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Serological Profiling of Group A Streptococcus Infections in Acute Rheumatic Fever.

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021
Rheumatic 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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Acute rheumatic fever

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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Rheumatic fever

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 ...
, Visvanathan, , Manjarez, , Zabriskie
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Rheumatic fever

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 ...
E, Rullan, L H, Sigal
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The Electroencephalogram in Rheumatic Fever

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1962
SYDENHAM'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 ...
E F, DIAMOND, R, TENTLER
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PREVENTION OF RHEUMATIC FEVER

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1953
Excerpt The following recommendations for the prevention of rheumatic fever are published by request of the Council on Rheumatic Fever and Congenital Heart Disease of the American Heart Association...
B B, BREESE   +6 more
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“That Heart Sickness”: Young Aboriginal People’s Understanding of Rheumatic Fever

Medical Anthropology, 2018
High 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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Rheumatic fever

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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Juvenile rheumatic fever

American Heart Journal, 1938
Abstract A case of rheumatic heart disease in an infant, including necropsy observations, is reported. It is probable that first attacks of rheumatic fever frequently occur at a much earlier age than has been suspected.
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Acute rheumatic fever

The Lancet, 2005
Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and its chronic sequela, rheumatic heart disease (RHD), have become rare in most affluent populations, but remain unchecked in developing countries and in some poor, mainly indigenous populations in wealthy countries. More than a century of research, mainly in North America and Europe, has improved our understanding of ARF ...
Carapetis, Jonathan R.   +2 more
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