• A survey of RNA viruses in mosquitoes from Mozambique reveals novel genetic lineages of flaviviruses and phenuiviruses, as well as frequent flavivirus-like viral DNA forms in Mansonia 

  Abílio, Ana Paula; Silva, Manuel; Kampango, Ayubo; Narciso, Inácio; Gudo, Eduardo Samo; Neves, Luís das; Sidat, Mohsin; Fafetine, José Manuel; Almeida, António Paulo Gouveia de; Parreira, Ricardo (BMC, 2020)

  Background: Mosquito-borne diseases involving arboviruses represent expanding threats to sub-Saharan Africa imposing as considerable burden to human and veterinary public health. In Mozambique over one hundred species ...
• Strengthening research capacity through the medical education partnership initiative: the Mozambique experience 

  Noormahomed, Emília; Mocumbi, Ana O.; Prezios, Michael; Damasceno, Albertino; Bickler, Stephen; Smith, David M.; Funzamo, Carlos; Aronoff-Spencer, Eliah; Badaró, Roberto; Mabila, Francisco; Bila, David; Nguenha, Alcido; Rosário, Virgilio do; Benson, Constance A.; Schooley, Robert T.; Patel, Sam; Ferrão, Luis Jorge; Carrilho, Carla (BioMed Central, 2013)

  Background: Since Mozambique’s independence, the major emphasis of its higher educational institutions has been on didactic education. Because of fiscal and human resource constraints, basic and applied research ...
• Prioritizing health-sector interventions for noncommunicable diseases and injuries in low- and lower-middle income countries: National NCDI Poverty Commissions 

  Gupta, Neil; Mocumbi, Ana; Arwal, Said H.; Jain, Yogesh; Haileamlak, Abraham M.; Memirie, Solomon T.; Larco, Nancy C.; Kwan, Gene F.; Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, Mary; Gathecha, Gladwell; Amegashie, Fred; Rakotoarison, Vincent; Masiye, Jones; Wroe, Emily; Koirala, Bhagawan; Karmacharya, Biraj; Condo, Jeanine; Nyemazi, Jean Pierre; Sesay, Santigie; Maogenzi, Sarah; Mayige, Mary; Mutungi, Gerald; Ssinabulya, Isaac; Akiteng, Ann R.; Mudavanhu, Justice; Kapambwe, Sharon; Watkins, David; Norheim, Ole; Makani, Julie; Bukhman, Gene (Global Health: Science and Practice, 2021)

  Health sector priorities and interventions to prevent and manage noncommunicable diseases and injuries (NCDIs) in low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs) have primarily adopted elements of the World Health ...
• Need for active cardiovascular screening in HIV-infected children under antiretroviral therapy in Africa 

  Manafe, Naisa; Ngale, Agito; Biquiza, Neuza; Zimba, Inês; Majid, Nurjah; Mocumbi, Ana O. (Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy, 2019-02)

  Unacceptably high incidence of pediatric HIV despite worldwide increased access to antiretroviral therapy. The routine management of these children includes provision of antiretroviral therapy, and periodic assessment ...
• Hypertension in a resource-limited setting: poor outcomes on short-term follow-up in an urban hospital in Maputo, Mozambique 

  Manafe, Naisa; Matimbe, Rosália Nhabete; Danie, Josefa; Lecour, Sandrine; Sliwa, Karen; Mocumbi, Ana O. (Wiley, 2019-10)

  Mozambique has low levels of detection, treatment, and control of hypertension. However, data on target organ damage and clinical outcomes are lacking. The au-thors aimed at characterizing the clinical ...
• Strengthening research capacity through the medical education partnership initiative: the Mozambique experience 

  Noormahomed, Emilia; Mocumbi, Ana O.; Prezios, Michael; Damasceno, Albertino; Bickler, Stephen; Smith, David M.; Funzamo, Carlos; Aronoff-Spencer, Eliah; Badaró, Roberto; Mabila, Francisco; Bila, David; Nguenha, Alcido; Rosário, Virgilio do; Benson, Constance A.; Schooley, Robert T.; Patel, Sam; Ferrão, Luis Jorge; Carrilho, Carla (BioMed Central, 2013)

