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A 62-year-old woman presented to a primary care doctor on January 2006 due to a sore throat and high fever, and had received medication for a common cold. She was referred to our hospital in February 2006 because of additional manifestations such as painful rashes on the lower limb similar to
Of 184 patients with acute rheumatic fever and associated mitral insufficiency encountered during a 15 year period, 34 manifested a mid-late systolic murmur or a nonejection click, or both, during the course of follow-up. The mid-late systolic murmur later disappeared in four patients whose
Murmurs were described first by Laennec in 1819, after which the significance of a murmur became a matter of debate. By the late 19th century, many physicians regarded systolic murmurs as "organic," whereas others believed that they were often "functional." Samuel Levine became a central figure in
It is known that rheumatic heart disease frequently results in isolated mitral regurgitation without concomitant mitral stenosis, especially in countries with a high prevalence of rheumatic fever. However, more recent surgical pathologic data also have demonstrated a high incidence of mitral valve
METHODS
A 34-year old man was referred because of persistent low-grade fever and a newly-diagnosed systolic murmur. He complained of atypical chest pain and dyspnoea on exertion for the past few weeks.
METHODS
Blood analysis revealed an elevated CRP level (67.7 mg/l) along with a hypochromic,
A 67-year-old man with type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension since 7 years presented with a 3-month history of low-grade fever and malaise. Cardiac auscultation revealed the presence of an ejection systolic murmur in the primary aortic area. Most of the investigations for febrile illness were
A nine-year-old girl had acute choreatic symptoms in her face and limbs, after a throat infection 6 weeks previously. On auscultation of the heart a systolic murmur was found and echocardiography showed mitral valve incompetence. There was a positive anti-deoxyribonuclease B titre in the serum,
In the developed world, acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is rare. When it does arise, symptoms commonly include fever, arthralgia and rash. We describe a presentation of a 3-year-old child with ARF in a UK District General Hospital. The patient had a 6-week history of diarrhoea, rash and intermittent
BACKGROUND
Henoch-Schonlein purpura is one of the most common vasculitis in children. Some microorganisms have being suggested as possible etiological agents as group A streptococcus.
METHODS
R.L.B 7 years old presented with purpuric lesions in lower extremities and buttocks following fever and
The authors describe the results of studying the anti-inflammatory effect of indomethacin in 102 young men suffering from acute rheumatic fever (ARF). It has been shown that indomethacin has a remarkable anti-inflammatory effect both on the general disease manifestations and on the basic symptoms.
Thirty-seven cases of streptococcal rheumatic fever in adults (20 women and 17 men; mean age 33 years) are reported. Only 3 patients had a history of previous rheumatic fever. In 73% of the cases untreated sore throat had occurred 8 to 30 days before the condition developed. Throat swabs taken
There has been a decline in the incidence of acute rheumatic fever in recent decades in developed countries and in Taiwan. Sydenham's chorea, a major manifestation of rheumatic fever, was the most common cause of chorea in children in the past. But the incidence of Sydenham's chorea has declined in