Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease and Other Cardiac Conditions in Low-Risk Pregnancies in Kenya: A Prospective Echocardiography Screening Study

BACKGROUND: Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in sub-Saharan Africa contributes to significant cardiac morbidity and mortality, yet prevalence estimates of RHD lesions in pregnancy are lacking. OBJECTIVES: Our first aim was to evaluate women using echocardiography to estimate the prevalence of RHD and o...

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Autores principales: Snelgrove, John W., Alera, Joy Marsha, Foster, Michael C., Bett, Kipchumba C. N., Bloomfield, Gerald S., Silversides, Candice K., Barasa, Felix A., Christoffersen-Deb, Astrid, Millar, Heather C., Thorne, Julie G., Spitzer, Rachel F., Vedanthan, Rajesh, Okun, Nanette
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2021
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7879998/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33598390
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gh.826

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7879998/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33598390
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gh.826

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