Pattern and severity of rheumatic valvular lesions in children in Khartoum, Sudan

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1015-1021

  Alkhalifa, M S ^a   Ibrahim, S A ^b   Osman, S H ^c  

^a OMDURMAN ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^c Gafar Ibn Oaf Children's Hospital   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SUDAN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUDAN;

EID: 55149095160     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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