0 relating to inflammation of muscles, joints, heart valves, or other parts of the body: --
She has a rheumatic hip.
Of these, 8,100 were attributed to acute rheumatic fever and 61,002 to chronic disease, totalling 69,102 (or 1.08% of all deaths due to cardiovascular disease).
The authors suggested that this procedure may he helpful in diagnosing and defining treatment for some cases of acute rheumatic carditis.
The rates for acute rheumatic fever are very low in relation to the expected figures considering their proportion of poverty.
The statistical analysis suggests that a congenital lesion involving the pulmonary valve predisposes it to attack by the acute rheumatic process.
With such high rates of streptococcal acquisition it is possible that most susceptible people will eventually develop rheumatic fever.
It is of note that, although streptococcal infections are very frequent, only a few individuals develop rheumatic fever.
Because of the severe cardiac impairment produced by the disease, all efforts to include prophylaxis for rheumatic fever in public health programs are justified.
The other manifestations of acute rheumatic fever besides carditis usually disappear without sequels.
