Editors
Editor-in-Chief (South Africa)
PROF AJ BRINK
Assistant Editor
Prof JAMES KER (JUN)
Regional Editor (Cameroon)
Prof JC Mbanya
Regional Editor (Kenya)
Dr F Bukachi
Regional Editor (South Africa)
PROF R DELPORT
Editorial Board
prof PA Brink
Experimental & Laboratory Cardiology
PROF V CORFIELD
Molecular 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
Electrocardiology
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)
Publishing Consultant
Mike Gibbs
AFRICA
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED AND SABINET
VOL 21, NO 3. MAY / JUNE 2010
Editorial
129 Lessons from the first report of the Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
Registry of South Africa
N Hendricks • DA Watkins • BM Mayosi
From the Editor’s Desk
131 Involvement of pharmaceutical companies at scientific meetings
AJ Brink
Cardiovascular Topics
132 Dual effect of quercetin on rat isolated portal vein smooth muscle contractility
WDH Chiwororo • JAO Ojewole
137 Midterm results of left atrial bipolar radiofrequency ablation combined with a mitral
valve procedure in persistent atrial fibrillation
H Tekumit • K Uzun • AR Cenal • C Tataroglu • A Polat • E Akinci
142 Erythromycin as an alternative to reduce interfering extra-cardiac activity in myocardial
perfusion imaging
M Vorster • MM Sathekge • P Rheeder
148 The association between anthropometric parameters, the metabolic syndrome and
microalbuminuria in black Africans: the SABPA study
S Hoebel • JH de Ridder • L Malan
153 A South African national database in cardiothoracic surgery
A Linegar • F Smit • A Stroebel • E Schaafsma
