Research Articles (Cardiology)
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Advancing global health through cardiovascular research, mentorship, and capacity building : in memoriam, professor Bongani Mayosi (1967–2018)
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2018-10-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: No abstract available -
A retrospective audit of mitral valve repair surgery at Tygerberg Hospital
(South African Heart Association, 2018)Background: Mitral valve repair is well established as the preferred treatment modality for the majority of patients with degenerative mitral valve disease requiring intervention. Valve repair offers a distinct event-free ... -
A retrospective analysis of mitral valve pathology in the setting of bicuspid aortic valves
(BioScientifica, 2017)The therapeutic implications of bicuspid aortic valve associations have come under scrutiny in the transcatheter aortic valve implantation era. We evaluate the spectrum of mitral valve disease in patients with bicuspid ... -
Screening for rheumatic heart disease : is a paradigm shift required?
(BioScientifica, 2017)This focused review presents a critical appraisal of the World Heart Federation criteria for the echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and its performance in African RHD screening programmes. It ... -
Rheumatic heart disease screening : current concepts and challenges
(Medknow Publications, 2017)Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a disease of poverty, is almost entirely preventable, and is the most common cardiovascular disease worldwide in those under 25 years. RHD is caused by acute rheumatic fever (ARF) which ... -
Prevention of infective endocarditis associated with dental interventions : South African Heart association position statement, endorsed by the South African Dental Association
(South African Heart Association, 2017)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Infective endocarditis (IE) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Prevention is therefore an important clinical entity. The maintenance of optimal oral health is likely to play the most ... -
An approach to the patient with a suspected tachycardia in the emergency department
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Patients present to the emergency department with either an ongoing tachycardia or a history suspicious of a tachycardia. Either way, the tachycardia needs to be documented, preferably on a 12-lead ... -
An approach to the patient with suspected pericardial disease
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Diseases of the pericardium commonly manifest in one of three ways: acute pericarditis, pericardial effusion and constrictive pericarditis. In the developed world, the most common cause of acute pericarditis ... -
The heart team, TAVI and natural selection
(South African Heart Association, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The announcement in 2002 that Alan Cribier had performed the first Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) ranked right up there with the announcement that the first heart transplant had been ... -
Delivering cardiac care : the next frontier
(South African Heart Association, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The 17th annual South African Heart congress, co-hosted with the annual meeting of the World Society of Cardiothoracic surgery, brings together both local and international pioneers in the field of ... -
Tri-leaflet mitral valves – when lightning strikes thrice
(South African Heart Association, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Mitral valves are well known to be bi-leaflet structures with attachments from both leaflets (anterior and posterior) to both papillary muscles (anterolateral and posteromedial). Congenital abnormalities ... -
When opportunity knocks
(South African Heart Association, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Constrictive pericarditis remains a common medical problem in developing countries where it frequently complicates tuberculous pericarditis. In addition, it is not infrequently seen in the developed world ... -
Cardiology training in South Africa – on the brink?
(South African Heart Association, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: More often than not, when we use the expression “on the brink”, we are referring to an impending bad situation. On the edge of a cliff without wings so to speak…, on the brink of disaster…, on the brink ... -
Redefining effusive-constrictive pericarditis with echocardiography
(Korean Society of Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound Office, 2016-12)Background: Effusive-constrictive pericarditis (ECP) is traditionally diagnosed by using the expensive and invasive technique of direct pressure measurements in the pericardial space and the right atrium. The aim of this ... -
Tuberculous pericarditis : challenges and controversies in the modern era
(South African Heart Association, 2016)Tuberculous pericarditis (TBP) continues to wreak havoc across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Despite more than 5 decades of treatment and research into TBP, we are not much closer to alleviating the suffering and mortality ... -
Persistant left superior vena cava – the value of an agitated saline contrast study
(South African Heart Association, 2014)A persistant left superior vena cava (PLSVC) draining to the coronary sinus (CS) is the most common venous anomaly of the thorax, affecting approximately 0.5% - 2% of the general population, and is present in up to 10% of ... -
Management of aortic stenosis in pregnancy
(South African Heart Association, 2014)Aortic stenosis in pregnancy is most commonly related to congenital or bicuspid aortic stenosis, which is associated with an aortopathy and ascending aortic dilatation. The management of AS in pregnancy is based on a few ... -
Closure of pulmonary arterio-venous malformations in a patient with a novel form of Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia
(South African Heart Association, 2014)Image in Cardiology: Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia. -
Intervention for congenital and structural heart disease : beyond the cradle
(South African Heart Association, 2014)During the last four decades we have seen an exponential growth in interventions (both medical and invasive) to diagnose and treat adult cardiac disorders. Coronary stents are in their fourth generation and the developments ... -
Screening for asymptomatic rheumatic heart disease : understanding the mechanisms key to the diagnostic criteria
(South African Heart Association, 2015)This focussed review describes important problems experienced in the world of echocardiographic screening for asymptomatic rheumatic heart disease (RHD). It offers a critical appraisal of the screening criteria and their ...
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