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CONTENTS
Vol 24, No 9/10, OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2013
Review Articles
369 Socio-cultural, environmental and behavioural determinants of obesity in black South
African women
LK Micklesfield • EV Lambert • DJ Hume • S Chantler • PR Pienaar • K Dickie • T Puoane •
JH Goedecke
376 The ADVANCE cardiovascular risk model and current strategies for cardiovascular
disease risk evaluation in people with diabetes
AP Kengne
Case Report
382 Ebstein’s anomaly and Down’s syndrome
L Pepeta • S-A Clur
PUBLISHED ONLINE
(Available on
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Case Reports
e1 Left ventricular rupture after double valve replacement in a patient with myocarditis due
to myasthenia gravis
M Argiriou • V Patris • N Lama • S Katsaridis • O Argiriou • C Charitos
e4 Mini-sternotomy approach for aortic valve replacement in a patient with osteogenesis
imperfecta
G Dimitrakakis • J Rathod • UO von Oppell • A Pericleous • S Hutchison
e8 Antiphospholipid syndrome in a young Nigerian girl presenting with gangrenous toes
RC Anakwue • C Chijioke • A Mbah • A Onuh • C Okwara
e12 Kounis syndrome leads to cardiogenic shock
K-L Chang • J Chen • J Yu • X-L Dou