High prevalence of rheumatic heart disease detected by echocardiography in school children

Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 448-453

  Bhaya, Maneesha ^a   Panwar, Sadiak ^b   Beniwal, Rajesh ^c   Panwar, Raja Babu ^a  

^a S P MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b St Peter University Hospital   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (India)

Author keywords

Aortic regurgitation; Asymptomatic; Doppler color; Echocardiography; Mitral regurgitation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; INDIA; MEDICAL HISTORY; PARENT; PREVALENCE; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSALITY; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; PREVALENCE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

EID: 77951228093     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.01055.x     Document Type: Article

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