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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
On-line version ISSN 2078-5135
Print version ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.109 n.12 Pretoria Dec. 2019
http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/samj.2019.v109i12.14484
FROM THE EDITOR
Thank you from SAMA and the editors
The SAMJ reviewers
SAMA and the editors of SAMJ would like to thank all who participated in the peer review process during 2019. We are grateful for the expertise, insight and thoughtful critiques shared with our authors through the review process, and without which maintaining the high standard of our journal would be impossible.
We apologise if any individual reviewer has inadvertently been excluded, and to those reviewers who were recruited after this issue was published.
Amber Abrams
Pete Acker
Miriam Adhikari
Ahmad Alli
Nazeer Alli
Mahmood Ally
Márcio Flávio Araújo
Affirul Ariffin
Yahya Atiya
Chantelle Bagwandeen
Robea Ballo
Antoinette Ba-Nhuz
Ahmed Bhigjee
Prathna Bhola
Shastra Bhoora
David Bishop
Mark Blecher
Marc Blockman
Keith Bolton
Francois Bonnici
Martin Botha
Hanneke Brits
Isabel Brouwer
Stephen Brown
Tawanda Butau
Alex Butchart
Christo Buys
Heloise Buys
Salome Charalambous
Ankia Coetzee
Edward Coetzee
Marius Coetzee
Cheryl Cohen
Maril Conradie
Halima Dawood
Francois de Villiers
Daan den Hollander
Lynette Denny
Wilma Dewitt
Ames Dhai
Stewart Dix-Peek
AK Domingo
Lissanda du Plessis
Geoffrey Dusheiko
Kevin Dzobo
Catherine Egbe
Carina Eksteen
Carla Els
Andreas Engelbrecht
Harriet Etheridge
June Fabian
Sam Filby
Greg Firth
Philip Fischer
Rosemary Foster
Sasha Frade
Bernd Froessler
Bryan Fry
Gabriel Gebhardt
Theo Gerdener
Peter Gichangi
Jeff Gimble
Dominique Goedhals
Paul Goldberg
Lara Nicole Goldstein
Susan Goldstein
Ruan Goller
Perry Gottesfeld
Komalan Govender
Andy Gray
Robin Green
Sherika Hanley
Timothy Hardcastle
Di Hawarden
Revyl Hayley
Peter Heering
Clint Hendrikse
Sandi Holgate
Ebrahim Hoosein
Charlotte Ingram
Debra Jackson
Nkosana Jafta
Stefanus Jansen van Vuuren
Saul Johnson
Josef Jooste
Ben Jugmohan
Udai Kala
Debra Kaminer
Paul Kapp
Leolin Katsidzira
Mahlatse Kgokolo
Natasha Khamisa
Aaabida Khan
Sharon Kling
Judy Kluge
Steven Knight
Steve Koch
Stephen Korsman
Amanda Krause
Neo Ledibane
Naomi Levitt
Vernon Louw
Johnny Mahlangu
Safia Mahomed
Aylwyn Mannell Relebogile Mapuroma
Edmore Marinda
Dipuo Masage
Felistas Mashinya,
Iqbal Master
Angela Mathee
Andrew McDonald
Takafira Mduluza
Ruchika Meel
Ushma Mehta
Peter Millard,
Andre Mochan
D Modi
Elizabeth Molyneux
Michelle Moorhouse
Evelyn Moshkoa Margaret Moss
Ferdinand Mukumbang
Saiqa Mullick
George Muntingh
Mageshree Naicker
Nisha Naicker
Poovi Naidoo
Saloshini Naidoo
Shan Naidoo
Gita Naidu
Trusha Nana
Pradeep Navsaria
Samantha Nicholson
Nokwasi Nkosi
Peter Nourse
Ike Okpechi
Shahed Omar
Frasia Oosthuizen
Jessica Opie
Muhammad Osman
Andy Parrish
Nazia Peer
Olga Perovic
Velisha Perumal
Shrikant Peters
Diantha Pillay
Melanie Pleaner
Wolfgang Preiser
Rivak Punchoo
Tanuhsa Ramdin
Raj Ramesar
Leane Ramsoomar
Brian Rayner
David Rees
Stephen Reid
David Reinders
Helmuth Reuter
Laetitia Rispel
Rietze Rodeth
Chris Rout
Brian Ruff
Claude Sabeta
Shobna Sawry
Janine Scholefield
Neshaad Schrueder
Muki Shey
Joyce Shirinde
Maylene Shung-King
Karen Silwa
Melanie Skeen
Magda Slabbert
Martin Smith
Lisha Sookan
Careni Spencer
Dan Stein
Victoria Stephen
Chantal Stewart
Elmin Steyn
Anne Strode
Myra Taylor
Gerhard Theron
Jacqueline Thomson
Sandie Thomson
Marianne Tiemensma
Andre Troskie
Merika Tsitsi
Mari van der Vywer
Frans Jacob van Wijk
Jan van Zyl
Richard van Zyl-Smit
Per Olav Vandvik
Sithembiso Velaphi
Bonnie Ventor
Adriaan Vlok
Klaus von Pressentin
Tim Walker
Nicola Wearne
Margaret Williams
Robert Wise
Darryl Wood
The CME guest editors and authors
As editor of CME and SAMJ, I would like to thank all the guest editors and authors for their truly outstanding contributions to CME during 2019. This is much appreciated, particularly in the face of increasingly heavy clinical and teaching loads.
Stroke and stroke management in South Africa
Guest editors
A Taylor, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
NAB Ntusi, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital; Cape Universities Body Imaging Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town; and Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Authors
K Bateman, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
R Harrichandparsad, Department of Neurosurgery, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal and Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban, South Africa
S Whitehead, Life Rehabilitation Unit, Vincent Pallotti Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
E Baalbergen, Life Rehabilitation Unit, Vincent Pallotti Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
Health and rehabilitation sciences in a clinical context
Guest editor
