Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 29 No 6 (November/December 2018)

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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 29, No 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 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
337 FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
338 Anatomical and functional changes after aortic valve replacement with different sizes
of mechanical valves
G Ilhan • S Bozok • B Ozpak • H Kara • S Yazman • S Bayrak • I Ozsoyler • A Gurbuz
344 Prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of cardiovascular risk factors among
patients with hypertension in South African primary care
J Ngango • OB Omole
352 Usefulness of a titration algorithm for de novo users of sacubitril/valsartan in a tertiary
centre heart failure clinic
É Laflamme • A Vachon • S Gilbert • J Boisvert • V Leclerc • M Bernier • P Voisine •
M Sénéchal • S Bergeron
357 The efficacy of antiplatelet therapies as evaluated by thrombo-elastography in retired
Chinese officers
Y Chen • X Wang • Q Yu • F Wang • H Wang • H Liu
362 Evaluation of ventricular arrhythmogenesis in children with acute rheumatic carditis
M Kucuk • C Karadeniz • R Ozdemir • T Meşe
366 Cultural coping as a risk for depression and hypertension: the SABPA prospective
study
S Le Roux • G Lotter • HS Steyn • L Malan
374 Transradial versus transfemoral intervention in non-ST-segment elevation acute
coronary syndrome patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: the
Korean transradial intervention registry of 1 285 patients
M-H Lee • DW Bang • BW Park • B-R Cho • S-W Rha • MH Jeong • J Yoon • J Suh •
K-R Han • MS Hyon