Casuarina, Australia - The first evidence-based guidelines on how to use echocardiography to diagnose rheumatic heart disease in those with mild asymptomatic disease have been published, by Dr Bo ...

Globally, RHD remains a leading cause of mortality in low- and middle-income countries, while NRVHD is increasingly prevalent in high-income nations.

(NewsNation) — Six in 10 adults will live and die with heart disease by 2050, according to forecasts by the American Heart Association. Cardiovascular disease, which encompasses a range of heart ...

Patients with rheumatic heart disease (RHD) appear to have comparable outcomes, whether undergoing transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement (TAVR/SAVR), and when compared with TAVR in ...

Worldwide, the risk of dying from rheumatic heart disease has dropped since 1990, but the statistics have hardly changed in some poor populations. Rheumatic heart disease is preventable with ...

Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is a group of heart disorders caused by rheumatic fever, an inflammatory disease that primarily affects the heart, joints, skin, and brain. If not treated on time, it may ...

American heart association presidential advisory suggests oral penicillin to be a safer option for people with rheumatic heart disease at high risk of a cardiac reaction. People who had an allergic ...

Several major heart surgery organizations, as well as humanitarian and government groups, are calling for urgent action to address the treatment of rheumatic heart disease in the developing world, ...

IN 1955 the Cooperative Rheumatic Fever Study, sponsored jointly by the Research Council of Great Britain and the American Heart Association, presented its findings. 1 This report showed that with the ...

The first time Mesfin Yana Dollar assisted with an open-heart surgery, his patient was a teenage girl from Ethiopia. She was scared and crying. He went to her bedside at Emory University Hospital in ...

A new human challenge trial under way in Melbourne aims to advance research into Strep A, accelerating efforts toward the development of a vaccine. Indigenous children and young adults are dying from ...