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Prevalence Of Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease in School Children in Malwa Region Of MP
National Journal of Community Medicine, 2010 Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease continue to affect millions of people around the world. Children and adolescents of the developing countries are especially susceptible to this disease.
P. Yadav +4 more
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Rheumatic Fever Associated with Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Systematic Review [PDF]
Journal of Immunology Research, 2014 Objective. To evaluate the clinical associations between rheumatic fever and antiphospholipid syndrome and the impact of coexistence of these two diseases in an individual. Methods.
Felipe da Silva, Jozélio de Carvalho
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Acute Rheumatic Fever Without Pharyngitis: A Case Report. [PDF]
J Gen Fam MedAn 18‐year‐old man presented with fatigue and polyarthralgia refractory to nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). He had no history of sore throat or other upper respiratory symptoms. Reactive arthritis was initially suspected.
Suzuyama H +7 more
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Secondary prophylaxis with penicillin for rheumatic fever or established rheumatic heart disease [PDF]
, 2020 Prophylactic penicillin probably reduces rheumatic fever recurrences and streptococcal throat infections among children and adolescents with rheumatic fever or rheumatic heart disease (moderate certainty of evidence).
Fønhus, Marita Sporstøl +1 more
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Acute Rheumatic Fever and Kawasaki Disease Occurring in a Single Patient
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2020 Kawasaki disease and acute rheumatic fever are two major causes of acquired heart disease in the pediatric population. Although both conditions are well-known entities, the association between them has never been described.
Kazuki Iio +5 more
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Kanem Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 Background: Rheumatic heart disease occurs as a sequel to acute rheumatic fever. Many cases of acute rheumatic fever, however, go undiagnosed as many patients present with otherwise common symptoms and in the absence of overt carditis may go undetected ...
Aira A. Olorukooba +5 more
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Circulating immune complexes in children with rheumatic fever
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 1988 The circulating immune complexes in rheumatic fever patients with various clinical presentations were investigated by the Raji-cell radioimmunoassay technique.
Fikriye Sarıkayalar +1 more
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New guidelines for diagnosis of rheumatic fever; do they apply to all populations?
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2020 Background and Objectives. To evaluate the efficacy of recently updated Jones criteria for diagnosis of rheumatic fever in high incidence populations like Egypt. Methods.
Pakinam Abdel Aty-Marzouk +5 more
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Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2022 Streptococcus pyogenes is a gram positive pathogen causing pharyngitis, mild infections to chronic complications (Rheumatic Heart Disease, RHD). In this study, echocardiographic and clinical profile in pharyngitis, rheumatic fever patients were compared ...
A. Sujhithra +5 more
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Promising approaches to early diagnosis of chronic rheumatic heart disease
Наука и инновации в медицине, 2022 Aim to determine the prevalence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) in children and chronic rheumatic heart disease (HRHD) in adults on the example of the Samara region and to propose measures for the early detection and prevention of valvular heart lesions.
Galina V. Santalova +4 more
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