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Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020 Background: Rheumatic heart disease is a preventable problem and regular secondary prophylaxis and proper awareness about this disease among common people may reduce the burden of this disease in any region.
Arun Prasad +3 more
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Epidemiology of rheumatic heart disease. [PDF]
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1988 We compared the incidence of rheumatic heart disease in elementary schoolchildren from low and high socioeconomic groups; children from one of the schools were rescreened 10 years later. The results showed that the incidence of rheumatic heart disease was significantly higher in low socioeconomic group but it is gradually declining.
Ayten İmamoǧlu, Seval Özen
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Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Global Call to Action. [PDF]
JACC Case RepMoe TG.
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Genetics of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2019 Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a complication of group A streptococcal infection that results from a complex interaction between the genetic make-up of the host, the infection itself and several other environmental factors, largely reflecting poverty.
Karen Sliwa +3 more
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Quadrivalvular rheumatic heart disease
Journal of the Indian Academy of Echocardiography & Cardiovascular Imaging, 2019 Rarely, rheumatic heart disease (RHD) involves all the four valves and causes could be rheumatic, congenital, infective, or degenerative. Here, we report a case of a 42-year-old female known case RHD for 30 years and underwent closed mitral ...
Deepak Ramchand Nenwani +3 more
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Spectrum of Mortality from Circulatory Diseases in China from 2004 to 2015 [PDF]
Zhongguo quanke yixue, 2022 BackgroundTwo circulatory diseases, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases have become the leading death causes in China, and their morbidity and mortality are still rising.
JIANG Shenyi, YU Xiaosong
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BMJ Case Reports, 2015 A 65-year-old man with a medical history of rheumatic fever in childhood reported thoracic pain while at work and collapsed. He died in the ambulance on the way to hospital due to ventricular fibrillation. After the few episodes of rheumatic fever with subsequent pancarditis in childhood, the patient suffered from recurrent arrhythmias throughout his ...
Beth Croce +2 more
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Rivaroxaban in Rheumatic Heart Disease-Associated Atrial Fibrillation.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2022 BACKGROUND Testing of factor Xa inhibitors for the prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatic heart disease-associated atrial fibrillation has been limited.
S. Connolly +36 more
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Global burden of rheumatic heart disease: trends from 1990 to 2019
Arthritis Research & Therapy, 2022 Background Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a critical public health issue worldwide, and its epidemiological patterns have changed over the decades.
Ze-jin Ou +9 more
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