Clinical, laboratory and echocardiographic profile of acute rheumatic fever in Nepali children

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 169-177

  Rayamajhi, Ajit ^b   Sharma, Deewakar ^a   Shakya, Urmila ^a  

^a Shahid Gangalal National Heart Center   (Nepal)

^b National Academy of Medical Sciences   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTISTREPTOLYSIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; PENICILLIN G; STEROID;

DEVELOPING WORLD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH CARE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CARDITIS; CHILD; CHOREA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART FAILURE; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MONOTHERAPY; NEPAL; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PR INTERVAL; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SORE THROAT; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDITIS; NEPAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

ASIA; EURASIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 35548954767     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532807X220271     Document Type: Article

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