| EDITORIAL | 7 |
| CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS | 11 |
| Feeding the emergence of advanced heart disease in Soweto: a nutritional survey of black African patients with heart failure | 11 |
| Treatment of subaortic stenosis in hearts with single-ventricle physiology | 18 |
| Early diastolic functional abnormalities in normotensive offspring of Nigerian hypertensives | 21 |
| Obesity and blood pressure level of adolescents in Abeokuta, Nigeria | 26 |
| Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension among adults 50 years and older in Dakar, Senegal | 31 |
| Control of cardiovascular risk in black Africans with type 2 diabetes in Senegal (Contrôle du risque cardio-vasculaire chez les diabétiques de type 2 noirs africains au Sénégal) | 36 |
| Robotically controlled ablation for atrial fibrillation: the first real-world experience in Africa with the Hansen robotic system | 40 |
| LETTER TO THE EDITOR | 39 |
| REVIEW ARTICLE | 47 |
| CONFERENCE REPORT | 52 |
| DRUG TRENDS | 61 |
| CASE REPORTS | 67 |
| Severe haemoptysis due to subclavian arteritis | 67 |
| The dangerous fifth chamber: congenital left atrial appendage aneurysm | 69 |
| Corrected transposition of the great arteries with previously unreported cardiac anomalies | 71 |
| Rocking mitral annuloplasty ring | 74 |
| Repair of a right coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery | 77 |