Emmy Okello
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Emmy Okello, is a Ugandan consultant physician who has specialized as an interventional cardiologist and researcher. He serves as the Head of the Cardiac Catheterization Department at Uganda Heart Institute, the government institution in Kampala that specializes in the treatment of congenital and acquired cardiac disorders.
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- Characteristics, complications, and gaps in evidence-based interventions in rheumatic heart disease: the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry (the REMEDY study). (2015) (401)
- Echocardiography Screening for Rheumatic Heart Disease in Ugandan Schoolchildren (2012) (238)
- Clinical Outcomes in 3343 Children and Adults With Rheumatic Heart Disease From 14 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Two-Year Follow-Up of the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry (the REMEDY Study) (2016) (192)
- Bone marrow stem cells implantation with alpha-cyclodextrin/MPEG-PCL-MPEG hydrogel improves cardiac function after myocardial infarction. (2009) (108)
- The utility of handheld echocardiography for early rheumatic heart disease diagnosis: a field study. (2015) (96)
- The utility of handheld echocardiography for early diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease. (2014) (84)
- Cardiovascular complications in newly diagnosed rheumatic heart disease patients at Mulago Hospital, Uganda (2013) (83)
- Latent Rheumatic Heart Disease: Outcomes 2 Years After Echocardiographic Detection (2014) (68)
- Noonan syndrome in diverse populations (2017) (61)
- Socioeconomic and Environmental Risk Factors among Rheumatic Heart Disease Patients in Uganda (2012) (56)
- Rheumatic heart disease in Uganda: predictors of morbidity and mortality one year after presentation (2017) (52)
- Latent Rheumatic Heart Disease: Identifying the Children at Highest Risk of Unfavorable Outcome (2017) (47)
- Benzathine penicillin adherence for secondary prophylaxis among patients affected with rheumatic heart disease attending Mulago Hospital (2013) (46)
- Injectable Hydrogel Helps Bone Marrow-Derived Mononuclear Cells Restore Infarcted Myocardium (2010) (45)
- Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Rheumatic Heart Disease: Implications for Closing the Gap: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. (2020) (44)
- Presenting features of newly diagnosed rheumatic heart disease patients in Mulago Hospital: a pilot study (2013) (42)
- Statistics on the use of cardiac electronic devices and interventional electrophysiological procedures in Africa from 2011 to 2016: report of the Pan African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR) Cardiac Arrhythmias and Pacing Task Forces (2017) (41)
- Impact of heart disease on maternal, fetal and neonatal outcomes in a low-resource setting (2018) (37)
- Treatment with spironolactone for 24 weeks decreases the level of matrix metalloproteinases and improves cardiac function in patients with chronic heart failure of ischemic etiology. (2009) (36)
- A qualitative examination of secondary prophylaxis in rheumatic heart disease: factors influencing adherence to secondary prophylaxis in Uganda. (2015) (34)
- Secondary Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Latent Rheumatic Heart Disease. (2021) (34)
- Characteristic of the prevalence of J wave in apparently healthy Chinese adults. (2008) (32)
- Proportion of patients in the Uganda rheumatic heart disease registry with advanced disease requiring urgent surgical interventions. (2016) (30)
- Effect of Coenzyme Q10 on the Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Heart Failure (2015) (30)
- Rheumatic Heart Disease Treatment Cascade in Uganda (2017) (28)
- Simplified Echocardiography Screening Criteria for Diagnosing and Predicting Progression of Latent Rheumatic Heart Disease (2019) (28)
- Ambulance service within a comprehensive intervention for reproductive health in remote settings: a cost‐effective intervention (2011) (26)
- Cardiovascular risk factors among patients with chronic kidney disease attending a tertiary hospital in Uganda (2015) (23)
- Rheumatic heart disease in Uganda: the association between MHC class II HLA DR alleles and disease: a case control study (2014) (22)
- Determining the impact of Benzathine penicillin G prophylaxis in children with latent rheumatic heart disease (GOAL trial): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. (2019) (21)
