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Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
www.cvja.co.zaCONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
Vol 29, No 1, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018
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
4 Appropriate strategies for South Africa for the management of acute myocardial
infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation
R Delport
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
6 The proportion of South Africans living within 60 and 120 minutes of a percutaneous
coronary intervention facility
Willem Stassen • Lee Wallis • Craig Vincent-Lambert • Maaret Castren • Lisa Kurland
12 Reinforcement of suture lines with aortic eversion in aortic replacement
E Kaya
16 Value of transluminal attenuation gradient of stress CCTA for diagnosis of
haemodynamically significant coronary artery stenosis using wide-area detector
CT in patients with coronary artery disease: comparison with stress perfusion CMR
HY Kim • HS Yong • EJ Kim • E-Y Kang • BK Seo
22 Effects of age on systemic inflammatory response syndrome and results of coronary
bypass surgery
O Gokalp • NK Yesilkaya • S Bozok • Y Besir • H Iner • H Durmaz • Y Gokkurt • B Lafci •
G Gokalp • L Yilik • A Gurbuz
26 Cardiac diastolic function after recovery from pre-eclampsia
P Soma-Pillay • MC Louw • AO Adeyemo • J Makin • RC Pattinson
32 A comparative study on the cardiac morphology and vertical jump height of adolescent
black South African male and female amateur competitive footballers
PJ-L Gradidge • D Constantinou
36 Atherosclerotic disease is the predominant aetiology of acute coronary syndrome in
young adults
AK Pillay • DP Naidoo