Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
ObjectivesTo describe the socio-demographic and clinical features of children with primary episode of rheumatic fever (RF) during two periods of time and to attempt a comparison of the clinical features with previously published data from the same ward at Lady Ridgeway Hospital (LRH), Colombo
rheumatic heart disease (RHD) continues to be an important manifestation. 1Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo
Stanley de Silva reported a series of 107 patients admitted to a ward at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital (LRH) during 1953 – 19571and Priyani Soysa et al in their report[2] had 328 children admitted to the University Paediatric Unit in the same hospital over 10 years from 1966
Summary
This study was done to describe the sociodemographic and clinical features of children with the primary episode of rheumatic fever (RF) admitted to a ward at LRH during two periods of time, and to attempt a comparison between the disease manifestations of the recent study with previously published data regarding the primary episode of RF, from the same ward
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