Tertiary prevention and treatment of rheumatic heart disease: a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute working group summary

• Emmy Okello,
• Craig Sable,
• Dominique Vervoort,
• Ganesan Karthikeyan,
• Gene Bukhman,
• Liesl J Zuhlke,
• Jeffrey W Cannon,
• Ana Mocumbi,
• George A Mensah,
• Salome Maswime,
• Makeda Williams,
• Annette Ansong,
• Marcelo Cardarelli,
• Kathleen Fenton,
• Jacques Kpodonu,
• Christopher Sabo Yilgwan,
• Jennifer N Baumgartner,
• Geetha Bansal,
• Madeleine W Cunningham,
• Melissa Green-Parker,
• Mary Masterson,
• B Remenyi

Affiliations

Emmy Okello

15 Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Craig Sable

11 Department of Cardiology, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Dominique Vervoort

Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ganesan Karthikeyan

4 Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Gene Bukhman

Program in Global Noncommunicable Diseases and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Liesl J Zuhlke

South African Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa

Jeffrey W Cannon

Wesfarmers Centre for Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, Telethon Kids Institute, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Ana Mocumbi

Non Communicable Diseases, Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Maputo, Mozambique

George A Mensah

1 National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Salome Maswime

Global Surgery, University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences, Observatory, Western Cape, South Africa

Makeda Williams

National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Annette Ansong

Outpatient Cardiology, Children`s National Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Marcelo Cardarelli

Pediatric Heart Surgery, Inova Children Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia, USA

Kathleen Fenton

National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Jacques Kpodonu

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Christopher Sabo Yilgwan

Departments of Paediatrics and West African Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Jos/Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria

Jennifer N Baumgartner

National Institutes of Health Office of Disease Prevention, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Geetha Bansal

Division of International Training and Research, John E Fogarty International Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Madeleine W Cunningham

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Melissa Green-Parker

National Institutes of Health Office of Disease Prevention, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Mary Masterson

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

B Remenyi

Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory of Australia, Australia