- Motivations of women in Uganda living with rheumatic heart disease: A mixed methods study of experiences in stigma, childbearing, anticoagulation, and contraception (2018) (21)
- Pattern and presentation of cardiac diseases among patients with chronic kidney disease attending a national referral hospital in Uganda: a cross sectional study (2015) (19)
- Prevalence of group a streptococcus pharyngeal carriage and clinical manifestations in school children aged 5–15 yrs in Wakiso District, Uganda (2017) (19)
- Prevalence, patterns and factors associated with hypertensive crises in Mulago hospital emergency department; a cross-sectional study (2019) (18)
- Relationship between Autonomic Innervation in Crista Terminalis and Atrial Arrhythmia (2009) (17)
- The American Heart Association's Call to Action for Reducing the Global Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Policy Statement From the American Heart Association. (2020) (17)
- Targeted Echocardiographic Screening for Latent Rheumatic Heart Disease in Northern Uganda: Evaluating Familial Risk Following Identification of an Index Case (2016) (17)
- Prevalence of Group A β-hemolytic Streptococcal Throat Carriage and Prospective Pilot Surveillance of Streptococcal Sore Throat in Ugandan School Children. (2020) (16)
- Combined statin/coenzyme Q10 as adjunctive treatment of chronic heart failure. (2009) (16)
- The impact of a peer support group for children with rheumatic heart disease in Uganda. (2018) (16)
- Atrial autonomic innervation remodelling and atrial fibrillation inducibility after epicardial ganglionic plexi ablation. (2010) (16)
- Brief Report: Prevalence of Latent Rheumatic Heart Disease Among HIV-Infected Children in Kampala, Uganda (2016) (15)
- A Human-Centered Approach to CV Care (2018) (15)
- Prevention of cardiovascular disease among people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. (2020) (15)
- A focussed single-view hand-held echocardiography protocol for the detection of rheumatic heart disease (2017) (14)
- Community study to uncover the full spectrum of rheumatic heart disease in Uganda (2018) (14)
- Worldwide Disparities in Recovery of Cardiac Testing 1 Year Into COVID-19 (2022) (12)
- Prevalence and characteristics of primary left-sided valve disease in a cohort of 15,000 patients undergoing echocardiography studies in a tertiary hospital in Uganda (2018) (12)
- A comprehensive and integrated project to improve reproductive health at Oyam district, northern Uganda: insights from maternal death review at the district hospital (2011) (11)
- Rationale and design of the Pan-African Sudden Cardiac Death survey: the Pan-African SCD study (2014) (11)
- Impact of regionalisation of a national rheumatic heart disease registry: the Ugandan experience (2018) (11)
- Management of rheumatic heart disease in uganda: the emerging epidemic of non-AIDS comorbidity in resource-limited settings. (2014) (10)
- Cross-sectional study of population-specific streptococcal antibody titres in Uganda (2020) (9)
- Cardiac arrhythmia services in Africa from 2011 to 2018: the second report from the Pan African Society of Cardiology working group on cardiac arrhythmias and pacing. (2020) (8)
- Evaluation of Computer-Based Training for Health Workers in Echocardiography for RHD. (2017) (8)
- Active Case Finding for Rheumatic Fever in an Endemic Country (2020) (8)
- Improving the accuracy of heart failure diagnosis in low-resource settings through task sharing and decentralization (2019) (8)
- Starting and Operating a Public Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory in a Low Resource Setting: The Eight-Year Story of the Uganda Heart Institute Catheter Laboratory (2021) (8)
- Association of Novel Locus With Rheumatic Heart Disease in Black African Individuals: Findings From the RHDGen Study. (2021) (8)
- Outcomes and Care Quality Metrics for Women of Reproductive Age Living With Rheumatic Heart Disease in Uganda (2020) (8)
- Incidence of acute rheumatic fever in northern and western Uganda: a prospective, population-based study. (2021) (8)
- Role of Natural Autoantibodies in Ugandans With Rheumatic Heart Disease and HIV☆ (2016) (7)
- Examining the Ugandan health system's readiness to deliver rheumatic heart disease-related services. (2021) (7)
- O087 Leveraging existing HIV/AIDS infrastructure for rheumatic heart disease care in Uganda: a collaborative disease surveillance and management program (2014) (7)
- The Global Impact of Rheumatic Heart Disease (2021) (7)
- Burden, predictors and short-term outcomes of peripartum cardiomyopathy in a black African cohort (2020) (6)
