SAMJ South African Medical Journal

Article	Citations
Portal vein injury due to blunt abdominal trauma	36
A call to action: Temporal trends of COVID-19 deaths in the South African Muslim community	28
One-year mortality after hospital admission as an indicator of palliative care need: A retrospective cohort study	17
Assessing South African medical interns’ experience and confidence in managing obstetric emergencies	16
Secondary health conditions in people with spinal cord injury in South Africa: Prevalence and associated factors	14
Teenage births and pregnancies in South Africa, 2017 - 2021 – a reflection of a troubled country: Analysis of public sector data	13
Using ceftazidime-avibactam for persistent carbapenem-resistant Serratia marcescens infection highlights antimicrobial stewardship challenges with new beta-lactam-inhibitor combination antibiotics	13
Discovering hypertriglyceridaemia	13
CPD Questions	12
A national retrospective review of neonatal critical care transfers in dedicated critical care transport services in the private sector	12
Prioritising preventive cancer services in Zimbabwe as the country struggles with unaffordable healthcare	11
Healthcare Delivery	11
Facilitating remote access to specialist medical expertise through the scaled up adoption of a smartphone application: A South African case	11
Renoprotection in hypertension and diabetes – management problems lie ahead	10
Antibiogram profiles and efficacy of antibiotic regimens of bacterial isolates from chronic osteomyelitis of the appendicular skeleton: A developing-world perspective	10
Medicine and the Law	10
Time to be seen and heard: Including children’s and adolescents’ voices in the South African TB response	9
Cochlear implantation in South Africa (part 2)	9
Adenomyoepithelioma of the breast: A rare case from the Mankweng Hospital breast oncology clinic, Limpopo Province, South Africa	9
Prostate cancer perspective: Africa versus the world	9
Autoimmune encephalitis : Part 1 (Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Clinical spectrum)	9
Biliary atresia: The profile, management and outcome of patients treated at a tertiary hospital in central South Africa	9
Contents	8
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	8
Evaluation of the national clinical sentinel surveillance system for sexually transmitted infections in South Africa: Analysis of provincial and district-level data	7

Obesity is South Africa’s new HIV epidemic	7
Ocular manifestations of HIV infection at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa	7
New developments with the Health Promotion Levy in South Africa	7
Pharmacist-initiated antiretroviral therapy (PIMART)	7
Prevalence of primary HIV- associated thrombocytopenia in a central South African population	7
Prevalence of group A streptococcal carriage in school children from Cape Town: A cross- sectional study and systematic review	7
Another pandemic in the making	7
Ronald Ellis 'Ronnie' Kottler	7
Predictors of unfavourable tuberculosis treatment outcome in Bilene District, Gaza Province, Mozambique: A retrospective analysis, 2016 - 2019	6
Death trends for 2010 - 2022 for members of a large private medical scheme in South Africa	6
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to low levels of physical activity in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	6
Comment on ‘Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis’	6
Predictors of mortality in acute hospitalised COVID-19 pneumonia patients: A retrospective cohort study at two tertiary-level hospitals in Zambia	6
Trisomy 21 screening with αlpha software and the Fetal Medicine Foundation algorithm	6
Hydatid brain cyst: A delayed diagnosis in a rural setting during COVID-19	6
Leveraging epidemiology as a decision support tool during the COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa	6
Where have we come from and where are we going? The paediatric HIV programme in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 2004 to 2018: A retrospective analysis of programme trends	6
Obesity is South Africa’s new HIV epidemic	6
Erratum	6
Profile of patients seen at Pietersburg and Mankweng breast cancer clinics in Limpopo	6
Optimising blood cultures: The interplay between diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship	6
Medicine and the Law	5
Population-level risk factors for vertical transmission of HIV in the national prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme in South Africa: An ecological analysis	5
Erratum	5
Ensuring access to palliative care for cervical cancer patients	5
COVID-19 wave 4 in Western Cape Province, South Africa: Fewer hospitalisations, but new challenges for a depleted workforce	5
South African Heart Association: Plea for influenza vaccination	5
Therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy should not be discontinued in low- and middle-income countries	5
Heritable human genome editing in South Africa – time for a reality check	5
An unmet need: Pancreatic beta cell replacement	5
Underdiagnosis of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in South Africa	5
The HIV cascade of care among serodiscordant couples in four high HIV prevalence settings in sub-Saharan Africa	5
