She had at least four episodes of exacerbations of her symptoms over the eight years, none of which was fully investigated to determine whether it was a result of recurrent acute rheumatic fever, so ...

Lewis First, MD, Chief of Pediatrics at The University of Vermont, shares concerns about strep throat in children.

The PROVAR study (Programa de Rastreamento da Valvopatia Reumática - Rheumatic Heart Disease Screening Program) is the first large-scale echocardiographic screening program in Brazil, using ...

The better you understand what's going on in your body, the better armed you are to manage it, alleviate symptoms, and improve your quality of life ... If your joint pain is related to an infectious ...

The symptoms of aortic stenosis often appear only when the disease is at an advanced stage. In women, many symptoms are ...

Ekaterina Badulina experienced fever and cold symptoms. During an X-ray, she discovered a metal spring in her lung. She had 33 tubes placed in her leg at age 27 after a thromboembolism.

Tularemia, also commonly known as 'rabbit fever' has witnessed more than 50 per cent rise in the US in recent years. Rabbit fever can spread to humans through by infected animals such as rabbits, ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — The use of biologic and targeted therapies for children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) surpassed more typical therapies in recent years, according to ...

To test the hypothesis that not all acute phase reactants respond in the same way during attacks of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and that there is a subclinical acute phase response (APR) in a ...

This highlights the importance of prevention and early intervention. Symptoms of heart disease and heart failure can overlap but often differ. Heart disease symptoms might include chest pain ...

In some cases, inadequately treated strep throat can develop life-threatening conditions, such as sepsis (a whole-body reaction to a blood infection) or rheumatic fever (an inflammatory disease that ...

Symptoms include headaches and fever alongside the characteristic pink-red rash ... As well as causing Scarlet fever, it can cause several different infections, ranging from Strep throat to an illness ...