ABOUT CARDIOVASCULAR JOURNAL OF AFRICA
The Cardiovascular Journal of Africa (CVJA) is an international peer-reviewed journal that keeps cardiologists up to date with advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.

Topics covered include coronary disease, electrophysiology, valve disease, imaging techniques, congenital heart disease (fetal, paediatric & adult), heart failure, surgery & basic science. CVJA is the official journal of the PASCAR and has been published since 1990.

Important Notice to all Authors: Manuscript Submission Fee & Article Processing Charge

It has become necessary for the Cardiovascular Journal of Africa to charge a manuscripts submission fees for all articles submitted for publication. On acceptance of a manuscript an additional Article Processing Fee will apply before publishing. This is normal for most, if not all, journals. We so far have been able to survive without charging authors for submissions and processing but can no longer do so. Payment will need to be made online and once payment has been received, the manuscript will be further processed for possible publication.

The payment of the manuscript submission fee and does not guarantee publication of the article. The manuscript submission fee is not refundable in the event of rejection as processing cost will have been incurred. (Payment can be made online with a valid credit card)
LATEST JOURNALS
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Volume 35, Issue 2, May / August 2024

• Effect of different priming fluids in cardiopulmonary bypass surgery
• Modified David V re-implantation technique for valve-sparing aortic root replacement
• Cross-sectional study of adult mitral valve disease at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
• Esmarch bandage application in giant saphenous vein closure during endovenous glue ablation
• Empagliflozin significantly prevents QTc prolongation due to amitriptyline intoxication
• Changes in blood pressure after catheter-based renal denervation in South Africa
• Effects of intravenous sodium thiosulfate on vascular calcification in dialysis patients
• Coronary artery bypass grafting in a patient with situs inversus totalis

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LATEST NEWS & REVIEWS
SAHS:Controlling Hypertension in Southern Africa - The New Frontier Abstracts, 16 - 18 August 2024

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Disclaimer: The Abstracts for the Southern African Hypertension Society were reviewed by the SAHS Scientific Committee and not by the Editor-in-Chief, Regional Editors or reviewers of the Cardiovascular Journal of Africa. Only accepted abstracts are published.
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Anatomical and functional changes after aortic valve replacement with different sizes of mechanical valves

Mission: to urge all relevant entities within the international cardiac surgery, industry and government sectors to commit to develop and implement an effective strategy to address the scourge of rheumatic heart disease in the developing world through increased access to life-saving cardiac surgery.

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Request for Letters to the Editor (by Prof Patrick Commerford)


The peer-review process is a vital part of scientific publication and seeks to ensure that what is published has been effectively scrutinised for scientific integrity, validity and ethical conduct in research. No matter how good peer review may be it is inevitably, by its very nature, limited to the opinions of a small number of reviewers and editors.

An important part of peer review, little mentioned, occurs after publication when the published work is exposed to a very much wider audience. This readership is often in a better position to offer critical opinions or commendations than the initial reviewers and is able to make its opinion known through letters to the editor. When these are published they offer important insights into the merit or otherwise of prior articles and serve an important educational purpose.

Sadly of late there have been few such letters submitted to this journal. I encourage all readers of this journal to consider submitting letters of criticism or acclaim to the journal for consideration for publication. Ideally they should be brief and to the point, referencing the article under discussion with no more than three to five additional references. All letters will be submitted to the author of the original article, offering a right of reply. The letter and response, if forthcoming, will be published
together. Letters to the editor (and the response) will not be subjected to further review but will be accepted or rejected based on the opinion of the editor.

The contributions by readers criticising or commenting on published work are an important part of scientific and clinical responsibility for all of us and I encourage all readers to participate actively so as to enhance the scientific integrity and value of the CVJA. Detailed instructions for authors of letters to the editor will be added to the website shortly but in the interim I will gladly accept submissions under the conditions outlined above.