NAB Ntusi, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital; Cape Universities Body Imaging Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town; and Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Authors
N Naidoo, Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
R Barnes, Department of Physiotherapy, School of Allied Health Professions, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
N Mlenzana, Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
K Mostert, Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa
S L Amosun, Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
L Ramma, Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa N Schellack, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria, South Africa
B Heinze, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Medical genetics, genomics and the future of medicine
Guest editors
K J Fieggen, Division of Human Genetics, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, South Africa
NAB Ntusi, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital; Cape Universities Body Imaging Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town; and Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Authors
A Krause, Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa K J Fieggen, Division of Human Genetics, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, South Africa
L A Lambie, Genetics National Reference Laboratory, Ampath Trust, Pretoria, and Division of Human Genetics, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
K A Donald, Division of Developmental Paediatrics, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
N Laing, Division of Human Genetics, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
S M Kraus, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town; and The Cardiovascular Genetics Laboratory, Hatter Institute of Cardiovascular Research in Africa, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
G Shaboodien, The Cardiovascular Genetics Laboratory, Hatter Institute of Cardiovascular Research in Africa, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
N A B Ntusi, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town; The Cardiovascular Genetics Laboratory, Hatter Institute of Cardiovascular Research in Africa, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town; and Cape Universities Body Imaging Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
R S Ramesar, MRC Research Unit for Genomic and Precision Medicine, Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pathology, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa J de Vries, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
N S Munung, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Diabetes in pregnancy
Guest editors and authors
S Adam, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa S Dias, Biomedical Research and Innovation Platform (BRIP), South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town; and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa
P Rheeder, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa
C Pheiffer, Biomedical Research and Innovation Platform (BRIP), South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town; and Division of Medical Physiology, Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
Haematological malignancies
Guest editors
V J Louw, Chair and Head, Division of Clinical Haematology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
NAB Ntusi, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital; Cape Universities Body Imaging Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town; and Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Authors
K Antel, Division of Haematology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa E Verburgh, Division of Haematology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa B L Houston, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; and Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
E Rimmer, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; and Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
R Zarychanski, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; and Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
M Seftel, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
F Fazel, Division of Clinical Haematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tygerberg Academic Hospital and Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa F Bassa, Division of Clinical Haematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tygerberg Academic Hospital and Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
P F Wessels, Ampath Laboratories; and Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa
C E Menard, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; and Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
A Ponnampalam, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; and Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Bridget Farham
Editor