Echocardiography screening for rheumatic heart disease in ugandan schoolchildren

Circulation

Volumn 125, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 3127-3132

  Beaton, Andrea ^a   Okello, Emmy ^b   Lwabi, Peter ^b   Mondo, Charles ^b   McCarter, Robert ^a   Sable, Craig ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UGANDA HEART INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

Author keywords

cardiology; echocardiography; pediatrics; rheumatic heart disease

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; SOCIAL STATUS; STREPTOLYSIN TITER; UGANDA; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; UGANDA;

EID: 84863218547     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.092312     Document Type: Article

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