  Since Mozambique’s independence, the major emphasis of its higher educational institutions has been on didactic education. Because of fiscal and human resource constraints, basic and applied research activities have been ...
• Design and implementation of postgraduate programs in health in a resource-limited setting in Mozambique (The Lúrio University) 

  Noormahomed, Emília; Mandane, Amélia; Cuambe, Agnesse; Rodrigues, Maria Alexandra; Noormahomed, Sérgio; Carrilho, Carla; Mocumbi, Ana O.; Ali, Momade; Vintuar, Pompilio; Ismail, Mamudo; Guilundo, Carvalho; Bickler, Stephen; Benson, Constance A.; Ferrão, Jorge Luis; Schooley, Robert T. (Dove Medical Press, 2021)

  To describe the strategies used to design and implement three postgraduate programs at Lúrio University (UniLúrio), a resource-limited setting, in northern Mozambique. We conducted a longitudinal, descriptive case study ...
• Repair of congenital heart disease with associated pulmonary hypertension in children: what are the minimal investigative procedures? consensus statement from the congenital heart disease and pediatric task forces, pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI) 

  Lopes, Antonio Augusto; Barst, Robyn J.; Haworth, Sheila Glennis; Rabinovitch, Marlene; Dabbagh, Maha Al; Cerro, Maria Jesus del; vy, Dunbar I.; Kashour, Tarek; Kumar, Krishna; Harikrishnan, S.; D’Alto, Michele; Thomaz, Ana Maria; Zorzanelli, Leina; Aiello, Vera D.; Mocumbi, Ana O.; Santana, Maria Virginia T.; Galal, Ahmed Nasser; Banjar, Hanaa; Tamimi, Omar; Heath, Alexandra; Flores, Patricia C.; Diaz, Gabriel; Sandoval, Julio; Kothari, Shyam; Moledina, Shahin; Gonçalves, Rilvani C.; Barreto, Alessandra C.; Binotto, Maria Angélica; Maia, Margarida; Habshan, Fahad Al; Adatia, Ian (Pulmonary Circulation, 2014)

  Standardization of the diagnostic routine for children with congenital heart disease associatedwith pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH-CHD) is crucial, in particular since inappropriate assignmentto repair of the cardiac ...
• Focus on non-communicable diseases: an important agenda for the African continent 

  Mocumbi, Ana O. (Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy, 2013)

  In Africa together with risk factors for cardiovascular diseases such as systemic hypertension, diabetes, tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption and overweight, there is an important role of poverty-related conditions in ...
• Lack of evidence of myocardial damage in children with plasmodium falciparum severe and complicated malaria from an endemic area for endomyocardial fibrosis 

  Mocumbi, Ana O.; Salomão, Cristolde; Ulibarri, Rogelio; Ferreira, Maria Beatriz; Yacoub, Magdi H. (Oxford University Press, 2011)

  Malaria is among the factors thought to be involved in the pathogenesis of endomyocardial fibrosis(EMF), a restrictive cardiomyopathy of unclear etiology, with no specific therapy, which affectspredominantly children and ...
• Closing the gaps on medical education in low-income countries through information & communication technologies: the Mozambique experience 

  Zavale, Ben Lauro; Spencer, Eliah Aronoff; Guilundo, Carvalho; Schooley, Robert; Patel, Sam; Noormahomed, Emília Virgínia; Mocumbi, Ana O. (Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, 2023-07)

  Medical training in developing countries has continuously faced challenges to produce the needed number of cadres and maintain the needed quality standards. Mozambique, a low-income country in Southern Africa, has a major ...
• Echocardiography: a tool to foster research into neglected cardiovascular diseases in Africa 

  Mocumbi, Ana O. (Springer, 2010-05)

  Research in wealthy countries has been co-funded by the government and the industry, allowing spectacu- lar discoveries in molecular biology, chemistry and engineering, which are then taken to the pharmaceu- tical ...
• Endomyocardial fibrosis: an update after 70 years 

  Mocumbi, Ana O.; Stothard, J. Russell; Correia-de-Sá, Paulo; Yacoub, Magdi (Springer, 2019)

