Editors
Editor-in-Chief (South Africa)
PROF AJ 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)
Publishing Consultant
Mike Gibbs
AFRICA
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED AND SABINET
VOL 23, NO 10. NOVEMBER 2012
Editorial
531
Measurement of cardiac troponins to detect myocardial infarction using high-sensitivity
assays: South African guidelines
R Delport • JA Ker
Cardiovascular Topics
533
Prevalence and determinants of electrocardiographic abnormalities in sub-Saharan
African individuals with type 2 diabetes
A Dzudie • S-P Choukem • AK Adam • AP Kengne • P Gouking • M Dehayem • F Kamdem •
MS Doualla • HA Joko • MEE Lobe • YM Mbouende • H Luma • JC Mbanya • S Kingue
538
Follow up in a developing country of patients with complete atrio-ventricular block
JCT Tchoumi • S Foresti • P Lupo • R Cappato • G Butera
541
QTc prolongation prior to angiography predicts poor
outcome and associates significantly with lower left
ventricular ejection fractions and higher left ventricular
end-diastolic pressures
P van der Bijl • M Heradien • A Doubell • P Brink
546
Statistical profiling of hospital performance using acute
coronary syndrome mortality
SOM Manda • CP Gale • AS Hall • MS Gilthorpe
Review Articles
552
Cardiomyopathies and myocardial disorders in Africa:
present status and the way forward
AO Falase • OS Ogah
563
Telomeres and atherosclerosis
S Khan • AA Chuturgoon • DP Naidoo
HEALTHCARE
