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| Year : 2017 | Volume
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Prevalence of rheumatic heart disease
Özben Ceylan, Derya Aydın Sahin
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Suleymaniye Maternity and Children's Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
| Date of Web Publication | 15-May-2017 |
Correspondence Address:
Özben Ceylan
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Suleymaniye Maternity and Children's Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul
Turkey
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DOI: 10.4103/HEARTVIEWS.HEARTVIEWS_3_17
How to cite this article:
Ceylan Ö, Sahin DA. Prevalence of rheumatic heart disease. Heart Views 2017;18:38 |
With interest, we read the article by Hajar [1] “Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Historical Perspective.'' We want to correct the mistake associated with the prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in this article.
There was a mistake in Table 2 called “Summary of the American Heart Association revised 2015 Jones criteria.” The statement “Low-risk population: Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) incidence ≤2/100,000 school-aged children of all age rheumatic heart disease (RHD) prevalence of ≤1/100,000 population year” was incorrect. This statement should be corrected as follows - ”Low-risk population: ARF incidence ≤2/100,000 school-aged children of all-age RHD prevalence of ≤1/1000 population per year.”[2]{Table 2}
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| 1. | Hajar R. Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease a historical perspective. Heart Views 2016;17:120-6.  [ PUBMED] [Full text] |
| 2. | Gewitz MH, Baltimore RS, Tani LY, Sable CA, Shulman ST, Carapetis J, et al. Revision of the Jones criteria for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever in the era of Doppler echocardiography: A scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation 2015;131:1806-18. [ PUBMED] |
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