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The
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
,
incorporating the
Cardiovascular
Journal of South Africa
, is published 10
times a year, the publication date being
the third week of the designated month.
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CONTENTS
VOL 23, NO 3. APRIL 2012
Review Articles
160 Cardiac surgery risk-stratification models
C Prins • I de V Jonker • L Botes • FE Smit
165 The challenges of cardiac surgery for African children
AOH Mocumbi
Your life and your heart
170 Coenzyme Q10, an anti-oxidant of value to reduce oxidative stress; also useful to reduce
statin-induced myalgia
J Aalbers
drug Trends
168 New anticoagulants offer consistent stroke-reduction benefit in atrial fibrillation
J Aalbers
171 From the ACC congress, 24–27 March 2012
J Aalbers
172 South African Hypertension Society 2012 congress report
J Aalbers • G Hardy
PUBLISHED ONLINE
(Available on
and in Pubmed)
Case Reports
e1 Iatrogenic hydropneumopericardium
F Peters • A Patel • R Essop
e3 Spontaneous coronary artery dissection associated with Leriche syndrome
CY Karabay • MM Can • IH Tanbonga • SM Aung • A Kalayci • C Gecmen • C Kirma
e6 Multiple gene polymorphisms predisposing to the prothrombotic state in an adolescent
with acute myocardial infarction
A Doğan • A Icli • E Varol • D Erdogan
e9 Very late thrombosis of a paclitaxel-eluting stent after 72 months
in a patient on dual anti-platelet therapy
V Subban • L Kalidoss • MA Sankardas
e12 Post-infarction myocardial rupture: a case of pericardial
tamponade salvaged by auto-blood transfusion
AK Khaledi • F Larti • S Safari
e14 Heart failure and cardiogenic shock associated with the
TB-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome
C Kenyon • N Schrueder • M Ntsekhe • G Meintjes
HEALTHCARE
