ACUTE rheumatic fever, in the absence of intercurrent streptococcal respiratory infections and rheumatic recrudescences, is generally a self-limited disease that subsides within twelve weeks.

36, No. 5, May, 1925 Studies on the Etiology of Acute Rheumat... Studies on the Etiology of Acute Rheumatic Fever This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. In a relatively high ...

A RECENT review of the literature 1 and our own experience at the House of the Good Samaritan 2–5 suggest that early treatment of rheumatic fever with ACTH and cortisone may prevent or mitigate ...

A century ago, in the pre-antibiotic era, rheumatic fever was a leading cause of children’s deaths. A child would get a strep ...

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 ...

Children with rheumatic diseases may face increased risks for COVID-19-related hospitalization, particularly those using glucocorticoids, rituximab, or mycophenolate.

The disease results from damage to heart valves caused by one or several episodes of rheumatic fever also called Bouillaud’s disease, an autoimmune inflammatory reaction to throat infection with ...