Pattern of rheumatic heart disease in Southern Yemen

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 108-113

  Saleh, Hussein K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADEN   (Yemen)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; YEMEN; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YEMEN;

EID: 34249828702     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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