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Changes of Clinical Patterns of the Acute Rheumatic Fever in Korea(Compared report of 1973-1985 with that of 1986-1992)
Hye Sun Yoon, Min Young Park, Wan Young Shin, Byong Soo Sco, Sung Ho Cho
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(4):470-481.   Published online April 15, 1995
Purpose : The annual incidence of acute rheumatic fever in Korea was not changing during 1980 to 1989 from Nationwide survey in 1991 in spite of talking about scanty outbreak among doctors in recent year.The proportion of patients with acute rheumatic fever among the entire pediatirc inpatients each year was approximately 0.3% and did not change significantly throughout the...
Clinical Observation of Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease in Children.
Soon Don Hong, Sung Ho Cha, Chang Il Ahn
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1986;29(6):596-603.   Published online June 30, 1986
Acute rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease of the heart, joint, central nervous system, and subcutaneous tissues which developes after a nasopharyngeal infection by group A beta-hemolytic Streptococci. Rheumatic fever is especially important to pediatrician because of the most acquired heart disease which usually ensues. To analyze the 101 cases of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in pediatric department of...
Heart Disease Screening for Primary School Children.
Chang Yee Hong, In Sil Lee, Hee Ju Kim, Jung Hwan Choi, Hae Il Cheong, Jung Yun Choi, Yong Soo Yun
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1985;28(3):258-262.   Published online March 31, 1985
A heart disease screening program was performed on 15,685 primary school children in Seoul City from the first to sixth grade to estimate the prevalence of heart diseases. Among the 15,685 children examined, 45 were confirmed to have heart disease (2.9/1,000) Out of the 45 children, 38 had congenital heart disease(2.4/1,000) and 7 had rheumatic heart disease(0.4/1,000) and the ratio...


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