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Index
Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Foreword
References
Preface
Acknowledgments
Sub-Saharan Africa and The Heart of Africa: A brief introduction
References
SECTION 1: Maternal heart health
CHAPTER 1: Maternal heart health
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Spectrum of maternal cardiac disease in South Africa
1.2 Initial evaluation of bromocriptine treatment for PPCMO in South Africa
1.3 Health outcomes associated with PPCMO in South Africa
S1.2 Maternal health in Africa: The way forward
References
SECTION 2: Infant and childhood heart disease
CHAPTER 2: Congenital heart disease
2.0 Introduction
2.1 CHD management and its challenges in Mozambique
2.2 CHD management and its challenges in Cameroon
CHAPTER 3: Acquired heart disease
3.0 Introduction
3.1 The spectrum of pediatric cardiac disease in Malawi
3.2 Adolescent heart disease and vertically acquired HIV infection in Zimbabwe
3.3 Primary prevention of acute rheumatic fever and RHD with penicillin in South Africa
3.4 The REMEDY Registry of RHD from an African perspective
3.5 EMF among patients in Mozambique
S2.2 The challenge of protecting the heart health of African children
References
SECTION 3: Spectrum of cardiovascular risk and heart disease in sub-Saharan Africa
CHAPTER 4: Cardiovascular risk in urban and rural African settings
4.0 Introduction
4.1 A time bomb of risk in an urban African community: “Heart Awareness Days” in Soweto
4.2 A time bomb of risk in an urban African community: a primary care perspective in Soweto
4.3 A time bomb of hypertension in urban and rural African communities in Nigeria
CHAPTER 5: The African INTERHEART study
5.0 Introduction
5.1 The African INTERHEART study
CHAPTER 6: The spectrum of heart disease in urban Africans
6.0 Introduction
6.1 Initial findings of the Heart of Soweto Study
6.2 Nexus between communicable and noncommunicable forms of heart disease in Soweto
6.3 Hypertension and hypertensive heart disease in Soweto
6.4 A predominance of HF in Soweto
6.5 RHF—A not so rare form of HF in Soweto
6.6 Pathways to AF in Soweto
S3.2 Responding to an evolving spectrum of heart disease in Africa
References
SECTION 4: Infectious heart disease
CHAPTER 7: Rheumatic heart disease
7.0 Introduction
7.1 A legacy effect of RHD from childhood to adulthood in an urban African community
CHAPTER 8: Pericardial disease
8.0 Introduction
8.1 Prednisolone and Mycobacterium indicus pranii in tuberculous pericarditis
CHAPTER 9: Human immunodeficiency virus–related heart disease
9.0 Introduction
9.1 The nexus between HIV/AIDS and heart disease in an urban African community
S4.2 Infectious heart disease in Africa—not just a historical footnote
References
SECTION 5: Noncommunicable disease
CHAPTER 10: Acute coronary syndrome in the African context
10.0 Introduction
10.1 Management of ACS in South Africa: the ACCESS registry
10.2 ACS in treatment-naïve black South Africans with human immunodeficiency virus infection
10.3 The thrombotic profile of treatment-naïve HIV-positive South Africans of African ancestry with ACS
CHAPTER 11: Stroke in the African context
11.0 Introduction
11.1 An epidemiological study of stroke hospitalizations in Mozambique
S5.2 Beyond counting cases: The next steps to improve health outcomes in stroke and beyond
References
SECTION 6: Heart failure
CHAPTER 12: Acute heart failure
12.0 Introduction
12.1 A landmark registry of AHF in sub-Saharan Africa: THESUS-HF
12.2 Gender differences in AHF presentations in THESUS-HF
12.3 Prognostic significance of ECG abnormalities in THESUS-HF Registry
12.4 Contemporary profile of AHF in Southern Nigeria
CHAPTER 13: Hypertensive heart failure
13.0 Introduction
13.1 Clinical consequences and challenges of hypertension in urban-dwelling black Africans
13.2 A predominance of hypertensive HF in the Abuja Heart Society cohort of urban Nigerians: A prospective clinical registry of 1,515 de novo cases
13.3 Hypertensive HF in Nigerian Africans
CHAPTER 14: Chronic heart failure
14.0 Introduction
14.1 Chronic HF among adults treated for hypertension in a cardiac referral hospital in Cameroon
14.2 The Economic burden of HF in Nigeria: Insights from the Abeokuta HF Registry Cohort
Chapter 15: Pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure
15.0 Introduction
15.1 A prospective registry of PH in Africa: The landmark PAPUCO study
S6.2 An increasingly complex picture of HF in Africa
References
Abbreviations
Index
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