UNLIKE certain other common diseases of childhood, rheumatic fever leaves no known immunity and seems to create an increased susceptibility to recurrent attacks. The effects of these recurrent ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala is poised to achieve another significant public-health milestone — eliminating rheumatic fever (RF ...

RHD, a complication of acute rheumatic fever (ARF), develops as a result of strep throat (causative agent Streptococcus pyogenes). While strep throat is common in pediatric populations, only a small ...

Indian paediatric rheumatologists discuss early diagnosis and management of rheumatic disorders in children to prevent organ ...

"About 100 years ago, there were more pediatric hospital beds occupied by children with rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease than all other infectious diseases combined," said Dr. Stanford T.

The Division of Pediatric Rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham/Children's Hospital of Alabama was created in the summer of 2007 in response to a great need for pediatric rheumatic ...

New research highlights that frailty in patients with RA — young and old — raises infection risk and complicates treatment, ...

We care for adult and pediatric patients with a broad range of rheumatic diseases including rheumatoid arthritis ... crystal-induced arthritis, periodic fever syndromes and metabolic bone disease. Our ...

Background: Fever in the pediatric after a liver transplant indicates a variety of things. There is no doubt this is an impo rtant and frequent occurrence. In our experience, it takes place more ...

Rheumatic heart disease is a chronic condition that results years after acute rheumatic fever, which is caused by group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus pyogenes. This organism produces a ...