Rheumatic fever
Rheumatic fever is defined as an inflammatory disease caused by the Group A streptococcus bacterium. The infection develops two to three weeks after a Group A streptococcal infection such as scarlet fever and strep throat.
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Rheumatic fever is a complicated, involved disease that affects the joints, skin, heart, blood vessels, and brain.
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Rheumatic fever is a disease that can occur following an infection caused by the Group A streptococcus bacterium.
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Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease that may develop after an infection with Streptococcus bacteria (such as strep throat or scarlet fever). The disease can affect the heart, joints, skin, and brain.
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What is rheumatic fever?
Rheumatic fever (acute rheumatic fever or ARF) is an autoimmune disease that may occur after a group A streptococcal throat infection that causes inflammatory lesions in connective tissue, especially that of the heart, ...
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(rmt´k), systemic inflammatory disease, extremely variable in its manifestation, severity, duration, and aftereffects.
Rheumatic fever can be prevented by treating a strep infection with the appropriate antibiotics. More people had rheumatic fever before the use of antibiotics.
Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease that may develop after an infection with Streptococcus bacteria (such as strep throat or scarlet fever). The disease can affect the heart, joints, skin, and brain.
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Rheumatic fever is likely to come back in people who don't take low-dose antibiotics continually, especially during the first 3 -5 years after the first episode of the disease.
Rheumatic fever is a condition that can cause wide spread inflammation throughout the body. Symptoms of rheumatic fever include joint pain, skin rashes and jerky body movements.
Rheumatic fever does not have a clear-cut sexual predilection, although certain clinical manifestations, such as mitral stenosis and Sydenham chorea, are more common in females who have gone through puberty.
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"Rheumatic fever occurs when body tissues are attacked by the immune system as if the tissues were foreign," he says.
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What is rheumatic fever?
Rheumatic fever is a disease that causes inflammation, swelling, and redness of various parts of the body. The disease can damage your heart, joints, brain, and skin.
Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease (like juvenile rheumatoid arthritis ) that can affect many connective tissues of the body - especially those of the heart, joints, brain or skin.
Rheumatic fever is a serious immune disease that affects different areas of the body, including the joints, heart, skin, nervous system, and brain.
Rheumatic fever is a delayed consequence of an untreated upper respiratory infection with group A streptococci (streptococcal pharyngitis or strep throat). Rheumatic fever can affect many parts of your body - heart, joints, nervous system and skin.
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Rheumatic fever. A complication of strep throat infection, rheumatic fever can damage the mitral valve, leading to mitral valve stenosis later in life. Rheumatic fever is the most common cause of mitral valve stenosis.
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Rheumatic fever is a condition that sometimes occurs during an infection with a bacterium (germ) called the streptococcus. Your body makes antibodies to the bacterium to clear the infection.
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Some people have heart valve disease due to untreated strep throat or other infections with strep bacteria that progress to rheumatic fever.
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A serious inflammatory condition which follows Streptococcal pharyngitis. Acute rheumatic fever can destroy the heart valves or leave them vulnerable to scarring, thickening, calcification, and fusion of the leaflets later in life.
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Rheumatic fever: A form of reactive arthritis triggered by streptococcal sore throat. Its features include very painful joint inflammation (arthritis).
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Why is rheumatic fever a concern?
Rheumatic fever, an inflammatory disease, can affect many connective tissues, especially in the heart, joints, skin, or brain.
Rheumatic fever -infectious diseases of several kinds can afflict the inside of the heart, leading to scarring of the heart's valves. Rheumatic fever used to be a common cause of mitral valve damage but is seen infrequently today in the United States.
Rheumatic fever, an inflammatory disease, can affect many connective tissues, especially in the heart, joints, skin, or brain.
Rheumatic fever can occur at any age, but usually occurs in children five to 15 years old.
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Aortic insufficiency is a heart valve disease in which the aortic valve weakens or balloons, preventing the valve from closing tightly.
Rheumatic fever is a bacterial infection caused by the streptococcal organism. This germ also causes strep throat. Sydenham chorea is a disorder that occurs weeks after the body is infected by these bacteria.
Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory condition. It involves the connective tissue in the body. The most severe complication is rheumatic heart disease. This condition may permanently damage the heart valves.
Rheumatic fever - Rheumatic fever, an inflammatory condition that sometimes occurs after a streptococcal infection, can cause pleurisy, as well as inflammation of the heart and joints.
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Rheumatic fever , infections, congenital defects (defects at birth), and degenerative disease (wear and tear) are the most common causes of mitral valve problems.
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Sydenham chorea is a movement disorder associated with rheumatic fever.
Rheumatic fever was the single biggest cause of valve disease before widespread availability of good antibiotics. Most valvular disease in the United States at the current time is due to: ...
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This term has been somewhat loosely applied to various chronic joint affections, sometimes of gouty origin or the result of rheumatoid arthritis.
Rheumatic fever is caused by an untreated bacterial infection (usually strep. throat). Luckily, the introduction of antibiotics to treat this infection has dramatically reduced the numbers of this infection.
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rheumatic fever. Luckily, this seldom happens and is the exception rather than the rule
glomerulonephritis. Luckily, this seldom happens and is the exception rather than the rule.
Rheumatic fever, a serious illness that can develop after a person has an untreated or incompletely treated infection caused by the bacteria that cause strep throat or scarlet fever. Rheumatic fever can lead to permanent damage to the heart.
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rheumatic fever - a childhood disease that may damage the heart valves or the outer lining of the heart.
risk factor - a condition, element, or activity that may adversely affect the heart.
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Rheumatic fever (which see) frequently follows scarlet fever, and this sometimes results in inflammation of the lining membranes and valves of the heart.
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A childhood throat infection caused by septococcal bacteria resulting in a rash. A complication is damage to heart valves. Easily treated with Penicillin
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Fever, cardiac symptoms and signs, and migrating inflammation of the large joints, usually starting in the legs and migrating upward
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In the past, rheumatic fever was the primary cause of aortic insufficiency. Now that antibiotics are used to treat rheumatic fever, other causes are more commonly seen.
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In the past, rheumatic fever was a common cause of aortic stenosis.
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a history of rheumatic fever (now a rare disease in north America due to effective antibiotic treatment) - a condition characterized by painful fever, inflammation, and swelling of the joints.
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Pneumonia is not rare in rheumatic fever, and may occur in conjunc tion with pleurisy or independently of it. A much rarer lesion is menin gitis affecting the membranes at the convexity of the brain and those of the spine.
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