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Prevention of Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart
Disease
by Mariana Mirabel, Kumar Narayanan, Xavier Jouven, and Eloi Marijon
Circulation
Volume 130(5):e35-e37
July 29, 2014
Copyright © American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved.
Rheumatic mitral stenosis.
Mariana Mirabel et al. Circulation. 2014;130:e35-e37
Copyright © American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved.
In a low-income Caribbean Island, Santa Lucia, success was achieved by reori enting part of the
budget allocated to cardiac surgery to an acute rheumatic fever (ARF)/rheumatic heart disease
(RHD) control program including primary and secondary prophylaxis.
Mariana Mirabel et al. Circulation. 2014;130:e35-e37
Copyright © American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved.
Early detection by hand-held ultrasound screening and antibiotic prophy laxis have the potential
to successfully eliminate the scourge of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) from the developing
world.
Mariana Mirabel et al. Circulation. 2014;130:e35-e37
Copyright © American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved.
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