ReviewEcho research and practice2017
Screening for rheumatic heart disease: is a paradigm shift required?
Review in Echo research and practice, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Comparison of different criteria for rheumatic heart disease screening: an empirical study in Sierra Leone.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2026Article
- The Impact of a Handheld Ultrasound Device in a Rheumatic Heart Disease Screening Program in Ethiopia.POCUS journal · 2023Article
- Early surgery determines prognosis in patients with infective endocarditis: outcome in patients managed by an Endocarditis Team-a prospective cohort study.Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy · 2022Article
- Modified Duke/European Society of Cardiology 2015 clinical criteria for infective endocarditis: time for an update?Open heart · 2022Article
- Recent Advances in the Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease Continuum.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Screening of asymptomatic rheumatic heart disease among refugee/migrant children and youths in Italy.Pediatric rheumatology online journal · 2019Observational
- Prominent inter-scallop separations of the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve: an important cause of 'pathological' mitral regurgitation.Echo research and practice · 2018Article
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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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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