Usefulness of Echocardiography in Detection of Subclinical Carditis in Acute Rheumatic Polyarthritis and Rheumatic Chorea

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 937-938

  Agarwal, P K ^a   Misra, M ^a   Sarkari, N B S ^a   Gupta, A K ^a   Agarwal, Pragya ^a  

^a BRD MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOREA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDITIS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTHRITIS, JUVENILE RHEUMATOID; CHILD; CHOREATIC DISORDERS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDITIS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0032195392     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Kaplan EL. Acute rheumatic fever In Hurst JW et al (ed). The Heart. Arteries and Veins. 8th edn : Mc Graw Hill. 1994; 1451-7.
2. Veasy LG, Wiedmeier SE, Orsmond GS. et al. Resurgence of acute rheumatic fever in the intermountain area of the United States N Engl J Med 1987; 316 : 421-7.
3. Marcus RH, Sareli P, Pocock WA, et al. Functional anatomy of severe mitral regurgitation in active rheumatic carditis. Am J Cardiol 1989: 63 : 577-84.
4. Marcus RH, Sareli P, Pocock WA, Barlow JB. The spectrum of severe rheumatic mitral valve disease in a developing country. Correlations among clinical presentation, surgical pathologic findings, and hemodynamic sequelae. Ann intern Med 1994; 120 : 177-83.
5. Barlow JB. Aspects of active rheumatic carditis. Aust NZJ Med 1992; 22 (Suppl 5) : 592-600.
6. Agarwal PK, Misra M, Sarkari NBS, et al. An echocardiographic study of mitral valve apparatus in acute rheumatic carditis. JAPI 1997; 45 : 926-8.
7. Markowitz M, Taranta A. Rheumatic Fever: A Guide to Its Recognition. Prevention and Cure, with Special Reference to Developing Countries. MTP Press Ltd., Boston, 1981.
8. American Heart Association. Jones Criteria (Revised) for guidance in the diagnosis of rheumatic fever. Circulation 1984; 69 (Suppl) 204-208A.
9. Agarwal BL. Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease in Developing Countries. Arnold Publishers, India, 1988.
10. Barlow JB, Pocock WA. Billowing, floppy, prolapsed or flail mitral valves. Am J Cardiol 1985; 55 : 501-2.
11. Levine RA, Triulzi MO, Harrigan P, et al. The relationship of mitral annular shape to the diagnosis of mitral valve prolapse. Circulation 1987; 75 : 756-67.
12. Lam JHC, Ranganathan N, Wigle ED, et al. Morphology of the human mitral valve chordae tendinae : a new classification. Circulation 1970; 41 : 449-58.
13. Hoffmann A, Burckhardt D. Evaluation of systolic murmur by Doppler ultrasonography. Br Heart J 1983; 50 : 337-42.
14. Robertson JH, Krafchek J, Adams DB, et al. Reassessment of Doppler ultrasound in minimal aortic and mitral regurgitation. Circulation 1984; 70 (Suppl 2) : 397A.