bicuspid aortic valve disease and rheumatic heart disease. As the survival of the population increases, we expect more patients are likely to develop this problem. The prevalence of aortic valve ...

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has paid the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) PHP22.8 million for ...

Though rare in the United States, it primarily impacts children ages 5 to 15 with untreated or undertreated strep throat ...

Renowned General and Interventional Cardiologist Dr Vijay Kapadia, based at the Gold Coast University Hospital in Australia, has stressed the need for rheumatic heart surgeries to be carried out ...

In the 1850s, German physician Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich took temperatures from 25,000 patients and calculated ... had tuberculosis, dental disease, rheumatic heart disease and all sorts ...

Introduction Screening echocardiography, guided by the current World Heart Federation (WHF) criteria, has important limitations that impede the establishment of large-scale rheumatic heart disease ...

Hackman, who had Alzheimer’s disease and heart problems, was unable to care for himself ... In 1992, a report was published involving two Filipino patients in San Lazaro Hospital presenting with ...

Cardiovascular disease, which encompasses a range of heart conditions, is already the leading cause of death in the United States. Rheumatic heart disease is one of those conditions. Rheumatic ...