Echocardiography in acute rheumatic fever

Annals of Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-64

  Ramakrishnan, S ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77953365635     PISSN: 09742069     EISSN: 09745149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-2069.52812     Document Type: Review

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