Editors
Editor-in-Chief (South Africa)
PROF AJ BRINK
Assistant Editor
Prof JAMES KER (JUN)
Regional Editor (Cameroon)
Prof JC Mbanya
Regional Editor (Kenya)
Dr F Bukachi
Regional Editor (South Africa)
PROF R DELPORT
Editorial Board
prof PA Brink
Experimental & Laboratory Cardiology
PROF R DELPORT
Chemical Pathology
PROF MR ESSOP
Haemodynamics, Heart Failure &
Valvular Heart Disease
DR OB FAMILONI
Clinical Cardiology
DR V GRIGOROV
Invasive Cardiology & Heart Failure
PROF J KER (SEN)
Hypertension, Cardiomyopathy,
Cardiovascular Physiology
DR J LAWRENSON
Paediatric Heart Disease
PROF A LOCHNER
Biochemistry/Laboratory Science
PROF BM MAYOSI
Chronic Rheumatic Heart Disease
DR MT MPE
Cardiomyopathy
PROF DP NAIDOO
Echocardiography
PROF B RAYNER
Hypertension/Society
PROF MM SATHEKGE
Nuclear Medicine/Society
PROF YK SEEDAT
Diabetes & Hypertension
PROF H DU T THERON
Invasive Cardiology
International Advisory
Board
PROF DAVID CELEMAJER
Australia (Clinical Cardiology)
PROF KEITH COPELIN FERDINAND
USA (General Cardiology)
DR SAMUEL KINGUE
Cameroon (General Cardiology)
DR GEORGE A MENSAH
USA (General Cardiology)
PROF WILLIAM NELSON
USA (Electrocardiology)
DR ULRICH VON OPPEL
Wales (Cardiovascular Surgery)
PROF PETER SCHWARTZ
Italy (Dysrhythmias)
PROF ERNST VON SCHWARZ
USA (Interventional Cardiology)
Publishing Consultant
Mike Gibbs
AFRICA
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED AND SABINET
VOL 21, NO 5. SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2010
EditoriaL
249 The growing disparity between clinical trial complexity and investigator compensation
LJ Burgess • NU Sulzer
CardiOvascular Topics
252 Effect of systemic hypertension on right ventricular morphology and function:
an echocardiographic study
AA Akintunde • PO Akinwusi • OB Familoni • OG Opadijo
257 Effect of the haeme oxygenase-1/endogenous carbon monoxide system on
atherosclerotic plaque formation in rabbits
D-N Liu • Y Fang • L-R Wu • X-D Liu • P Li • Z-Y He
263 Risk factors associated with intermediate and long-term mortality following vascular
surgery in South African patients
BM Biccard • S Nepaul
268 Coping and metabolic syndrome indicators in urban black South African men:
the SABPA study
A Du Plessis • L Malan • NT Malan
274 The reliability of chest radiographs in predicting left atrial enlargement
SJ Quinton • JA Ker • P Rheeder • A Deffur
256 Pharma Dynamics launch innovative Patient Assist
262
Letter to the Editor
MP Iturralde
