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The Global Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease: Population-Related Differences (It is Not All the Same!)
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains the most common cardiovascular disease in young adults and adolescents in need of heart surgery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The mean age of patients is 20-25 years, often much younger. By contrast, the few patients with chronic RHD in developed...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7731852/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33306321 http://dx.doi.org/10.21470/1678-9741-2020-0514 |