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• Efficacy of an originator versus a generic formulation of simvas tatin
• Ultrasound training for non-cardiologists in a resource-limited setting
• Association of serum lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 level & ACS
• Pre-operative monocyte count-HDL ratio & postoperative acute kidney injury
• Pregnancy outcomes in women with pulmonary hypertension
• Mitral valve area and left atrial function in rheumatic mitral valve stenosis
• Red blood cell distribution volume to predict atrial fibrillatio n after CABG
• Hypertension treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review
   
Supplement Issue: Kenya Cardiac Society 40th Annual Scientific Congress 26 - 29th July 2023, Mombasa

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Previous Issue: Volume 34, Issue 4, September / October 2023
• Carotid intima–media thickness and AKI following isolated CABG surgery
• Atrial and ventricular arrhythmia predictors
• Radiation doses in endovascular revascularisation
• Right ventricular systolic dysfunction among patients
• Salt sensitivity and blood pressure variability in patients
• CTA and echocardiography in predicting left atrial appendage thrombosis
• Impact of diabetes on post-operative complications
• Flowmeter values for graft flow in isolated coronary artery bypass surgery
• Baseline fractional
   
Previous Issue: Volume 34, Issue 3, July / August 2023
• Prognostic value of myocardial scar cardiomyopathy
• Trends and outcomes of cardiovascular disease admissions in Nigeria
• Two decades of implantable cardioverter defibrillator implantation
• Prevalence and risk factors for elevated blood pressure in South Africa
• Creating blood conservation for a cardiothoracic surgical hospital
• Assessment of papillary muscle free strain in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Electric cardioversion in patients treated with oral anticoagulants
• Permanent His bundle pacing using a Biotronik stylet-driven lead
   
Previous Issue: Volume 34, Issue 2, May / June 2023
• Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in a Tunisian hospital
• Role of nuclear factor kappa-B in TNF-induced cytoprotection
• Clinical features and outcomes of infective endocarditis
• Training rural health workers in acute rheumatic fever in eastern Uganda
• CircRNA-mediated pathology: mechanism of type II cardio-renal syndrome
• Circulatory soluble LOX-1: a novel predictor for coronary artery disease
• Diphtheritic myocarditis: a case report with multi-organ involvement
• Conference proceedings of the Nigerian Cardiovascular Symposium
   
Supplement Issue: The 23rd Panafrican Course on Interventional Cardiology and 27th National Congress of the Moroccan Society of Cardiology

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Supplement Issue: SAHS: Hypertension Beyond Blood Pressure Management Abstracts
16 – 18 SEPTEMBER 2022


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Previous Issue: Volume 34, Issue 1, January / April 2023
• Changing face of pulmonary embolism with COVID-19
• Aortic regurgitation: multimodal assessment of quantification and impact
• Daily troponin I and D-dimer levels and mortality in COVID-19 patients
• Pre-morbid cardiometabolic risks in informal settlements in South Africa
• Association between SYNTAX score and anxiety–depressive disorders
• SA Heart consensus statement on closure of patent foramen ovale 2021
• Resurgence of Shoshin beriberi during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Aneurysmal degeneration in the Omniflow II biosynthetic vascular graft
   
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Supplement Issue: 22th PanAfrican Course on Interventional Cardiology PAFCIC 2021
16-18 December 2021 - The Hybrid Edition

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Supplement Issue: 15TH PASCAR Congress in association with Kenya Cardiac Society
22nd - 25th November 2021 in Mombasa, Kenya

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  Volume 32, Issue 6, November / December 2021
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Supplement Issue: The Panafrican Course on Interventional Cardiology
17-19 December 2020 (Virtual)

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  Volume 31, Issue 6, November / December 2020
Supplement Issue: PASCAR WHF CVD Scorecards

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Supplement Issue: Abstracts: PASCAR, SA Heart & Africa PCR Join forces for the 2019 Congress.

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Special Issue: PanAfrican Course on Interventional Cardiology PAFCIC 2019 Abstracts

September 12-14, 2019
Movenpick Congress Center, Lac Tunis, TUNISIA

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  Africa STEMI Live! 2019 (25 - 27 April 2019)
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  4th All African Conference on Heart Disease, Diabetes and Stroke
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