, 2018 Chronic rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is thought to occur following multiple recurrent episodes of acute carditis and may occur in approximately 60% of patients following an episode of rheumatic carditis.
Mpiko Ntsekhe +2 more
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Echocardiography in acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
, 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
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Screening of a HUVEC cDNA library with transplant-associated coronary artery disease sera identifies RPL7 as a candidate autoantigen associated with this disease. [PDF]
, 2001 A HUVEC cDNA library was screened with sera from two patients who had developed transplant-associated coronary artery disease (TxCAD) following cardiac transplantation.
Marchant, B. +11 more
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Foxp3-Infiltrating Cellular Expression in Rheumatic Mitral Valve Tissue Lesions
The Iraqi Journal of Medical Sciences, 2016 Background: The Foxp3 gene is exclusive. It found in nTregs and correlates with the suppressive activity of these cells. Objective: To detect Foxp3 expression in infiltrating cells in the rheumatic mitral valve tissue lesions and its correlation with ...
Nidhal AM Mohammed, Zaman IL Al-Kaabi
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HLA-A, B, DR, and DQ antigens in black patients with severe chronic rheumatic heart disease.
, 1987 To determine whether genetic factors could be involved in the pathogenesis of rheumatic heart disease, we performed HLA-A and HLA-B typing in 120 black patients with severe chronic rheumatic heart disease requiring cardiac surgery, and HLA-DR and HLA-DQ ...
M G Hammond +4 more
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Towards developing a vaccine for rheumatic heart disease [PDF]
, 2017 Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is the most serious manifestations of rheumatic fever, which is caused by group A Streptococcus (GAS or Streptococcus pyogenes) infection.
Geethanjali Devadoss Gandhi +3 more
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Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change [PDF]
Functional disability (difficulty in walking , difficulty in bending, paralysis, blindness in at least one eye, and deafness in at least one ear) in the United States has fallen at an average annual rate of 0.6 percent among men age 50 to 74 from the ...
Dora L. Costa
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Quality of life in patients with chronic rheumatic heart disease
Медицинский совет, 2018 The article presents the results of a study of the quality of life in 102 non-surgically treated patients with chronic rheumatic heart disease (CRHD) over 5 years.
V. S. Petrov
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Streptococcus sinensis Endocarditis outside Hong Kong
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007 Streptococcus sinensis has been described as a causative organism for infective endocarditis in 3 Chinese patients from Hong Kong. We describe a closely related strain in an Italian patient with chronic rheumatic heart disease.
Ilker Uçkay +7 more
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Ongoing inflammation in children with rheumatic heart disease
, 2011 Aim of the workTo elucidate the hypothesis of ongoing inflammation in children with chronic rheumatic heart disease, and its possible consequences.Subjects and methodsThis study was conducted on 36 patients with a mean age of 12.63 years: six with acute ...
Iman S. Al Hadidi, Nevin M. M. Habeeb
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