Voorbeelden van rheumatic fever

• 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.