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Rheumatic heart disease [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Lancet, 2012
Rheumatic heart disease, often neglected by media and policy makers, is a major burden in developing countries where it causes most of the cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in young people, leading to about 250,000 deaths per year worldwide.
Xavier Jouven   +5 more
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Rheumatic heart disease

Current Opinion in Cardiology, 1996
Rheumatic heart disease seems in many ways emblematic of an older era in medicine, without any prospects of new development or change in the current era. Many new findings have come to light in the past few years regarding this illness, which has a relatively low prevalence in the United States.
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Rheumatic heart disease

American Heart Journal, 1931
Abstract 1. 1. Data are presented bearing on the course of fatal rheumatic heart disease as obtained from the records on 113 cases and 83 necropsy examinations. 2. 2. The age at onset of the first rheumatic infection varied from three to sixty-one years, the majority of cases occurring in the first and second decades. 3. 3.
Soma Weiss, David S. David
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Acute Rheumatism and Rheumatic Heart Disease

Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute, 1951
Although there has been a substantial decline in its prevalence during the last twenty years, acute rheumatism remains one of the most important diseases of the rheumatic group. Infection with hæmolytic streptococci of Group A is at present the only factor in the aetiology of acute rheumatism which can be identified with confidence.
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Rheumatic Heart Disease I

1988
The symptoms associated with individual valve lesions have been described, but can now be summarised in general.
John A. Cosh, John V. Lever
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Myxedema heart disease and rheumatic heart disease

The American Journal of Cardiology, 1961
Abstract A case of myxedema heart disease developing in a person with valvular damage of rheumatic origin has been presented.
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