Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 28 No 5 (September/October 2017)

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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 28, No 5, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017
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
EDITORIAL
279 Who is too fat?
JIE Hoffman
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
280 Is there a role for combination anti-remodelling therapy for heart failure secondary to
chronic rheumatic mitral regurgitation?
R Meel • F Peters • E Libhaber • MR Essop
285 Prevalence of rheumatic valvular heart disease in Rwandan school children:
echocardiographic evaluation using the World Heart Federation criteria
J Mucumbitsi • B Bulwer • L Mutesa • V Ndahindwa • E Rusingiza • P Arya • S Breakey •
C Patton-Bolman • EL Kaplan
293 Factors affecting interest in cardiothoracic surgery among junior surgical residents
in Nigeria
EB Kesieme • U Abubakar • O Olusoji • IM Inuwa • J Kefas • N Anumenechi
298 Atorvastatin inhibits cholesterol-induced caspase-3 cleavage through down-regulation
of P38 and up-regulation of Bcl-2 in the rat carotid artery
R Bayatmakoo • N Rashtchizadeh • PYaghmaei • M Farhoudi • P Karimi
304 New World’s old disease: cardiac hydatid disease and surgical principles
O Tanyeli • Y Dereli • I Mercan • N Gormus • T Yuksek
309 Right ventricular strain as predictor of pulmonary complications in patients with
femur fracture
H-J Kim • H-B Park • Y Suh • H-S Kim • Y-H Cho • T-Y Choi • E-S Hwang • D-K Cho
315 Electrocardiographic abnormalities in treatment-naïve HIV subjects in south-east Nigeria
IC Okoye • EN Anyabolu