6 Finally, because of lack of uniformity in diagnostic criteria for carditis, different observers have used different reasons for deciding that an acute attack of rheumatic fever or chorea ...

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 ...

In a relatively high percentage of cases of acute rheumatic fever. a streptococcus can be isolated f rom the blood. This streptococcus generally belongs to the viridans group. It does not seem to be a ...

Acute limb ischemia (ALI ... [1] Due to a decline in the incidence of rheumatic heart disease, advances in cardiac surgery, and the widespread use of anticoagulation for arterial arrhythmias ...

"The Heart Foundation is proud to support advances in research that prevent progression and complications of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, conditions that disproportionally ...

Rheumatic heart disease, acute glomerulonephritis: 1.2 million units once per month, or 600,000 units every 2 weeks. Give by deep IM inj into upper outer quadrant of buttock or midlateral thigh ...

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While the WHO had set a target of a 25% reduction in acute rheumatic fever (ARF) cases among those under 25 by 2025, Kerala surpassed this goal, reporting a 70% drop between 2019 and 2024.