%0 Journal Article %T Heart %A Yvan Patrick Akr¨¦ %J Archive of "Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy". %D 2016 %R 10.21037/cdt.2016.10.04 %X The heart (Figure 1) has several colors: the grayscale part expresses the ash resulting from annihilation of substance or death, or disease without any treatment. The bright colors in form of a flap or transplant, represent rebirth or return to life by the surgeon¡¯s hand symbolized by the scalpel. The flap is shaped in the form of the African continent, reflecting the topic of cardiac surgery in Africa %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5119993/