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Rheumatic Heart Disease

"Rheumatic Heart Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Cardiac manifestation of systemic rheumatological conditions, such as RHEUMATIC FEVER. Rheumatic heart disease can involve any part the heart, most often the HEART VALVES and the ENDOCARDIUM.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Rheumatic Heart Disease" by people in this website by year, and whether "Rheumatic Heart Disease" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 22 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 1995 and 2022
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