منابع مشابه
Chronic Rheumatic Endocarditis
development of established endocarditis and symptoms. This is particularly true in pure mitral stenosis where symptoms may not begin until 20 years after the acute attack. Mitral stenosis represents a less severe degree of valve damage than does severe mitral regurgitation or mixed lesions in which the subvalvar apparatus, the chordae and papillary muscles, are involved as well as the valve cus...
متن کاملThe Clinical Pathology of Rheumatic Mitral Endocarditis.
The correct pre-operative assessment of the morbid anatomy of the mitral valve is obviously of the greatest importance as it will help the surgeon to determine, amongst other things, whether relief of the stenosis is likely to produce or to aggravate any associated regurgitation, whether the operation should be done by closedor open-heart methods, and whether repair of, or possibly even replace...
متن کاملPrevention of Rheumatic Fever and Bacterial Endocarditis
Rheuniatic fever is a recurrent disease which frequently can be prevented. Infection with group A streptococci precipitates both initial and recurrent attacks; therefore, prevention of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease depends upon the control of streptococcal infections. This may be accomplished, one by prevention of streptococcal infections in rheumatic subjects, and, two by early a...
متن کامل[Prevention of rheumatic fever and bacterial endocarditis].
Rheuniatic fever is a recurrent disease which frequently can be prevented. Infection with group A streptococci precipitates both initial and recurrent attacks; therefore, prevention of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease depends upon the control of streptococcal infections. This may be accomplished, one by prevention of streptococcal infections in rheumatic subjects, and, two by early a...
متن کاملAn Adult Woman Diagnosed with Recurrent Rheumatic Fever and Infective Endocarditis with Manifestations of Prolonged Fever and Heart Murmur
Background: Rheumatic Fever (RF) is a non-suppurative systemic inflammatory disease with a "delayed autoimmune" caused by Group A streptococcal infections. Inadequate RF treatment causes recurrent RF which is a predisposing factor for Infective Endocarditis. Case Presentation: A 39-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with chief complaints of intermittent fever since one month ago, sh...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 1909
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(00)44940-8