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CONTENTS
VOL 23, NO 4. MAY 2012
Letter to the Editor
205 Cohort studies of cardiovascular disease in the Seychelles, Tanzania and Mauritius
P Bovet • C Shamlaye
Review Article
222 Endothelial dysfunction: the early predictor of atherosclerosis
M Mudau • A Genis • A Lochner • H Strijdom
Conference Report
232 Expert report on the 22nd European meeting on hypertension and cardiovascular
protection, London, 26–29 April 2012
N Rapeport • S Middlemost
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Case Reports
e1 Non-obstructive membranes of the left atrial appendage
T Bordonali • A Saporetti • E Vizzardi • A D’Aloia • E Chiari • L dei Cas
e3 Mobile atheromatous plaque of the aortic arch diagnosed by transthoracic
echocardiography prior to coronary artery bypass surgery
Which one would you choose: scepticism or wishful thinking?
AC Hatemi • O Omay • M Başkurt • S Kücükoğlu • B Öz • K Süzer
e6 Successful stenting of catheter-induced unprotected left main coronary artery dissection
G Ertaş • E Ural • WJ van der Giessen
e8 New images in carcinoid heart disease
M Klobučić • MH Paar • RŠ Padovan • J Vincelj • B Fila
e11 Aortic dissection, a complication during successful angioplasty of chronic total
occlusion of the right coronary artery, was treated conservatively
S Chunlai • PR Stella • A Belkacemi • P Agostoni
