Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 29 No 4 (July/August 2018)

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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 29, No 4, JULY/AUGUST 2018
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
EDITORIALS
203 The changing face of percutaneous closure of the patent ductus arteriosus:
advances over the last few years
A Greyling
204 The African context of the Cape Town Declaration
P Zilla • L Zühlke • K Sliwa • P Commerford
Obituary
206 Bongani Mayosi, a hero remembered
M Ntsekhe • P Commerford • P Brink • S Yusuf
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
208 Pulmonary hypertension as seen in a rural area in sub-Saharan Africa: high prevalence,
late clinical presentation and a high short-term mortality rate during follow up
A Dzudie • BS Dzekem • CT Tchoumi • LN Aminde • AO Mocumbi • M Abanda • F Thienemann •
AP Kengne • K Sliwa
213 Does the use of N-butyl-2 cyanoacrylate in the treatment of lower extremity superficial
varicose veins cause acute systemic inflammation and allergic reaction?
Ö Korkmaz • S Göksel • M Gül • H Başçil • Y Yildir • Ö Berkan
218 Hypertension among newly diagnosed diabetic patients at Mulago National Referral
Hospital in Uganda: a cross sectional study
M Muddu • E Mutebi • I Ssinabulya • S Kizito • CK Mondo
225 Presentation, management and outcomes of acute coronary syndrome: a registry study
from Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya
E Bahiru • T Temu • B Gitura • C Farquhar • MD Huffman • F Bukachi