurrence of familial atrial myxomas: mother and daughter simultaneously
Z Bayramoglu • K Oral • M Ezelsoy • B Akpinar