Inflammatory heart diseases in childhood: Lebanese epidemiological survey;Cardiopathies d'origine inflammatoire ou infectieuse en pédiatrie: Étude épidémiologique libanaise

Journal Medical Libanais

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 124-131

  Chéhab, Ghassan ^a,b   Shalak, Waël ^b   Gerbaka, Bernard ^a   Saliba, Zakhia ^a  

^a SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; STEROID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; MYOCARDITIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREVALENCE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STEROID THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; LEBANON; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33847272296     PISSN: 00239852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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