If you grew up in the United States after the middle of the past century, you've probably never thought much about rheumatic fever. And for good reason. In that era, the disease seemed to become a ...

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.

36, No. 5, May, 1925 Studies on the Etiology of Acute Rheumat... Studies on the Etiology of Acute Rheumatic Fever This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. In a relatively high ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A century ago, in the pre-antibiotic era, rheumatic fever was a leading cause of children’s deaths. A child would get a strep infection, the untreated infection would develop into rheumatic fever and, ...

In the 1920s, rheumatic fever was a leading cause of death for people between the ages of 5 and 20. A 1947 medical journal article called it "childhood's greatest enemy." ...