The Global Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease: Population-Related Differences (It is Not All the Same!)
Abstract Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains the most common cardiovascular disease in young adults and adolescents in need of heart surgery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The mean age of patients is 20-25 years, often much younger. By contrast, the few patients with chronic RHD in d...
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| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-76382020000600958&tlng=en |