Rheumatic heart disease is known to affect 15 million individuals worldwide; 1,2 however, systematic echocardiographic screening in endemic areas indicates that this figure is a gross underestimation.

THE American Heart Association has recommended that "all individuals with a well established history of a previous attack of rheumatic fever or chorea, or who show definite evidence of rheumatic he ...

What is acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease? An explainer video for school staff Play Rheumatic carditis is a term used to describe active inflammation of the myocardium, endocardium ...

About 50­–70% of people who develop acute rheumatic fever develop carditis during initial episodes (initial presentation of the condition). Rheumatic fever is caused by an improper immune ...

About 50–70% of people with rheumatic fever develop carditis, which is inflammation of your heart. Carditis can lead to inflammation and damage to the valves in your heart that help channel ...

At this point, acute rheumatic fever was the most likely diagnosis, given evidence of preceding Group A Streptococcus infection with 1 major criterion, carditis (manifesting as acute mitral valvulitis ...

A medical history and a physical examination can provide key information for a diagnosis because carditis associated with rheumatic fever generally appears 2–5 weeks after strep throat.

Most patients with mild rheumatic fever, even though permanent cardiac damage develops, usually survive the acute phase of the illness. On the other hand the mortality for severe attacks of ...

Subcutaneous nodules are one of the manifestations of acute rheumatic fever. They affect less than 10% of people with the condition and usually link to severe carditis, which is heart inflammation.

Rheumatic fever with carditis and residual heart/valvular disease 10 years or until 40 years of age (whichever is longer); sometimes lifelong prophylaxis Rheumatic fever with carditis but no ...

Rheumatic fever represents an autoimmune disease following infection with group A streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes), one of the most ubiquitous human pathogens. The disease is characterized ...