Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 27 No 3 (May/June 2016)

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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 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 Şener • 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