0 a serious disease that causes fever, swelling of the joints (= places where two bones are connected), and possible heart damage
Relation of the rheumatic fever recurrence rate per streptococcal infection to preexisting clinical features of the patients.
In the author's opinion this syndrome is nothing more than good old-fashioned rheumatic fever.
In this review, therefore, we discuss our experience acquired in the clinical aspects of rheumatic fever.
The most common acquired lesion is rheumatic fever, which usually afflicts the mitral rather than the tricupsid valve.
It is not yet clear whether these putative markers are genetic or induced by streptococcal infection as part of the pathogenesis of acute rheumatic fever.
The cumulative incidence of acute rheumatic fever estimates the proportion of susceptible individuals in endemically exposed populations.
The other manifestations of acute rheumatic fever besides carditis usually disappear without sequels.
Because of the severe cardiac impairment produced by the disease, all efforts to include prophylaxis for rheumatic fever in public health programs are justified.
