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
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
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 23, NO 9. OCTOBER 2012
EditoriaL
476
Cardiotoxicity of plants in South Africa
P van der Bijl (jun) • P van der Bijl (sen)
Cardiovascular Topics
478
Right ventricular dysfunction in a hypertensive population stratified by patterns of left
ventricular geometry
KM Karaye • H Sai’Du • MN Shehu
483
Doppler echocardiographic indices in aortic coarctation: a comparison of profiles before
and after stenting
S Hajsadeghi • S-M Fereshtehnejad • M Ojaghi • HA Bassiri • MR Keramati • M Chitsazan •
S Gholami
491
A comparative study of amoxicillin, clindamycin and chlorhexidine in the prevention of
post-extraction bacteraemia
B Maharaj • Y Coovadia • AC Vayej
495
Comparison of outcomes in ST-segment depression
and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
patients treated with emergency PCI: data from a
multicentre registry
J Knot • P Kala • R Rokyta • J Stasek • B Kuzmanov •
O Hlinomaz • J Bělohlavek • F Rohac • R Petr • D Bilkova •
S Djambazov • M Grigorov • P Widimsky
501
Elevated salivary C-reactive protein predicted by low
cardio-respiratory fitness and being overweight in
African children
T Naidoo • K Konkol • B Biccard • K Dubose • AJ McKune
490
William Nelson ECG Quiz
HEALTHCARE
