Postoperative Rheumatic Heart Disease Follow-Up: Creating a National Registry and First Results from Rwanda
By: Evariste Ntaganda, Emmanuel Rusingiza, Gilbert Rukundo, Loise Ng’ang’a, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Ziad El-Khatib, Gene F. Kwan, Ganza Gapira, Neil K. Worral, JaBaris Swain, Abel Kagame, Cadet Mutumbira, Nathan Ruhamya, Ceeya Bolman, Jessica Sewase, Gilles Ndayisiba, R.Morton Bolman III, Harold Goldberg and Joseph Mucumbitsi
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2719 | Journal eISSN: 2214-9996
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Published on: Sep 9, 2020
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© 2020 Evariste Ntaganda, Emmanuel Rusingiza, Gilbert Rukundo, Loise Ng’ang’a, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Ziad El-Khatib, Gene F. Kwan, Ganza Gapira, Neil K. Worral, JaBaris Swain, Abel Kagame, Cadet Mutumbira, Nathan Ruhamya, Ceeya Bolman, Jessica Sewase, Gilles Ndayisiba, R.Morton Bolman III, Harold Goldberg, Joseph Mucumbitsi, published by Ubiquity Press
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