Chronic Rheumatic Endocarditis

A Case Report of Recurrent Rheumatic Fever: Considerations and Comments

Rheumatic fever (RF) is a prevalent healthcare problem in the developing countries. Recurrence of this disorder is often observed in childhood and adolescence. RF can mimic the presentations of infective endocarditis, and clinicians are not really familiar with this issue. Herein, we present a case of recurrent acute rheumatic fever in a patient suspicious of acute bacterial endocarditis due to...

Acute rheumatic fever.

Acute rheumatic fever is an inflammatory response to group A streptococcal infectionwhich typically occurs two to three weeks after a throat infection.Worldwide, approximately 500 000 new cases of acute rheumatic fever occur annually, and at least 15 million people have chronic rheumatic heart disease. 2 Acute rheumatic fever is characterised by a clinical syndrome, and the most common manifest...

Development of Antifibrinolytic Properties in Blood of Patients with Rheumatic Fever, Chronic Infective Arthritis and Bacterial Endocarditis.

Streptococcus sinensis Endocarditis outside Hong Kong

Streptococcus sinensis has been described as a causative organism for infective endocarditis in 3 Chinese patients from Hong Kong. We describe a closely related strain in an Italian patient with chronic rheumatic heart disease. The case illustrates that S. sinensis is a worldwide emerging pathogen.

Abdominal mycotic aneurysm and cerebral embolic event associated with infective endocarditis in a patient with chronic rheumatic valvar disease.

We report the case of a girl with chronic rheumatic valvar heart disease who developed infective endocarditis and two complications, ischemic stroke due to cerebral embolic event and mycotic aneurysm of the superior mesenteric artery.

Diphenylamine reaction in chronic joint diseases.

Niazi and State (1948) found that protein-free precipitate of plasma or serum heated in a boiling water bath with Dische's diphenylamine reagent gave a dark purple colour in certain diseases, especially in malignancy and inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever, subacute bacterial endocarditis, empyema, and tuberculosis (Dische, 1929, 1930). The value of this dipheny...