- Acetylcholine-regulated K+ current remodelling in the atrium after myocardial infarction and valsartan administration. (2009) (6)
- Clinical outcomes of children with rheumatic heart disease (2022) (6)
- Developing and Validating a Clinical Warfarin Dose‐Initiation Model for Black‐African Patients in South Africa and Uganda (2020) (6)
- Household Economic Consequences of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Uganda (2021) (6)
- Non-surgical oral hygiene interventions on disease activity of Rheumatoid arthritis patients with periodontitis: A randomized controlled trial (2020) (5)
- Changes in atrial effective refractory period and I(KACh) after vagal stimulation plus rapid pacing in the pulmonary vein. (2009) (5)
- M2 and M3-muscarinic acetylcholine receptors remodelling in patients with a dilated atrium (2008) (5)
- The personal and clinical impact of screen-detected maternal rheumatic heart disease in Uganda: a prospective follow up study (2020) (5)
- Decreased Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease Confirmed Among HIV-positive Youth. (2019) (5)
- Abstract 19839: Clinical and Economic Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Low-Income Nations: Estimating the Cost-of-Illness in India and Uganda (2014) (4)
- PM290 Treatment Cascade Quality Metrics for Children With Latent Rheumatic Heart Disease in Uganda (2016) (4)
- Stable warfarin dose prediction in sub‐Saharan African patients: A machine‐learning approach and external validation of a clinical dose–initiation algorithm (2021) (4)
- Data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry in severe rheumatic heart disease (RHD) identifies a proteomic signature showing ongoing inflammation and effectively classifying RHD cases (2022) (4)
- Participation in research improves overall patient management: insights from the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease registry (REMEDY). (2018) (4)
- Deceased Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease Confirmed Among HIV Positive Youth. (2019) (4)
- The inter-rater reliability and diagnostic accuracy of the 2012 world heart federation guidelines for the echocardiographic diagnosis of latent rheumatic heart disease. (2020) (3)
- The Importance of Conscious Sedation for Life-Saving Valve Procedures in Patients With Rheumatic Heart Disease From Low- to Middle-Income Countries. (2019) (3)
- Determining the Risk of Developing Rheumatic Heart Disease Following a Negative Screening Echocardiogram (2021) (3)
- Rational and design of SATRACD study: detecting subclinical anthracycline therapy related cardiac dysfunction in low income country (2021) (3)
- Evidence-based medicine practice in Africa: is it feasible? (2009) (3)
- Periodontitis and Rheumatoid Arthritis in sub-Saharan Africa, gaps and way forward: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2019) (3)
- Establishment of a cardiac telehealth program to support cardiovascular diagnosis and care in a remote, resource-poor setting in Uganda (2021) (3)
- Clinical characterization, cardiovascular risk factor profile and cardiac strain analysis in a Uganda cancer population: The SATRACD study (2021) (3)
- O086 Does HIV infection modify the risk of RHD? Initial echocardiographic screening experience at the Joint Clinical Research Centre in Kampala, Uganda (2014) (3)
- Previous Traditional Medicine Use for Sore Throat among Children Evaluated for Rheumatic Fever in Northern Uganda. (2020) (3)
- Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in active tuberculosis in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2022) (2)
- The Uganda Heart Association. (2019) (2)
- Remote Ischaemic Conditioning in STEMI Patients in Sub-Saharan AFRICA: Rationale and Study Design for the RIC-AFRICA Trial (2021) (2)
- Makerere University-Uganda Heart Institute collaborative cardiovascular disease training and research since 1988 (2022) (2)
- A focussed single-view hand-held echocardiography protocol for the detection of rheumatic heart disease – CORRIGENDUM (2017) (2)
- Prevalence and pattern of echocardiographic abnormalities among patients on haemodialysis at an urban hospital in Central Uganda (2020) (2)
- Cardiovascular diseases in Africa in the twenty-first century: Gaps and priorities going forward (2022) (2)
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in an African Intensive Care Unit Setting: A Prospective Study of Prevalence and Outcomes. (2021) (2)
- PM023 Impact of Rheumatic Heart Disease on Maternal Outcomes in Pregnancy: Leveraging Existing Infrastructure to Address A Critical Knowledge Gap (2016) (2)
