Rheumatic Heart Disease
Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Physicians Perspective
... acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease among physicians practicing in public and private hospitals in two states of the Niger delta region of ...
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5. Management of rheumatic heart disease
... ‘rheumatic heart disease’ (RHD). What is RHD? RHD is damage to the heart that remains after the acute ARF episode has ...the heart has become inflamed; the heart valves remain ...
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Rheumatic Heart Disease and Pregnancy in Adolescent Rheumatic Fever Patients
... Since there might be increased risk of preg- nancy among older adolescents, the association of pregnancy with rheumatic heart disease could result if the adolescents with rheumatic. hear[r] ...
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Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease: The last 50 years
... Rheumatic heart disease: Surgical management of valve disease was the standard approach till balloon mitral valvotomy was introduced in ...
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Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: The Medical Menace in the Muslim Countries
... Surgical Reports from the Muslim Cou ntries Facilities for cardiac surgery are available in Istanbul, Ankara, Rabat, Cairo, Baghdad, Tehran, Karachi, Rawalpindi, Riyadh, Kuwait, Beirut, Kaulalumpur, and Jakarata. Yousaf ...
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A Review of Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease Research in Malaysia
... acquired heart disease in these socially and economically disadvantaged ...have rheumatic heart disease worldwide; and there were 282,000 new cases of rheumatic fever with ...
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C-REACTIVE PROTEIN IN RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE
... With this idea in mind, we have studied a group of unselected patients with rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease and have attempted to determine the value and limitations of the C[r] ...
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Maternal outcomes of rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy
... Methods: Patient records over five years were retrieved and maternal and perinatal outcomes were documented. The present study reports the outcomes of 72 women with rheumatic heart disease. Results: ...
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Review of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease among Indigenous Australians
... acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, the body of the review outlines the extent of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease among Indigenous ...
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Antibiotic use for the Prevention and Treatment of Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease in Children
... a disease of children aged 5-14 years and generally does not affect children less than 3 years old or ...on Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease, and this WHO Technical Report, ...
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A FRAMEWORK FOR A NURSE PRACTITIONER ROLE IN ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER AND RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE
... SCOPE OF PRACTICE The nurse practitioner would provide an autonomous, advanced and extended clinical nursing role in the prevention, diagnosis and therapeutic management of ARF and RHD in a primary health care context as ...
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Animal models to investigate the pathogenesis of rheumatic heart disease
... n.ketheesan@jcu.edu.au Rheumatic fever (RF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) are sequelae of group A strepto- coccal (GAS) ...this disease in animals is ...of heart tissue ...
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Maternal and fetal outcomes in rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy
... LITERATURE Rheumatic heart disease results from single or repeated attacks of rheumatic fever that produces rigidity and deformity of valve cusps ,fusion of the commissures, or shortening and ...
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A study of prevalence and pattern of congenital heart disease and rheumatic heart disease among school children
... Methods: An institution based cross sectional study was conducted from July2008 to March 2009 among school children of all schools having 1st Standard to 10th Standard in Latur district. After obtaining necessary ...
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Placental Morphology of Pregnant Iraqi Women with Rheumatic Heart Disease
... diseases. Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a chronic heart condition that can lead to death in pregnant ...with heart conditions (26 with RHD and 5 with NRHD) who had been admitted to ...
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Handheld Echocardiography Versus Auscultation for Detection of Rheumatic Heart Disease
... Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains a major public health concern in the developing world, despite its near eradication in industrialized ...
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The new face of rheumatic heart disease in South West Nigeria
... Discussion The prevalence of 0.16/1000 for RHD in attendees of our medical outpatient clinics, and 1.2/1000 in attendees of cardiology clinic, shows remarkable reduction in the burden of this serious disease. ...
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RESEARCH ARTICLE Quality of life in patients with rheumatic heart disease
... Acute rheumatic fever, an inflammatory disease of the heart, joints, central nervous system and subcutaneous tissue, develops after a throat infection by one of the group A b haemolytic ...
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Case presentation on rheumatic heart disease with mitral valve prolapse
... INTRODUCTION Mr. X was admitted in the hospital with the complaints of dyspnea on exertion for 1 month. Palpitation, giddiness for 2 months. Had profuse sweating and chest pain for a week and Mr. X came with the ...
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MBL2 gene polymorphism rs1800450 and rheumatic fever with and without rheumatic heart disease: an Egyptian pilot study
... Background: Rheumatic fever (RF) is the result of an autoimmune response to pharyngitis caused by infection with Streptococcus ...East. Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is the most serious ...
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