Echocardiographic Detection of Latent Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Pandora's Box?

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Sciences, Division of Cardiology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (M.R.E). Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa (B.M.M.). mohammed.essop@wits.ac.za.
² Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Sciences, Division of Cardiology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (M.R.E). Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa (B.M.M.).

Editorial

Mohammed R Essop et al. Circulation. 2017.

. 2017 Dec 5;136(23):2245-2247.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.030642.

¹ Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Sciences, Division of Cardiology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (M.R.E). Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa (B.M.M.). mohammed.essop@wits.ac.za.
² Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Sciences, Division of Cardiology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (M.R.E). Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa (B.M.M.).

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Keywords: Editorials; echocardiography; latent rheumatic heart disease.

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