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Joselyn Rwebembera
Researcher at Mulago Hospital
Publications - 23
Citations - 249
Joselyn Rwebembera is an academic researcher from Mulago Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rheumatic fever & Population. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 23 publications receiving 134 citations. Previous affiliations of Joselyn Rwebembera include Mbarara University of Science and Technology & Harvard University.
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Rheumatic Heart Disease Treatment Cascade in Uganda.
Chris T. Longenecker,Chris T. Longenecker,Stephen R. Morris,Stephen R. Morris,Twalib Aliku,Andrea Beaton,Marco A. Costa,Moses R. Kamya,Cissy Kityo,Peter Lwabi,Grace Mirembe,Dorah Nampijja,Joselyn Rwebembera,Craig Sable,Robert A. Salata,Amy Scheel,Daniel I. Simon,Isaac Ssinabulya,Emmy Okello +18 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that improving retention in care—possibly by decentralizing RHD services—would have the greatest impact on uptake of antibiotic prophylaxis among patients with RHD in Uganda.
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Prevalence of lower extremity Peripheral artery disease among adult diabetes patients in Southwestern Uganda
Samson Okello,Alexander S. Millard,Rogers Owori,Stephen Asiimwe,Mark J. Siedner,Joselyn Rwebembera,Laurence Anthony Wilson,Christopher C. Moore,Brian H. Annex +8 more
TL;DR: PAD was common in diabetic patients in southwestern Uganda and ABI deserves further assessment as a screening tool for both PAD and long term cardiovascular risk amongst diabetics in this region.
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World Heart Federation Roadmap on Atrial Fibrillation - A 2020 Update
Ben Freedman,Gerhard Hindricks,Amitava Banerjee,Adrian Baranchuk,Chi Keong Ching,Xin Du,Donna Fitzsimons,Jeff S. Healey,Takanori Ikeda,Trudie Lobban,Amam Mbakwem,Calambur Narasimhan,Lis Neubeck,Peter A. Noseworthy,Daniel M Philbin,Fausto J. Pinto,Joselyn Rwebembera,Renate B. Schnabel,Jesper Hastrup Svendsen,Luis Aguinaga,Elena Arbelo,Michael Böhm,Hasan Ali Farhan,FD Richard Hobbs,Antoni Martínez-Rubio,Claudio Militello,Nitish Naik,Jean Jacques Noubiap,Pablo Perel,Daniel J. Piñeiro,Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro,Janina Stępińska +31 more
TL;DR: The World Heart Federation (WHF) initiated a Roadmap initiative in 2015 to reduce the global burden of cardiovascular disease and resultant burgeoning of healthcare costs as mentioned in this paper, where the goal was to provide guidance on priority interventions that are feasible in multiple countries, and to identify roadblocks and potential strategies to overcome them.
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Determining the impact of Benzathine penicillin G prophylaxis in children with latent rheumatic heart disease (GOAL trial): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
Andrea Beaton,Andrea Beaton,Emmy Okello,Daniel T. Engelman,Anneke Grobler,Amy Scheel,Alyssa DeWyer,Rachel Sarnacki,Isaac Otim Omara,Joselyn Rwebembera,Craig Sable,Andrew C Steer +11 more
TL;DR: The results of this study will immediately inform the standard of care for children diagnosed with latent RHD and will shape, over 2-3 years, practical and scalable programs that could substantially decrease the burden of RHD in the authors' lifetime.
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Characteristics of acute heart failure hospitalizations in a general medical ward in Southwestern Uganda.
TL;DR: The clinical characteristics and predictors of in-hospital mortality in adults hospitalized with acute heart failure in a general medical ward at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda, a publicly operated tertiary care hospital, are described.