Acquired heart disease in Ugandan children.
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Acquired heart disease in Ugandan children.
The many excellent reports from East Africa on the obscure cardiopathies, endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) and heart muscle disease, might suggest that these are the most important cardiac disorders encountered there; relatively little has been written on the other cardiac disorders of childhood. This communication presents results of a one-year clinical survey of acquired heart disease in Ugandan...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1966
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.28.6.759