doppler echocardiography (de) is known to be a valuable tool for detecting subclinical forms of valvular regurgitation (vrj in theacutephase of rheumatic fever (rf). previous studies have mostly dealt with the acute phase problem with only short-term follow-up. in this study, 24 children between 4-15 years of age (mean age ii.x±2.7 years) with rf without clinically diagnosed carditis (most with...

Background: CMV is a common infection in chronic hemodialysis patients. CMV positive patients are more likely to havecarotid atherosclerosis plaques as compared with CMV negative individuals. Carotid ultrasonography (US) is one of the most used imagingtechniques for the assessment of atherosclerosis, and it is increasingly applied in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and in chronic k...