Screening for rheumatic heart disease : is a paradigm shift required?

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2017
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BioScientifica
Abstract
This focused review presents a critical appraisal of the World Heart Federation criteria for the echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and its performance in African RHD screening programmes. It identifies various logistical and methodological problems that negatively influence the current guideline’s performance. The authors explore novel RHD screening methodology that could address some of these shortcomings and if proven to be of merit, would require a paradigm shift in the approach to the echocardiographic diagnosis of subclinical RHD.
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CITATION: Hunter, L. D., et al. 2017. Screening for rheumatic heart disease : is a paradigm shift required?. Echo Research and Practice, 4(4):R43-R52, doi:10.1530/ERP-17-0037.
The original publication is available at http://www.echorespract.com
Keywords
Echocardiography, Rheumatic heart disease
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Hunter, L. D., et al. 2017. Screening for rheumatic heart disease : is a paradigm shift required?. Echo Research and Practice, 4(4):R43-R52, doi:10.1530/ERP-17-0037
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http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/104283
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Research Articles (Cardiology)