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Screening Rheumatic Heart Disease in 1530 New Caledonian Adolescents

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020
BACKGROUND In New Caledonia, a South Pacific archipelago whose inhabitants comprise Melanesians, Europeans/whites, Wallisians, Futunans, Polynesians, and Asians, the prevalence of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is 0.9% to 1% at ages 9 and 10.
Jean‐Claude Chatard, Thomas Dubois, Florian Espinosa, Joël Kamblock, Pierre‐Henri Ledos, Emmanuel Tarpinian, Antoine Da Costa   +6 more
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Impact of Echocardiography in Diagnosis Heart Lesion after Rheumatic Fever Disease in Kosovar Children [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Acute rheumatic fever and its sequels, rheumatic heart diseases, remain major unsolved preventable health problems in Kosovo population, particularly among the disadvantages indigenous Albanian and Egyptians people.
Bejiqi, Ramush
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Rheumatic Fever: Natural History and Treatment [PDF]

, 1965
Major advances in clinical and laboratory research methods have significantly clarified the identification and natural course of rheumatic fever in the past two ...
Feinstein, Alvan R.
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Serological Evidence of Immune Priming by Group A Streptococci in Patients with Acute Rheumatic Fever

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016
Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is an autoimmune response to Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infection. Repeated GAS exposures are proposed to ‘prime’ the immune system for autoimmunity.
J. Raynes, H. Frost, Deborah A. Williamson, Deborah A. Williamson, Deborah A. Williamson, P. Young, E. Baker, J. Steemson, J. Loh, T. Proft, P. Dunbar, Polly Atatoa Carr, A. Bell, N. Moreland   +13 more
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Rheumatic fever: New ideas in diagnosis and management

SA Heart Journal, 2017
Rheumatic heart disease remains a major cause of disability and death in developing countries. Careful re-analysis of mid-20th century data as well as the juxtaposition of well-funded research units and populations at risk have generated information that
John Lawrenson
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Acute non-rheumatic myocarditis following group G streptococcal pharyngitis: a rare mimic of acute myocardial ischemia in a young adult

European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Background: Acute myocarditis is a rare but serious inflammatory condition of the myocardium, often triggered by infections or rheumatic heart disease. While group A Streptococcus is commonly associated with bacterial myocarditis, group G Streptococcus ...
Elizabeth R. Rimsky, Kaiyu Jia, Aysan Sattarzadeh, Jeffrey Loeffler, Yisroel Grabie, Jonathan Spagnola   +5 more
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Culture Positive Brucella Endocarditis in a Case of Baloon Mitral Valvotomy [PDF]

, 2011
Brucella endocarditis is a rare condition which occurs as a focal complication in chronic brucellosis cases. We report a rare brucella endocarditis case in a RVHD patient. A 26 years old male was admitted with fever on off for almost one year.
Aundhkar, S, Ghorpade, MV, Pawar, SK
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Novel Finding of Coronary Ectasia in a Case of Acute Rheumatic Fever

Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2013
A 10-year-old boy presented to his pediatrician with acute fever, rash, and polyarthritis. Laboratory studies revealed elevated inflammatory markers and positive throat culture.
Thomas Weiler, Anjali Chelliah, Linda Bradley-Tiernan, E. Anne Greene   +3 more
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Rheumatic heart disease screening: Current concepts and challenges

Annals of Pediatric Cardiology, 2017
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a disease of poverty, is almost entirely preventable, and is the most common cardiovascular disease worldwide in those under 25 years.
Scott Dougherty, Maziar Khorsandi, Philip Herbst   +2 more
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Understanding the Twentieth Century Decline in Chronic Conditions Among Older Men [PDF]

I use a sample of Union Army veterans to trace the impact of a high infant mortality rate in area of enlistment, such infectious disease as acute respiratory infections, measles, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, diarrhea, and malaria while ...
Dora L. Costa
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