Editors
Acting Editor in Chief
(South Africa)
Prof PA Brink
Assistant Editor
Prof JAMES KER (JUN)
Regional Editor
DR A Dzudie
Regional Editor (Kenya)
Dr F Bukachi
Regional Editor (South Africa)
PROF R DELPORT
SUBJECT Editors
Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
DR MM SATHEKGE
Heart Failure
Dr g visagie
Paediatric
dr s brown
Renal Hypertension
dr brian rayner
Surgical
dr f aziz
Adult Surgery
dr j rossouw
Epidemiology and
Preventionist
dr ap kengne
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)
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
VOL 24, NO 6. JULY 2013
Editorial
199 Cardiotropic viral infection in HIV-associated cardiomyopathy: pathogen or innocent
bystander?
LA Blauwet • LT Cooper
letter to the editor
201 Left ventricular hypertrabeculation/non-compaction in a pregnant woman
J Finsterer • SZ Mahjoub
Cardiovascular Topics
202 Ductal closure using the Amplatzer duct occluder type two: experience in Port Elizabeth
hospital complex, South Africa
L Pepeta • A Dippenaar
208 Awareness of hypertension and factors associated with uncontrolled hypertension in
Sudanese adults
FA Babiker • LA Elkhalifa • ME Moukhyer
213 Effects of single aortic clamping versus partial aortic clamping techniques on post-
operative stroke during coronary artery bypass surgery
IS Uyar • MB Akpinar • V Sahin • F Abacilar • V Yurtman • FF Okur • U Ozdemir • M Ates
218 Prevalence of myocarditis and cardiotropic virus infection in Africans with HIV-
associated cardiomyopathy, idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and heart transplant
recipients: a pilot study
G Shaboodien • C Maske • H Wainwright • H Smuts • M Ntsekhe • PJ Commerford • M Badri •
BM Mayosi
