rheumatic fever

Cutaneous Manifestations of Rheumatic Fever in Children

Sur 2601 admissions, chez 113 enfants at­teints de la maladie de Bouillaud, hospitalises en cinq ans dans deux services de pediatrie de Te­heran (C.H.U. de Pahlavi, C.H.U. de Logman­doleh Adham) 6 cas de manifestations cutanees  (trois cas de nodules, trois cas d'erytheme mar­ginatum) ont ete constates, trois d'entre eux souffrant d'une cardite severe et evolutive.  En Iran !'incidence des si...

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...

Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Carditisin Izmir

Acute rheumatic fever is a non-suppurative complication of Streptococcus pyogenes which only licks the joints, however bites the heart valves, particularly the mitral, aortic or both, rarely the tricuspid valve, resulting in valvular endothelial ulceration, collagen degeneration, neovascularization, interstitial calcification and fibrosis associated with lymphocytic infiltration [1]. Currently ...

VI. Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.

Rheumatic Fever with Hyperpyrexia

G. C., an Austrian, aged 53 years, and employed as a fireman on an Austrian steamer, was admitted under my care into the Presidency General Hospital, Calcutta, on the 12th June 1893. He was brought to the hospital by one of the officers of the S.S. Aglai, who stated that G. 0. had been ill for ten days suffering from "fever" and pain and swelling in his joints. There was no previous history of ...