World Congress hears from Socru

Sept 2006 – Socru Director Prof Karen Sliwa, and researcher Dr Olaf Forster presented four posters and a talk at the World Congress of Cardiology in Barcelona in early September.

Forster presented on his research involving the interaction between HIV-induced immunodeficiency and peripartum cardiomyopathy and won a scholarship grant for his poster presentation entitled “Treatment of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy of HIV-Infected Patients in a Low Resource Setting.”

Sliwa gave an oral presentation on cardiomyopathy in Africa, examining how common forms of heart disease are affecting various regions in Africa.

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Posters

• Forster O, Ansari AA, Sundstrom JB, Tshani W, Yip A, Becker A, Essop MR, Sliwa K. Untreated Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) - Infection does not influence outcome in peripartumcardiomyopathy patients (PDF; 1.5MB).
  
  
• Forster O, Ansari AA, Sundstrom JB, Tshani W, Yip A, Becker A, Sliwa K. Treating peripartum cardiomyopathy of HIV-infected patients in a low resource setting (PDF; 256KB).
  
  
• Forster O, Hilfiker-Kleiner D, Yip A, Tshani W, Becker A, Sliwa K. Bromocriptine prevents deterioration of cardiac function in patients with PPCM after subsequent pregnancy (PDF; 1.5MB)

Oral Presentation

• Sliwa K. Cardiomyopathy in Africa (PPT; 3.6MB).