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Is population‐based screening for rheumatic heart disease precluded by the Cairo accord? Echocardiography...and beyond

Carlos E. B. Branco¹, Roney O. Sampaio¹, Flavio Tarasoutchi¹, Justin P. Zachariah²

1 INCOR Department of Valvular Heart Disease, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2 Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas

* Corresponding Author: Justin Zachariah, MD, MPH, Texas Children’s Hospital West Tower 19th floor, 6621 Fannin St Houston, TX 77030. Email: