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Nqoba Tsabedze,Sarah Kraus,Jens Hitzeroth,Mpiko Ntsekhe,Martin Mpe,Makoali Makotoko

Acute and chronic heart failure patients have a 2- to 3-fold increased risk of complicating with severe COVID-19, and these patients tend to have multiple comorbidities which are the primary aetiologies for the heart failure clinical syndrome. Furthermore... see more

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Jane Moses,Anton Doubell

Adrian P. Banning,Filippo Crea,Thomas F. Lüscher

There is an unmet need in the management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS). In 2019, there were a number of important papers published in the European Heart Journal and other journals that deepened our knowledge of the spectrum of ACS and their management... see more

Andreas Baumbach,Christos Bourantas,Patrick Serruys,William Wijns

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) research focuses on the optimisation of treatment strategies, the development of novel equipment and pharmacotherapies for improved results, and on risk stratification and identification of high-risk patients that ... see more

Christian Heiss,Alex Pitcher,Jill Belch,Marco De Carlo,Holger Reinecke,Iris Baumgartner,Lucia Mazzolai,Victor Aboyans

Like previous years, the current article reviews groundbreaking science published in 2019 in the area of aortic and peripheral arterial diseases (PAD), as well as venous thromboembolic disease (VTE), which will affect our daily clinical practice.

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A. John Camm,Gregory Y.H. Lip,Richard Schilling,Hugh Calkins,Jan Steffel

During this last year, there has been much progress with regard to anticoagulant and ablation therapy for atrial fibrillation (AF). Apart from recently issued European Society of Cardiology Guidelines for the management of patients with supraventricular a... see more

P. Mkoko,K.L. Govender,B.V.R. Gouws,A. Chin

Background: Cardiac pacemakers improve survival and quality of life in patients with atrioventricular (AV) block. However, conventional pacemakers carry a small risk of both acute and chronic lead and pacemaker generator complications. Leadless pacemakers... see more

Ruchika Meel,Ricardo Gonçalves

COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus, has rapidly spread across the globe, resulting in millions of infections and thousands of deaths. In this short review we describe the pathophysiology, clinical and echocardiographic manifestations of the virus... see more

Sipho Ntshalintshali,Nontembiso Mhlana,Farzana Moosajee,Riyad Abousriwiel,Kiran George,Riette Du Toit

South Africa (SA) has a high incidence of tuberculosis. Medical conditions mimicking tuberculosis often result in erroneous treatment with antitubercular therapy (ATT) before a definitive diagnosis is made. We report on 2 cases presenting with massive per... see more

E.J. Ogbemudia,A. Ogbomo

Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is a relatively rare congenital heart disease (CHD) in Africans compared to caucasians and it is an independent risk factor for aortic aneurysm and dissection. We therefore report a case of a 51-year old farmer who presented wi... see more

Ashley Chin,Rob Scott Millar

Petronella Samuals,Stephen Jermy,Sulaiman Moosa,Ntobeko A.B. Ntusi

Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is an idiopathic disorder of the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, considered endemic in tropical and subtropical Africa and is characterised by development of restrictive cardiomyopathy. Although accurate epidem... see more

Ashley Chin,Rob Scott Millar

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