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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

www.cvja.co.za

CONTENTS

INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET

Vol 25, No 5, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014

199

From the Editor’s Desk

P Commerford

Cardiovascular Topics

200 Diagnostic value of plasma C-type natriuretic peptide levels in determination of the

duration of mesenteric ischaemia

S Demirtas • O Karahan • S Yazici • O Guclu • A Caliskan • C Yavuz

204 Cardiac surgery for patients with heart failure due to structural heart disease in Uganda:

access to surgery and outcomes

A Grimaldi • E Ammirati • N Karam • AC Vermi • A De Concilio • G Trucc • F Aloi • F Arioli •

F Figini • S Ferrarello • FM Sacco • R Grottola • PG D’Arbela • O Alfieri • E Marijon • J Freers •

M Mirabel

212 Effects of rosuvastatin on ADMA, rhokinase, NADPH oxidase, caveolin-1, hsp 90 and

NFkB levels in a rat model of myocardial ischaemia–reperfusion

O Burma • E Onat • A Uysal • N Ilhan • D Erol • M Ozcan • E Sahna

217 Short-term outcomes after hospital discharge in patients admitted with heart failure in

Abeokuta, Nigeria: Data from the Abeokuta Heart Failure Registry

OS Ogah • S Stewart • AO Falase • JO Akinyemi • GD Adegbite • AA Alabi • A Durodola •

AA Ajani, K Sliwa

224 Thrombolysis risk prediction: applying the SITS-SICH and SEDAN scores in South

African patients

A von Klemperer • K Bateman • J Owen • A Bryer

228 Hypertensive retinopathy and its association with cardiovascular, renal and

cerebrovascular morbidity in Congolese patients

NN Kabedi • J-C Mwanza • FB Lepira • TK Kayembe • DL Kayembe