Prevalence of rheumatic valvular heart disease in Rwandan school children: echocardiographic evaluation using the World Heart Federation criteria

BACKGROUND: Rheumatic fever (RF) and rheumatic valvular heart disease (RHD) remain important medical, surgical and public health concerns in many parts of the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. However, there are no published data from Rwanda. We performed a RHD prevalence study in a randomly...

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izdano v:Cardiovasc J Afr
Main Authors: Mucumbitsi, J, Bulwer, B, Mutesa, L, Ndahindwa, MD, MSc, Semakula, M, Rusingiza, E, Arya, P, Breakey, S, Patton-Bolman, C, Kaplan, E L
Format: Artigo
Jezik:Inglês
Izdano: Clinics Cardive Publishing 2017
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Cardiovascular Topics
Online dostop:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5730679/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28252675
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5830/CVJA-2017-007
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