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CONTENTS
VOL 24, NO 2. MARCH 2013
24 Is the prevalence of pre-eclampsia affected by HIV/AIDS? A retrospective case‒control
study
VMS Kalumba • J Moodley
28 Presenting features of newly diagnosed rheumatic heart disease patients in Mulago
Hospital: a pilot study
W Zhang • C Mondo • E Okello • C Musoke • B Kakande • W Nyakoojo • J Kayima • J Freers
Review Article
34 Epidemiology of ischaemic heart disease in sub-Saharan Africa
CL Onen
6th World Congress
Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Cape Town, February 2013
44 Philips hosts breakfast symposia to drive experience-sharing on minimally invasive
cardiology procedures
R Delport • G Hardy
46 Consequences of underlying infection complicate CVD management in Africa
J Aalbers
PUBLISHED ONLINE (Available on and in Pubmed)
Case Reports
e1 ST‒T-wave alternans in Brugada electrocardiogram type I pattern during the resolution of
febrile states
Y Zhou • J Wang • X Li • Y Wang
e4 Is a drug-challenge test with propafenone adequate to exclude Brugada syndrome?
YB Serhat • G Hasan • G Ilker • B Murat • Z Mehdi • A Azem
e7 Acute arterial thrombosis following chemotherapy in a patient with a gastric carcinoma
S Doganci • M Kadan • E Kaya • G Erol • C Gunay • U Demirkilic
e10 Kounis syndrome secondary to simultaneous oral amoxicillin and parenteral ampicillin
use in a young man
T Bezgin • Ç Geçmen • B Özkan • G Alici • ME Kalkan • R Kargin • AM Esen
e13 Localised bullous eruptions after extravasation of normal saline in the forearm during
left ventricular device-assisted surgery
C-H Lee • C-H Chang • C-W Wu • J Wei • Y-T Tsai