Access to heart surgery for smokers. Inform, don't punish.
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Cardiac surgery for patients with heart failure due to structural heart disease in Uganda: access to surgery and outcomes
OBJECTIVE Few data are available on heart failure (HF) in sub-Saharan Africa. We aimed to provide a current picture of HF aetiologies in urban Uganda, access to heart surgery, and outcomes. METHODS We prospectively collected clinical and echocardiographic data from 272 consecutive patients referred for suspected heart disease to a tertiary hospital in Kampala during seven non-governmental org...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.306.6889.1409-a