Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 34 No 1 (JANUARY/APRIL 2023)

EDITORIAL	5
From the Editor’s Desk	5
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS	6
Changing face of pulmonary embolism with COVID-19	6
Aortic regurgitation: multimodal assessment of quantification and impact	11
The impact of daily troponin I and D-dimer serum levels on mortality in COVID-19 pneumonia patients	18
Pre-morbid cardiometabolic risks among South Africans living in informal settlements	25
The non-negligible association between SYNTAX score and anxiety–depressive disorders	32
REVIEW ARTICLE	37
SA Heart consensus statement on closure of patent foramen ovale 2021	37
CASE REPORTS	42
Resurgence of Shoshin beriberi during the COVID-19 pandemic	42
The optimal diagnosis and treatment of intravenous leimyomatosis	46
Aneurysmal degeneration in the Omniflow II biosynthetic vascular graft	50
An unusually large left ventricular thrombus complicating anterior myocardial infarction: the value of multimodality imaging	53
Left thoracotomy approach for aortic root surgery	57
Mycotic abdominal aortic aneurysm: two cases caused by Salmonella enterica	61
LETTER TO THE EDITOR	65
Alternative treatment of tricuspid valve vegetations	65

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