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Rheumatic Heart Disease in Pregnancy: New Strategies for an Old Disease?

Global Heart
Volume 16 (2021): Issue 1
By: Geraldine Vaughan,  Angela Dawson,  Michael Peek,  Karen Sliwa,  Jonathan Carapetis,  Vicki Wade and  Elizabeth Sullivan  
Open Access
|Dec 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1079 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
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Language: English
Submitted on: Sep 30, 2021
Accepted on: Sep 30, 2021
Published on: Dec 20, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Rheumatic heart disease,
Pregnancy,
First Nation peoples,
Inequity

© 2021 Geraldine Vaughan, Angela Dawson, Michael Peek, Karen Sliwa, Jonathan Carapetis, Vicki Wade, Elizabeth Sullivan, published by Ubiquity Press
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