Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 25 No 6 (November/December 2014)

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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
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
Vol 25, No 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2014
255 From the Editor’s Desk
P Commerford
Editorial
256 Towards developing guidelines and systems of care to facilitate early reperfusion for
ST-elevation myocardial infarction in Africa
R Delport
Cardiovascular Topics
259 Effect of standard versus patient-targeted in-patient education on patients’ anxiety
about self-care after discharge from a cardiovascular surgery clinic
T Yıldız • S Gürkan • Ö Gür • C Ünsal • SB Göktaş • Y Özen
265 Congenital heart disease in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria: a four-year prospective
echocardiographic analysis
BE Otaigbe • PN Tabansi
269 Prevalence of hypertension in the Gambia and Sierra Leone, western Africa:
a cross-sectional study
M Awad • A Ruzza • J Mirocha • S Setareh-Shenas • JR Pixton • C Soliman • LSC Czer
279 Is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease a risk factor for epistaxis after coronary
artery bypass graft surgery?
F Cingoz • BS Oz • G Arslan • A Guler • MA Sahin • C Gunay • M Arslan
282 De novo atrial fibrillation post cardiac surgery: the Durban experience
E Mansoor