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Autoimmune Rheumatic Disorders
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the world’s most serious disease, killing 17.1 million people a year. CVDs are a group of disorders affecting the heart and blood vessels. The most...
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World Heart Federation publishes position statement on rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease
The World Heart Federation has published a new position statement outlining the five key strategic targets required to meet its strategic goal for rheumatic heart disease - a 25% reduction in prematur...
Revisiting the pathogenesis of rheumatic fever and carditis
In this opinion article, the authors suggest an alternative hypothesis for the pathogenesis of rheumatic heart disease. They believe that an interaction between streptococcal M protein and the infecte...
Rheumatic fever (RF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) are neglected diseases, although RHD remains the most common cardiovascular disease among the young people. This position statement is a declarat...
Novartis collaboration aims to eliminate rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in Zambia
Novartis today announced that it has launched an effort to eliminate rheumatic heart disease in Zambia in collaboration with the Lusaka...
Treat Kids With Sore Throats to Curb Rheumatic Fever
A new analysis of published research indicates that treating all children with sore throats in developing countries with a one-off injection of penicillin to try to stop progression to rheumatic fever...
New Novartis collaboration aims to eliminate rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in Zambia, Africa.
Basel, Switzerland/Cambridge, MA, February 28, 2013 - Novartis today announced that it has launched an effort to eliminate rheumatic heart disease in Zambia in collaboration with the Lusaka University...
World Heart Federation Position Statement Published Online In Nature Reviews Cardiology
The World Heart Federation has published a new position statement outlining the five key strategic targets required to meet its strategic goal for rheumatic heart disease (RHD) - a 25% reduction in pr...
Peripheral neuropathies in rheumatic disease—a guide to diagnosis
Peripheral neuropathy is a common neurological disorder that can be observed in the context of a range of rheumatic diseases. In this Review, Vallat and colleagues provide a broad overview of the diff...
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AimsEchocardiography detects a greater prevalence of rheumatic heart disease than heart auscultation. Echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease combined with secondary prophylaxis may po...
Increased ischaemia-modified albumin is associated with inflammation in acute rheumatic fever.
Introduction: Ischaemia-modified albumin, a novel biochemical marker for tissue ischaemia, was found to be associated with oxidative stress. The purpose of this study was to assess the role of ischaem...
We designed a pilot study of a training module for nurses to perform rheumatic heart disease echocardiography screening in a resource-poor setting. The aim was to determine whether nurses given brief,...
Epidemiology of valvular heart disease in the adult.
Valvular heart disease remains common in industrialized countries, because the decrease in prevalence of rheumatic heart diseases has been accompanied by an increase in that of degenerative valve dise...
Rheumatic Severe Mitral Stenosis With Complete Heart Block.
Rheumatic fever presenting with complete heart block is very rare and usually transient. We describe a child with chronic severe rheumatic mitral stenosis with persistent complete heart block with int...