Approach to the diagnosis and management of snakebite envenomation in South Africa in humans.	5
Maternal mental health and caregiver competence of HIV-positive and negative women caring for their singleton newborns in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	5
Impact of a multidisciplinary approach to ultrasound- guided thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa: A retrospective audit	5
The state of paediatric deceased-organ donation at a South African tertiary public- sector hospital: A 14-year analysis	5
The right to access healthcare: Progressive realisation or regressive denial?	4
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of undergraduate health sciences students on hepatitis B vaccination at a South African university highlight the need for improvement of policies, implementation and	4
Mandrax use, sexual risk, and opportunities for pre-exposure prophylaxis among out-of-school adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa	4
Case Report	4
Exploring a community’s understanding of HIV vaccine‑induced seropositivity in a South African research setting	4
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and missed vaccine roll- out targets: The case for using general practitioners	4
Recurrent venous thrombosis – an unusual first presentation of autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 3B	4
Retraction:	4
The association between serum fructosamine and random spot urine fructose levels with the severity of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease – an analytical cross-sectional study	4
Early online	4
District Health System performance in South Africa: Are current monitoring systems optimal?	4
Foreword: Preparedness and response to SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa	4
Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a rural area in South Africa	4
Advanced breast cancer in a case of Down syndrome: Presenting a rare occurrence from Mankweng Hospital breast oncology clinic, Limpopo Province, South Africa	4

Medicine and the Law	4
Obstructive jaundice: Studies on predictors of biliary infection and microbiological analysis in an HIV setting	3
A total cost perspective of type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus in two South African medical schemes servicing the public healthcare sector	3
Evaluating the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as an indicator for early referral of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia to a high-care facility	3
A third-line antiretroviral therapy register to track patient clinical and virological outcomes	3
Comparison of ultraviolet C light and isopropyl alcohol for the disinfection of cellular phones in a paediatric intensive care unit setting	3
Impact of COVID-19 on access to chronic kidney replacement therapy in the public sector of Western Cape Province, South Africa	3
Prevalence and outcome of acute kidney injury in burn victims at a tertiary centre in Cape Town, South Africa	3
Patterns of oxygen saturation in prolonged recovery from COVID-19 pneumonia	3
Building coherence in the regulation of health research: A reply to Thaldar	3
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution (ambient PM2.5 and ambient ozone) in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	3
Monkeypox in South Africa: The need for responsible messaging to avoid stigmatising the LGBTI community	3
Right of reply	3
CPD Questions	3
Celebrating a quarter-century of the UP School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)	3
A retrospective analysis of outcomes and complications of living- and deceased-donor split-liver transplantation in Johannesburg, South Africa	3
Paediatric nephroblastoma at a South African tertiary hospital: A 21-year retrospective analysis	3
The impact of a decentralised orthopaedic service on tertiary referrals in Cape Town, South Africa	3
Refusal for religious reasons of a blood transfusion for her husband by wife as legal proxy ignored by the doctors – can the wife claim damages?	3
Asthma in South African children: Guidelines, obstacles and solutions	3
Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A contemporary review of services after 20 years	3
Patients’ experiences of termination of pregnancy at a regional hospital in Durban, South Africa	3
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	3
HEALTHCARE DELIVERY	3
A natural history of efavirenz drug-induced liver injury	3
Guiding equitable prioritisation of COVID-19 vaccine distribution and strategic deployment in South Africa to enhance effectiveness and access to vulnerable communities and prevent waste	3
Editor.ial board info.docx AJOL Journal Information Form-AJTCCM.docx	3
Community perceptions of community health worker effectiveness: Contributions to health behaviour change in an urban health district in South Africa	3
Nephrolithiasis (parts 1 and 2)	3
Contents	3
Correspondence and reply	3
Antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Mycoplasma genitalium isolates from the private healthcare sector in South Africa: A pilot study	3