  This review aims at highlighting the need to better understand the pathogenesis and natural history of endomyocardial fibrosis when set against its changing endemicity and disease burden, improvements in diagnosis, and new ...
• An innovative technique for the relief of right ventricular trabecular cavity obliteration in endomyocardial fibrosis 

  Mocumbi, Ana O.; Sidi, Daniel; Vouhe, Pascal; Yacoub, Magdi (The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2007-10)

  Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) mainly affects persons from Africa, South America, and Asia. 1 The pathogen- esis of this condition remains unknown. In advanced forms, EMF produces marked disability and carries a poor ...
• Long-term follow-up of human immunodeficiency virus-associated pulmonary hypertension: clinical features and survival outcomes of the Pan Africa Pulmonary Hypertension Cohort (PAPUCO) 

  Thienemann, Friedrich; Katoto, Patrick D. M. C.; Aziban, Feriel; Kodogo, Vitaris; Mukasa, Sandra L.; Sani, Mahmoud U.; Karaye, Kamilu M.; Mbanze, Irina; Mocumbi, Ana O.; Dzudie, Anastase; Sliwa, Karen (Oxford University Press, 2022)

  Data characterizing risk factors and long-term outcome studies on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated pulmonary hypertension (PH) in Africa are lacking.The Pan African Pulmonary Hypertension Cohort, a multinational ...
• Research priorities for the secondary prevention and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute workshop report 

  Karthikeyan, Ganesan; Watkins, David; Bukhman, Gene; Cunningham, Madeleine W.; Haller, John; Masterson, Mary; Mensah, George A.; Mocumbi, Ana O.; Muhamed, Babu; Okello, Emmy; Sotoodehnia, Nona; Machipisa, Tafadzwa; Ralph, Anna; Wyber, Rosemary; Beaton, Andrea (BMJ Global Health, 2023-05)

  Secondary prevention of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) involves continuous antimicrobial prophylaxis among affected individuals and is recognised as a cornerstone of public health programmes ...
• Rheumatic heart disease in Africa: is there a role for genetic studies? 

  Mocumbi, Ana O. (Cardiovascular Journal of Africa, 2015)

  Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) constitutes a leading cause of premature death and incapacity in Africa, where it is encountered in younger people, and shows a much faster and more malignant course than that seen in Europe ...
• Winter peaks in heart failure: an inevitable or preventable consequence of seasonal vulnerability? 

  Stewart, Simon; Moholdt, Trine T.; Burrell, Louise M.; Sliwa, Karen; Mocumbi, Ana O.; McMurray, John J.V.; Keates, Ashley K.; Hawley, John A. (Radcliffe Cardiology, 2019)

  Climate change is a major contributor to annual winter peaks in cardiovascular events across the globe. However, given the paradoxical observation that cardiovascular seasonality is observed in relatively mild as well as ...
• Tertiary prevention and treatment of rheumatic heart disease: a national heart, lung, and blood institute working group summary 

  Vervoort, Dominique; Yilgwan, Christopher Sabo; Ansong, Annette; Baumgartner, Jennifer N.; Bansal, Geetha; Bukhman, Gene; Cannon, Jeffrey W.; Cardarelli, Marcelo; Cunningham, Madeleine W.; Fenton, Kathleen; Green-­Parker, Melissa; Karthikeyan, Ganesan; Masterson, Mary; Maswime, Salome; Mensah, George A.; Mocumbi, Ana O.; Kpodonu, Jacques; Okello, Emmy; Remenyi, B.; Williams, Makeda; Zühlke, Liesl J.; Sable, Craig (BMJ, 2023-05)

  Although entirely preventable, rheumatic heart disease (RHD), a disease of poverty and social disadvantage resulting in high morbidity and mortality, remains an ever-­present burden in low-­income and middle-­income countries ...
• Neglected tropical cardiomyopathies, Chagas disease: Myocardial disease 

  Yacoub, Sophie; Mocumbi, Ana O.; Yacoub, Magdi H. (BMJ, 2008)

  Cardiomyopathies, defined as diseases of the myo- cardium associated with cardiac dysfunction, are classified into dilated, hypertrophic, restrictive and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, as well as ...

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