Recent trends in the epidemiology of endomyocardial fibrosis in Africa

Paediatrics and International Child Health

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 63-64

  Mocumbi, Ana Olga H ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SAÚDE   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GLENN SHUNT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NOTE; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREND STUDY; VALVULOPLASTY; FEMALE; MALE;

ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84866789894     PISSN: 20469047     EISSN: 20469055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/204690512X13345408275810     Document Type: Note

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