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Request for Images in Cardiology (by Prof Patrick Commerford)

In an attempt to diversify the content of the journal and to cater for the ever-growing importance of diverse imaging modalities, I plan to develop a series of ‘Images in Cardiology’. The exact requirements will be posted in the instructions for authors on the journal website shortly. In the interim, I invite the submission of suitable images for consideration for publication. The images should be of high quality and suitable for publication, as already specified on the website. They should be accompanied by a brief clinical vignette, a report of why the imaging modality was chosen and how it contributed to patient outcome. A description of the results of imaging, suitably labelled with arrows or other markers, indicating areas of particular interest is essential. A maximum of five references may be supplied. Priority will be given to images of cardiac diseases commonly seen in Africa. Submissions will be subject to peer review by experts in the field.

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Measuring publication impact, and publishing and funding models

The impact factor, or, more correctly, the journal impact factor [JIF; Thompsons Reuters (ISI)] has featured in previous reports of the Cardiovascular Journal of Africa (CVJA). As expected, it has been steadily rising and is now at 1.022 (2015). This is not to be scoffed at. Of the 14 listed medical journals in Africa, it is third to the South African Medical Journal (SAMJ; JIF = 1.5).

Similarly, in another major database, Scopus, it ranks at number 184 out of 333 journals of cardiovascular medicine globally. Within Africa it is the only cardiovascular journal indexed by Thompson Reuters and also by Scopus. These statistics are based on citations to articles that appear in journals, and formulae that relate the number of citations to published articles in a journal over a given time period, and are part of the more extensive ways of evaluating scientific output under the umbrella term bibliometrics.

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Cardio News: Frontline initiatives in early myocardial reperfusion with ST -elevation myocardial infarction

Concern has been expressed by leading cardiologists in Africa about the lack of preparedness of healthcare services on this continent in relation to the management of non-communicable diseases and, specifically, cardiovascular disease. This may be attributable to a paucity of surveillance data and registries, a shortage of physicians and cardiologists, interventional measures not being in place, inadequate diagnostic capabilities, and misguided opinions, as reported.

From the South African 2011 census, we know that low household income compounds the problem of inadequate healthcare provision, and also lack of transport to facilities where optimal care can be provided timeously. Public sector clinic services are utilised by 61.2% of households, public hospitals by 9.5%, and private hospitals, private clinics and other services by only about 5% of households. A disparity is evident between the health facility used and the population group, in that 17% of black South Africans versus 88% of white and 64% of Indian households visit private health facilities.

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Disparities in patients’ understanding of cardiovascular disease management

Published: 23 May 2024
 
High intracardiac clot burden in a young mother with peripartum cardiomyopathy in Uganda

Published: 25 April 2024
 
The temporal relationship between body composition and cardiometabolic profiles in an HIV-infected (on antiretroviral therapy) versus HIV-free Western Cape study population

Published: 05 April 2024
 
The role of C-reactive protein:albumin ratio and neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio in predicting coronary artery disease

Published: 26 March 2024
 
Evaluation of cardiac function in paediatric Wilson’s disease patients with advanced echocardiographic modalities (strain and strain rate echocardiography)

Published: 26 March 2024
 
Comprehensive ABC (HbA1c, blood pressure, LDL-C) control and cardiovascular disease risk in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and major depressive disorder in a South African managed healthcare organisation

Published: 25 March 2024
 
The predictive value of triglyceride–glucose index for assessing the severity and MACE of premature coronary artery disease

Published: 21 February 2024
 
Obesity is associated with long-term outcome of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy

Published: 20 February 2024
 
Successful surgical treatment of left ventricular free wall rupture

Published: 19 February 2024
 
Correlation of osteopontin hormone with TIMI score and cardiac markers in patients with acute coronary syndrome presenting with chest pain

Published: 16 February 2024
 
Delayed diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis in a West African octogenarian

Published: 12 February 2024
 
Impact of COVID-19 on cardiac surgery outcomes

Published: 12 February 2024
 
Association of ratios of monocyte/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and neutrophil/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol with atherosclerotic plaque type on coronary computed tomography

Published: 26 January 2024
 
Assessment of Tp–Te interval in patients with cardiac AL amyloidosis

Published: 15 January 2024
 
Association between Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine and myocardial infarction: clinical and angiographic insights

Published: 13 December 2023
 
Investigation of the effects of ellagic, vanillic and rosmarinic acid on reperfusion-induced renal injury

