CASSA Symposium 22 February 2025

World Heart Day - 29 September 2024

Eat right

For advice on what to eat and what to avoid for a healthy heart, see Hefssa’s diet recommendations.

THE SPIRIT OF PROFESSIONAL GUIDELINES

Practice as a health care professional is based upon a relationship of mutual trust between patients and health care practitioners. The term “profession” means “a dedication, promise or commitment publicly made”.1 To be a good health care practitioner, requires a life-long commitment to sound professional and ethical practices and an overriding dedication to the interests of one’s fellow human beings and society…..

SA Heart® Statement on COVID-19 and COVID-19 Vaccine

Time to rename the middle child of heart failure: heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction

HPCSA Ethics Booklet

MedicalBrief is Africa’s authoritative weekly digest of medical matters, both on the continent and around the world.

It brings you a succinct summary of the latest developments, both in news and research, with links to the original material.

Chronic Heart Failure Guideline 2020

Heart Failure Society of South Africa (HeFSSA) perspective on the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2016 chronic heart failure guideline.

Apply for our travel scholarship

HeFSSA considers the support of such an award to be part of its contribution towards optimizing patient health care and to enhance and further local expertise in Heart Failure in South Africa. Image courtesy JF Cherry

PPCM Study Group and Registry

Please take part in the International Registry on PPCM.  You can register as an own site or send your cases to Prof. Karen Sliwa to upload them.

ESC Congress 2019 Feedback – Dr BJ Cupido

This year saw the ESC Congress join forces with the World Heart Federation for a combined congress which kicked off on 31 August. The theme of this year’s congress: ‘Global Cardiovascular Health’ came as a breath of fresh air together with the promise from World Heart Federation president, Professor Karen Sliwa to herald an era of joint commitment by these two organisations to global health.

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