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CONTENTS
Vol 26, No 3, MAY/JUNE 2015
140 Prevalence of anaemia among patients with heart failure at the Brazzaville University
Hospital
MS Ikama • BM Nsitou • I Kocko • NS Mongo • G Kimbally-Kaky • JL Nkoua
Case Report
143 An antibiotic recipe for an arrhythmic disaster
K McCutcheon • P Manga
drug trends in cardiology
146 AfricaPCR 2015, a brief report back
148 South African hospital the first in the Middle East, Africa, central Asia and Turkey to
implant the world’s smallest, minimally invasive cardiac pacemaker
PUBLISHED ONLINE (Available on Pubmed and in Pubmed Central)
Case Reports
e1 ST-elevation myocardial infarction following systemic inflammatory response syndrome
Y Tan • Y Tu • D Tian • C Li • J-K Zhong • Z-G Guo
e4 Treatment of right ventricular perforation during percutaneous coronary intervention
G Gu • J Zhang • W Cui
e7 An unusual cause of a large fibrinous pericardial effusion
NC Tembani-Munyandu • R Makunike-Mutasa • L Katsidzira • A Chinogureyi
e11 A fatal complication after repair of post-infarction ventricular septal rupture: heparin-
induced thrombocytopenia with thrombosis
Y Nazli • N Colak • B Demircelik • MF Alpay • O Cakir • K Cagli