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Two‐year evolution of latent rheumatic heart disease in Malawi

Amy Sanyahumbi¹, Andrea Beaton², Danielle Guffey³, Mina C. Hosseinipour⁴, Melissa Karlsten¹, Charles G. Minard³, Daniel J. Penny¹, Craig A. Sable⁵, Peter N. Kazembe⁶

1 Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas
2 Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
3 Dan L Duncan Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
4 Department of Infectious Disease, University of North Carolina Project, University of North Carolina, Lilongwe, Malawi
5 Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Children’s National Heart Institute, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia
6 Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine Clinical Center of Excellence, Lilongwe, Malawi

* Corresponding Author: Amy Sanyahumbi, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, 6621 Fannin St., 19th floor, Houston, TX 77030. Email: