Handheld echocardiography versus auscultation for detection of rheumatic heart disease

Pediatrics

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2015, Pages e939-e944

  Godown, Justin ^a   Lu, Jimmy C ^b   Beaton, Andrea ^c   Sable, Craig ^c   Mirembe, Grace ^d   Sanya, Richard ^e   Aliku, Twalib ^e   Yu, Sunkyung ^b   Lwabi, Peter ^f   Webb, Catherine L ^b   Ensing, Gregory J ^b  

^a MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d JOINT CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Uganda)

^e GULU UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^f UGANDA HEART INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HANDHELD ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART AUSCULTATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UGANDA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DEVICES; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UGANDA;

EID: 84927779835     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2014-2774     Document Type: Article

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