3D Echocardiography for Rheumatic Heart Disease Analysis: Ready for Prime Time

Autor: Marcelo Luiz Campos Vieira, Carlos Eduardo de Barros Branco, Alessandra Santos Lima Gazola, Paulo Pinto Alves Campos Vieira, Luiz Alberto Benvenuti, Léa Maria Macruz Ferreira Demarchi, Paulo Sampaio Gutierrez, Vera Demarchi Aiello, Flávio Tarasoutchi, Roney Orismar Sampaio
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, Vol 8 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2297-055X
DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.676938
Popis: Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains to be a very important health issue worldwide, mainly in underdeveloped countries. It continues to be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality throughout developing countries. RHD is a delayed non-suppurative immunologically mediated inflammatory response to the throat infection caused by a hemolytic streptococcus from the A group (Streptococcus pyogenes). RHD keeps position 1 as the most common cardiovascular disease in young people aged
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