Screening for rheumatic heart disease: Evaluation of a focused cardiac ultrasound approach

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mirabel, Mariana ^a,b,c   Bacquelin, Raoul ^a   Tafflet, Muriel ^a   Robillard, Corinne ^d   Huon, Bertrand ^d   Corsenac, Philippe ^d   De Frémicourt, Isabelle ^e   Narayanan, Kumar ^a,f   Meunier, Jean Michel ^d   Noël, Baptiste ^g   Hagège, Albert Alain ^a,b   Rouchon, Bernard ^d   Jouven, Xavier ^a,b,c   Marijon, Eloi ^a,b,c  

^a HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c Cardiology and Development   (France)

^d Direction des Affaires Sanitaires et Sociales de la Nouvelle Calédonie   (New Caledonia)

^e Département de l'Action Sanitaire de Sociale des Iles Loyaté Wé   (New Caledonia)

^f CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g Centre Hospitalier Territorial de Nouvelle Caledonie   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

Acute rheumatic fever; Developing countries; Epidemiology; Heart valve diseases; Rheumatic heart disease; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FOCUSED CARDIAC ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; POCKET SIZED ECHO MACHINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 84928007399     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.114.002324     Document Type: Article

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