Editors
Acting Editor in Chief
(South Africa)
Prof PA 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)
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
VOL 24, NO 7. AUGUST 2013
Cardiovascular Topics
247 Analysis of mortality in low-risk patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting
C Cakalagaoglu • C Koksal • T Adademir • M Yildiz • A Fedakar • M Şahin • Fi Kutlay • B Yigiter
251 A retrospective analysis of factors influencing re-operation in patients undergoing
mechanical valve replacement
E Aydin • F Yapici
255 Does vitamin C or its combination with vitamin E improve radial artery endothelium-
dependent vasodilatation in patients awaiting coronary artery bypass surgery?
A Uzun • U Yener • OF Cıcek • O Yener • A Yalcınkaya • A Dıken • T Ozkan • A Turkvatan • M Ulas
260 Effectiveness of prophylactic levosimendan in high-risk valve surgery patients
O Ersoy • E Boysan • EU Unal • K Yay • U Yener • F Cicekcioglu • F Katircioglu
265 Association of homocysteinaemia with hyperglycaemia, dyslipidaemia, hypertension
and obesity
D Sengwayo • M Moraba • S Motaung
270 Increased carotid intima–media thickness associated with high hs-CRP levels is a
predictor of unstable coronary artery disease
SA Abdushi • FU Kryeziu • FD Nazreku
274 Efficacy and safety of sirolimus-eluting stents versus bare-metal stents in coronary
artery disease patients with diabetes: a meta-analysis
Y Qiao • Y Bian • X Yan • Z Liu • Y Chen
280 Prevalence and significance of early repolarisation in a black African population:
data of 246 individuals with cardiovascular morbidity
A Bonny • DN Noah • SN Amougou • C Saka
