ReviewHeart (British Cardiac Society)2007
Epidemiology and prevention of valvular heart diseases and infective endocarditis in Africa.
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- User-Centered Design to Develop Automated Short Message Service Messaging for Patient Support of Rheumatic Heart Disease Secondary Antibiotic Prophylaxis.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Trial
- Adherence to self-care recommendations and associated factors among adult heart failure patients. From the patients' point of view.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Association Between Serum 25(OH)-Vitamin D and Heart Involvement in a Single-Centre Cohort of Children with Acute Rheumatic Fever During the Years 2004-2024.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- Valvular heart disease and associated factors among adult cardiac patients in a tertiary hospital, Ethiopia.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Article
- A qualitative exploration of cultural illness perceptions and barriers to modern healthcare: the case of Ikirimi and traditional uvulectomy in Rwanda.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2025Article
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- Tertiary prevention and treatment of rheumatic heart disease: a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute working group summary.BMJ global health · 2023Review
- Prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.SAGE open medicine · 2023Review
- Myocardial fibrosis in rheumatic heart disease: emerging concepts and clinical implications.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Review
- Adherence to self-care recommendations and associated factors among adult heart failure patients in public hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2021: cross-sectional study.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2022Article
- Distribution, Characteristics, and Management of Older Patients With Valvular Heart Disease in China: China-DVD Study.JACC. Asia · 2022Article
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- Surgical Treatment of Valvular Heart Disease in Nigeria: A 6-Year Experience.Texas Heart Institute journal · 2021Article
- Ethnically Disparate Disease Progression and Outcomes among Acute Rheumatic Fever Patients in New Zealand, 1989-2015.Emerging infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Rheumatic Heart Disease Patients' Adherence to Secondary Prophylaxis and Associated Factors at Hospitals in Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia: A Multicenter Study.Patient preference and adherence · 2020Article
- Association of mean platelet volume with echocardiographic findings in patients with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis.Journal of cardiovascular and thoracic research · 2019Article
- Prevalence and characteristics of primary left-sided valve disease in a cohort of 15,000 patients undergoing echocardiography studies in a tertiary hospital in Uganda.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2018Article
- Infective Endocarditis in French West Indies: A 13-Year Observational Study.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2017Observational
- Cardiovascular disease in Africa: epidemiological profile and challenges.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2017Review
- Echocardiographic Approaches and Protocols for Comprehensive Phenotypic Characterization of Valvular Heart Disease in Mice.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2017Article
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Abstract
Valvular heart diseases in Africa affect mainly children and young adults and are a result of rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever is a preventable disease, but in Africa the combination of a lack of resources, lack of infrastructure, political, social and economic instability, poverty, overcrowding, malnutrition and lack of political will contributes to the persistence of a high burden of rheumatic fever, rheumatic valvular heart diseases and infective endocarditis. Combating and eradicating rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart diseases requires economic development and implementation of best practices of primary and secondary prevention measures. The barriers to achieving this goal in Africa are numerous, but not insurmountable.
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