Acute rheumatic fever is an inflammatory response to group A streptococcal infectionwhich typically occurs two to three weeks after a throat infection.Worldwide, approximately 500 000 new cases of acute rheumatic fever occur annually, and at least 15 million people have chronic rheumatic heart disease. 2 Acute rheumatic fever is characterised by a clinical syndrome, and the most common manifest...

Correspondence: Dr VK Bahl, Professor of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029 e-mail: [email protected] Heart disease complicates approximately 0.4-4% of all pregnancies. Presence of significant heart diease during pregnancy is a high risk situation; it increases the risks of adverse maternal and fetal outcome. Despite advances in the management of maternal c...

tp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wjorl.20 95-8811/Copyright a 2017 Chinese d. This is an open access article un Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy were developed hundreds of years ago, but they enjoyed wide popularity beginning in the early 20th century as a preventive treatment of Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal (GABHS) pharyngotonsillitis and its feared complication rheumatic heart disease. During...

BACKGROUND Although atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation is efficient in many patient cohorts, its effect on rheumatic heart disease remains controversial. We describe a retrospective comparison of surgical ablation using the same technique in rheumatic versus nonrheumatic patients. METHODS Between 2004 and 2009, we performed AF ablation as a part of another cardiac surgery in 192 patients with ...

BACKGROUND Valvular heart disease has been a significant cause of heart disease worldwide. In Ethiopia, it particularly affects young individuals and constitutes the major cause of cardiovascular disease. Factors associated with choice of treatment for advanced valvular heart disease are variable. The objective of this study is to review surgery done for Ethiopian patients with valvular heart d...