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Clinical Outcomes in 3343 Children and Adults with Rheumatic Heart Disease from 14 Low and Middle Income Countries: 2-Year Follow-up of the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry (the REMEDY study) [PDF]

, 2016
Background: There are few contemporary data on the mortality and morbidity associated with rheumatic heart disease or information on their predictors.
Abdissa, Senbeta G, Abul Fadl, Azza, Adeoye, Abiodun M, Al-Kebsi, Mohammed M, Amusa, Ganiyu A, Begna, Dufera M, Bode-Thomas, Fidelia, Cupido, Blanche, Damasceno, Albertino, Daniel, Wandimu, Daniels, Rezeen, Desta, Araya G, ElHassan, Huda, ElSayed, Ahmed, Engel, Mark E, Francis, Veronica, Gitura, Bernard, Goshu, Dejuma Yadeta, Haileamlak, Abraham, Hugo-Hamman, Christopher, Ibrahim, Ahmed S, Ige, Olukemi, Islam, Shofiqul, Karthikeyan, Ganesan, Kennedy, Neil, Lwabi, Peter, Mackie, Pam, Mauff, Katya, Mayosi, Bongani M, Misra, Rajeev, Mntla, Pindile S, Mocumbi, Ana Olga, Mondo, Charles, Mucumbitsi, Joseph, Musuku, John, Ogah, Okechukwu S, Ogendo, Stephen, Ojji, Dike B, Okeahialam, Basil, Okello, Emmy, Olunuga, Taiwo, Rangarajan, Sumathy, Sani, Mahmoud U, Shasho, Bekele A, Sheta, Sahar S, Sutton, Christopher, Teo, Koon, Yilgwan, Christopher C, Yusuf, Salim, Zühlke, Liesl   +49 more
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Rheumatic heart disease [PDF]

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 ...
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Rheumatic Heart Disease among Pregnant Women with Cardiac Diseases in a Tertiary Care Center of Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2021
Introduction: Cardiac disease in pregnancy is a major cause of maternal mortality and morbidity in women, particularly in resource limited countries like Nepal. Rheumatic Heart Disease is the commonest cardiac disease complicating pregnancy.
Basant Sharma, Eliza Koirala, Sudhir Regmi, Jaya Dhungana, Bandana Khanal Neupane, Suraj Bhattarai   +5 more
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Evaluating the Relationship between Rheumatic Valvular Heart Disease ‌and Coronary Artery Diseases in Patient with Stable Angina in Isfahan City, Iran

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2018
Background: Rheumatic heart disease and coronary artery diseases (CAD) are two of main health problems in developing countries. Rheumatic valvular heart disease is less common than coronary artery diseases but it has its importance.
Faezeh Farhang, Zahra Alizadeh, Nizal Sarrafzadegan, Ali Pourmoghaddas, Ghasem Yadegarfar   +4 more
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A proposed role for sepsis in the pathogenesis of myocardial calcification [PDF]

, 2017
Myocardial calcification is a rare and life-threatening condition that is a recognised complication of ischaemic heart disease, cardiac surgery, rheumatic fever and myocarditis.
AROMATARIO, MARIAROSARIA, Ashrafian, Hutan, Athanasiou, Thanos, Bower, Guy, CAPPELLETTI, SIMONE, CIALLELLA, Costantino, Harling, Leanne, Lee, Liang Mei   +7 more
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Compliance to the secondary prophylaxis and awareness of rheumatic heart disease: A cross-sectional study in low-income province of India

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, Abhiranjan Prasad, Birendra K Singh, Sanjeev Kumar   +3 more
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Placental Morphology of Pregnant Iraqi Women with Rheumatic Heart Disease [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Placental morphology and cellular arrangement can be altered in maternal diseases. Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a chronic heart condition that can lead to death in pregnant women.
Al-Ani, I. M. (Imad), Al-Assa, A. I. (Anwar), Al-Kaisy, K. S. (Kawkab), Al-Rubai, R. H. (Ragwa), Al-Ubeidie, S. R. (Salim), Faisal, G. G. (Ghasak)   +5 more
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Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in the Kimberley: using hospitalisation data to find cases and describe trends

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015
Objective: To describe the epidemiology of hospitalisations due to acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in the Kimberley region of Western Australia (WA) and use these data to improve completeness of the WA RHD Register. Methods:
Jacqueline Murdoch, Stephanie Davis, Janice Forrester, Lynette Masuda, Carole Reeve   +4 more
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Evaluating efficiency and equity of prevention and control strategies for rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in India: an extended cost-effectiveness analysis

The Lancet Global Health, 2023
Summary: Background: There is a dearth of evidence on the cost-effectiveness of a combination of population-based primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention and control strategies for rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.
Jyoti Dixit, PhD, Shankar Prinja, MD, Gaurav Jyani, MPH, Pankaj Bahuguna, PhD, Ankur Gupta, DM, Rajesh Vijayvergiya, DM, Rajesh Kumar, MD   +6 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.
Imamoglu, A, Ozen, Seza
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