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ISSN 1995-1892 (print)

ISSN 1680-0745 (online)

Cardiovascular Journal of Africa

www.cvja.co.za

CONTENTS

INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET

Vol 26, No 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015

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

203

From the Editor’s Desk

P Commerford

Cardiovascular Topics

204 Comparison of a qualitative measurement of heart-type fatty acid-binding protein with

other cardiac markers as an early diagnostic marker in the diagnosis of non-ST-segment

elevation myocardial infarction

DM Gerede • S Güleç • M Kılıçkap • CT Kaya • VK Vurgun • ÖU Özcan • H Göksülük • Ç Erol

210 Management and outcome of topical beta-blocker-induced atrioventricular block

KS Özcan • B Güngör • D Osmonov • A

İ

Tekke

ş

in • S Altay • A Ekmekçi • E Toprak • E Yıldırım •

N Çalık • AT Alper • K Gürkan •

İ

Erdinler

214 Autonomic imbalance assessed by time-domain heart rate variability indices in primary

Raynaud’s phenomenon

K Karabacak • M Celik • E Kaya • M Kadan • G Arslan • U Demirkilic

217 Atrial conduction time, and left atrial mechanical and electromechanical functions in

patients with polycystic ovary syndrome: interatrial conduction delay

E Gazi • M Gencer • V Hanci • A Temiz • B Altun • A Barutcu • AN Gungor • S Hacıvelioglu •

A Uysal • Y Colkesen

222 Protective effects of ginseng extracts and common anti-aggregant drugs on ischaemia–

reperfusion injury

A Caliskan • O Karahan • S Yazici • S Demirtas • O Guclu • O Tezcan • C Yavuz

227 An open-access, mobile, compatible, electronic patient register for rheumatic heart

disease (‘eRegister’) based on the World Heart Federation’s framework for patient

registers

J van Dam • J Musuku • LJ Zühlke • ME Engel • N Nestle • B Tadmor • J Spector • BM Mayosi