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
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 25, No 2, MARCH/APRIL 2014
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
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FROM THE editor’s desk
PA Brink
Cardiovascular Topics
44 Comparison of estimates of left ventricular ejection fraction obtained from gated blood
pool imaging, different software packages and cameras
R Steyn • J Boniaszczuk • T Geldenhuys
50 An echocardiographic study of infective endocarditis, with special reference to
patients with HIV
DP Naidoo • SH Nel
58 Diagnosis, treatment and follow up of neonatal arrhythmias
FK Binnetoğlu • K Babaoğlu • G Türker • G Altun
63 Behcet’s disease and cardiovascular involvement: our experience of asymptomatic
Behcet’s patients
Z Ulusan • AS Karadag • M Tasar • M Kalender • OT Darcin
67 Effects of topical hypothermia on postoperative inflammatory markers in patients
undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery
M Kadan • G Erol • BS Oz • M Arslan
73 Intra-uterine growth restriction as a risk factor for hypertension in children six to
10 years old
A Zamecznik • K Niewiadomska-Jarosik • A Wosiak • J Zamojska • J Moll • J Stańczyk
78 Impact of prehypertension on left ventricular mass and QT dispersion in adult black
Nigerians
OK Ale • JN Ajuluchukwu • DA Ok • AC Mbakwem
