Diseases

Rheumatic Fever

A febrile disease occurring as a delayed sequela of infections with STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES. It is characterized by multiple focal inflammatory lesions of the connective tissue structures, such as the heart, blood vessels, and joints (POLYARTHRITIS) and brain, and by the presence of ASCHOFF BODIES in the myocardium and skin.

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A febrile disease occurring as a delayed sequela of infections with STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES. It is characterized by multiple focal inflammatory lesions of the connective tissue structures, such as the heart, blood vessels, and joints (POLYARTHRITIS) and brain, and by the presence of ASCHOFF BODIES in the myocardium and skin.

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  • Acute Rheumatic Fever
  • Arthritis, Acute Rheumatic
  • Arthritis, Rheumatic, Acute
  • Inflammatory Rheumatism
  • Polyarthritis Rheumatica
  • Rheumatic Arthritis
  • Rheumatism, Acute Articular
  • Rheumatism, Articular, Acute
  • Acute Articular Rheumatism
  • Acute Articular Rheumatisms
  • Acute Rheumatic Arthritides
  • Acute Rheumatic Arthritis
  • Acute Rheumatic Fevers
  • Arthritis, Rheumatic
  • Articular Rheumatism, Acute
  • Fever, Acute Rheumatic
  • Fever, Rheumatic
  • Fevers, Acute Rheumatic
  • Inflammatory Rheumatisms
  • Polyarthritis Rheumaticas
  • Rheumatic Arthritides
  • Rheumatic Arthritis, Acute
  • Rheumatic Fever, Acute
  • Rheumatic Fevers
  • Rheumatism, Inflammatory

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.

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rheumatic fever with heart disease, unspecified or specific = RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE + the specific heart disease, but not HEART DISEASES

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Rheumatic Fever. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012213. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012213
  2. Rheumatic Fever. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheumatic_fever
  3. Rheumatic Fever. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q753904