Correction to: Nature Reviews Cardiology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-023-00940-9, published online 2 November 2023.
In the version of the article initially published, in the “Diagnosis of carditis in an index ARF case” section, the text now reading “pathological mitral and/or aortic regurgitation must be present (as defined in Box 5)” previously cited Box 4. This has now been amended in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
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Division of Adult Cardiology, Uganda Heart Institute, Kampala, Uganda
Joselyn Rwebembera & Emmy Okello
Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
James Marangou, Alexander Kaethner & Bo Reményi
Department of Cardiology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
James Marangou
Department of Cardiology, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
James Marangou
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Botswana and Princess Marina Hospital, Gaborone, Botswana
Julius Chacha Mwita
University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique
Ana Olga Mocumbi
Departamento de Paediatria, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo, Horizonte, Brazil
Cleonice Mota
Divisão de Cardiologia Pediátrica e Fetal/Serviço de Cardiologia e Cirurgia Cardiovascular e Serviço de Paediatria, Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo, Horizonte, Brazil
Cleonice Mota
Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo, Horizonte, Brazil
Bruno Nascimento & Maria Carmo Pereira Nunes
Serviço de Cardiologia e Cirurgia Cardiovascular, Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo, Horizonte, Brazil
Bruno Nascimento & Maria Carmo Pereira Nunes
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lene Thorup
Department of Paediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Andrea Beaton
Division of Cardiology, The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Andrea Beaton
Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccine and Infectious Diseases, Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Joseph Kado
School of Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Joseph Kado
NT Cardiac, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Alexander Kaethner & Bo Reményi
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi, India
Raman Krishna Kumar
Paediatric Cardiology Service of the Western Cape, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
John Lawrenson
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
John Lawrenson
Division of Cardiology, European Georges Pompidou Hospital, Paris, France
Eloi Marijon
Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France
Mariana Mirabel
Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Daniel Piñeiro
Cardiology Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, The Cardiovascular Centre of the University of Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Fausto Pinto
World Heart Federation, Geneva, Switzerland
Kate Ralston
Division of Cardiology, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
Craig Sable
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
Amy Sanyahumbi
Pt BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, India
Anita Saxena
Cape Heart Institute, Department of Medicine and Cardiology, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Karen Sliwa
Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Andrew Steer
Tropical Diseases Research Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Andrew Steer
Department of General Medicine, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Andrew Steer
School of Medicine, National University of Samoa, Apia, Samoa
Satupaitea Viali
Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Gavin Wheaton
Green Lane Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Services, Starship Hospital, Te Whatu Ora, Auckland, New Zealand
Nigel Wilson
South African Medical Research Council, Extramural Research & Internal Portfolio, Cape Town, South Africa
Liesl Zühlke
Division of Paediatric Cardiology, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Liesl Zühlke
Department of Paediatrics, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia
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Rwebembera, J., Marangou, J., Mwita, J.C. et al. Author Correction: 2023 World Heart Federation guidelines for the echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease. Nat Rev Cardiol 21, 347 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-024-01018-w
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