Rheumatic Fever and the American Heart Association: The (Nearly) 100-Year War

Circulation. 2021 Jun;143(22):2127-2128. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.052711. Epub 2021 Jun 1.

Authors

Andrea Beaton¹, Kathryn A Taubert²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, OH (A.B.).
² Adjunct Department of Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas (K.A.T.).

PMID: 34061580
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.052711

No abstract available

Keywords: pediatrics; primary prevention; rheumatic heart disease; secondary prevention; valvular heart disease.

MeSH terms

American Heart Association
Humans
Rheumatic Fever / epidemiology*
Rheumatic Heart Disease / epidemiology*
United States