What is it about?
The identification of early rheumatic heart disease using echocardiography is a process fraught with technical difficulties and controversies. We review the pitfalls of using echocardiography to identify rheumatic heart disease and highlight potential alternatives to disease identification using echocardiography.
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Why is it important?
The current World Heart Federation criteria for the diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease can potentially misclassify cases with rheumatic heart disease. An understanding of the complexity of diagnosis is important prior to using this set of criteria.
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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has stimulated important debate amongst the rheumatic heart disease community to relook at the earliest signs of rheumatic disease in an asymptomatic patient
Luke Hunter
Stellenbosch University
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This page is a summary of: Screening for rheumatic heart disease: is a paradigm shift required?, Echo Research and Practice, September 2017, Bioscientifica,
DOI: 10.1530/erp-17-0037.
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