Thanks to antibiotics, rheumatic fever is rare in the U.S. and other developed countries. It can cause permanent damage to the heart and heart failure. It is most common in children ages 5 to 15 years ...

AIMS To describe the clinical features of rheumatic fever and to assess the Jones criteria in a population and setting similar to that in many developing countries. METHODS The charts of 555 cases of ...

Setting: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. Patients: 258 children and adolescents who met the revised Jones criteria for RF. The follow up period ranged from 2–15 years. Main outcome ...

Their use in the periodic fever syndromes has enabled the ... has led to a dramatic change in the management of rheumatic diseases in children. Central to this, is the development of a new class ...

1. A study has been made 10 years after the end of treatment of the 497 children who were admitted to the U.K./U.S. cooperative clinical trial of the relative merits of ACTH, cortisone, and aspirin in ...

This is the critical view of a UK-based patient and parent network with lived experience of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), who say that reform is urgently needed to ensure that trials meet the ...

What is acute rheumatic fever? Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease that may develop after an infection with a streptococcus bacteria (such as in strep throat or scarlet fever). The disease can ...

T. Duckett Jones, Benedict Massell and David Rutstein, a program was initiated, directed toward the prevention of recurrences of rheumatic fever in children by daily oral administration of ...

In spite of almost sixty years of intensive investigation, the pathogenic mechanisms underlying the initiation of the disease rheumatic fever remain elusive. This is not to say we have not made any ...

Troponin levels can also be elevated in other disease states including pulmonary emboli, myo-pericarditis, acute rheumatic fever, and in the critically ill. Thus, patients presenting with chest pain ...

is associated with the incidence of acute rheumatic fever and chronic rheumatic heart disease, in Māori and Pacific children aged 5 and 6 years at their first dental visit. Materials and methods A ...

Acute rheumatic fever should be considered in patients with recent pharyngitis and migratory polyarthritis, heart failure, new or worsened mitral regurgitation, chorea, or cutaneous findings. In ...