Pregnancy after kidney and liver transplantation	3
Michael Charles Kew	3
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the management of axial spondyloarthritis	3
Recovering from COVID lockdowns: Routine public sector PHC services in South Africa, 2019 - 2021	3
Signal of harm in morphine use in adults with acute pulmonary oedema: A rapid systematic review	3
Evaluation of the accuracy of the Asanté assay as a point-of-care rapid test for HIV-1 recent infections using serum bank specimens from blood donors in South Africa, July 2018 - August 2021	3
Experience on postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling to ascertain the cause of death determination in South African children: A case for implementing as standard of care	3
Kidney transplant utilising donors after circulatory death: The first report from the African continent	2
Persistent maternal tachycardia: A clinical alert for healthcare professionals providing maternity care in South Africa	2
Percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion in South Africa	2
Improving primary care antimicrobial stewardship by implementing a peer audit and feedback intervention in Cape Town community healthcare centres	2
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 updated guidelines for the management of rheumatoid arthritis	2
Securing our HIV response: The PEPFAR crisis in South Africa	2
Developing a Pipeline of African Global Surgery Scholars	2
An analysis of referral patterns of traumatic brain injury at Groote Schuur Hospital Trauma Centre	2
Risk stratification of hospital admissions for COVID-19 pneumonia by chest radiographic scoring in a Johannesburg tertiary hospital	2
The pattern of antibiotic utilisation among intensive care unit patients hospitalised in a Gauteng (South African) provincial tertiary hospital: Comparing findings before and during COVID-19	2
Elderly, vulnerable and forgotten	2
The South African guidelines on enuresis: 2024 update	2
Childhood asthma: A best-practice strategy for the diagnosis and assessment of control in South Africa	2
Retain rural doctors: Burnout, depression and anxiety in medical doctors working in rural KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	2
The introduction of competency-based medical education for postgraduate training in South Africa	2
Audit of surgical specialty patients and beds at Pietersburg Hospital, Limpopo Province, South Africa in 2021	2
Tobacco control research in South Africa from 1978 to 2022: A scoping review	2
Prevalence, associated factors, management and outcomes of hypokalaemia in hospitalised patients at a South African tertiary centre	2
Pancreatic cancer mortality in South Africa: A case-control study	2
Outcomes of patients with COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring invasive mechanical ventilation admitted to an intensive care unit in South Africa	2
Namibian spitting cobra, Naja nigricincta nigricincta (Zebra snake): Antibiotic profile of bacteria cultured from the oral pharynx, venom and snakebite wounds	2
Ivermectin drug induced liver injury	2
POPIA does indeed apply to health research: A response to Bronstein and Nyachowe	2
Telehealth opportunities for South Africa have been brought into focus by the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Microbiological analysis and predictors of gallbladder infection with antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in an HIV setting	2
Autoimmune encephalitis: Epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical spectrum (part 2)	2
The unmet need for critical care at a quaternary paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa	2
Differential management and associations of dyslipidaemia and hypertension by glycaemic status in urban South Africans	2
Issues in Medicine	2
The tragedy of smoking, alcohol, and multiple substance use during pregnancy	2
Clinical practice	2
The management and clinical outcome of paracetamol poisoning in South African adults: A single-centre retrospective review	2
Prevalence of secondary health conditions and mental status in persons with long-term spinal cord injury in South Africa: Comparison between public and private healthcare sectors	2
Respiratory presentations to acute services at a tertiary hospital in South Africa	2
Improving access to suicide prevention services through the National Suicide Prevention Framework implementation: The community level evidence-based recommendations	2
Guidance for the gastrointestinal evaluation and management of iron deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Wrong-route drug administration errors: A review of the literature	2
Operating theatre efficiency at a tertiary eye hospital in South Africa	2
Identification and management of iron deficiency anaemia in hospitalised children in Durban, South Africa	2
Glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) use and glycaemic control in patients living with diabetes mellitus attending public healthcare facilities in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	2
Specimen rejection in a high-throughput TB laboratory: A descriptive study	2

