Acquired heart disease in Ugandan children.
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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 children conducted to learn the nature and relative importance of certain acquired heart lesions in the African child of Uganda.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- British heart journal
دوره 28 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1966