Echocardiographic screening for subclinical rheumatic heart disease remains a research tool pending studies of impact on prognosis

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Zühlke, Liesl ^a,b   Mayosi, Bongani M ^b  

^a RED CROSS WAR MEMORIAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Echocardiographic screening; Rheumatic heart disease; Subclinical carditis; World Heart Federation guidelines

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; REPEAT PROCEDURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

EID: 84872360882     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: 15343170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-012-0343-1     Document Type: Article

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