Rheumatic valve disease and acceleration of cardiac aging in Africa: next-generation answers for an old, orphan problem

Maurizio Pesce^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Cell Biology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
² College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
³ Unità di Ingegneria Tissutale Cardiovascolare, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, I-20138 Milan, Italy.
⁴ Turin School of Engineering, Turin, Italy.
⁵ School of Infection & Immunity, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
⁶ Department of Pharmacy, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
⁷ Africa-Europe CoRE in Non-Communicable Diseases & Multimorbidity, African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) & The Guild of European Research-intensive Universities, Glasgow, UK.
⁸ Alliance for Medical Research in Africa (AMedRA), Dakar, Senegal.
⁹ Institute of Health and Development (ISED), Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.
¹⁰ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Maurizio Pesce et al. Eur Heart J. 2025.

. 2025 Sep 8;46(34):3319-3321.

doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf350.

Maurizio Pesce^{1

2

3

4}, Pasquale Maffia^{5

6

7}, Bamba Gaye^{8

9

10}

¹ Department of Cell Biology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
² College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
³ Unità di Ingegneria Tissutale Cardiovascolare, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Parea, 4, I-20138 Milan, Italy.
⁴ Turin School of Engineering, Turin, Italy.
⁵ School of Infection & Immunity, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
⁶ Department of Pharmacy, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
⁷ Africa-Europe CoRE in Non-Communicable Diseases & Multimorbidity, African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) & The Guild of European Research-intensive Universities, Glasgow, UK.
⁸ Alliance for Medical Research in Africa (AMedRA), Dakar, Senegal.
⁹ Institute of Health and Development (ISED), Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.
¹⁰ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.

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