| EDITORIAL | 6 |
| CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS | 8 |
| Association between troponin T and ICU mortality, a changing trend | 8 |
| Nebivolol therapy improves QTc and QTcd parameters in heart failure patients | 13 |
| Can cardiac surgery be performed safely on patients with haematological malignancies | 16 |
| The impact of cardiovascular risk factors on the site and extent of coronary artery disease | 19 |
| The time-course changes of NT-proBNP and tissue Doppler indices in patients undergoing mitral valve replacement | 22 |
| Presentation pattern and management of effusive–constrictive pericarditis in Ibadan | 28 |
| Risk factors for the development of pneumonia post cardiac surgery | 34 |
| An audit of pregnant women with prosthetic heart valves at a tertiary hospital in South Africa: a five-year experience | 38 |
| LETTER TO THE EDITOR | 27 |
| REVIEW ARTICLE | 44 |
| CONFERENCE REPORT | 54 |
| CASE REPORTS | 59 |
| Non-obstructive membranes of the left atrial appendage | 59 |
| 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? | 61 |
| Successful stenting of catheter-induced unprotected left main coronary artery dissection | 64 |
| New images in carcinoid heart disease | 66 |
| Aortic dissection, a complication during successful angioplasty of chronic total occlusion of the right coronary artery, was treated conservatively | 69 |