Presenting features of newly diagnosed rheumatic heart disease patients in Mulago Hospital: A pilot study

Cardiovascular Journal of Africa

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 28-33

  Zhang, Wanzhu ^a   Mondo, Charles ^a   Okello, Emmy ^a   Musoke, Charles ^a   Kakande, Barbara ^a   Nyakoojo, Wilson ^b   Kayima, James ^a   Freers, Jurgen ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b MULAGO HOSPITAL   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Clinical presentation; Newly diagnosed; Rheumatic heart disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EMBOLISM; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART FAILURE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PILOT STUDY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; THORAX PAIN; TRICUSPID VALVE;

ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; TIME FACTORS; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875891197     PISSN: 19951892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5830/CVJA-2012-076     Document Type: Article

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