Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine
Volume 1, Issue 3
February 2019
ISSN 2618-0189 is for the print version.
ISSN 2618-0197 is for the online version.
Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine is a peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal created to share scientific research from the School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and from Clinical Medicine departments at other institutions in South Africa and internationally. Our objective is to be the primary diffusion portal for Clinical Medicine scientists from southern Africa, using standards that accredit the process of scientific publication.
Published by Wits University Press
5th Floor, University Corner, Braamfontein 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa.
E-mail: Pravin.Manga@123456wits.ac.za
web: https://journals.co.za/content/journal/wjcm
Editor: Prof Pravin Manga
Associate Editors:
Prof Raquel Duarte
Prof Saraladevi Naicker
Dr Caroline Dickens
Editorial Board:
| Prof Daynia Ballot | Head of School of Clinical Medicine |
| Dr Desmond Lines | Anaesthesia and Critical Care |
| Dr Richard Cooke | Family Medicine and Rural Health |
| Prof Jeanine Vellema | Forensic Medicine |
| Prof Colin Menezes | Internal Medicine |
| Prof Girish Modi | Neurosciences |
| Prof Mboyo Vangu | Radiation Sciences |
| Prof Ashraf Coovadia | Paediatrics |
| Prof Hendrik Lombard | Obstetrics & Gynaecology |
| Prof Christopher Szabo | Psychiatry |
| Prof Martin Smith | Surgery |
| Prof Ames Dhai | Bio-ethics |
Table of Contents
ARTICLES
| Editorial: Bridging the Gap – The Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre Story | 99 | |
| Sue Tager and Martin Veller | ||
| 1 | Acute Cellular Rejection in Paediatric Liver Transplants: Does a Living Donor Ameliorate the Risk of Rejection in Our Patients? A Retrospective Review at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, South Africa | 101 |
| Jessica Katharine Strong, Petra Gaylard, Heather Maher and Jean Botha | ||
| 2 | Wits Transplant Annual Data Report 2018 Adult and Paediatric Liver Transplantation | 109 |
| J Fabian, J Loveland, H Maher, P Gaylard, H Etheredge, C Bouter, J Cantrell, C Sanyika, R Britz, B Strobele, S Rambarran, F van der Schyff, L Brannigan, D Demopoulos, A Campbell Lang, L Archibald-Durham, M Beretta, B Bobat, A Mahomed, A Terblanche and J Botha | ||
| 3 | Commentary: Public–Private Partnerships in Liver Transplantation: A Novel Approach to Equitable Health-care Delivery | 123 |
| Adam Mohamed and A Kazee | ||
| 4 | Review: Murder in the Cathedral: Antibodies and the Limits of Transplantation | 125 |
| Malcolm Davies | ||
| 5 | Outcomes of Cadaveric Renal Transplantation Using Mycophenolate Mofetil or Azathioprine in South Africa | 135 |
| Linda Gathara and Saraladevi Naicker | ||
| Winning Abstracts of Oral Presentations by Session | 143 | |