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Adams-Stokes attack as the first symptom of acute rheumatic fever: report of an adolescent case and review of the literature

Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2012
Background Acquired complete heart block, in pediatric age is mainly the results of direct injury to conduction tissue during cardiac surgery or cardiac catheterisation.
Carano Nicola, Bo Ilaria, Tchana Bertrand, Vecchione Erica, Fantoni Silvia, Agnetti Aldo   +5 more
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A cluster of acute rheumatic fever cases among Aboriginal Australians in a remote community with high baseline incidence

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2019
Objectives: We report a cluster of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) cases and the public health response in a high‐burden Australian setting.
J. Francis, C. Gargan, B. Reményi, A. Ralph, A. Draper, D. Holt, V. Krause, K. Hardie   +7 more
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Public health and economic perspectives on acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

Medical Journal of Australia, 2019
The group A streptococcus (GAS) bacterium causes possibly the most diverse range of diseases compared with any other pathogen. Resulting from an autoimmune reaction to GAS throat infection, and possibly skin infection, acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and its
J. Cannon, D. Bessarab, R. Wyber, J. Katzenellenbogen   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sydenham's chorea in a 16‐year‐old female from Bhutan: A case report

Clinical Case Reports
Key Clinical Message Rheumatic heart disease is a preventable disease. Patients may not present with a typical history of sore throat and polyarthritis but may present with Sydenham's chorea. We should not rely completely on clinical findings to rule out
Tshering Penjor, Thinley Dorji, Sangay Wangchuk   +2 more
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Adherence to secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic heart disease is underestimated by register data. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
OBJECTIVE:In high-burden Australian states and territories, registers of patients with acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease are maintained for patient management, monitoring of system performance and research.
Jessica Langloh de Dassel, Marea Therese Fittock, Sagen Cheyenne Wilks, Jane Elizabeth Poole, Jonathan Rhys Carapetis, Anna P Ralph   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dysregulated IL-1&bgr;-GM-CSF Axis in Acute Rheumatic Fever That Is Limited by Hydroxychloroquine

Circulation, 2018
Background: Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease are autoimmune consequences of group A streptococcus infection and remain major causes of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality around the world.
Man Lyang Kim, W. Martin, Gabriela Minigo, J. Keeble, A. Garnham, Guido Pacini, G. Smyth, T. Speed, J. Carapetis, I. Wicks   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Gauteng on the decline : Experience at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg. South Africa [PDF]

, 2014
PKBackground: The incidence of rheumatic fever (RF) and its complications has waned over the past three to four decades throughout the Western world, but RF remains a problem in developing countries and in the indigenous populations of some well ...
Celliers, A M
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Clinical characteristics of pediatric patients with first-attack acute rheumatic fever following the updated guideline

Türk pediatri arşivi, 2019
Aim: To evaluate the clinical features of children diagnosed as having acute rheumatic fever between June 2015 and November 2018, and the changes observed in patient groups in comparison with data obtained in previous years.
Muhlike Güler, F. Laloğlu, H. Olgun, N. Ceviz   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Application of Transthoracic Echocardiography for Cardiac Safety Evaluation in the Clinical Development Process of Vaccines Against Streptococcus pyogenes

Drugs in R&D
Superficial infections with Streptococcus pyogenes (Strep A), pharyngitis and impetigo can induce acute rheumatic fever, an autoimmune sequela manifesting mostly with arthritis and rheumatic carditis.
Usman Nakakana, Alimamy Serry-Bangura, Bassey Effiom Edem, Pietro Tessitore, Leonardo Di Cesare, Danilo Gomes Moriel, Audino Podda, Iris Sarah De Ryck, Ashwani Kumar Arora   +8 more
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Delayed Diagnosis of Acute Rheumatic Fever in a Patient with Multiple Emergency Department Visits

Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2018
While the incidence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) in the United States has declined over the past years, the disease remains one of the causes of severe cardiovascular morbidity in children. The index of suspicion for ARF in health care providers may be
Inna Kaminecki, Renuka Verma, Jacqueline Brunetto, Loyda I. Rivera   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source