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ISSN 1995-1892 (print)
ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
www.cvja.co.zaCONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
Vol 30, No 2, MARCH/APRIL 2019
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
71 Target blood pressure: a South African perspective
A Black • AG Parrish • B Rayner • TD Leong • V Mpongoshe
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
74 The Cape Town Declaration on Access to Cardiac Surgery in the Developing World:
is it a true reflection of the needs of sub-Saharan Africa?
RH Kinsley • D Reddy • C Yankah
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
75
Association between coronary tortuosity and mitral annular calcification
L Cerit • Z Cerit
79 Change in late sodium current of atrial myocytes in spontaneously hypertensive rats
with allocryptopine treatment
Y Dong • Y Huang • H Wu • J Ke • Y Yin • C Zhu • B Li • J Li • L Gao • Q Xue • J Zhang • Y Li
87 The pattern of risk-factor profile in Egyptian patients with acute coronary syndrome:
phase II of the Egyptian cross-sectional CardioRisk project
A Reda • M Ashraf • M Soliman • H Ragy • A El Kersh • W Abdou • T Mostafa • M Hassan •
E Farag • H Khamis • M Wadie • A Elbahry • S Salama • G Kazamel • M Sadaka • M Mostafa •
AA El-Bary • O Sanad • S Rafla • YA El-Hady • M Selim • N Farag • H El-Ghawaby •
H Hasan-Ali • S Emil • M Beshay • A Shawky • M Yusef • MA El-Ghany • A Gamal •
Y Baghdady • T Mostafa • M Zahran • K Rabat • A Bendary • A El Shorbagy
95 The cardiovascular effects of
Aspalathus linearis
supplementation in male Wistar rats
receiving fixed-dose combination first-line antiretroviral therapy
I Webster • EG Imperial • C Westcott • H Strijdom