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Coronary Artery Disease in Rheumatic and Non-Rheumatic Valvular Heart Disease [PDF]

Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College, 2018
Background:To study the prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients undergoing valve surgery for rheumatic and non-rheumatic valvular heart disease.
Uzma Gul, Asim Javed, Muhammad Abdus Salam Azad, Qaiser Khan   +3 more
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A STUDY ON CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE PATTERN OF ADMITTED CASES IN NEWLY EMERGED NATIONAL HEART CENTRE

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2003
Cardiovascular disease is one of the global leading causes of death . Although in developed countries overall cardiovascular death is declining due to long term decline of rheumatic heart disease (RHD), cerebro vascular and hypertensive heart disease ...
Yuba Raj Limbu, A Maskey, Man Bahadur K.C., R Malla, D Sharma, N K Shrestha   +5 more
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TWO CASES COMBINED WITH BEHCET’S DISEASE AND RHEUMATIC VALVULAR HEART DISEASE WERE DIAGNOSED

Eurasian Journal of Medicine, 2019
Recent studies have revealed that streptococci play an important role in the etiology of Behcet's disease. As it is known, rheumatic valvular heart disease results from carditis occuring after group A streptococcal infections.
Engin Bozkurt, Şakir Arslan, Refik Ali Sarı   +2 more
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Prevalence and pattern of rheumatic valvular heart disease in Africa: Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2015-2023, population based studies.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundRheumatic heart disease is a global health concern with a persistently high incidence in developing countries, including Africa. It has a significant economic, morbidity, and mortality burden, particularly for children and young adults during ...
Seid Mohammed Abdu, Altaseb Beyene Kassaw, Amare Abera Tareke, Gosa Mankelkl, Mekonnen Belete, Mohammed Derso Bihonegn, Ahmed Juhar Temam, Gashaw Abebe, Ebrahim Msaye Assefa   +8 more
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Co-Developing Strategies for Patient Engagement in Decentralized Rheumatic Heart Disease Care: Lessons from Northern Uganda

Global Heart
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) requires long-term secondary antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent disease progression, yet sustained patient engagement remains challenging in many low- and middle-income countries.
Jafesi Pulle, Lisa Vaughn, Isaac Otim, Doreen Nakagaayi, Michaela Pardo, Sarah deLoizaga, McCall Miller, Joselyn Rwebembera, Emmy Okello, Nelson K. Sewankambo, Kristen Danforth, Andrea Beaton, David Watkins, James Kayima   +13 more
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Mitral stenosis due to rheumatic heart disease - A rare cause of massive hemoptysis

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2018
Severe mitral valve stenosis caused by rheumatic heart disease presenting initially as massive hemoptysis has become a rare occurrence in contemporary western medicine. Massive hemoptysis can be due to multiple disease processes including airway diseases
Sophie Korzan, MD, Evan Jones, MD, Rahul Mutneja, MBBS, Prashant Grover, MD, FCCP   +3 more
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Non-infectious thrombotic endocarditis associated with chronic rheumatic heart disease and disseminated tuberculosis

Autopsy and Case Reports, 2021
Rheumatic heart disease is still common in developing countries and requires prompt intervention to prevent chronic complications. Vegetations in rheumatic heart disease might be due to acute episodes of rheumatic fever itself or due to either infective ...
Aravind Sekar, Sanjeev Naganur
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Rheumatic Heart Disease Screening Among School Children in Central Nepal

JACC: Case Reports, 2019
Rheumatic heart disease is the most common heart disease in developing countries. This Global Health Report uses the results of screening 28,050 school children clinically with 2-dimensional echocardiography. A total of 1,739 students had cardiac murmur,
Shankar Laudari, MBBS, MD, DM, Kaushal K. Tiwari, MD, MS, IMCS, PhD, Michal Pazdernik, MD, PhD, Sanjib K. Sharma, MBBS, MD, DM   +3 more
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Application of Transthoracic Echocardiography for Cardiac Safety Evaluation in the Clinical Development Process of Vaccines Against Streptococcus pyogenes

Drugs in R&D
Superficial infections with Streptococcus pyogenes (Strep A), pharyngitis and impetigo can induce acute rheumatic fever, an autoimmune sequela manifesting mostly with arthritis and rheumatic carditis.
Usman Nakakana, Alimamy Serry-Bangura, Bassey Effiom Edem, Pietro Tessitore, Leonardo Di Cesare, Danilo Gomes Moriel, Audino Podda, Iris Sarah De Ryck, Ashwani Kumar Arora   +8 more
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INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS IN A RHEUMATOLOGIST'S PRACTICE

Научно-практическая ревматология, 2012
Objective: to analyze «rheumatic» symptoms in patients with infective endocarditis (IE) and to investigate the specific features of the disease and hemodynamics in patients with prior rheumatic valvular disease Subjects and methods.
E Yu Ponomareva, Andrei Petrovich Rebrov
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