STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and study the relationship of this disease to factors such as age, sex, housing, and socioeconomic status in Shimla town and the adjoining rural area. DESIGN A cross sectional survey, carried out by a specially trained examiner in cardiology. SETTING The study involved high risk school children (5-16 years of age) ...

Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remain major causes of heart failure, stroke and death among African women and children, despite being preventable and imminently treatable. From 21 to 22 February 2015, the Social Cluster of the Africa Union Commission (AUC) hosted a consultation with RHD experts convened by the Pan-African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR) in Addis Ab...

Rheumatic Heart disease (RHD) is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality especially among 5-15-year-old children in developing countries like India. Globally, 15.6 million people suffer from RHD each year, and in India 600,000 children of less than 15 years suffer from this disease. Although incidence of RHD has come down with improvement in living conditions, but sporadic emergence ...

BACKGROUND The parasite Toxoplasma gondii influences the behaviour of infected animals and probably also personality of infected humans. Subjects with a Rhesus-positive blood group are protected against certain behavioural effects associated with Toxoplasma infection, including the deterioration of reaction times and personality factor shift. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Here, we searched f...

INTRODUCTION Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) occurs in 30-45% of the patients with rheumatic fever (RF) and it leads to chronic valvular lesions. The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) might confer a susceptibility to RHD. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalent HLA class II DR/DQ allelic types which were associated with rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in a small group of south India...

To evaluate the right hemisphere's role in encoding speech prosody, an acoustic investigation of timing characteristics was undertaken in speakers with and without focal right-hemisphere damage (RHD) following cerebrovascular accident. Utterances varying along different prosodic dimensions (emphasis, emotion) were elicited from each speaker using a story completion paradigm, and measures of utt...

PURPOSE This study investigated the influence of suggestive signs of depression (SSD) in right-hemisphere brain-damaged (RHD) patients following a stroke on their cognitive performance measured by a brief neuropsychological assessment battery. METHODS Forty-two adults with RHD after a single episode of stroke and 84 matched controls participated in this study. They were assessed by means of t...

BACKGROUND Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) remains a major cause of childhood acquired heart disease in developing countries. However reported echocardiographic features are limited to a few countries. This report is on the demographic and echocardiographic features of RHD in children using data from the largest referral hospital in Yaounde, the capital city of Cameroon. METHODS The register of...

To investigate the genetic basis of the Rh polypeptide gene, we attempted the isolation of cDNA clones for Rh polypeptide from a family with the RhD-positive and RhD-negative phenotypes using the reverse transcription (RT)-PCR method for each reticulocyte RNAs followed by subcloning. The isolated cDNAs showed the existence of another Rh-related clone (RhPII-1 cDNA, tentative designation) beside...