Cardiovascular Journal of Africa: Vol 33 No 5 (SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2022)

EDITORIAL	5
From the Editor’s Desk	5
CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS	6
PRELP promotes myocardial fibrosis and ventricular remodelling after acute myocardial infarction by the wnt/β–catenin signalling pathway	6
Association of microalbuminuria with serum lipids and inflammatory markers in an adult population in the Dikgale Health and Demographic Surveillance System site, South Africa	12
Identifying the optimal monopolar electrocautery output power in pedicular internal thoracic artery harvesting: 20 or 40 watts?	21
The use of brachiobasilic arteriovenous fistulae for haemodialysis: a single-centre descriptive study	26
Endovascular treatment of Buerger’s disease in patients with critical limb ischaemia	32
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the city of Cape Town metropole of the Western Cape province of South Africa: a spatio-temporal analysis	38
REVIEW ARTICLE	45
2022 SASCI/SCTSSA joint consensus statement and guideline on transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in South Africa	45
CASE REPORTS	48
Fire at the gate ruins fish: pulmonary embolism caused by right atrial myxoma	48
Fatal pulmonary oedema associated with severe pre-eclampsia: challenges and lessons	51
A rare endocrine cause of ventricular tachycardia: a case series of two patients and a literature review	55
The added value of molecular-based diagnostics in the African forensic medical setting	60

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