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Pilot study of nurse-led rheumatic heart disease echocardiography screening in Fiji - a novel approach in a resource-poor setting [PDF]
, 2012 We designed a pilot study of a training module for nurses to perform rheumatic heart disease echocardiography screening in a resource-poor setting. The aim was to determine whether nurses given brief, focused, basic training in echocardiography could ...
Carapetis, Jonathan R. +7 more
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Triple valve infective endocarditis - a late diagnosis [PDF]
, 2018 Behcet\u27s disease is a systemic vasculitis of unknown aetiology with cardiac involvement as well as damage to other organs. Whether the sterile valvular inflammation which occurs in this autoimmune disease predisposes to bacterial adhesion and ...
Barbulescu, Andreea L. +10 more
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Presence Of A Congenitally Bicuspid Aortic Valve Among Patients Having Combined Mitral And Aortic Valve Replacement [PDF]
, 2012 Although bicuspid aortic valve occurs in an estimated 1% of adults and mitral valve prolapse in an estimated 5% of adults, occurrence of the 2 in the same patient is infrequent.
Hamman, Baron Lloyd +5 more
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Journal of Indian College of Cardiology, 2021 Abstract Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) continues to be responsible for the loss of millions of young productive lives worldwide, with a disproportionate burden being borne by the underdeveloped and economically disadvantaged strata of society. There is an urgent need to develop approaches to identify RHD in its early stages and
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The Lancet Global Health, 2014 Background: Rheumatic heart disease accounts for up to 250 000 premature deaths every year worldwide and can be regarded as a physical manifestation of poverty and social inequality.
Martina Rothenbühler, MSc +9 more
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Mitral Stenosis Berat pada Penyakit Jantung Rematik
Jurnal Kesehatan Andalas, 2023 Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) has high morbidity and mortality. Cardiac valve disorders after rheumatic fever are the leading cause of heart failure in children and young adults.
Cokorda Istri Padmi Suwari +1 more
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The challenge of screening for asymptomatic rheumatic heart disease in South Africa
SA Heart Journal, 2017 Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease remain common in the population of South Africa. A recent screening study of asymptomatic schoolchildren in Mozambique and Cambodia makes a compelling case for a shift in the approach to screening for ...
Liesl Zühlke, Bongani M. Mayosi
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021 Secondary prophylaxis of rheumatic heart diseases is efficient in reducing disease recurrence, heart damage, and cardiac impairment. We aimed to monitor the clinical evolution of a large Brazilian cohort of rheumatic patients under prolonged secondary ...
Renato Pedro de Almeida Torres +11 more
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Rheumatic heart disease: current status of diagnosis and therapy.
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy, 2020 Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is the only preventable cardiovascular disease which causes significant morbidity and mortality particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
F. Peters +4 more
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Disturbance of intracardiac hemodynamics in children with chronic rheumatic cardiac disease [PDF]
Medičnì Perspektivi, 2013 By means of Doppler echocardiography there have been studied disturbances of intracardiac hemodynamics in 44 children aged 8-17 years with chronic rheumatic cardiac disease and developed mitral aortal and combined heart defects, as well as in chronic ...
Kondratiev V.A. +2 more
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