Subclinical carditis during an initial attack of acute rheumatic fever: Contribution of colored Doppler echocardiography and therapeutic advantages;Cardites infra-cliniques lors d'une premiere poussee de rhumatisme articulaire aigu: Interet de l'echocardiographie-Doppler couleur et incidences therapeutiques

Journal Medical Libanais

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 311-315

  Chehab, Ghassan ^a  

^a LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SALICYLIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CARDITIS; CHILD; CHOREA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PR INTERVAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SALICYLATES;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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