Screening for Rheumatic Heart Disease among Peruvian Children: A Two-Stage Sampling Observational Study.

The objective of the study was to evaluate the implications of different classifications of rheumatic heart disease on estimated prevalence, and to systematically assess the importance of incidental findings from echocardiographic screening among schoolchildren in Peru.We performed a cluster randomi...

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Main Authors: Ernest Spitzer, Jorge Mercado, Fabian Islas, Martina Rothenbühler, Reto Kurmann, Fabian Zürcher, Peter Krähenmann, Nassip Llerena, Peter Jüni, Pedro Torres, Thomas Pilgrim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4514892?pdf=render