Editors
Editor-in-Chief (South Africa)
PROF AJ BRINK
Assistant Editor
Prof JAMES KER (JUN)
Regional Editor
DR A Dzudie
Regional Editor (Kenya)
Dr F Bukachi
Regional Editor (South Africa)
PROF R DELPORT
Topic Editors
Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
DR MM SATHEKGE
Heart Failure
Dr g visagie
Paediatric
dr s brown
Renal Hypertension
dr brian rayner
Surgical
dr f aziz
Adult Surgery
dr j rossouw
Electrophysiology and Pacing
dr a okreglicki
Epidemiology and
Preventionist
dr ap kengne
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
AFRICA
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED AND SABINET
VOL 23, NO 3. APRIL 2012
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
From the Editor’s Desk
125 Electronic innovation and readership
AJ Brink
Cardiovascular Topics
126 The design and development of a stented tissue mitral and aortic heart valve replacement
for human implantation
M Legg • E Mathews • R Pelzer
131 Prognostic role of
Helicobacter pylori
infection in acute coronary syndrome:
a prospective cohort study
R Eeskandarian • R Ghorbani • M Shiyasi • B Momeni • K Hajifathalian • M Madani
136 The clinical, electrocardiographic and echocardiographic characteristics and long-term
outcome of patients with tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy
A Chin • A Okreglicki • M Badri
143 The value of serum tumour markers in the prediction of aetiology and follow up of
patients with pericardial effusion
U Bildirici • U Celikyurt • E Acar • O Bulut • T Sahin • G Kozdag • D Ural
147 Prevalence of residual left ventricular structural changes after one year of
antihypertensive treatment in patients of African descent: role of 24-hour pulse pressure
E Libhaber • G Norton • C Libhaber • A Woodiwiss • G Candy • M Essop • P Sareli
153 The role of angiogenic, anti-angiogenic and vasoactive factors in pre-eclamptic African
women: early- versus late-onset pre-eclampsia
L Govender • I Mackraj • P Gathiram • J Moodley
