Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) prophylaxis refers to preventive measures that a doctor may take to stop a recurrence of ARF. These measures involve administering antibiotics to prevent infection.

IN 1945, Gubner and Szucs1 compared the efficacy of several drugs in the treatment of acute rheumatic fever. They reported that a group of patients treated with ascorbic acid and a succinate compou ...

The mean incidence of acute rheumatic fever is 19 for every 100,000 individuals, with most of the cases occurring in developing countries and among indigenous groups.

New Zealand has one of the highest reported rates of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) amongst children and teenagers in the developed world; an infectious disease which can cause chronic rheumatic ...

Risk factors for acute rheumatic fever: A case-control study. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 2022; 100508 DOI: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100508; ...

Background: Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and its sequelae, chronic rheumatic heart disease, remain important causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but there is little recent information ...

The coexistence of leukemia and rheumatic fever has been regarded as extremely rare. Ehrlich and Forer 12 reported a fatal case in an eleven-year-old girl with acute myelogenous leukemia, who ...

Acute rheumatic fever is an inflammatory condition. This means it occurs when a person’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells in the body. When this happens, it causes inflammation .

Acute rheumatic fever: 57 per cent of all cases diagnosed among First Nations people are in the NT. Shameful new figures show the NT continues to be the Australian capital of a third-world disease ...

Because acute rheumatic fever is an uncommon disease and few countries have comprehensive linked health data, no previous study has been able to quantify the rheumatic fever risk following a ...

There were 1249 first hospital admissions (ie, new cases) with a principal diagnosis of ARF during the 10-year period between 1996 and 2005. Of the 1695 CAUs included in the study, 487 had at ...