The VALVAFRIC study: A registry of rheumatic heart disease in Western and Central Africa

Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 321-329

  Kingué, Samuel ^a   Ba, Serigne Abdou ^b   Balde, Dhadi ^c   Diarra, Mamadou Bocary ^d   Anzouan Kacou, Jean Baptiste ^e   Anisubia, Benedict ^f   Damorou, Jean Marie ^g   Ndobo, Pierre ^a   Menanga, Alain ^a   Kane, Abdoul ^b   Kakou Guikahué, Maurice ^e   Kenfack, Monique ^a   Metogo, Bernard ^a   Chelo, David ^a   Yangnigni, Euloge ^a   Tantchou, Cabral ^a   Bertrand, Edmond ^h   Monsuez, Jean Jacques ⁱ  

^a YAOUNDÉ GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Cameroon)

^b Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Aristide Le Dantec de Dakar   (Senegal)

^c Department of Cardiology   (Equatorial Guinea)

^d Department of Cardiology   (Mali)

^e CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE TREICHVILLE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^f CHU de Lagos   (Nigeria)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE LOMÉ   (Togo)

^h Cardiologie   (France)

ⁱ Hopital Rene Muret Bigottini   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Rheumatic fever; Rheumatic heartdisease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CENTRAL AFRICA; DISEASE REGISTRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECTASIC LEFT ATRIAL DILATATION; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR END DIASTOLIC DIAMETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; VALVULOPLASTY; CLINICAL TRIAL; INCIDENCE; PREVALENCE; REGISTER;

ADULT; AFRICA, CENTRAL; AFRICA, WESTERN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

EID: 84960510464     PISSN: 18752136     EISSN: 18752128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acvd.2015.12.004     Document Type: Article

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