Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Heart Disease in Uganda

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 125-128

  Freers, J ^a   Mayanja Kizza, H ^a   Ziegler, J L ^a   Rutakingirwa, M ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; COR PULMONALE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; PERICARDITIS; PREVALENCE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; UGANDA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; UGANDA;

EID: 0030010822     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004947559602600310     Document Type: Article

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