Open AccessClinical Impact and Costs of Echocardiographic Screening for Rheumatic Heart Disease
Author(s) -
Kirkpatrick James N.,
Otto Catherine M.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of the american heart association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.494
H-Index - 85
ISSN - 2047-9980
DOI - 10.1161/jaha.117.005666
Subject(s) - medicine , heart disease , rheumatic fever , pediatrics , cardiology , family medicine
An 18‐year‐old lies in bed in a lower‐income country. He has just experienced an embolic stroke that originated on his infected mechanical mitral prosthesis, placed 2 years prior for severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. This true story is paradigmatic of the burdens created by rheumatic heart