Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 31 No 4 (July/August 2020)

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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 31, No 4, JULY/AUGUST 2020
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
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
EDITORIAL
167 Coronary reperfusion in STEMI patients in sub-Saharan Africa
T Mabin
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
169 Mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and mitophagy in myocardial ischaemia/
reperfusion: effects of chloroquine
K Dhanabalan • B Huisamen • A Lochner
180 Family screening in black patients with isolated left ventricular non-compaction:
the Chris Hani Baragwanath experience
AL Basson • MR Essop • E Libhaber • F Peters
185 Incidence and risk factors for thromboembolism and major bleeding in patients with
mechanical heart valves: a tertiary hospital-based study in Botswana
E Botsile • JC Mwita
190 Patterns of cardiovascular risk and disease in HIV-positive adults on anti-retroviral
therapy in Mozambique
D Igor • N Manafe • N Majid • I Zimba • B Manuel • A Mocumbi
196 Short-term efficacy and safety of levosimendan in patients with chronic systolic heart
failure
X-R Cui • X-H Yang • R-B Li • D Wang • M Jia • L Bai • J-D Zhang
201 Primary PCI in the management of STEMI in sub-Saharan Africa: insights from Abidjan
Heart Institute catheterisation laboratory
A Ekou • H Yao • I Kouamé • R Yao Boni • E Ehouman • R N’Guetta