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2016, Number 618

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Rev Med Cos Cen 2016; 73 (618)

Fiebre reumática

Rivero GJI, Uribe CJC

Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 119-124
PDF size: 175.71 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Rheumatic Fever is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in the world although; its incidence has been declining in the United States and Europe since the midtwentieth century, it remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality among developing countries. In addition; recent data using echocardiography to screen for rheumatic heart disease in these nations, has shown a sustancial increase of prevalence in comparison with the clinical screening. Rheumatic fever is a disease of poverty, in which almost all cases of death associated with the disease, are entirely preventable.


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