‘Listen to my heart’: Qualitative researchers and people living with rheumatic heart disease collaborate to direct future RHD research	2
Patterns of disease on admission to children’s wards and changes during a COVID-19 outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa	2
Phase I of the DiaVACCS screening trial: Study design, methods, population demographics and baseline results	2
Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 RNA shedding in a young man recovering from traumatic pneumothorax	2
A critical analysis of Discovery Health’s claims-based risk adjustment of mortality rates in South African private sector hospitals	2
Gaucher disease: A cause of massive splenomegaly in a 15-year-old black African male	2
Stroke: A retrospective review of the incidence and epidemiology in a South African academic hospital emergency department	2
Every maternal near-miss counts: Need for a national audit in South Africa? A mixed-methods study	2
Further evidence of misclassification of the injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed?	2
Acute kidney injury after major non-cardiac surgery: Incidence and risk factors	2
When secrecy and expert advice collide in a pandemic: Access to information and the National Department of Health’s tardy publication of Ministerial Advisory Committee advisories	1
Long-stay medical-surgical intensive care unit patients in South Africa: Quality of life and mortality 1 year after discharge	1
Placental histopathology, maternal characteristics and neonatal outcome in cases of preterm birth in a high-risk population in South Africa	1
Perinatal outcome of maternal deaths at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 2014 - June 2019	1
Heart groups in South Africa advocate for tighter LDL-C control and lipoprotein(a) testing to curb atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease	1
Provision of long-term renal replacement therapy to non-national patients in South Africa	1
Introducing the South African Rare Diseases Access Initiative	1
A brief overview of the past, present, and future of the Department of General Surgery at Pietersburg and Mankweng hospitals in Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines for the use of biologic and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs	1
Management of asthma exacerbations in children	1
COVID-19 in the South African Medical Journal	1
Rationalising empirical antibiotics for bloodstream infections: A retrospective study at a South African district-level hospital	1
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among healthcare workers in the Ekurhuleni District, South Africa	1
TOR1A mutation-related isolated childhood-onset generalised dystonia in South Africa	1
Medicine and the Law	1
The use of a urine lipoarabinomannan test in clinical decision-making regarding empiric tuberculosis treatment among HIV-positive patients suspected to have tuberculosis	1
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in South Africa: A complex social phenomenon	1
Determination of anti-COVID-19 IgG and IgM seroprevalence among pregnant women at Pietersburg Hospital, Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
A critical analysis of adult platelet product utilisation in South Africa, 2014 - 2021	1
A national retrospective descriptive analysis of critical care transfers in the private sector in South Africa	1
Pharmacist-led medication therapy management of diabetes club patients at a primary healthcare clinic in Cape Town, South Africa: A retrospective and prospective audit	1
Improving health outcomes and quality at the subdistrict level: Evaluation of the ‘3 feet model’ in Waterberg District, Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
The importance of including manner of (injury) death on the death notification form	1
Surgical training and capacity development in the South African internship programme	1
The impact of COVID-19 on patients affected by rare diseases and congenital disorders in South Africa: A scoping review	1
Percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion: A South African experience	1
Cyberattack on the National Health Laboratory Service of South Africa – implications, response and recommendations	1
Blood product utilisation for coronary artery bypass graft surgery at a public and a private hospital in Western Cape Province, South Africa	1
Maternal and neonatal outcomes of COVID-19 in a high-risk pregnant cohort with and without HIV	1
CPD Questions	1
Antiretroviral therapy non-adherence among HIV-positive patients presenting to an emergency department in Johannesburg, South Africa: Associations and reasons	1
Public health sector capacity and resilience building in Zimbabwe: An urgent priority as further waves of COVID-19 are imminent	1
The Second Comparative Risk Assessment for South Africa: A call to action for evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention	1
Nocturnal enuresis: A call for advocacy	1
A case for re-establishment of cardiac surgery at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, South Africa	1
SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Risk in the School Environment: a pilot case-ascertained prospective study to inform future school-based surveillance.	1
