Echocardiographic Evaluation of Patients with Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Carditis

Circulation

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 73-82

  Vasan, Ramachandran S ^a   Shrivastava, Savitri ^a,c   Vijayakumar, Manam ^a   Narang, Rajiv ^a   Lister, Bradford C ^b   Narula, Jagat ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ESCORTS HEART INSTITUTE AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Mitral valve; Myocarditis; Rheumatic heart disease

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYOCARDITIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC FEVER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MYOCARDITIS; RECURRENCE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030186694     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.94.1.73     Document Type: Article

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