ArticleBrazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery2020
The Global Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease: Population-Related Differences (It is Not All the Same!).
Article in Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Polymeric mitral valve replacement in rheumatic heart disease: hemodynamic and early clinical outcomes from a dedicated sub-analysis of the India Surgical Trial.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Trend Dynamics of Rheumatic Heart Disease Burden, 1990-2019: Insights From Age-Period-Cohort Modeling and Projections.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Adherence to benzathine penicillin prophylaxis and associated factors in patients with rheumatic heart disease attending two public hospitals in Bahir dar, Ethiopia.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Article
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- Shifts in Clinical Characteristics, Treatment, and Outcome for Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis: Insights From a 20-Year Multicentre Registry Study in Korea.Journal of Korean medical science · 2024Article
- Temporal Trends of Age-Adjusted Mortality Rates for Rheumatic Heart Disease in Brazil From 2000 to 2021.Cureus · 2024Article
- Adoption of minimally invasive mitral valve surgery: single-centre implementation experience in Vietnam.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Article
- Pregnancy risk and contraception among reproductive-age women with rheumatic heart disease attending care at a tertiary cardiac center in Tanzania: a hospital-based cross-sectional study.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- The Global Burden of Valvular Heart Disease: From Clinical Epidemiology to Management.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- The role of echocardiographic screening in reducing the burden of rheumatic heart disease in Latin America.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2023Article
- Strengthening School-based Echocardiographic Screening for Rheumatic Heart Diseases in Low- and Middle-income Nations.Journal of cardiovascular echographyArticle
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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 developed countries present a mean age of around 55 years. It is absolutely fundamental to differentiate these two types of population. Pathology, lesions and surgical methods are different, and the results should not be compared. It is not all the same! A certain enthusiasm for mitral repair has recently surged, with several reports showing excellent results in children and young adults, resulting from the renewed interest of cardiac surgeons, also based on new and modified techniques developed in the meantime. While surgery is easily accessible to patients in developed countries, the situation in LMICs is often dramatic, with countries where there is a complete absence of or few surgical facilities absolutely unable to meet gigantic demands. Many foreign surgical teams conduct humanitarian missions in several of these countries. They are just a "drop of water in the ocean" of needs. In some cases, however, these missions led to the establishment of local teams that now work independently and, in some cases, outperform the foreign teams still visiting.
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