Treating Children With Advanced Rheumatic Heart Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: The NGO EMERGENCY's Project at the
EMERGENCY ONG Onlus
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sudan
cardiac surgery
children
humanitarian surgery
rheumatic heart disease
Journal
Frontiers in pediatrics
ISSN: 2296-2360
Titre abrégé: Front Pediatr
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101615492
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
03
05
2021
accepted:
28
07
2021
entrez:
7
9
2021
pubmed:
8
9
2021
medline:
8
9
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Rheumatic heart disease is endemic in Sub-Saharan Africa and while efforts are under way to boost prophylaxis and early diagnosis, access to cardiac surgery is rarely affordable. In this article, we report on a humanitarian project by the NGO EMERGENCY, to build and run the
Identifiants
pubmed: 34490162
doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.704729
pmc: PMC8417837
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
704729Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 Miccio, Quattrociocchi, Valgoi, Chatenoud, Lentini, Giovanella, Rolla, Erba, Gatti, Rocchi, Saad, Salvati, Langer, Portella and Strada.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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