With Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Mild Rheumatic Heart Disease Rarely Progresses Over 5Years

Joselyn Rwebembera; Craig Sable; Anneke C. Grobler; Jafesi Pulle; Amy Scheel; Atukunda Mucunguzi; Alison M. Spaziani; Daniel Engelman; Jonathan Carapetis; Ganesan Karthikeyan; Peter Lwabi; Liesl Zühlke; Maria C.P. Nunes; Nigel Wilson; Ana Olga Mocumbi; Emma Ndagire; Christine Mwaka Okwera; Susan Akullo; Julious Etyang; Alannah Rudkin; Rachel Sarnacki; Miriam Nakitto; Brenda Atim; Emmy Okello; Andrew Steer; Andrea Beaton

doi:10.1161/JAHA.125.046842

With Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Mild Rheumatic Heart Disease Rarely Progresses Over 5Years

Joselyn Rwebembera
, Craig Sable
, Anneke C. Grobler
, Jafesi Pulle
, Amy Scheel
, Atukunda Mucunguzi
, Alison M. Spaziani
, Daniel Engelman
, Jonathan Carapetis
, Ganesan Karthikeyan
, Peter Lwabi
, Liesl Zühlke
, Maria C.P. Nunes
, Nigel Wilson
, Ana Olga Mocumbi
, Emma Ndagire
, Christine Mwaka Okwera
, Susan Akullo
, Julious Etyang
, Alannah Rudkin

Rachel Sarnacki, Miriam Nakitto, Brenda Atim, Emmy Okello, Andrew Steer, Andrea Beaton

UWA Centre for Child Health Research (affiliated with the The Kids Research Institute Australia)

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Original language	English
Article number	e046842
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of the American Heart Association
Volume	15
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.125.046842
Publication status	Published - 20 Jan 2026

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Rwebembera, J., Sable, C., Grobler, A. C., Pulle, J., Scheel, A., Mucunguzi, A., Spaziani, A. M., Engelman, D., Carapetis, J., Karthikeyan, G., Lwabi, P., Zühlke, L., Nunes, M. C. P., Wilson, N., Mocumbi, A. O., Ndagire, E., Okwera, C. M., Akullo, S., Etyang, J., ... Beaton, A. (2026). With Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Mild Rheumatic Heart Disease Rarely Progresses Over 5Years. Journal of the American Heart Association, 15(2), Article e046842. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.125.046842

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With Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Mild Rheumatic Heart Disease Rarely Progresses Over 5Years

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