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
Topic 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
Electrophysiology and Pacing
dr a okreglicki
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
AFRICA
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED AND SABINET
VOL 23, NO 4. MAY 2012
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
Editorial
184 Endothelial dysfunction: are we ready to heed the vasculature’s early-warning signal?
H Strijdom
Cardiovascular Topics
186 Association between troponin T and ICU mortality, a changing trend
S Hajsadeghi • S Gholami • G Gohardehi • NS Moghadam • AS Sabet • SRJ Kerman •
M Moradi • R Mollahoseini
191 Nebivolol therapy improves QTc and QTcd parameters in heart failure patients
SM Aksoy • S Cay • G Cagirci • N Sen
194 Can cardiac surgery be performed safely on patients with haematological malignancies
A Guler • MA Sahin • F Cingoz • E Ozal • U Demirkilic • M Arslan
197 The impact of cardiovascular risk factors on the site and extent of coronary artery
disease
AF Zand Parsa • H Ziai • L Haghighi
200 The time-course changes of NT-proBNP and tissue Doppler indices in patients
undergoing mitral valve replacement
DR Prakaschandra • T Esterhuizen • DP Naidoo
206 Presentation pattern and management of effusive–constrictive pericarditis in Ibadan
MA Salami • PO Adeoye • VO Adegboye • OA Adebo
212 Risk factors for the development of pneumonia post cardiac surgery
AE Topal • MN Eren
216 An audit of pregnant women with prosthetic heart valves at a tertiary hospital in
South Africa: a five-year experience
B Mazibuko • H Ramnarain • J Moodley
