Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 27 No 5 (September/October 2016)

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ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
Vol 27, No 5, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2016
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
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
From the Editor’s Desk
275 Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
P Commerford
Cardiovascular Topics
276 Pre-anesthetic echocardiographic findings in children undergoing non-cardiac surgery at the
University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
WE Sadoh • P Ikhurionan • C Imarengiaye
281 Gender-based differences in the relationship between fatty liver disease and atherosclerosis
H-J Kim • C-W Lim • JH Lee • H-B Park • Y Suh • Y-H Cho • T-Y Choi • E-S Hwang • D-K Cho
287 Congenital heart disease and Down syndrome: various aspects of a confirmed association
S Benhaourech • A Drighil • A El hammiri
291 Could the novel ‘double-hole’ technique be an alternative for the inflow occlusion method?
S Bozok • G Ilhan • H Kazdal • B Ozpak • I Yurekli • S Bayrak • M Kestelli
294 The relationship between elevated magnesium levels and coronary artery ectasia
M Yolcu • E Ipek • S Turkmen • Y Ozen • E Yıldırım • A Sercelik • FR Ulusoy
299 Relationship between site of myocardial infarction, left ventricular function and cytokine levels
in patients undergoing coronary artery surgery
I Kiris • S Kapan • C Narin • M Ozaydın • MC Cure • R Sutcu • H Okutan
307 Strain and strain rate echocardiography in children with Wilson’s disease
C Karakurt • S Çelik • A Selimoğlu • İ Varol • H Karabiber • S Yoloğlu
315 Cardiovascular risk factors in pre-pubertal schoolchildren in Angola
ABT Silva • DP Capingana • P Magalhães • MAA Gonçalves • M del CB Molina • SL Rodrigues •
MP Baldo • MSB Mateus • JG Mill