carditis

What are the long-term effects of carditis from rheumatic fever?

Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease 2010

The diseases caused by Group A Streptococcus can become rheumatic fever, a disease that attacks the heart and leads to carditis, an inflammation of the heart, and congestive heart failure over a period of months and years.

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

Rheumatism in childhood is not manifested by acute and short-lived attacks of great severity so much as by a long-continued succession of symptoms of a subacute nature, a transient arthritis, perhaps, succeeding an attack of sore throat with torticollis, to be followed by carditis, to be followed again by another attack of tonsillitis.

The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

Arthritis, carditis, chorea, and less frequently, subcutaneous nodules and erythema marginatum are major manifestations of RF.

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Inflammation of the valves consists of oedema and mononuclear cell infiltration of the valvular tissue and the chordae tendineae in the acute phase; fibrosis and calcification occur with maintenance of the inflammatory process. 22 � Subcutaneous nodules Subcutaneous nodules are rarely seen and when present, they are usually associated with severe carditis.

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He was diagnosed with a mild case of carditis, a disease of inflammation of the heart.

Press of Atlantic City: Editorials 2009

He was diagnosed with a mild case of carditis, a disease of inflammation of the heart.

Press of Atlantic City: Editorials 2009

Carditis Acute carditis was present in 50\% of patients in a large recent series.

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Patients who have had rheumatic carditis (inflammation of the heart or area around the heart) should also receive preventive antibiotic therapy well into adulthood and perhaps for life.

Emaxhealth 2009

Carditis Acute carditis was present in 50\% of patients in a large recent series.

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