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 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)
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 22, NO 1. JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2011
Editorial
6 Maternal mortality
J Moodley
Cardiovascular Topics
7 The vascular endothelium masks the persistent inhibition of rat thoracic arterial tone
induced by S-nitrosoglutathione
M Sarr • FB Sar • L Gueye • MO Kane • A Wele • AS Diallo • V Schini-Kerth • B Muller
14 The variability of baroreflex sensitivity in juvenile, spontaneously hypertensive rats
VE Valenti • LC de Abreu • E Colombari • MA Sato • C Ferreira
18 Smoking and vascular dysfunction in Africans and Caucasians from South Africa
MC Zatu • JM van Rooyen • AE Schutte
25 Obesity-associated genetic variants in young Asian Indians with the metabolic syndrome
and myocardial infarction
N Ranjith • RJ Pegoraro • R Shanmugam
31 Maternal deaths associated with hypertension in South Africa: lessons to learn from the
Saving Mothers report, 2005–2007
J Moodley
Case Report
36 Coronary artery ectasia in a patient with myocardial infarction
ML Jesuraj • D Mukerjee • AV Jesuraj • R Singh • B Agarwal
