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  1. Use of broad consent and related procedures in genomics research: Perspectives from research participants in the Genetics of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHDGen) study in a University Teaching Hospital in Zambia
  2. Time to tackle rheumatic heart disease: Data needed to drive global policy dialogues
  3. Characteristics, complications, and gaps in evidence-based interventions in rheumatic heart disease: the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry (the REMEDY study)
  4. Mycobacterium w Immunotherapy for Treating Pulmonary Tuberculosis - a Systematic Review
  5. Rheumatic heart disease in Africa: the Mosi-o-Tunya call to action
  6. Determinants of PCR performance (Xpert MTB/RIF), including bacterial load and inhibition, for TB diagnosis using specimens from different body compartments
  7. Diagnostic accuracy of quantitative PCR (Xpert MTB/RIF) for tuberculous pericarditis compared to adenosine deaminase and unstimulated interferon-γ in a high burden setting: a prospective study
  8. National expenditure on health research in South Africa: What is the benchmark?
  9. Colchicine for recurrent pericarditis—what's new in CORP-2?
  10. Readiness of the primary care system for non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa
  11. PT441 The Global Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease: The Tip of The Iceberg
  12. Genomic medicine in Africa: promise, problems and prospects
  13. Reference intervals for the echocardiographic measurements of the right heart in children and adolescents: a systematic review
  14. MOGE(S): a standardized classification of cardiomyopathies?
  15. Cardiovascular medicine
  16. Prevalence of myocarditis and cardiotropic virus infection in Africans with HIV-associated cardiomyopathy, idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and heart transplant recipients : a pilot study : cardiovascular topic
  17. Noncommunicable Diseases in Developing Countries: Focus on Research Capacity Building—Reply
  18. Position statement of the World Heart Federation on the prevention and control of rheumatic heart disease
  19. Rationale and design of the Investigation of the Management of Pericarditis (IMPI) trial: A 2 × 2 factorial randomized double-blind multicenter trial of adjunctive prednisolone and Mycobacterium w immunotherapy in tuberculous pericarditis
  20. Echocardiographic Screening for Subclinical Rheumatic Heart Disease Remains a Research Tool Pending Studies of Impact on Prognosis
  21. Cardiovascular Diseases
  22. Bongani Mayosi: targeting heart diseases of poverty in Africa
  23. Health in South Africa: changes and challenges since 2009
  24. Beta-blockers for hypertension
  25. Medical inpatient mortality at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, 2002-2009
  26. Beta-blockers for hypertension
  27. HIV infection, pulmonary arterial hypertension and pregnancy : a fatal triad : case report - online article
  28. Quantification of echodensities in tuberculous pericardial effusion using fractal geometry: a proof of concept study
  29. The 12-lead ECG in peripartum cardiomyopathy
  30. The prevalence and outcome of effusive constrictive pericarditis : a systematic review of the literature
  31. Atrial fibrillation as a consequence of tuberculous pericardial effusion
  32. Securing the public good of health research and development for developing countries
  33. Rationale and design of a Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry: The REMEDY study
  34. The burden of antenatal heart disease in South Africa: a systematic review
  35. Tuberculous pericarditis with and without HIV
  36. Effusive-constrictive pericarditis
  37. A systematic overview of prospective cohort studies of cardiovascular disease in sub-Saharan Africa
  38. HIV‐1 infection alters CD4+ memory T‐cell phenotype at the site of disease in extrapulmonary tuberculosis
  39. Genetic Susceptibility to Acute Rheumatic Fever: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Twin Studies
  40. Adjunctive steroid therapy for managing tuberculosis
  41. Acute rheumatic fever
  42. Acute rheumatic fever
  43. Triage and management of pericardial effusion
  44. Pericardial effusion triage
  45. Tailoring Diagnosis and Management of Pericardial Disease to the Epidemiological Setting
  46. Lessons from the first report of the Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Registry of South Africa
  47. Chromosome 9p21 SNPs Associated with Multiple Disease Phenotypes Correlate with ANRIL Expression
  48. Transmissible cancer in Africa – Authors' reply
  49. Foreword
  50. Acknowledgement
  51. 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
  52. Clinical features, survival experience, and profile of plakophylin-2 gene mutations in participants of the Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Registry of South Africa
  53. The burden of non-communicable diseases in South Africa
  54. The mitochondrial DNA T16189C polymorphism and HIV-associated cardiomyopathy: a genotype-phenotype association study
  55. Epidemiology of heart failure in sub-Saharan Africa
  56. Motion-guided segmentation for cine DENSE MRI
  57. Reserpine for hypertension
  58. Aetiology and risk factors of peripartum cardiomyopathy: A systematic review
  59. Assessing strain in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy using cine DENSE MRI
  60. Reply
  61. Contemporary use of adjunctive corticosteroids in tuberculous pericarditis
  62. Letter to the editor
  63. A Modern Approach to Tuberculous Pericarditis
  64. Heart Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa: Time for Action
  65. Origins of computed tomography
  66. Beta-blockers for hypertension
  67. How strong is the evidence for use of beta-blockers as first-line therapy for hypertension? Systematic review and meta-analysis
  68. Acute rheumatic fever
  69. An appropriate research agenda for heart disease in Africa
  70. Acute rheumatic fever
  71. Erratum: Measured haplotype analysis of the aldosterone synthase gene and heart size
  72. Adjunctive steroid therapy for managing tuberculosis
  73. Measured haplotype analysis of the aldosterone synthase gene and heart size
  74. Pericardial Disease: An Evidence‐Based Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment
  75. Interventions for treating tuberculous pericarditis
  76. Penicillin for secondary prevention of rheumatic fever
  77. Electrocardiographic markers of cardiac hypertrophy show greater heritability than echocardiographic left ventricular mass: a family study
  78. Where to practice evidence-based medicine?
  79. Long‐Term Survival After Permanent Pacemaker Implantation in Young Adults: 30 Year Experience
  80. Anticoagulation for prosthetic valves during pregnancy
  81. Pulmonary Edema Following Electrical Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation