The logic for extending the use of echocardiography beyond childhood to detect subclinical rheumatic heart disease

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-33

  George Veasy, L ^a   Tani, Lloyd Y ^a   Minich, LuAnn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chordae tendineae; Mitral annulus; Mitral stenosis; Rheumatic polyarthritis; Silent mitral regurgitation; Syndenham's chorea

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILDHOOD; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MURMUR; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; CHILD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

EID: 65749117396     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951109003540     Document Type: Review

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