Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 26 No 6 (November/December 2015)

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ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
CONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
Vol 26, No 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015
Editors
Editor-in-Chief
(South Africa)
Prof Pat Commerford
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
Paediatric Surgery
Dr Darshan Reddy
Renal Hypertension
dr brian rayner
Surgical
dr f aziz
Adult Surgery
dr j rossouw
Epidemiology and Preventionist
dr ap kengne
Pregnancy-associated Heart
Disease
Prof K Sliwa-hahnle
203 From the Editor’s Desk
P Commerford
Cardiovascular Topics
204 Comparison of a qualitative measurement of heart-type fatty acid-binding protein with
other cardiac markers as an early diagnostic marker in the diagnosis of non-ST-segment
elevation myocardial infarction
DM Gerede • S Güleç • M Kılıçkap • CT Kaya • VK Vurgun • ÖU Özcan • H Göksülük • Ç Erol
210 Management and outcome of topical beta-blocker-induced atrioventricular block
KS Özcan • B Güngör • D Osmonov • A İ Tekkeş in • S Altay • A Ekmekçi • E Toprak • E Yıldırım •
N Çalık • AT Alper • K Gürkan • İ Erdinler
214 Autonomic imbalance assessed by time-domain heart rate variability indices in primary
Raynaud’s phenomenon
K Karabacak • M Celik • E Kaya • M Kadan • G Arslan • U Demirkilic
217 Atrial conduction time, and left atrial mechanical and electromechanical functions in
patients with polycystic ovary syndrome: interatrial conduction delay
E Gazi • M Gencer • V Hanci • A Temiz • B Altun • A Barutcu • AN Gungor • S Hacıvelioglu •
A Uysal • Y Colkesen
222 Protective effects of ginseng extracts and common anti-aggregant drugs on ischaemia–
reperfusion injury
A Caliskan • O Karahan • S Yazici • S Demirtas • O Guclu • O Tezcan • C Yavuz
227 An open-access, mobile, compatible, electronic patient register for rheumatic heart
disease (‘eRegister’) based on the World Heart Federation’s framework for patient
registers
J van Dam • J Musuku • LJ Zühlke • ME Engel • N Nestle • B Tadmor • J Spector • BM Mayosi