Follow-up of rheumatic carditis treated with steroids

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 263-269

  Herdy, Gesmar V H ^a   Gomes, Rafael S ^a   Silva, Anna E A ^b   Silva, Leandro S ^a   Lopes, Vânia G S ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b Hospital Getulio Vargas Filho   (Brazil)

Author keywords

child; immunosuppression therapy; rheumatic cardiac disease; Rheumatic fever

Indexed keywords

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; SULFADIAZINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTIC REGURGITATION; AORTIC TRAUMA; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BRAZIL; CARDITIS; CHILD; CHORDA TENDINEA RUPTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORTALITY RATE; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC CARDITIS; SECONDARY PREVENTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULOPLASTY; MORTALITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; PREDNISONE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84866747006     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951111001405     Document Type: Article

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