Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 29 No 3 (May/Junel 2018)

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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 29, No 3, MAY/JUNE 2018
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
135 Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in rheumatic heart disease
NAB Ntusi
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
139 Prevalence, clinical characteristics and outcomes of valvular atrial fibrillation in a
cohort of African patients with acute heart failure: insights from the THESUS-HF
registry
MU Sani • BA Davison • G Cotter • BM Mayosi • C Edwards • OS Ogah • A Damasceno •
DB Ojji • A Dzudie • C Mondo • C Kouam Kouam • A Suliman • G Yonga • SA Ba • F Maru •
B Alemayehu • K Sliwa
146 Influence of visceral fat and blood pressure on changes in blood flow velocity in
non-obese individuals
AR Rasyada • M Sha’ban • A Azhim
150 Assessment of myocardial fibrosis by late gadolinium enhancement imaging and
biomarkers of collagen metabolism in chronic rheumatic mitral regurgitation
R Meel • R Nethononda • E Libhaber • T Dix-Peek • F Peters • M Essop
155 HIV disease is associated with increased biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction despite
viral suppression on long-term antiretroviral therapy in Botswana
M Mosepele • T Mohammed • L Mupfumi • S Moyo • K Bennett • S Lockman • LC Hemphill •
VA Triant
162 The effects of treatment with atorvastatin versus rosuvastatin on endothelial
dysfunction in patients with hyperlipidaemia
V Demir • MT Doğ ru • H Ede • S Yılmaz • C Alp • Y Celik • N Yıldırım
167 Percutaneous transmitral balloon commissurotomy using a single balloon with
arteriovenous loop stabilisation: an alternative when there is no Inoue balloon
E Tefera • M Leye • P Garceau • D Bouchard • J Miró