Echocardiographic pattern and severity of valve dysfunction in children with rheumatic heart disease seen at Uganda Heart Institute, Mulago hospital

African Health Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 617-625

  Lubega, Sulaiman ^a   Aliku, Twalib ^a,b   Lwabi, Peter ^a  

^a MULAGO HOSPITAL   (Uganda)

^b GULU UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Rheumatic heart disease; Valvular dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TRICUSPID VALVE STENOSIS; UGANDA; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE DISEASES; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX RATIO; TERTIARY CARE CENTER;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; UGANDA;

EID: 84906925687     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v14i3.17     Document Type: Article

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