Clinical profile of acute rheumatic fever in Pakistan

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 28-35

  Chagani, Hasina Suleman ^a   Aziz, Kalimuddin ^b  

^a CIVIL HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Carditis; Chorea; Jones criteria; Recurrent acute rheumatic fever

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CARDITIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAKISTAN; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SORE THROAT; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE;

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; PAKISTAN; PENICILLIN G, BENZATHINE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037484509     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951103000064     Document Type: Article

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