Echocardiographic Detection of Latent Rheumatic Heart Disease
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Echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease.
doi:10.2471/BLT.07.046680 For a disease to be suitable for screening as a tool of preventive medicine, it must satisfy the following criteria: (1) the evidence of an obvious burden of the disease, (2) an initial latent stage of the condition, (3) which can be detected by appropriate tests, (4) and treated by adequate therapy, and finally (5) to prove that intervention at an early stage can impr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.117.030642