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 8, SEPTEMBER 2013
Editorial
295 Article visibility: journal impact factor and availability of full text in PubMed Central and
open access
PA Brink
Cardiovascular Topics
297 Analysis of the omega-3 fatty acid content of South African fish oil supplements:
a follow-up study
M Opperman • S Benade
303 Surgical management of effusive constrictive pericarditis
F Buyukbayrak • E Aksoy • S Tas • K Kirali
308 Carotid and popliteal artery intima–media thickness in patients with poor oral hygiene
and the association with acute-phase reactants
IS Uyar • MB Akpinar • V Sahin • EF Yasa • F Abacilar • V Yurtman • FF Okur
313 Tumescentless endovenous radiofrequency ablation with local hypothermia and
compression technique
K Korkmaz • AÜ Yener • HS Gedik • AB Budak • Ö Yener • SB Genç • A Lafçi
318 Clinical experience of repair of pectus excavatum and carinatum deformities
M Oncel • B Tezcan • KG Akyol • Y Dereli • GS Sunam
322 Alpha lipoic acid attenuates inflammatory response during extracorporeal circulation
IS Uyar • S Onal • MB Akpinar • I Gonen • V Sahin • AC Uguz • O Burma
330 Prevalence of dyslipidaemia in statin-treated patients in South Africa: results of the
DYSlipidaemia International Study (DYSIS)
FJ Raal • DJ Blom • S Naidoo • P Bramlage • P Brudi
327 William Nelson ECG quiz
