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Echocardiography in acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

open access: yes, 2018
Echocardiography has an important role in the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and chronic rheumatic heart disease and requires integration of morphological abnormalities with abnormal valvular haemodynamic characteristics.
Ruchika Meel   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Assessing veterinary students’ attitudes towards pain in cattle before and after final‐year clinical training

open access: yesVeterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Cattle only show subtle signs of pain, making pain assessment difficult. The approach to pain and the use of analgesics depend on the treating person's experience and opinions. Methods Bavarian veterinary students were asked to answer two identical questionnaires before and after 12 weeks of clinical training in a ruminant clinic. A
Theresa Tschoner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gut microbiota dysbiosis and Long COVID susceptibility in chronic kidney disease

open access: yesVIEW, EarlyView.
This study investigated gut microbiota dysbiosis and its association with Long COVID susceptibility in 224 hemodialysis patients. We found that 35.3% of patients developed Long COVID, characterized by neurological symptoms and elevated inflammatory markers, accompanied by significant gut microbiota alterations including enriched proinflammatory taxa ...
Meiling Jin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical and echocardiographic features of children with rheumatic heart disease and their serum cytokine profile

open access: yesThe Pan African Medical Journal, 2012
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a devastating squeal of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) in Africa. Recent evidence suggests that T-cell lymphocytes play an important role in the pathogenesis of rheumatic carditis.
Sulafa Khalid Mohamed Ali   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of the Articular Syndrome in Acute Rheumatic Fever According to Revision of the Jones Criteria

open access: yesBolʹ, Sustavy, Pozvonočnik, 2015
The article deals with the evaluation of arti­cular syndrome in children with acute rheumatic fever accor­ding to the revision of the Jones criteria 2015.
O.R. Boiarchuk
doaj   +1 more source

The International Guideline for the Definition, Classification, Diagnosis and Management of Urticaria

open access: yesAllergy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This update and revision of the international guideline for urticaria was developed in accordance with the methods recommended by Cochrane and the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) working group. It is an initiative of the Global Allergy and Asthma Excellence Network (GA2LEN) and its Urticaria and ...
T. Zuberbier   +221 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Treatment of Acute Rheumatic Fever

open access: yes, 2020
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) suppresses an interleukin-1β-granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor cytokine axis, reported to be dysregulated in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of acute rheumatic fever patients ex vivo.
Rachel Webb   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Cardiovascular outcomes for Australian women with rheumatic heart disease during pregnancy: A retrospective linked data analysis, 2002–2017

open access: yesActa Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, EarlyView.
This retrospective cohort study used linked data to measure the proportion of women with rheumatic heart disease (RHD) who experienced major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) after 20 weeks of gestation. Before birth, 4.5% of women with initially uncomplicated RHD and 31.8% of women with initially complicated RHD experienced RHD‐MACE.
Ingrid Stacey   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acute rheumatic fever in Tunisia. Serotypes of group A streptococci associated with rheumatic fever.

open access: yes, 1997
International audienceRheumatic fever (RF) is a serious health threat in our country. The annual incidence of cases of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) in 1990 was 30 per 100,000 school-aged children, the prevalence of rheumatic heart diseases (RHD) was 3–6 ...
Kechrid, P   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Ultrasound, PET/CT or temporal artery biopsy for giant cell arteritis? A prospective diagnostic accuracy study (the GAME‐study)

open access: yesActa Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To investigate the diagnostic performance of ultrasound, 2‐deoxy‐2‐[18F]fluoro‐D‐glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (2‐[18F]FDG PET/CT) and temporal artery biopsy (TAB) in giant cell arteritis (GCA). Methods This was a prospective single‐centre diagnostic accuracy study (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05248906).
Michael S. Hansen   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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