ISSN 1995-1892 (print) ISSN 1680-0745 (online) Cardiovascular Journal of Afr ica www.cvja.co.za CONTENTS INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET Vol 34, No 2, MAY/June 2023 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 67 FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK P Commerford CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS 68 Epidemiology and management of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in a Tunisian university hospital H Drissa • M Drissa • S Helali • K Oughlani • A Farah • M Chebbi 74 Role of nuclear factor kappa-B in TNF-induced cytoprotection R Kelly-Laubscher • S Somers • L Lacerda • S Lecour 82 Clinical features and outcomes of infective endocarditis: a single-centre experience H Abdelgawad • S Azab • MA Abdel-Hay • A Almaghraby 89 Positive impact of training rural health workers in identification and prevention of acute rheumatic fever in eastern Uganda J Namuyonga • E Ndagire • D Okumu • O Olugubuyi • S Lubega • J Omagino • P Lwabi • E Okello 93 Association between bifurcation angle of the left main coronary artery and severity of stenosis of the proximal left anterior descending artery M Yahia • W Farid • M Lotfy • M Osama • HA El Deep 98 CircRNA-mediated pathology: a new preliminary insight into the mechanism of type II cardio-renal syndrome H Wang • Y Hu • J Shi • H Wu • Z Qiu • Y Geng 104 Circulatory soluble LOX-1 is a novel predictor for coronary artery disease patients MS Ali Sheikh 109 Assessment of left atrial morphological and functional differences in professional male football players: a prospective, case–control study S Gül • H Güngör
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