Consensus guidelines on pediatric acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 565-573

  Mishra, Smita ^a   Saxena, Anita ^b   Kumar, R Krishna ^b   Gera, Rani Prem Kumar ^b   Radhakrishnan, S ^b   Ahmed, Z ^b  

^a Max Heart and Vascular Institute   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acute rheumatic fever; Guidelines; India; Practice; Rheumatic heart disease

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CAPTOPRIL; CARBAMAZEPINE; CEFALEXIN; DIAZEPAM; DIGOXIN; DOBUTAMINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUROSEMIDE; HALOPERIDOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METOLAZONE; NAPROXEN; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PENICILLIN V; PHENOBARBITAL; PIMOZIDE; PREDNISONE; STEROID; VALPROIC ACID;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOREA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; JONES CRITERIA; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PHARYNGITIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT DURATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; HUMANS; PENICILLIN G, BENZATHINE; PHARYNGITIS; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 47049083161     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 00196061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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