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Table of Contents
Cover
| Cover | |
Contents
| Contents | |
| 738-739 |
Guest Editorial
| 2016 National Rheumatic Fever Week: The status of rheumatic heart disease in South Africa | |
| Bongani M Mayosi | 740-741 |
Correspondence
| Advice to health professionals: Use of lignocaine as a diluent to reduce the pain associated with the administration of benzathine penicillin G | |
| Geoffrey Madeira, Ana Olga Mocumbi, Bongani M Mayosi | 742 |
| Haemotoxic snakebite in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | |
| Eric H Decloedt, Gert J Müller | 743 |
| Umbilical hernia in children in a developing country: Does the season have an effect on the occurrence of strangulation? | |
| Gabriel Ngom, Fatou Gassama, Azhar Salim Mohamed, Oumar Ndour | 744 |
| Contribution of congenital disorders to under-5 mortality | |
| Helen Louise Malherbe, Colleen Aldous, Arnold L Christianson, David Woods | 745 |
Izindaba
| EMS workers struggle in violent election climate | |
| 746 |
| Médecins Sans Frontières moves to protect refugee healthcare | |
| 747 |
| Rape survivor care crisis - mines the worst? | |
| 748 |
| HIV treatment under control – now for sexy prevention? | |
| 749 |
Obituaries
| Devanandan Chetty | |
| Siva Moodley | 750 |
Book reviews
| Beyond the Stethoscope: Casebook of a Township Doctor. By Neelan Govender. Durban, South Africa: Rebel Rabble, 2015. 308 pages. ISBN 978-0-620-45640-1 | |
| Daniel J Ncayiyana | 751 |
Continuing Medical Education
| Functional neurosurgery | |
| J M Nico Enslin | 752 |
| Surgical management of spasticity | |
| J M Nico Enslin, A Graham Fieggen | 753-756 |
| Surgical management of epilepsy | |
| J M Nico Enslin, Sally J Rothemeyer, A Graham Fieggen | 757-760 |
In Practice
| Asymptomatic rheumatic heart disease in South African schoolchildren: Implications for addressing chronic health conditions through a school health service | |
| Maylene Shung-King, Liesel Zühlke, Mark E Engel, Bongani M Mayosi | 761-762 |
| A successful lifestyle intervention model replicated in diverse clinical settings | |
| Sean Mark, Stefan du Toit, Timothy D Noakes, Kim Nordli, Douwette Coetzee, Michael Makin, Shani van der Spuy, Justin Frey, Jay Wortman | 763-766 |
| Severe hypertension in pregnancy: Using dynamic checklists to save lives | |
| Jack Moodley, N C Ngene | 767-770 |
| The World Health Organization’s mechanisms for increasing the health sector budget: The South African context | |
| Fouche Hendrik Johannes Venter, Jaqueline Elizabeth Wolfaardt | 771-774 |
| Implications of the 2015 World Health Organization isoniazid preventive therapy recommendations on tuberculosis prevention efforts in Namibia | |
| Stella Anne Oloo | 775-776 |
| Antifibrinolytic drugs for acute traumatic injury | |
| Michael McCaul, Tamara Kredo | 777-778 |
| The microbiome in chronic inflammatory airway disease: A threatened species | |
| Robin John Green, Andre van Niekerk, Ashley C Jeevarathnum, Charles Feldman, Guy A Richards, on behalf of the South African Allergic Rhinitis Working Group | 779-781 |
| Intravenous glutathione for skin lightening: Inadequate safety data | |
| Lester M Davids, Jennifer C van Wyk, Nonhlanhla P Khumalo | 782-786 |
| When may doctors give nurses telephonic treatment instructions? | |
| David Jan McQuoid-Mason | 787-788 |
| Cardiogenic shock: A look at acute functional mitral incompetence | |
| F A Steyn, J Vosloo, H Naude, A J Steyn | 789-791 |
| Clinical awareness for health care professionals: Fatal encephalopathy complicating persistent vomiting in pregnancy | |
| Nnabuike Chibuoke Ngene, Jack Moodley | 792-794 |
| A case of renal cell carcinoma and angiomyolipoma in an adolescent girl | |
| J W Rood, K P Mokhobo | 795-796 |
Research
| Evaluation and management of patients referred to a tertiary-level hypertension clinic in Cape Town, South Africa | |
| M S Moosa, L S Kuttschreuter, B L Rayner | 797-800 |
| Pan computed tomography for blunt polytrauma: Are we doing too many? | |
| G V Oosthuizen, J L Bruce, W Bekker, N Shangase, G L Laing, D L Clarke | 801-803 |
| South African healthcare provider perspectives on transitioning adolescents into adult HIV care | |
| Tiffany H Kung, Melissa L Wallace, Kathryn L Snyder, Victoria K Robson, Tarub S Mabud, Cathy D Kalombo, Linda-Gail Bekker | 804-808 |
| Sialendoscopic treatment of recurrent juvenile parotitis: A South African case series | |
| Simon Honnet, Oskar Edkins | 809-812 |
| Salvageability of renal function following renal revascularisation in children with Takayasu’s arteritis-induced renal artery stenosis | |
| Patience Ngozi Obiagwu, Priya Gajjar, Mignon McCulloch, Christian Scott, Alp Numanoglu, Peter Nourse | 813-816 |
| Feasibility of Pulse Oximetry Pre-discharge Screening Implementation for detecting Critical Congenital heart Lesions in newborns in a secondary level maternity hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa: The ‘POPSICLe’ study | |
| A M van Niekerk, R M Cullis, L L Linley, L Zühlke | 817-821 |
| Attitudes to female genital mutilation/cutting among male adolescents in Ilorin, Nigeria | |
| Abiodun S Adeniran, Munirdeen A Ijaiya, Adegboyega A Fawole, Olayinka R Balogun, Kikelomo T Adesina, Abdul Waheed O Olatinwo, Adebunmi O Olarinoye, Peace I Adeniran | 822-823 |
| A clinical audit of the utilisation of red cell products in elective total hip replacement surgery | |
| Yvonne Grace Peters, Arthur Bird, Greg R M Bellairs, Glenda Mary Davison | 824-828 |
Errata
| Targeting composite treatment of type 2 diabetes in middle-income countries | |
| Emma Buchanan | 829 |
CPD
| CPD questionnaire | |