What is the true frequency of carditis in acute rheumatic fever? A prospective clinical and doppler blind study of 56 children with up to 60 months of follow-up evaluation

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1048-1053

  Caldas, Álvaro Manuel ^a   Terreri, Maria Teresa Ramos Ascensão ^a,b   Moises, Valdir Ambrosio ^a   Silva, Célia Maria Camelo ^a   Len, Cláudio Arnaldo ^a   Carvalho, Antonio Carlos ^a   Hilário, Maria Odete Esteves ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Jones criteria; Rheumatic fever; Subclinical carditis; Sydenham' chorea

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CARDITIS; CHILD; CHOREA; CHOREA MINOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PR INTERVAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAZIL; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

EID: 58549091842     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-008-9242-z     Document Type: Article

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