Random House Publishers release moving autobiography of new Samoan author - Andrew Ta'afuli Fiu. Purple Heart is a book that addresses serious medical and societal issues, growing up in New Zealnd in the 1970s & 1980s with insight, warmth and humour.
The team is lead by Alan Kerr, a senior cardiac surgeon from Green Lane Hospital in Auckland. Dr. Kerr has been on three previous missions to Palestine and is currently doing a six month program in Makassed in which he is training local doctors and helping set up a pediatric cardiac ICU.
Dr. Alan Kerr and Julie Brokmeyer (nurse). They are joined by local health care providers from the Dominican's State Sugar Council (CEA) and the Ministry of Health (SESPAS).
A 44 year old woman presented with intermittent atypical chest pain and epigastric discomfort of three months' duration. An ECG revealed anterior T wave inversion (leads V2-V6). A chest radiograph was normal. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a mass in the distal inferoposterior wall of the left ventricle. A transoesophageal echocardiogram was performed.