Congenital heart disease and rheumatic heart disease in Africa: Recent advances and current priorities

Heart

Volumn 99, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 1554-1561

  Zühlke, Liesl ^a,b   Mirabel, Mariana ^c   Marijon, Eloi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CAPACITY BUILDING; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FUNDING; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PERSONNEL SHORTAGE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SORE THROAT; STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY;

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE;

AFRICA; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PROGNOSIS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84885188918     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-303896     Document Type: Article

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