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Rheumatic heart disease: infectious disease origin, chronic care approach

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 its low...

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Autores principales: Katzenellenbogen, Judith M, Ralph, Anna P, Wyber, Rosemary, Carapetis, Jonathan R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5708129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29187184
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2747-5