RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE (RHD); SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK FACTORS FOR ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER (ARF) AND RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE (RHD) PATIENTS IN PAKISTAN

What Is Acute Rheumatic Fever (arf) and Rheumatic Heart Disease (rhd)?

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...

Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.

Rheumatic heart disease poses a major challenge to public health and is the most prevalent heart disease in children. The major determinants of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease are poverty, malnutrition, overcrowding, poor housing, and a shortage of health-care resources. Although cost-effective strategies for the prevention and control of these diseases are available, they remain un...

VI. Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.

African leaders take action on RHD: The 4th All-Africa Workshop on Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease & African Union RHD Communiqué

Received: 4 April 2016 Accepted: 8 June 2016 c © 2016 The Author(s), licensee Magdi Yacoub Institute. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY-4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cite this article as: Nulu S, Neely RC, Tawakol Z, Yacoub ...