Since the primary goal in the care of the rheumatic child is the prevention of rheumatic carditis, the following study was undertaken in an ambulatory children's population of a cardiac clinic to ...

The report by Lim and Wilson published elsewhere in this issue of the Journal questions the accepted concept of the need for continuous antibiotic administration in the prevention of rheumatic ...

Symptoms of ARF tend to present themselves 1-3 weeks after infection. A high index of suspicion for ARF must be maintained, especially because a single diagnostic tool does not exist. Thomas D. Jones ...

The clinical diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) may be challenging; however, a constellation of signs including new valvular insufficiency, cardiomegaly, and heart failure should readily prompt ...

Quick-thinking pathologists at a Georgia tissue bank recently found Lyme disease in sudden cardiac death patients whose tissues were being examined for transplant use. The Centers for Disease Control ...

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 ...

THE six main monographs collected in this volume deal with the role of the streptococci in rheumatic fever, in chorea, in erythema nodosum, in carditis, in acute suppurative arthritis, and in chronic ...

Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Lyme disease is a ...

Over 37 million people globally suffer rheumatic heart disease with 97 per cent of the cases in developing countries. [iStockphoto] Nancy and Japheth Mutai's ailing son started having complications at ...

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