Congenital heart disease with rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: A coincidence or an association? [1]

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 238-

  Bokhandi, S S ^a   Tullu, M S ^a   Shaharao, V B ^a   Bavdekar, S B ^a   Kamat, J R ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; ENALAPRIL; HALOPERIDOL; NIFEDIPINE; STEROID;

CARDITIS; CHOREA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; LETTER; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; VALVULOTOMY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0036663041     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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