Bleeding and thrombosis outcomes in hospitalised COVID-19 patients on low-molecular-weight heparin and antiplatelet therapy	1
Treating urinary tract infections in public sector primary healthcare facilities in Cape Town, South Africa: A pharmaceutical perspective	1
Factors associated with COVID-19 inpatient mortality cases within 24-hours South Africa	1
Heritable human genome editing in South Africa – time for a reality check	1
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
The South African Prostate Cancer Screening Guidelines	1
Thank you from SAMA and the editors	1
First report of an imported case of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in South Africa	1
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria in children: A 7-year multicentre retrospective laboratory analysis	1
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to a diet low in fruit and vegetables in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
Clinical course, management and outcomes of COVID-19 in HIV-infected renal transplant recipients: A case series	1
Diabetes in the public healthcare sector of four South African provinces: A comparative analysis	1
Incidence of febrile seizures and associated factors in children in Soweto, South Africa	1
Diagnosis and presenting features of autoimmune hepatitis at a central referral hospital in South Africa	1
Effective cannabis testing protocols for workplace safety in South Africa post legalisation: Navigating the new normal	1
Secondary polycythaemia with elevated carbon monoxide levels due to hookah pipe smoking: A public health concern.	1
In defence of South Africa’s National Health Research Ethics Council guidelines on heritable human genome editing	1
Introduction to the South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines	1
Liberalising cannabis legislation in South Africa: Potential public health consequences for adolescents and pregnant women	1
Venous thromboembolism risk assessment and prophylaxis in hospitalised medical patients in the Cape Town metropole, South Africa	1
Laparoscopic repair of pericardio-diaphragmatic rupture: A case report	1
The clinical utility of tissue polymerase chain reaction, tissue culture and tissue histology in blood culture-negative infective endocarditis in South Africa – insights from the Groote Schuur Hospita	1
Thesigamoney Reddy	1
Children have been left behind during the HIV 90-90-90 strategy implementation in South Africa	1
Hypertriglyceridaemia in adolescents may have serious complications	1
Nephrolithiasis (part 2): Diagnosis, management and prevention of recurrent nephrolithiasis	1
Cerebral palsy and its medicolegal implications in low- resource settings – the need to establish causality and revise criteria to implicate intrapartum hypoxia: A narrative review	1
Beorn Cloete Uys	1
Pandemic politics	1
Change in profile of COVID-19 deaths in Western Cape Province, South Africa, during the fourth wave	1
Call for the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority to revisit regulations relating to single- use medical devices	1
A tale of two kidneys, and the case for machine perfusion in South Africa	1
The paediatric liver transplant experience in Johannesburg, South Africa: A broad overview and update	1
A prospective observational study of preoperative natriuretic peptide testing in adult non-cardiac surgical patients in hospitals in Western Cape Province, South Africa	1
Lower respiratory tract infection admissions and deaths among children under 5 years in public sector facilities in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (20	1
Southern African Student Surgical Society (SASSS) and University of Cape Town Division of Global Surgery Symposium: Developing a pipeline of surgical student researchers collaboratively	1
Missed traumatic diaphragmatic hernia and literature review	1
The synergistic health syndemic of HIV and cancer of the cervix in women living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: Decrying the dearth of information	1
Ritshidze’s community-led monitoring system as a source of information on health system responsiveness in South Africa	1
Can inflammatory bowel disease be treated with diet?	1
Undiagnosed comorbidities among individuals hospitalised with COVID-19 in South African public hospitals	1
Audit of surgical procedures in regional and central hospitals in Limpopo Province, South Africa	1
Role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in cancers	1
The prevalence of coeliac disease-associated human leukocyte antigens in South African transplant donors and recipients	1
Characteristics, clinical manifestations and management of leprosy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A 20-year retrospective study	1
Effect of COVID-19 on HIV, tuberculosis, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV indicators in Mopani district, South Africa	1
Sharp increase in influenza A infections in Limpopo: A call for increased influenza vaccinations	1
Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high sodium intake in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012	1
Guest editorial:	1