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ISSN 1680-0745 (online)
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
www.cvja.co.zaCONTENTS
INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET
Vol 30, No 5, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 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
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
PROF A LOCHNER
Biochemistry/Laboratory
Science
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
EDITORIALS
247 Familial hypercholesterolaemia and its management in South Africa
AD Marais
249 Renal denervation: bleak past, brighter future
B Rayner
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
251 The effects of HIV/AIDS on the clinical profile and outcomes post pericardiectomy of
patients with constrictive pericarditis: a retrospective review
DP Naidoo • G Laurence • B Sartorius • S Ponnusamy
258 Ellisras Longitudinal Study 2017: association of hypertension with increasing levels of
adiposity in 10- to 14-year-old boys and girls in the Eastern Cape (ELS 31)
A Chungag • CM Tata • CR Sewani-Rusike • W Nel • BN Nkeh-Chungag
262 Ellisras Longitudinal Study 2017: patterns of physical activity in an urban and rural
setting among black South African adults (ELS 23)
ZS Mabweazara • LL Leach • M Smith • L Tsolekile • T Puoane
268 Effects of atorvastatin on time-dependent change of fast sodium current in simulated
acute ischaemic ventricular myocytes
H Li • Z Wan • X Li • T Teng • X Du • J Nie
275 Effects of cardiopulmonary bypass on dialysis-dependent patients
N Tanrıkulu • B Ozbek
279 Long-term safety and efficacy of alirocumab in South African patients with heterozygous
familial hypercholesterolaemia: the ODYSSEY Open-Label Extension study
DJ Blom • J Breedt • LJ Burgess • IO Ebrahim • G Ellis • P Soma • E van der Walt • P Naidoo
• A van Tonder • FJ Raal