Practical Observations on Acute and Chronic Carditis
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CORRELATION BETWEEN THE SEVERITY OF CARDITIS AND THE LEVEL OF ACUTE PHASE REACTANTS AND ANTI-STREPTOLYSIN 0 TITER IN ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY IN SHIRAZ
In order to find the correlation between the severity of carditis in acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP) and anti-streptolysin O (ASO) titers, we performed a retrospective study in Shiraz on one-hundred and four patients. The mean age of the patients was 11 years. Fever was seen in 85.5%, arthralgia in 95.2%, arthritis in 81.7%, car...
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دوره 5 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2017