Acquired Heart Disease

• Acute Viral Myocarditis: Role of Immuno Suppression
• An Iceberg in Africa: Rheumatic Heart Disease requiring Surgery in Children
• Arterial intima-media thickness, endothelial function and apolipoproteins in adolescents frequently exposed to tobacco smoke
• Association Between Coronary Artery A and Abnormality and Serum Amyloid A in Kawasaki Disease
• Asymmetric Dimethylarginine and the Effect of Folate Substitution in Children with Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Diabetes Mellitus Type1
• Can a trans-thoracic echocardiographic study predict mitral restenosis in patients with Rheumatic Heart Disease submitted to mitral balloon valvuloplasty?
• Cardiovascular profile in childhood obesity
• Cardiovascular Risk Factors Associated with Atherosclerosis in Children who are HIV-seropositive
• Carotid artery intima-media thickness (CIMT) as a vascular subclinical marker of cardiovascular risk
• Characteristics of Fatal Atypical Kawasaki Disease – Less Contribution of Coronary Artery Aneurysm ?
• Combinatorial Use of High Mobility Group Box 1 Values and Gunma Scores Improve The Accuracy of Predicting Non-Responders to Intravenous Immunoglobulin Treatment in Patients with Kawasaki Disease
• Coronary Arteriovenous Fistula and Kawasaki Disease
• CRP-286 Gene Polymorphisms and Susceptibility to coronary arterial sequelae in Kawasaki Disease
• Cyclosporin A treatment for refractory Kawasaki disease
• Delayed Diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease
• Delayed Diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease and Outcomes after Treatment with IVIGMemorial hospital
• Determining Vascular Risk Profiles for Early Atherosclerosis in Paediatric Rheumatic Disease
• Does Echocardiography Aid in the Diagnosis of Rheumatic Fever with Carditis in Children? Experience from a Country with High Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease
• Doppler tissue imaging and myocardial performance index of right ventricle in children with type I Diabetes mellitus
• Efficacy of echocardiographic criteria for diagnosis of carditis in acute rheumatic fever
• Endothelial microparticles for assessment of vascular injury in Kawasaki disease
• Endothelial progenitor cells and arterial function in the late convalescence period of Kawasaki disease
• Epidemiologic Research of Kawasaki Disease in Shanghai From 2003 Through 2007
• Establishing a Rheumatic Heart Disease Biorepository for Multidisciplinary Research
• External validation of a risk score to predict intravenous immunoglobulin resistance in patients with Kawasaki disease
• Fit or Unfit: Are overweight and obese children and adolescents really unfit or are we using the wrong assessment tools?
• Hidden Systemic Diseases With Pericardial Effusion
• Impaired Regional Left Ventricular Function in Paediatric Haemodialysis Patients
• In Vivo Plaque Composition and Morphology in Coronary Artery Lesions in The Adolescents and Young Adults Long After Kawasaki Disease: A Virtual Histology-Intravascular Ultrasound Study
• Incidence of Rheumatic Fever and Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease in a Underserved Population in South India
• Is BCG Red in Kawasaki Disease with Coronary Artery Abnormality?
• Is the Face of Kawasaki Disease Changed?
• Kawasaki Disease In Infants. Experience In Mexico
• Long term follow up of children and adolescents with rheumatic heart disease in a tertiary center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Long term outcome of Chagas´s Disease in the childhood
• Long-term follow up the clinical outcome of Kawasaki disease patients with Giant Coronary Aneurysms
• Long-term Follow-up Results of Percutaneous Catheter Intervention and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery for Kawasaki Disease in Japan
• Mid to long-term follow-up of 44 children with Kawasaki disease complicated with medium or giant coronary aneurysm
• Morganella morganii pericarditis in a child with X-linked agammaglobulinemia
• Myocarditis in children - the Singapore experience
• Natriuretic Peptide as an Adjunctive Diagnostic Test in the Acute Phase of Kawasaki Disease
• Objective Measurement of Mitral Valve Thickness in Children with and without Rheumatic Heart Disease
• Peripheral Vascular Dysfunction in Patients with Coronary Artery Aneurysms Caused by Kawasaki Disease Using Laser Doppler Monitoring
• Population-based echocardiographic screening for Rheumatic Heart Disease in high-risk New Zealand children
• Recurrence and rare complications with medium term outcome of Kawasaki Disease: unusual case report
• Relationship between Administration of Intravenous Immune-Globulin and Cardiac/Coronary Artery Leision in patients with Kawasaki Disease
• Rheumatic Fever / Rheumatic Heart Disease In South Africa: The Global Registry Initiative
• Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Geographic area of origin, referral rate, disease severity and outcome in patients presenting at CH Baragwanath Hospital in South Africa
• Rheumatic Fever Prophylactic Programme: analysis of the pattern of presentation and evolution after the control of recurrences
• S100 proteins could not be suppressed by infliximab treatment in refractory Kawasaki disease
• Severe Cardiac Infections in Infancy - a Reason to Suspect Immunodeficiency?
• Severe Coronary Artery lesions in Children with Kawasaki Disease
• Sivelestat sodium treatment for intravenous immunoglobulin-resistant Kawasaki disease
• Streptococcus beta hemolyticus endocarditis during hospital stay in a girl with acute rheumatic fever
• Takayasu Arteritis in Children and Young Adults
• The Evolution of an Exercise Prescription Clinic for the Treatment of Pediatric Obesity
• The spectrum of presentation and long term evaluation of valvar lesions in 1066 acute episodes of rheumatic fever in children and adolescents
• The tendency toward atopic diseases among children with past history of Kawasaki disease
• Transcultural Adaptation of the World Heart Federation Rheumatic Heart Disease Register Database in Brazil
• TRPC7 Gene Polymorphism as a Pathogenesis of Kawasaki Disease in Korean Population
• When are the ECG changes significant in Kawasaki Disease?

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