- Community Perspectives on Primary Prevention of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Uganda (2022) (2)
- Neck mass in rural Africa. (2015) (2)
- Development and Validation of a Teaching Module for Echocardiographic Scoring of Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis. (2018) (2)
- Correction: Socioeconomic and Environmental Risk Factors among Rheumatic Heart Disease Patients in Uganda (2013) (2)
- Relationship between diversity and organisational performance of state corporations in the Coastal region of Kenya (2015) (2)
- Clinical Outcomes, Echocardiographic Findings, and Care Quality Metrics for People Living with HIV and Rheumatic Heart Disease in Uganda. (2021) (1)
- Comparison of approaches to determine echocardiographic outcomes for children with latent rheumatic heart disease (2022) (1)
- Characteristics and Motivations of Women of Reproductive Age in Uganda with Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Mixed Methods Study (2017) (1)
- Modelling study of the ability to diagnose acute rheumatic fever at different levels of the Ugandan healthcare system (2022) (1)
- Abstract 18798: Application of the HIV/AIDS Treatment Cascade Model to Rheumatic Heart Disease in Uganda (2014) (1)
- Penicillin Reactions in Patients With Severe Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association (2022) (1)
- Targeted investment needed to end rheumatic heart disease in Africa. (2021) (1)
- Aortic knob diameter in chest radiographs of healthy adults in Uganda. (2021) (1)
- Mortality Along the Rheumatic Heart Disease Cascade of Care in Uganda. (2022) (1)
- Cardiovascular risk factors among patients with chronic kidney disease attending a tertiary hospital in Uganda : cardiovascular topics (2015) (1)
- Developing an African cardiothoracic surgery database (2020) (1)
- Rheumatic Heart Disease: JACC Focus Seminar 2/4. (2023) (1)
- Statistics on the use of cardiac electronic devices and electrophysiological procedures from 2011 to 2014 in 27 African countries: first report from the Pan African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR) (2017) (1)
- Trends in Annual Incidence Rates of Newly Diagnosed Endomyocardial Fibrosis Cases at the Uganda Heart Institute: A 14-Year Review (2022) (1)
- Medical Management of Rheumatic Heart Disease (2021) (1)
- Rheumatic heart disease in Ugandan primary school children : applying the 2006 WHO/NIH Consensus on echocardiographic guidelines (2011) (1)
- PO444 Improving Recognition and Referral of Acute Rheumatic Fever Through Community Education (2018) (0)
- PM111 Mitral Valve Perforation Among Patients Seen At The Uganda Heart Institute: A Series of Twelve Cases (2014) (0)
- Positive impact of training rural health workers in identification and prevention of acute rheumatic fever in eastern Uganda. (2022) (0)
- Highlights From the Circulation Family of Journals. (2019) (0)
- PO617 A Better Understanding of Acute Rheumatic Fever In Uganda (2018) (0)
- Detecting subclinical anthracycline therapy-related cardiac dysfunction in patients attending Uganda Cancer Institute. (2022) (0)
- Abstract 11546: Role of Natural Autoantibodies Among Ugandans With Rheumatic Heart Disease and HIV (2015) (0)
- Rationale and design of leveraging the HIV platform for hypertension control in Africa: protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Uganda (2022) (0)
- Corrigendum: Developing and Validating a Clinical Warfarin Dose‐Initiation Model for Black‐African Patients in South Africa and Uganda (2021) (0)
- The Use of Artificial Intelligence Guidance for Rheumatic Heart Disease Screening by Novices. (2023) (0)
- PO050 Improving the Accuracy of Heart Failure Diagnosis In Low-Resource Settings: The Impact of Decentralization And Task Sharing (2018) (0)
- List of Contributors (2021) (0)
- PO602 The Burden of Group A Streptococcal Disease Among School Children In Uganda (2018) (0)
- PW089 Usefulness of Anti-Streptococcal Antibody Profiling for Confirmation of Latent Rheumatic Heart Disease in Asymptomatic Ugandan Schoolchildren Diagnosed by Echocardiography (2014) (0)
- Abstract 16768: Improving Detection and Diagnosis of Rheumatic Fever in Low Resource Settings (2020) (0)
- Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Latent Rheumatic Heart Disease. Reply. (2022) (0)
- A 36-year-old man with concomitant left ventricular apical thrombus and bilateral acute lower limb ischaemia: Is it only the heart to blame? (2017) (0)
