ISSN 1995-1892 (print) ISSN 1680-0745 (online) Cardiovascular Journal of Afr ica www.cvja.co.za CONTENTS INDEXED AT SCISEARCH (SCI), PUBMED, PUBMED CENTRAL AND SABINET Vol 33, No 5, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2022 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 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 227 FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS 228 PRELP promotes myocardial fibrosis and ventricular remodelling after acute myocardial infarction by the wnt/β–catenin signalling pathway Y Zhang • C Fu • S Zhao • H Jiang • W Li • X Liu 234 Association of microalbuminuria with serum lipids and inflammatory markers in an adult population in the Dikgale Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) site, South Africa T Magwai • P Modjadji • S Choma 243 Identifying the optimal monopolar electrocautery output power in pedicular internal thoracic artery harvesting: 20 or 40 watts? EC Ata • GE Şentürk • HI Saygi • MÖ Ulukan • M Uğurlucan • K Erkanli • MO Beyaz • E Yildiz 248 The use of brachiobasilic arteriovenous fistulae for haemodialysis: a single-centre descriptive study T du Toit • K Chibuye • D Thomson • K Manning 254 Endovascular treatment of Buerger ’s disease in patients with critical limb ischaemia D Serefli • O Saydam 260 Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the city of Cape Town metropole of the Western Cape province of South Africa: a spatio-temporal analysis W Stassen • E Theron • T Slingsby • C Wylie
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