Heart diseases and echocardiography in rural Tanzania: Occurrence, characteristics, and etiologies of underappreciated cardiac pathologies.

Heart diseases and echocardiography in rural Tanzania: Occurrence, characteristics, and etiologies of underappreciated cardiac pathologies.

<h4>Background</h4>Little is known about heart diseases and their treatment in rural sub-Saharan Africa. This study aimed to describe the occurrence, characteristics, and etiologies of heart diseases, and the medication taken before and prescribed after echocardiography in a rural referr...

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Main Authors: Dominick M Raphael, Laurine Roos, Victor Myovela, Elisante Mchomvu, Jabir Namamba, Said Kilindimo, Winfrid Gingo, Christoph Hatz, Daniel H Paris, Maja Weisser, Richard Kobza, Martin Rohacek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208931

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208931

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