Increasing detection of rheumatic heart disease with echocardiography

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 491-497

  Saxena, Anita ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

diagnosis; echocardiography; rheumatic fever; rheumatic heart disease; screening

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SCREENING;

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP STUDY; NATURAL HISTORY; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

DIAGNOSIS;

DEVICES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; TRENDS;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

EID: 84905818271     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.2014.930661     Document Type: Review

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