Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 28 No 4 (July/August 2017)

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ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
Vol 28, No 4, JULY/AUGUST 2017
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
Paediatric Surgery
Dr Darshan Reddy
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
207 FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
P Commerford
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
208 Endomyocardial fibrosis in Sudan: clinical and echocardiographic features
SI Khalil • S Khalil • S El Tigani • HA Saad
215 The changing spectrum of rheumatic mitral regurgitation in Soweto, South Africa
R Meel • F Peters • E Libhaber • MR Essop
221 The prevalence and radiological findings of pulmonary embolism in HIV-positive
patients referred for computed tomography pulmonary angiography in the Western
Cape of South Africa
R Ramlakhan • S Andronikou • A Rajkumar
229 Nuclear cardiology practices and radiation exposure in Africa: results from the IAEA
Nuclear Cardiology Protocols Study (INCAPS)
SE Bouyoucef • M Mercuri • TNB Pascual • AH Allam • M Vangu • JV Vitola • N Better •
G Karthikeyan • JJ Mahmarian • MM Rehani • R Kashyap • M Dondi • D Paez • AJ Einstein •
for the INCAPS investigators group
235 Pilot study of risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease in northern and
southern Cameroonians
JD Chiadak • J Perret • HM Womeni • JR Kuiaté • P Cullus • C Senterre • C Delporte
242 A programme to increase appropriate usage of benzathine penicillin for management of
streptococcal pharyngitis and rheumatic heart disease in Zambia
A Long • J Chipili • E Machila • S Schwaninger • J Spector • B Tadmor • M Fishman •
BM Mayosi • J Musuku
248 Clinical presentation and outcomes of patients with acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic
heart disease seen at a tertiary hospital setting in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
ZM Makrexeni • L Pepeta