Heart diseases and echocardiography in rural Tanzania: Occurrence, characteristics, and etiologies of underappreciated cardiac pathologies.
Dominick M RaphaelLaurine RoosVictor MyovelaElisante MchomvuJabir NamambaSaid KilindimoWinfrid GingoChristoph HatzDaniel Henry ParisMaja Weisser-RohacekRichard KobzaMartin RohacekPublished in: PloS one (2018)
Hypertension is the leading etiology of heart diseases in rural Tanzania. Most patients present with advanced stages of heart disease, and the majority are not treated before echocardiography. There is an urgent need for increased awareness, expertise and infrastructure to detect and treat hypertension and heart failure in rural Africa.
Keyphrases
- heart failure
- left ventricular
- south africa
- blood pressure
- pulmonary hypertension
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- computed tomography
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- atrial fibrillation
- risk assessment
- prognostic factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- patient reported outcomes
- acute heart failure
- arterial hypertension