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
SUBJECT 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 6. JULY 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
Editorials
303 Prevention of infective endocarditis in developing countries
B Maharaj • A Parrish
306 First annual congress of the Faculty of Consulting Physicians of South Africa, 18–20 May 2012
N Rapeport
Cardiovascular Topics
309 Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in an urban area of Togo: a WHO STEPS-wise
approach in Lome, Togo
S Brgou • M Djibril • B Atta • F Damorou • M Pio • A Balagou
313 Association between plasma homocysteine and myocardial SPECT abnormalities in
patients referred for suspected myocardial ischaemia
A Ankrah • J Buscombe • MM Sathekge
318 A prospective review of acute coronary syndromes in an urban hospital in sub-Saharan Africa
J Shavadia • G Yonga • H Otieno
322 The 12-lead ECG in peripartum cardiomyopathy
K Tibazarwa • G Lee • B Mayosi • M Carrington • S Stewart • K Sliwa
330 Assessment of serum leptin, pregnancy-associated plasma protein A and CRP levels as
indicators of plaque vulnerability in patients with acute coronary syndrome
M Lodh • B Goswami • A Parida • A Saxena
336 Oral health of patients with severe rheumatic heart disease
B Maharaj • AC Vayej
340 An investigation of the frequency of bacteraemia following dental extraction, tooth
brushing and chewing
B Maharaj • Y Coovadia • AC Vayej
Letter to the Editor
312 Hermansky‒Pudlak/Chediak‒Higashi syndromes
HD Solomons
In Memoriam
347 Prof Andrzej Michael Okreglicki, 1960–2012
R Scott Millar