- MS06.9 Telemedicine Support of Cardiac Care In Northern Uganda: Leveraging Hand-held Echocardiography and Task Shifting (2018) (0)
- SAT-103 PREVALENCE AND PATTERN OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC ABNORMALITIES AMONG PATIENTS ON HAEMODIALYSIS AT AN URBAN HOSPITAL IN UGANDA (2020) (0)
- PO445 Parental Perceptions of Acute Rheumatic Fever Diagnosis In an Endemic Setting (2018) (0)
- Abstract 9168: Echocardiography-Based Screening for Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Sensitive and Cost-effective Way to Reduce Disease Burden in the Developing World (2011) (0)
- Rheumatic Heart Disease in Uganda : The Association between MHC Class II HLA DRB 1 Alleles and Disease : A Case Control Study (2014) (0)
- P1678Managing arrhythmias in africa: the pan african society of cardiology (PASCAR) survey on the use of cardiac electronic devices and electrophysiological procedures from 2011 to 2014 in 31 countries (2017) (0)
- Abstract 16550: Community Perception and Treatment of Sore Throat Among Children in a Rheumatic Heart Disease Endemic Setting (2020) (0)
- A genome-wide association study of plasma concentrations of warfarin enantiomers and metabolites in sub-Saharan black-African patients (2022) (0)
- PO545 Pilot Testing the RHD Action Needs Assessment Tool In a Live Environment (2018) (0)
- P3131Evolution of subclinical rheumatic heart disease: a multi-centre retrospective cohort study (2019) (0)
- Same ablation may be used for frequent premature ventricular contractions and supraventricular tachycardia. (2009) (0)
- Cover Image, Volume 173A, Number 9, September 2017. (2017) (0)
- Author's response to reviews Title:Rheumatic Heart Disease in Uganda: The Association between MHC Class II HLA DRB1 Alleles and Disease: A Case Control Study Authors: (2014) (0)
- Abstract 13145: Latent Rheumatic Heart Disease: Outcomes Two Years After Echocardiographic Detection (2013) (0)
- Abstract 11331: Economic and Social Challenges Faced by People Living with Rheumatic Heart Disease in a Resource Limited Setting (2021) (0)
- PO424 Traditional Medicine Use In Children With Suspected Acute Rheumatic Fever (2018) (0)
- Long COVID in Uganda: Electrographic findings among patients at risk (2023) (0)
- What We Lost in the Fire: Endemic Tropical Heart Diseases in the Time of COVID-19. (2023) (0)
- PM267 Spectrum of Infective Endocarditis Among Children at the Uganda Heart Institute (2016) (0)
- Prevalence, Clinical Features and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Group A Streptococcal Skin Infections in Schoolchildren in Urban Western and Northern Uganda. (2019) (0)
- Ensembled Prediction of Rheumatic Heart Disease from Ungated Doppler Echocardiography Acquired in Low-Resource Settings (2022) (0)
- Abstract 14044: Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disaese in Ugandan School-Aged Population: Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa (2014) (0)
- Blood pressure determinants among medical students in a Kenyan University. (2008) (0)
- PO443 Community Sensitization of Acute Rheumatic Fever In an Endemic Setting (2018) (0)
- Establishing Cutoffs for Streptococcal Antibody Titers in Uganda: Implications for Rheumatic Fever Diagnosis (2019) (0)
- Effects of sea anemone toxin anthopleurin-Q on potassium currents in rats and guinea pig ventricular myocytes (2008) (0)
- A Qualitative Study of Patients’ Experiences, Enablers and Barriers of Rheumatic Heart Disease Care in Uganda (2023) (0)
- Data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry in severe rheumatic heart disease (RHD) identifies a proteomic signature showing ongoing inflammation and effectively classifying RHD cases (2022) (0)
- Review of electrocardiographic abnormalities among people living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review (2023) (0)
- Abstract 11272: Barriers and Enablers of Rheumatic Heart Disease Care in a Resource Limited Setting (2021) (0)
- PO605 The Utility of Existing Clinical Decision Rules For Streptococcal Pharyngitis In Ugandan School Children (2018) (0)
- The role of conventional echocardiographic parameters on detecting subclinical anthracycline therapy related cardiac dysfunction—The SATRACD study (2022) (0)
- Rationale, Design, and the Baseline Characteristics of the RHDGen (The Genetics of Rheumatic Heart Disease) Network Study† (2022) (0)
- P1074Managing arrhythmias in africa: the pan african society of cardiology (PASCAR) survey on the use of cardiac electronic devices and electrophysiological procedures from 2011 to 2014 in 31 countries (2017) (0)
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