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
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
Renal Hypertension
dr brian rayner
Surgical
dr f aziz
Adult Surgery
dr j rossouw
Epidemiology and
Preventionist
dr ap kengne
ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
Vol 25, No 3, MAY/JUNE 2014
95
From the Editor’s Desk
PA Brink
Cardiovascular Topics
96 The protective effect of topical rifamycin treatment against sternal wound infection in
diabetic patients undergoing on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery
F Aygun • A Kuzgun • S Ulucan • A Keser • M Akpek • MG Kaya
100 Assessment of the efficacy of Ankaferd blood stopper on the prevention of
postoperative pericardial adhesions
Y Nazli • N Colak • MF Alpay • H Haltas • ON Aksoy • IO Akkaya • O Cakir
106 Carbon monoxide poisoning increases T
peak
–T
end
dispersion and QT
c
dispersion
M Eroglu • O Uz • Z Isilak • M Yalcin • AO Yildirim • E Kardesoglu
110 Mean platelet volume is associated with myocardial perfusion defect in diabetic patients
S Sarikaya • S Sahin • L Akyol • E Borekci • YK Yilmaz • F Altunkas • K Karaman •
S Karacavus • AR Erbay
114 Is there a role for surgery in the management of isolated secundum atrial septal defect
in adults?
C Bolcal • G Arslan • M Kadan • S Doganci • C Barcin • A Iyisoy • V Yildirim • M Arslan
118 Cardiac preconditioning with sphingosine-1-phosphate requires activation of signal
transducer and activator of transcription-3
RF Kelly-Laubscher • JC King • D Hacking • S Somers • S Hastie • T Stewart • A Imamdin •
G Maarman • S Pedretti • S Lecour
124 Comparison of quality of life in patients with peripheral arterial disease caused by
atherosclerosis obliterans or Buerger’s disease
R Karakoyun • C Köksoy • Z Şener • U Gündüz • B Karakaş • M Karakoyun
