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12th Annual Congress of the South African Heart Association
SA Heart presents the 12th Annual Congress of the South African Heart Association for cardiologists to be held at the East London International Convention Centre, South Africa from October 23-26, 2011.
Managing Heart Failure in Africa
Publications relevant to managing heart failure in Africa.
Much of the global burden of disease is now carried by low- and middle-income countries. In addition Africa has unique cardiovascular diseases that occur more commonly in Africans. Examples are peripartum cardiomyopathy, endomyocardial fibrosis and subvalvular aneurysm. Patients often present only in advanced heart failure because of poor access to good healthcare.
Update of the HF Guidelines
As previously reported, Dr Martin Mpe and the HeFSSA Exco have embarked on the mammoth task of updating the HF guidelines. The aim is to use the ESC Guidelines as basis en then produce an Executive summary from a South-African perspective without losing the core of the ESC guidelines.
GP Program: UPDATE 2011
This year’s GP Program was held from 7 May until 13 August. Our aim was to grow and to reach as many GP’s as possible through this initiative. In 2010 we held 6 meetings in the 6 major cities in South-Africa. This year we included those areas, but we also expanded to the less visited areas in South-Africa, including a very successful meeting which were held in Windhoek, Namibia. A total of 19 meetings were held in 2011. In 2010 we had 13 speakers and this year we had 25 dedicated cardiologists participating in the program.
SA Heart Journal, 2011
HeFSSA (The Heart Failure Society of South Africa) has had a very exciting and busy year. They have initiated many activities and partnered with key players in the health industry to ensure that the goals in their mission statement, i.e. to promote education and research as well as collaboration on issues relating to heart failure in South Africa and around the world, are met.
Hypertension: A Global Perspective
Global hypertension and preventing hypertensive heart failure
Case presentation 1: A morbidly obese but nonsmoking and nondiabetic 44-year-old African woman (body mass index, 41kg/m2) presents with exertional dyspnea to a primary healthcare clinic in Soweto, adjacent to Johannesburg, South Africa. She seeks medical attention for the first time. [Download PDF]
Heart disease, diabetes, and stroke conference
The Pan African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR) and the Uganda Heart Association convened for the third multidisciplinary conference on heart disease, diabetes, and stroke in Africa in Kampala, Uganda on 27 - 30 May 2011. Prof Karen Sliwa attended this meeting as one of the faculty members. The congress was very well organized and well attended by cardiologists from Africa, USA, Australia and Europe. Several lectures related to diagnosis and management of heart failure was presented at the meeting.
Global Survey of medical specialist management of chronic HF
There are wide variations in the management of heart failure, both within and between countries. Whereas these have been documented to some extent in Western countries, there are no data on cardiologist's awareness and perception of heart failure management in developing countries, in which heart failure is or soon will be of major importance. This survey aims to describe the diagnosis, different forms of care and the treatment of heart failure across a wide variety of countries by cardiologists and other specialists who manage heart failure patients.
Joint UK/SA Cardiovascular Research Workshop
In collaboration with the British Society for Cardiovascular Research (BSCR), the South African Society for Cardiovascular Research (SASCAR) is organizing a joint workshop, which will be held in London, 6-10th December 2010. The main purpose of this 1st Joint UK/SA Cardiovascular Research Workshop is to highlight the work of our young researchers and to promote fruitful cardiovascular research collaborations between the United Kingdom and South Africa.
The Lancet review endorses Drugs for the Heart
Lionel H Opie and Bernard J Gersh’s book Drugs for the Heart (7th edition, Saunders/Elsevier, 2009) gets an enthusiastic recommendation in the August 15, 2009 edition of The Lancet (Vol 374). The reviewer, Kim Eagle, says: “This new edition is even better than the last, and that one was good.”
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