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ISSN 1995-1892 (print)

ISSN 1680-0745 (online)

Cardiovascular Journal of Africa

www.cvja.co.za

CONTENTS

INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET

Vol 28, No 5, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017

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

EDITORIAL

279 Who is too fat?

JIE Hoffman

CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS

280 Is there a role for combination anti-remodelling therapy for heart failure secondary to

chronic rheumatic mitral regurgitation?

R Meel • F Peters • E Libhaber • MR Essop

285 Prevalence of rheumatic valvular heart disease in Rwandan school children:

echocardiographic evaluation using the World Heart Federation criteria

J Mucumbitsi • B Bulwer • L Mutesa • V Ndahindwa • E Rusingiza • P Arya • S Breakey •

C Patton-Bolman • EL Kaplan

293 Factors affecting interest in cardiothoracic surgery among junior surgical residents

in Nigeria

EB Kesieme • U Abubakar • O Olusoji • IM Inuwa • J Kefas • N Anumenechi

298 Atorvastatin inhibits cholesterol-induced caspase-3 cleavage through down-regulation

of P38 and up-regulation of Bcl-2 in the rat carotid artery

R Bayatmakoo • N Rashtchizadeh • PYaghmaei • M Farhoudi • P Karimi

304 New World’s old disease: cardiac hydatid disease and surgical principles

O Tanyeli • Y Dereli • I Mercan • N Gormus • T Yuksek

309 Right ventricular strain as predictor of pulmonary complications in patients with

femur fracture

H-J Kim • H-B Park • Y Suh • H-S Kim • Y-H Cho • T-Y Choi • E-S Hwang • D-K Cho

315 Electrocardiographic abnormalities in treatment-naïve HIV subjects in south-east Nigeria

IC Okoye • EN Anyabolu