Rheumatic heart disease: infectious disease origin, chronic care approach
Abstract Background Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a chronic cardiac condition with an infectious aetiology, causing high disease burden in low-income settings. Affected individuals are young and associated morbidity is high. However, RHD is relatively neglected due to the populations involved and...
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Main Authors: | Judith M Katzenellenbogen (Author), Anna P Ralph (Author), Rosemary Wyber (Author), Jonathan R Carapetis (Author) |
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2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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