Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 30 No 6 (November/December 2019)

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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 30, No 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019
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
313 The challenges of improving benzathine penicillin usage for prevention of rheumatic
fever in Africa
AO Mocumbi
315 What is in a number: the impact factor, citation analysis and 30 years of publishing the
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
PA Brink
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
316 Factors associated with sub-optimal control of anticoagulation in patients with
prosthetic heart valves taking oral anticoagulants in a sub-Saharan African setting
T Chalachew • D Yadeta • E Tefera
321 Associations between body fat distribution and cardiometabolic risk factors in mixed-
ancestry South African women and men
FE Davidson • TE Matsha • RT Erasmus • AP Kengne • JH Goedecke
331 Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in assessing myocardial
viability in a tertiary academic centre in Johannesburg, South Africa: a pilot study
D Mpanya • N Tsabedze • C Libhaber • B Kagodora • M-D-T Vangu
336 Effects of cardiopulmonary bypass on pulmonary function in COPD patients
undergoing beating heart coronary artery bypass surgery
E Çetin • L Altınay
341 The walking estimated limitation stated by history (WELSH): a visual tool to self-
reported walking impairment in a predominantly illiterate population
WY Sempore • A Ilboudo • S Henni • J Hersant • M Ammi • AA Yameogo • N Ouedraogo •
P Abraham