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 ...

RHEUMATIC fever, a systemic disease affecting chiefly the heart, has always been considered to be primarily a disorder of childhood with a markedly diminished incidence of initial and recurrent ...

Epidemiologist Jason Gurney (Ngāpuhi) experienced the pain of growing up with a sick parent, watching his former ...

According to the World Health Organization, rheumatic heart disease is the most commonly acquired heart disease in people under age 25. Rheumatic heart disease claims about 288,348 lives each year ...

Background: Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and its sequelae, chronic rheumatic heart disease, remain important causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but there is little recent information ...