Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is the most common cause of valvular heart disease
worldwide, affecting millions, especially in low-and middle-income countries. Multiple …

Socioeconomic factors such as poor health and poor nutrition in low-and middle-income
countries (LMICs) may favour inflammatory reactions, thus contributing to the recurrence of …

Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a neglected tropical disease despite the substantial
global health burden. In this study, we aimed to develop a lower cost method of modeling …

This manuscript proposes an automated detection method depends on sand piper optimized
fully deep convolutional neural network (FDCN-SPO) for detecting the cardiovascular …

Introduction Rheumatic heart disease (RHD), degenerative aortic stenosis (AS), and
congenital valve diseases are prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. Many knowledge gaps …

Introduction Rheumatic heart disease (RHD), a sequela of acute rheumatic fever (ARF),
affects 40.5 million people worldwide. The burden of disease disproportionately falls on low …

Background: Rheumatic heart disease (RHD), concomitant to valvular damage, heart failure,
arrhythmias and pulmonary hypertension is the major source of cardiovascular morbidity …

Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a disease of the past in privileged parts of the world.
However, RHD is still prevalent in many low-and middle-income countries; globally the …

Primary prevention remains the cornerstone of reducing the significant burden rheumatic
heart disease (RHD) has on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Increasing access to …