The global burden of rheumatic heart disease: population-related differences (it is not all the same!)
Rev. bras. cir. cardiovasc; 35 (6), 2020
Abstract Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains the most common cardiovascular disease in young adults and adolescents in need of heart surgery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The mean age of patients is 20-25 years, often much younger. By contrast, the few patients with chronic RHD in develo...