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Acute rheumatic fever

The Lancet, 2018
Acute rheumatic fever is caused by an autoimmune response to throat infection with Streptococcus pyogenes. Cardiac involvement during acute rheumatic fever can result in rheumatic heart disease, which can cause heart failure and premature mortality. Poverty and household overcrowding are associated with an increased prevalence of acute rheumatic fever ...
Ganesan, Karthikeyan, Luiza, Guilherme
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Acute Rheumatic Fever

Pediatrics In Review, 2021
The incidence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is 8 to 51 per 100,000 people worldwide. It most commonly affects children 5 to 15 years of age after a group A streptococcal infection. Overcrowding and poor socioeconomic conditions are directly proportional to the incidence of ARF.
Subhrajit, Lahiri, Amy, Sanyahumbi
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Acute rheumatic fever

The Lancet, 2005
Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and its chronic sequela, rheumatic heart disease (RHD), have become rare in most affluent populations, but remain unchecked in developing countries and in some poor, mainly indigenous populations in wealthy countries. More than a century of research, mainly in North America and Europe, has improved our understanding of ARF ...
Carapetis, Jonathan R.   +2 more
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Acute rheumatic fever

Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 2010
Abstract Acute rheumatic fever is an immunologically mediated multisystem disease induced by recent infection with group A streptococcus. About 5% of people have the potential to develop acute rheumatic fever after infection by a strain of streptococcus with propensity to cause the condition.
J. Carapetis
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Cytokine imbalance in acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: Mechanisms and therapeutic implications.

Autoimmunity Reviews, 2022
Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF) and Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) are autoimmune sequelae of Group A Streptococcus infection with significant global disease burden.
Francis Middleton   +4 more
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Incidence and clinical characteristics of acute rheumatic fever in Turkey: Results of a nationwide multicentre study

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2021
To evaluate the incidence and clinical features of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) in Turkey, following the revised Jones criteria in 2015.
D. Gürses   +3 more
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Serological Profiling of Group A Streptococcus Infections in Acute Rheumatic Fever.

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021
Rheumatic fever is a serious post-infectious sequela of Group A Streptococcus (GAS). Prior GAS exposures were mapped in sera using a large panel of M-type specific peptides.
N. Lorenz   +8 more
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Eliminating acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.

Lancet, The, 2017
M. Yacoub   +4 more
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Acute Rheumatic Fever

Pediatric Annals, 2022
Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and its sequela rheumatic heart disease remain significant causes of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality worldwide. When caring for patients originating from a geographic setting where ARF is endemic, a high index of suspicion for ARF is indicated. Early recognition of ARF with the initiation of treatment and
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