Rheumatic heart disease (RHD)
Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Physicians Perspective
... Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remain diseases of public health importance despite concerted efforts globally to eradicate them ...Acute rheumatic fever ...
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Current Status of Acute Rheumatic Fever and Relationship with Acute Rheumatic Heart Disease at the University Teaching Hospital of Brazzaville (Congo)
... acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and relationship with acute rheumatic heart disease ...Organic heart murmur has been re- ported in 13 cases (44.8%), and heart failure in 7 ...
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<p>Development and Evaluation of a Prediction Model for Ascertaining Rheumatic Heart Disease Status in Administrative Data</p>
... acute rheumatic fever; ARIA, Accessibility- Remoteness Index of Australia; AUC, area under the receiver operating curve; ERASE, End RHD in Australia: Study of Epidemiology; FPR, false-positive rate; GLMM, ...
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Prevalence, Pattern and Evolution of Rheumatic Heart Disease: About 120 Cases at Mother Children University Hospital Luxembourg (MC UHL), Bamako (Mali)
... Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and its complications including rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remain one of the leading causes of cardi- ovascular disease ...describe rheumatic ...
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The worldwide epidemiology of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
... Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is a postinfectious, nonsuppurative sequela of pharyngeal infection with Streptococcus pyogenes, or Group A β hemolytic Streptococcus ...the heart, or rheumatic ...
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Animal models to investigate the pathogenesis of rheumatic heart disease
... and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) are sequelae of group A strepto- coccal (GAS) ...this disease in animals is ...of heart tissue cross-reactive antibodies and T ...assessing ...
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Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: The Medical Menace in the Muslim Countries
... having rheumatic heart disease, a marked decrease in prevalence of the infection rate (10 ...suspected rheumatic families were ...had rheumatic fever relapse (Tazi, ...
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Case presentation on rheumatic heart disease with mitral valve prolapse
... inflammatory disease of the heart potentially involving all layers (endocardium, pericardium and ...the heart from rheumatic fever is termed as rheumatic heart disease, a ...
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A study of prevalence and pattern of congenital heart disease and rheumatic heart disease among school children
... and rheumatic heart disease was found to be ...congenital heart disease found was VSD and ASD in ...congenital heart disease among school ...11.7%. Rheumatic ...
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Maternal and fetal outcomes in rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy
... Rheumatic heart disease results from single or repeated attacks of rheumatic fever that produces rigidity and deformity of valve cusps ,fusion of the commissures, or shortening and fusion of ...
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Rheumatic Heart Disease and Pregnancy in Adolescent Rheumatic Fever Patients
... Since there might be increased risk of preg- nancy among older adolescents, the association of pregnancy with rheumatic heart disease could result if the adolescents with rheumatic. hear[r] ...
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Utility of world heart federation and modified World Health Organization echocardiographic diagnostic criteria of subclinical rheumatic heart disease in children of Manipur, India
... the disease. However, true burden of the disease however in this part of the country may better be estimated by conducting larger study involving longer effective follow up in both cases of subclinical RHD ...
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A Review of Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease Research in Malaysia
... There were no population-based studies on the incidence or prevalence of ARF or RHD. In the 1980s, the incidence of admission due to ARF ranged from 2 to 21.1 per 100 000 paediatric admission per year. The burden of ...
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Adherence to secondary prophylaxis for acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: a systematic review
... Interventions to improve adherence to secondary prophylaxis that could be adopted by established ARF/RHD control programs include ensuring an effective active recall system,[9, 23] involving community health workers[30] ...
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Rheumatic heart disease: infectious disease origin, chronic care approach
... Similarly, despite TB being widely considered a disease of discrete, six-month duration, chronic ramifications persist after microbial cure. These include impaired lung function and quality of life, residual ...
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Variability in disease burden and management of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in two regions of tropical Australia
... Many patients with advanced RHD, in particular those who have a mechanical valve in situ, require anticoagulation. Delivery of anticoagulation therapy to RHD patients was suboptimal. The lack of concordance between INR ...
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Improvement in rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease management and prevention using a health centre-based continuous quality improvement approach
... An important but unexpected outcome of the study was the observed reduction in numbers of people requiring ongoing secondary prophylaxis as a consequence of appro- priate cessation after specialist review. Adults >21 ...
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THE CONDITION OF INTRACARDIAC HEMODYNAMICS IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATIC FEVER AND CHRONIC RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE
... of rheumatic process activity the expressiveness of which reflects a degree of inflammatory process ac- ...affections rheumatic carditis can aggravate the intracardiac hemo- dynamics condition which has ...
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MYXOFIBROMA OF THE LEFT ATRIUM SIMULATING RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE
... diagnostic clues in tiliS case. Summarizing tile clinical findings of 30 cases of endo- cardial niyxoma situated in tile left atrium, Von Reis noted that Adams-Stokes attacks. appeared t[r] ...
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CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE AND RHEUMATIC ACTIVITY IN YOUNG PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE
... “Acnvi” CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE: The patient had unequivocal recent acute rheumatic fever, still in its period of acute inflammation,1’ and associated with one of the major features of [r] ...
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