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Prevalence of rheumatic valvular heart disease in Rwandan school children: echocardiographic evaluation using the World Heart Federation criteria

2017; Clinics Cardive Publishing; Volume: 28; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5830/cvja-2017-007

1680-0745

Joseph Mucumbitsi, Bernard E. Bulwer, Léon Mutesa, Vedaste Ndahindwa, Muhammed Semakula, Emmanuel Rusingiza, Puneeta Arya, Suellen Breakey, Ceeya Patton-Bolman, Edward L. Kaplan,

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Rheumatic fever (RF) and rheumatic valvular heart disease (RHD) remain important medical, surgical and public health concerns in many parts of the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. However, there are no published data from Rwanda. We performed a RHD prevalence study in a randomly selected sample of Rwandan school children using the 2012 World Heart Federation (WHF) criteria.