Rheumatic Heart Disease as an Economical Disease Comment from the Pediatric Point of View : Rheumatic Heart Disease as an Economical Disease
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Immunologic Factors in Acute Rheumatic Fever Compared to Rheumatic Heart Disease
Background/Objective: To clarify the state of different immunologic factors in patients with acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) compared to healthy individuals.Patients and Methods: Patients with ARF (#21), patients with RHD six months after the onset of ARF (#19), and healthy children from the same age group with normal physical examination and no history of pharyngi...
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Rheumatic heart disease, often neglected by media and policy makers, is a major burden in developing countries where it causes most of the cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in young people, leading to about 250,000 deaths per year worldwide. The disease results from an abnormal autoimmune response to a group A streptococcal infection in a genetically susceptible host. Acute rheumatic fever...
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The possible diagnostic value of an enlarged left atrial appendage (LAA) on the posterior-anterior or right anterior oblique chest film as a means of implicating a rheumatic etiology for mitral valve disease in children was investigated. Chest films were examined without prior knowledge of clinical or laboratory data, and the results were later correlated with this information in 113 children a...
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To cite: Steger CM. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2015211943 DESCRIPTION A 65-year-old man with a medical history of rheumatic fever in childhood reported thoracic pain while at work and collapsed. He died in the ambulance on the way to hospital due to ventricular fibrillation. After the few episodes of rheumatic fever with subsequent pancarditis...
متن کاملOriginal Article AWARENESS OF RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE IN PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE
Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease that may develop after an infection with group A 1, 2 Streptococcus bacteria. The disease can affect the heart, joints, skin and brain. Complications of rheumatic fever are arrhythmias, damage to the heart valves, endocarditis, heart failure, pericarditis and 3 Sydenham's chorea. The most important way to prevent rheumatic fever is by getting quick tre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Japanese Circulation Journal
سال: 1966
ISSN: 0047-1828,1347-4839
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.30.1337