ACUTE rheumatic fever, in the absence of intercurrent streptococcal respiratory infections and rheumatic recrudescences, is generally a self-limited disease that subsides within twelve weeks.

A RECENT review of the literature 1 and our own experience at the House of the Good Samaritan 2–5 suggest that early treatment of rheumatic fever with ACTH and cortisone may prevent or mitigate ...

The historical record shows that the battle to prevent and find cures for infectious disease will lead to a lower incidence ...

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 ...

India's first heart failure registry reveals younger patients, high mortality rates, and varying causes of heart failure.

The disease results from damage to heart valves caused by one or several episodes of rheumatic fever also called Bouillaud’s disease, an autoimmune inflammatory reaction to throat infection with ...