{"id":2778,"date":"2018-08-03T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/news\/leading-heart-surgery-societies-call-for-improved-strategies-to-treat-rheumatic-heart-disease\/"},"modified":"2022-09-09T15:14:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T13:14:34","slug":"leading-heart-surgery-societies-call-for-improved-strategies-to-treat-rheumatic-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/news\/leading-heart-surgery-societies-call-for-improved-strategies-to-treat-rheumatic-heart-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Heart Surgery Societies Call for Improved Strategies to Treat Rheumatic Heart Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"post-5928 media-5928\" class=\"align-none center-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/STS-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<h4><em>Declaration details global initiative for people living with RHD<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Experts from the world\u2019s major heart surgery organizations\u2014including The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), the Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (ASCVTS), and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)\u2014are calling for urgent action to develop and implement effective strategies for treating <a href=\"https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/what-we-do\/rheumatic-heart-disease\/\">rheumatic heart disease (RHD)<\/a>, which affects 33 million people and kills 320,000 annually.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org\/article\/S0003-4975(18)30751-3\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joint statement<\/a>, known as the <strong>Cape Town Declaration<\/strong>, was published online today in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery and eight other journals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cape-Town-Declaration-press-release.pdf\">Read the full press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declaration details global initiative for people living with RHD CHICAGO \u2014 Experts from the world\u2019s major heart surgery organizations\u2014including The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), the Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (ASCVTS), and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)\u2014are calling for urgent action to develop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2779,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"event":[],"project-campaign":[],"topic":[171],"class_list":["post-2778","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.2 (Yoast SEO v23.2) - 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