Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is the result of an autoimmune response to pharyngitis caused by infection with group A Streptococcus. The long-term damage to cardiac valves caused by ARF, which can ...
Acute rheumatic fever should be considered in patients with recent pharyngitis and migratory polyarthritis, heart failure, new or worsened mitral regurgitation, chorea, or cutaneous findings. In ...
Background: Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and its sequelae, chronic rheumatic heart disease, remain important causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but there is little recent information about ...
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(NewsNation) — Six in 10 adults will live and die with heart disease by 2050, according to forecasts by the American Heart Association. Cardiovascular disease, which encompasses a range of heart ...
Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) prophylaxis refers to preventive measures that a doctor may take to stop a recurrence of ARF. These measures involve administering antibiotics to prevent infection. ARF is ...
The role of streptococcal infections in initiating the diverse clinical and pathological manifestations of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease is considered in relation to the multiple ...
PATIENTS who are convalescing from rheumatic fever either do or do not have heart disease. Of those who do not, some will later have signs of it. The studies 1–5 that demonstrated this phenomenon ...
In a prospective study, patients with acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and active rheumatic heart disease (ARHD) showed a significant increase in CD4⁺ T cells, CD22⁺ B cells, and CD4:CD8 cell ratio but a ...
A CRUCIAL feature in the clinical diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease is the demonstration of certain characteristic cardiac murmurs that presumably indicate valvular deformity. 1 These murmurs can ...
Chris Davis works for Griffith University. As General Manager, he does not receive funding for research from any organisation. This work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research ...
Research led by the University of Otago in New Zealand has uncovered the strongest evidence yet that household overcrowding is a major risk factor for acute rheumatic fever and streptococcal ...
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