Browsing by Author "Ntusi, Ntobeko A. B."

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    COVID-19 and cardiovascular imaging : a guide for the practising clinician
    (South African Heart Association, 2020) Meel, Ruchika; Cupido, Blanche; Pecoraro, Alfonso; Doubell, Anton; Lubbe, Wayne; Ntusi, Ntobeko A. B.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, patients with cardiac disease have been the worst affl icted with a high mortality. Cardiac imaging forms an integral part of the armamentarium in the management of these patients. This review focuses on providing a general guide to cardiac imaging in the COVID-19 context for the practising clinician in Africa. These recommendations are likely to be modifi ed as further data emerge on the effect of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the cardiovascular system.
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    An unusual cause for a dilated right heart 33-years post-surgical repair of aortic coarctation
    (South African Heart Association, 2018) Kyriakakis, Charles G.; Van Rensburg, Annari; Ntusi, Ntobeko A. B.; Janson, Jacques; Herbst, Philip G.; Doubell, Anton F.
    Prior to planning for the surgical correction of a congenital cardiac defect it is of the utmost importance that additional defects, which themselves might also require surgical correction, be sought and identified. Of these, those leading to volume overload of the right heart, and particularly those that are not easily identified on transthoracic echocardiography, may go unnoticed during initial evaluation in childhood. We describe the approach to such a clinical problem, highlighting the value of multimodality imaging in this context, and outline the options available for surgical correction.