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ISSN 1995-1892 (print)

ISSN 1680-0745 (online)

Cardiovascular Journal of Africa

www.cvja.co.za

CONTENTS

INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET

Vol 27, No D, MAY/JUNE 2016

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

127

Fromthe Editor’s Desk

P Commerford

Cardiovascular Topics

128 Iloprost as an acute kidney injury-triggering agent in severely atherosclerotic patients

ME Uyar • P Yucel • S Ilin • Z Bal • S Yildirim • AS Uyar • T Akay • E Tutal • S Sezer

134 Changes in cardiac structure and function in a modified rat model of myocardial hypertrophy

W Dai • Q Dong • M Chen • L Zhao • A Chen • Z Li • S Liu

143 Subclavian artery cannulation provides better myocardial protection in conventional repair of

acute type A aortic dissection: experience from a single medical centre in Taiwan

P-S Hsu • J-L Chen • C-S Tsai • Y-T Tsai • C-Y Lin • C-Y Lee • H-Y Ke • Y-C Lin

147 Comparison of two different techniques for balloon sizing in percutaneous mitral balloon

valvuloplasty: which is preferable?

A Tastan • A Ozturk • O Senarslan • E Ozel • S Uyar • EE Ozcan • O Kozan

152 Clinical features, spectrum of causal genetic mutations and outcome of hypertrophic

cardiomyopathy in South Africans

NAB Ntusi • G Shaboodien • M Badri • F Gumedze • BM Mayosi

159 Administration of perivascular cyanoacrylate for the prevention of cellular damage in saphenous

vein grafts: an experimental model

N Kahraman • G Yumun • A Gücü • KK Özsin • T Taner • E

Ş

ener • MT Göncü

164 Effects of a PPAR-gamma receptor agonist and an angiotensin receptor antagonist on aortic

contractile responses to alpha receptor agonists in diabetic and/or hypertensive rats

I Tugrul • T Dost • O Demir • F Gokalp • O Oz • N Girit • M Birincioglu

170

Tabula viva chirurgi

: a living surgical document

MJ Swart • G Joubert • J-A van den Berg • GJ van Zyl

177 Associations between body fat distribution, insulin resistance and dyslipidaemia in black and

white South African women

D Keswell • M Tootla • JH Goedecke