Recent advances in the epidemiology, pathogenesis and prognosis of acute heart failure and cardiomyopathy in Africa

Isolated Left Ventricular Noncompaction in Identical Twins

(2012) Ferande Peters et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Hypertension as an Emerging Risk Factor for Acute Heart Failure in Africa

(2012) Kenneth A. Jamerson et al.   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

The Causes, Treatment, and Outcome of Acute Heart Failure in 1006 Africans From 9 Countries

(2012) Albertino Damasceno et al.   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

HIV infection, pulmonary arterial hypertension and pregnancy : a fatal triad : case report - online article

(2012) Myat Tun Lin Nyo et al.   Cardiovascular Journal of Africa

Isolated Left Ventricular Noncompaction in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Clinical and Echocardiographic Perspective

(2012) Ferande Peters et al.   Circulation-Cardiovascular Imaging

Circulating microparticles as indicators of peripartum cardiomyopathy

(2012) K. Walenta et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Tuberculous pericarditis with and without HIV

(2012) Mpiko Ntsekhe et al.   HEART FAILURE REVIEWS

Cardiac angiogenic imbalance leads to peripartum cardiomyopathy

(2012) Ian S. Patten et al.   NATURE

Lessons from the first report of the Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Registry of South Africa

(2011) Neil Hendricks et al.   Cardiovascular Journal of Africa

Isolated left ventricular non-compaction with normal ejection fraction

(2011) F. Peters et al.   Cardiovascular Journal of Africa

Contribution of the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome epidemic to de novo presentations of heart disease in the Heart of Soweto Study cohort

(2011) K. Sliwa et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

A not-so-rare form of heart failure in urban black Africans: pathways to right heart failure in the Heart of Soweto Study cohort

(2011) Simon Stewart et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Update 2011: Clinical and Genetic Issues in Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy

(2011) Ray E. Hershberger et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Inherited Cardiomyopathies

(2011) Hugh Watkins et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Genetic Susceptibility to Acute Rheumatic Fever: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Twin Studies

(2011) Mark E. Engel et al.   PLoS One

Evaluation of Bromocriptine in the Treatment of Acute Severe Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

(2010) Karen Sliwa et al.   CIRCULATION

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy as a Part of Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy

(2010) Karin Y. van Spaendonck-Zwarts et al.   CIRCULATION

Rare Variant Mutations in Pregnancy-Associated or Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

(2010) Ana Morales et al.   CIRCULATION

Genetic counselling and testing in cardiomyopathies: a position statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases

(2010) P. Charron et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

DNA testing for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a cost-effectiveness model

(2010) S. Wordsworth et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Characteristics, outcomes, and predictors of mortality at 3 months and 1 year in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure

(2010) Veli-Pekka Harjola et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Current state of knowledge on aetiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of peripartum cardiomyopathy: a position statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on peripartum cardiomyopathy

(2010) Karen Sliwa et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Genetic variation in angiotensin II type 2 receptor gene influences extent of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy independent of blood pressure

(2010) Nadia Carstens et al.   JOURNAL OF THE RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN-ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM

The mitochondrial DNA T16189C polymorphism and HIV-associated cardiomyopathy: a genotype-phenotype association study

(2009) Gasnat Shaboodien et al.   BMC Medical Genetics

Abnormal blood pressure response to exercise occurs more frequently in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients with the R92W troponin T mutation than in those with myosin mutations

(2009) Marshall Heradien et al.   HEART RHYTHM

Clinical features, survival experience, and profile of plakophylin-2 gene mutations in participants of the Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Registry of South Africa

(2009) David A. Watkins et al.   HEART RHYTHM

Long-term outcome of Peripartum cardiomyopathy in a population with high seropositivity for Human Immunodeficiency Virus

(2009) Karen Sliwa et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Predominance of Heart Failure in the Heart of Soweto Study Cohort

(2008) Simon Stewart et al.   CIRCULATION

Genetic variation in angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 gene is associated with extent of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

(2008) Lize van der Merwe et al.   HUMAN GENETICS

Aetiology and risk factors of peripartum cardiomyopathy: A systematic review

(2008) Ntobeko B.A. Ntusi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Predictors of prognosis in patients with peripartum cardiomyopathy

(2008) Nilüfer Duran et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS

Implications of mortality transition for primary health care in rural South Africa: a population-based surveillance study

(2008) Stephen M Tollman et al.   LANCET

Spectrum of heart disease and risk factors in a black urban population in South Africa (the Heart of Soweto Study): a cohort study

(2008) Karen Sliwa et al.   LANCET

A Population Study of Endomyocardial Fibrosis in a Rural Area of Mozambique

(2008) Ana Olga Mocumbi et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

HIV Infection Is Associated with a Lower Incidence of Constriction in Presumed Tuberculous Pericarditis: A Prospective Observational Study

(2008) Mpiko Ntsekhe et al.   PLoS One