Rheumatic heart disease: The tip of the iceberg

Circulation

Volumn 125, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 3060-3062

  Sliwa, Karen ^a,b   Zilla, Peter ^b  

^a Faculty of Health Sciences   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Editorials; epidemiology; imaging; rheumatic heart disease

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SCREENING TEST; SOCIOECONOMICS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

EID: 84863215324     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.114199     Document Type: Review

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