Rheumatic fever: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, complications - Emergency Live International

Rheumatic fever (or 'acute joint rheumatism'; hence the acronym 'RF', or 'acute rheumatic fever', hence the acronym 'ARF') is an acute...

The disease usually develops two to four weeks after a streptococcal throat infection The heart is involved in about half of the cases. Damage to the heart valves, known as rheumatic heart disease (… [+9863 chars]

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