Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 31 No 1 (January/February 2020)

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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 31, No 1, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2020
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
3 FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
3 Cardiac pacing in sub-Saharan Africa
A Bonny • OA Ajijola • M Jeilan • M Sani • Z Yousef • MF Yuyun • K Karaye • MA Nahib •
Y Aoudia • L Akinyi • M Ngantcha • S Subahi • F Sogade • A Chin
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
5 A cross-sectional cohort study for microvascular complications in patients with type 2
diabetes with and without hypothyroidism
L Johnson • B Rayner
9 Healthy Heart Africa: a prospective evaluation of programme outcomes on individuals’
hypertension awareness, screening, diagnosis and treatment in rural Kenya at 12 months
G Yonga • FO Okello • JL Herr • A Mulvaney • EN Ogola
16 OPCAB surgery with an alternative retraction method: a single-centre experience
E Cetin • T Can • CS Unal • A Keskin • E Kubat
21 Relationship between clot burden in pulmonary computed tomography angiography
and different parameters of right cardiac dysfunction in acute pulmonary embolism
Hw Abdelwahab • S Arafa • K Bondok • Nihal Batouty • M Bakeer
25 Salidroside protects the cardiac function of exhausted rats by inducing Nrf2 expression
P Xu • Y Wang • W Sun • Y Sun • W Lu • Y Chang • Z Ping • Y Li • X Cao
33 Ductal closure in infants under 6 kg including premature infants using AmplatzerTM
duct occluder type two additional sizes: a single-centre experience in South Africa
L Pepeta • A Greyling • MF Nxele • Z Makrexeni • S Jiyana