Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease Detected by Echocardiographic Screening
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- 2 August 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 357 (5), 470-476
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa065085
Abstract
Epidemiologic studies of the prevalence of rheumatic heart disease have used clinical screening with echocardiographic confirmation of suspected cases. We hypothesized that echocardiographic screening of all surveyed children would show a significantly higher prevalence of rheumatic heart disease.Keywords
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