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Editors
Editor in Chief
(South Africa)
Prof Pat Commerford
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)
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
Pregnancy-associated Heart
Disease
Prof K Sliwa-hahnle
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
www.cvja.co.zaCONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
Vol 25, No 5, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014
199
From the Editor’s Desk
P Commerford
Cardiovascular Topics
200 Diagnostic value of plasma C-type natriuretic peptide levels in determination of the
duration of mesenteric ischaemia
S Demirtas • O Karahan • S Yazici • O Guclu • A Caliskan • C Yavuz
204 Cardiac surgery for patients with heart failure due to structural heart disease in Uganda:
access to surgery and outcomes
A Grimaldi • E Ammirati • N Karam • AC Vermi • A De Concilio • G Trucc • F Aloi • F Arioli •
F Figini • S Ferrarello • FM Sacco • R Grottola • PG D’Arbela • O Alfieri • E Marijon • J Freers •
M Mirabel
212 Effects of rosuvastatin on ADMA, rhokinase, NADPH oxidase, caveolin-1, hsp 90 and
NFkB levels in a rat model of myocardial ischaemia–reperfusion
O Burma • E Onat • A Uysal • N Ilhan • D Erol • M Ozcan • E Sahna
217 Short-term outcomes after hospital discharge in patients admitted with heart failure in
Abeokuta, Nigeria: Data from the Abeokuta Heart Failure Registry
OS Ogah • S Stewart • AO Falase • JO Akinyemi • GD Adegbite • AA Alabi • A Durodola •
AA Ajani, K Sliwa
224 Thrombolysis risk prediction: applying the SITS-SICH and SEDAN scores in South
African patients
A von Klemperer • K Bateman • J Owen • A Bryer
228 Hypertensive retinopathy and its association with cardiovascular, renal and
cerebrovascular morbidity in Congolese patients
NN Kabedi • J-C Mwanza • FB Lepira • TK Kayembe • DL Kayembe