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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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Autor principal: Antunes, Manuel J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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