American Heart Congress - CVD
Los Angeles, USA
Mohammed Elmujtba
Ph.D
Title: Echocardiography Effectiveness In Improving Diagnostic Rheumatic Heart Disease Guidelines
Biography
Biography: Mohammed Elmujtba
Abstract
Acute Rhumatic fever (ARF) is an inflammatory disease caused by autoimmune responses to bacterial infection, commonly group A β hemolytic Streptococci (GAS). Many organs can be involved including the heart, joint, skin and the brain. Rhumatic heart disease damages one or more heart valves through recurrent episodes of ARF. RHD and RF are diseases of poverty interpreted in low access to and inadequately provided health services. One to 5 cases per 1000 population suffered from rheumatic heart disease particularly children at school age in poor countries as Sudan