Research findings increasingly indicate close associations between autoimmune thyroid disease and rheumatic disease.

and Management of Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease 2024, marking a major step forward in our national response to these preventable illnesses. The guidelines incorporate the latest ...

Introduction The absence of a diagnostic test for acute rheumatic fever (ARF ... which can discriminate between ARF and other clinical conditions. The most robust ‘gold-standard’ rheumatic fever ...

osteoarticular pain and chest pain dominated the clinical picture. Almost all of our patients had an ASLO titer greater than 400 U/ml and a positive C-reactive protein. Our results show a high risk of ...

2. Objective To study the demographic, clinical and biological characteristics of acute rheumatic fever (ARI) in the general medicine department of the Siguiri prefectural hospital. 3. Materials and ...

A composite picture of the clinical manifestations of acute rheumatic fever as observed in a series of 1000 patients in the naval service is presented. The importance of recognizing rheumatic ...

significant complications such as rheumatic fever and meningitis were not uncommon, and mortality was around 30%. 2 There is no need to routinely take a throat swab before treating as it is a clinical ...

Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is a complex disease with several clinical manifestations. Its most significant long-term complication is valvular heart damage, commonly referred to as chronic rheumatic ...

A 2022 study published in the Frontiers in Pediatrics journal revealed that children reported hyperinflammatory shock with clinical ... endemic country for acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic ...

Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) prophylaxis refers to preventive ... However, a person can be unaware they have a GAS infection, or clinical tests do not pick up the presence of the infection.

Rheumatic Heart ... Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol 2017; 70(2): 252–289, doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.03.011. 14. Carapetis JR, Beaton A, Cunningham MW, et al.

The diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever is entirely clinical, without any laboratory gold standard, and no treatments have been shown to reduce progression to rheumatic heart disease. Prevention mainly ...