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Incidence and predictors of stroke in patients with rheumatic heart disease

Heart, 2021
Objective Ischaemic stroke is a severe complication of rheumatic heart disease (RHD), which may result in permanent disability and death. This study aimed to assess the incidence and predictors of stroke in patients with RHD in the current era of ...
M. Vasconcelos, L. Vasconcelos, V. Ribeiro, C. Campos, Francisco Di-Flora, Lara Abreu, L. Silva, T. Diamantino, J. L. Padilha da Silva, W. Esteves, A. Teixeira, M. C. Nunes   +11 more
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Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease in the United States.

Pediatric annals, 2021
During the 1920s, acute rheumatic fever (ARF) was the leading cause of mortality in children in the United States. By the 1980s, many felt ARF had all but disappeared from the US.
Sarah R. de Loizaga, A. Beaton
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Positive Outcomes of Comprehensive Exercise Program on Restoration of Functional Level and Quality of Life in a Patient with Rheumatic Heart Disease Undergone Mitral Valve Replacement: A Case Report

Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International, 2021
Heart disease due to valvular anomaly has increased prevalence along with increasing age. Rheumatic heart disease is a condition in which the heart valves have been permanently damaged post rheumatic fever.
L. Patel, V. Yadav, M. Jain, Om C. Wadhokar   +3 more
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Prediction of adverse cardiac events in pregnant women with valvular rheumatic heart disease

Heart, 2020
Objective To assess the incidence of adverse cardiac events in pregnant women with rheumatic valvular heart disease (RHD) and to derive a clinical risk scoring for predicting it.
Jyoti Baghel, A. Keepanasseril, A. Pillai, N. Mondal, Yavanasuriya Jeganathan, P. Kundra   +5 more
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Ending rheumatic heart disease in Australia: the evidence for a new approach

Medical Journal of Australia, 2020
■The RHD Endgame Strategy: the blueprint to eliminate rheumatic heart disease in Australia by 2031 (the Endgame Strategy) is the blueprint to eliminate rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in Australia by 2031.
R. Wyber, K. Noonan, C. Halkon, S. Enkel, J. Cannon, E. Haynes, A. Mitchell, D. Bessarab, J. Katzenellenbogen, D. Bond-Smith, R. Seth, H. D’Antoine, A. Ralph, A. Bowen, A. Brown, J. Carapetis   +15 more
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The high prevalence and impact of rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy in First Nations populations in a high‐income setting: a prospective cohort study

BJOG: an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2020
To describe the epidemiology of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in pregnancy in Australia and New Zealand (A&NZ).
Elizabeth Sullivan, Geraldine Vaughan, Zhuoyang Li, Michael J Peek, Jonathan R. Carapetis, Warren Walsh, Jane Frawley, Marc Remond, B. Reményi, Lisa Jackson Pulver, Sue Kruske, Suzanne Belton, C. McLintock   +12 more
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Genetic variants in rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part C, Seminars in Medical Genetics, 2020
Genetic association studies in rheumatic heart disease (RHD) have the potential to contribute toward our understanding of the pathogenetic mechanism, and may shed light on controversies about RHD etiology.
B. Muhamed, G. Shaboodien, M. Engel
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Digoxin and clinical outcomes in the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry

Heart, 2018
Objective Digoxin is widely used in patients with rheumatic heart disease (RHD) despite a lack of data on its impact on clinical outcomes. We aimed to determine the association of digoxin use on clinical outcomes in patients with RHD.
G. Karthikeyan, N. Devasenapathy, L. Zühlke, M. Engel, S. Rangarajan, K. Teo, B. Mayosi, S. Yusuf   +7 more
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The Global Impact of Rheumatic Heart Disease

Current Cardiology Reports, 2021
Joselyn Rwebembera, A. Beaton, Sarah R. de Loizaga, R. T. Rocha, Nakagaayi Doreen, I. Ssinabulya, E. Okello, C. L. Fraga, B. Galdino, M. C. Nunes, B. Nascimento   +10 more
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Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease in Children

Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2020
Balaji Arvind, S. Ramakrishnan
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