Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 27 No 6 (November/December 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 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 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 desk
335 Measuring publication impact, and publishing and funding models
Paul Brink
EditoriaL
336 The importance of perseverance, pilot studies and the search for effective adjuvant therapies in
the management of tuberculous pericarditis
A Mutyaba • M Ntsekhe
Cardiovascular Topics
338 Should patients undergo ascending aortic replacement with concomitant cardiac surgery?
M Yalcin • KD Tayfur • M Urkmez
345 Procedural and one-year clinical outcomes of bioresorbable vascular scaffolds for the treatment
of chronic total occlusions: a single-centre experience
E Özel • A Taştan • A Öztürk • EE Özcan • B Kilicaslan • Ö Özdogan
350 A prospective investigation into the effect of colchicine on tuberculous pericarditis
JJ Liebenberg • CJ Dold • LR Olivier
356 Epidemiology and patterns of hypertension in semi-urban communities, south-western Nigeria
MA Olamoyegun • SO Iwuala • SO Asaolu • R Oluyombo
361 Uncontrolled hypertension among patients managed in primary healthcare facilities in Kinshasa,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
TM Kika • FB Lepira • PK Kayembe • JR Makulo • EK Sumaili • EV Kintoki • JR M’Buyamba-Kabangu
367 Determinants of change in body weight and body fat distribution over 5.5 years in a sample of
free-living black South African women
S Chantler • K Dickie • LK Micklesfield • JH Goedecke
375 The differential effects of FTY720 on functional recovery and infarct size following myocardial
ischaemia/reperfusion
D van Vuuren • E Marais • S Genade • A Lochner