Published: 29 November 2023
 
A novel method that can be used in both the diagnosis and treatment of peripheral arterial disease in diabetics: vibration-mediated dilation

Published: 29 November 2023
 
Predictive values of stress hyperglycaemia and glycosylated haemoglobin on admission for long-term recovery of cardiac function in patients with acute myocardial infarction after primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Published: 22 November 2023
 
The relationship between epicardial adipose tissue and choroidal vascularity index in patients with hypertension

Published: 20 November 2023
 
Improving cardiac function of angiotensin receptor/neprilysin inhibitor in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Published: 17 November 2023
 
Ultrasonographic assessment and clinical outcomes after deployment of a suture-mediated femoral vascular closure device

Published: 16 November 2023
 
Correlation between carotid intima–media thickness and patient outcomes in coronary artery disease in central South Africa

Published: 16 November 2023
 
Contemporary risk factors associated with ischaemic heart disease in central South Africa: a single-centre study

Published: 06 November 2023
 
Comparison of early postoperative results in patients with and without diabetes with low ejection fraction and normal serum creatinine values who underwent coronary artery bypass operation

Published: 27 October 2023
 
Correlation between maternally expressed gene 3 expression and heart rate variability in heart failure patients with ventricular arrhythmia

Published: 06 October 2023
 
A novel U-shaped relationship between serum klotho and abdominal aortic calcification in the general population

Published: 05 October 2023
 
Echocardiographic multiparameter assessment for patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and atrial fibrillation

Published: 04 October 2023
 
Relationship between adiponectin and copeptin levels with long-term cardiovascular mortality in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction after percutaneous coronary intervention

Published: 04 October 2023
 
Six months of resistance training improves heart rate variability in the elderly

Published: 27 September 2023
 
Association between serum α-klotho level and the prevalence of heart failure in the general population

Published: 27 September 2023
 
The assessment of thoracal approaches in the treatment of aortic coarctation

Published: 15 September 2023
 
Point-of-care testing compared to gold-standard laboratory methods in the measurement of serum lipids

Published: 31 August 2023
 
Outcomes of single-ventricle physiology in central South Africa

Published: 25 August 2023
 
Comparison of serum lipoprotein(a) levels in young and middle-aged patients presenting for the first time with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a single-centre study

Published: 25 August 2023
 
The value of measured partial oxygen pressure during pulmonary vein closure and the relationship with the diameter of the closed vein in patients with cryoablation

Published: 17 August 2023
 
Paying more attention to arterial hypertension, dyslipidaemia, women and the rural environment in our ongoing fight against cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors

Published: 17 August 2023
 
The relationship between serum osteoprotegerin levels and right atrial and ventricular speckle-tracking measurements in essential hypertension patients with normal left ventricular systolic function

Published: 27 July 2023
 
The association between CHA2DS2-VASc score and aortic valve sclerosis

Published: 26 July 2023
 
Oxidative metabolism of neutrophils in acute coronary syndrome

Published: 25 July 2023
 
Yield of family screening in dilated cardiomyopathy within low-income setting: Tanzanian experience

Published: 25 July 2023
 
Study of the mechanism of Shexiang Baoxin pill-mediated angiogenesis in acute myocardial infarction

Published: 04 July 2023
 
Right ventricular function in treatment-naïve human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients

Published: 03 July 2023
 
Effect of insulin resistance on left ventricular remodelling in essential hypertensives: a cross-sectional study

Published: 21 June 2023
 
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiology fellowship training in a sub-Saharan African training centre: an African perspective

Published: 19 June 2023
 
The effects on clinical outcomes of administering medications together or separately in prolonged dual antiplatelet therapy after peripheral revascularisation

Published: 19 June 2023
 
Is the transradial approach associated with decreased acute kidney injury following percutaneous coronary intervention in patients not complicated by major bleeding and haemodynamic disturbance?

Published: 05 June 2023
 
Effect of lactate levels on extubation time in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery

Published: 05 June 2023
 
Surgical experience in adults with Ebstein’s anomaly: long-term results

Published: 24 March 2023
 
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