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Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 2020
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 ...
J. Carapetis
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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 ...
J. Carapetis
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Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease in the United States.
Pediatric annals, 2021During the 1920s, acute rheumatic fever (ARF) was the leading cause of mortality in children in the United States. By the 1980s, many felt ARF had all but disappeared from the US.
Sarah R. de Loizaga, A. Beaton
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Serological Profiling of Group A Streptococcus Infections in Acute Rheumatic Fever.
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021Rheumatic 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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Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine, 1999
There have been numerous reports stating that treatment of acute rheumatic fever with either aspirin or corticosteroids does not alter the long-term outcome of rheumatic heart disease. Yet, it should be emphasized that most of these studies were carried out with the first generic corticosteroids before the advent of the more active and more potent ...
Roberto Carreño Manjarez +2 more
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There have been numerous reports stating that treatment of acute rheumatic fever with either aspirin or corticosteroids does not alter the long-term outcome of rheumatic heart disease. Yet, it should be emphasized that most of these studies were carried out with the first generic corticosteroids before the advent of the more active and more potent ...
Roberto Carreño Manjarez +2 more
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Current Rheumatology Reports, 2001
Rheumatic fever is a multisystem inflammatory disease that occurs as a delayed sequel to group A streptococcal pharyngitis. It is less common than it was 50 years ago but is still a major cause of heart disease in developing areas of the world. The relationship between the site of infection, the type of causative organism, and susceptibility of the ...
Leonard H. Sigal, Eugenia Rullan
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Rheumatic fever is a multisystem inflammatory disease that occurs as a delayed sequel to group A streptococcal pharyngitis. It is less common than it was 50 years ago but is still a major cause of heart disease in developing areas of the world. The relationship between the site of infection, the type of causative organism, and susceptibility of the ...
Leonard H. Sigal, Eugenia Rullan
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Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, 1995
The incidence of RF and RHD in the tropics remains high, with a high proportion of children suffering from carditis with the first attack. Severe, incapacitating haemodynamic disturbances occur early. Many patients are seen with established RHD at their first visit, and the default rate is high.
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The incidence of RF and RHD in the tropics remains high, with a high proportion of children suffering from carditis with the first attack. Severe, incapacitating haemodynamic disturbances occur early. Many patients are seen with established RHD at their first visit, and the default rate is high.
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“That Heart Sickness”: Young Aboriginal People’s Understanding of Rheumatic Fever
Medical Anthropology, 2018High rates of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in Australia predominate in young Aboriginal people highlighting underlying racial and equity issues.
A. Mitchell +4 more
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The Electroencephalogram in Rheumatic Fever
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1962SYDENHAM'S CLASSICAL DESCBIPTION of Chorea is now buried some 277 years in the archives of medical history, and yet the pathogenesis of chorea is still a matter of contention. The association of chorea and rheumatic fever was first described by Bright in 1831 and classical early endorsements of this association were added by Boger in 1868 and by Osier ...
Robert L. Tentler, Eugene F. Diamond
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AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1930
T HE word rheumatism has been employed for many years to designate acute and chronic joint affections. It has been used, in fact, to include a motley group of diseases characterized by aches and pains of all kinds. It has been frequently misused and has become so indefinite in its meaning as a designation for a disease entity that, today, the word ...
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T HE word rheumatism has been employed for many years to designate acute and chronic joint affections. It has been used, in fact, to include a motley group of diseases characterized by aches and pains of all kinds. It has been frequently misused and has become so indefinite in its meaning as a designation for a disease entity that, today, the word ...
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The Lancet, 1970
Abstract All reports on rheumatic fever should give the precise criteria of diagnosis. Patients without carditis should be considered separately from those with carditis; rheumatic fever in the absence of carditis is not an important disease. A disease fulfilling Jones' criteria for acute rheumatic fever in the absence of carditis should be given ...
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Abstract All reports on rheumatic fever should give the precise criteria of diagnosis. Patients without carditis should be considered separately from those with carditis; rheumatic fever in the absence of carditis is not an important disease. A disease fulfilling Jones' criteria for acute rheumatic fever in the absence of carditis should be given ...
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