Long term follow up of rheumatic fever and predictors of severe rheumatic valvar disease in Brazilian children and adolescents

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1019-1022

  Meira, Zilda M Alves ^a   Goulart, E M A ^a   Colosimo, E A ^a   Mota, C C C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CARDITIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FOLLOW UP; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AORTIC VALVE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 23044488501     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2004.042762     Document Type: Article

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