Background. Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a leading cause of heart failure in children and young adults worldwide. B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a useful marker of critical pediatric heart disease, and its N-terminal peptide, NT-proBNP, is elevated in congenital and acquired heart disease in children. Aim. To measure NT-proBNP levels as a marker of carditis in children with acute rheum...

a case of rheumatic fever, at least one of its five chief manifestations must be recognized, namely, mitral valvulitis, aortic valvulitis, partial heart block, pericarditis, and cardiac failure. It is doubted that there are other manifestations of rheumatic carditis. Sinus tachycardia is not disproportionate to fever, anxiety, pericardial effusion, or heart failure. Gallop rhythm in a child is ...

a case of rheumatic fever, at least one of its five chief manifestations must be recognized, namely, mitral valvulitis, aortic valvulitis, partial heart block, pericarditis, and cardiac failure. It is doubted that there are other manifestations of rheumatic carditis. Sinus tachycardia is not disproportionate to fever, anxiety, pericardial effusion, or heart failure. Gallop rhythm in a child is ...

a case of rheumatic fever, at least one of its five chief manifestations must be recognized, namely, mitral valvulitis, aortic valvulitis, partial heart block, pericarditis, and cardiac failure. It is doubted that there are other manifestations of rheumatic carditis. Sinus tachycardia is not disproportionate to fever, anxiety, pericardial effusion, or heart failure. Gallop rhythm in a child is ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of occurrence of mitral and aortic valvar regurgitation in rheumatic children in whom there was no evidence of carditis acutely or at an earlier attack. DESIGN Colour flow Doppler imaging was used in a non-randomised study of sequentially admitted children who met the criteria for acute rheumatic fever without clinically evident carditis and patients in wh...

A trial was conducted using sequential analysis by pairs to compare the efficacy of corticosteroids and salicylates in the treatment of acute rheumatic carditis. The results show a significantly favourable effect of steroid treatment both in clinical response and in reduction of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate. In addition, patients receiving steroids usually had a shorter hospital stay. The...

Lyme disease is the most common transmitted by Ixodes ticks. We present a case of carditis in 13-year-old boy. Clinical and immunological research methods (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, blot) were used. The child’s condition medium severity due to skin intoxication syndromes carditis. During examination, child was diagnosed with A feature presented appearance associated tick bite child. be...

It is stated that prolongation of the Q-T interval is a reliable criterion of active carditis. A control investigation of a group of tuberculous children was undertaken with particular reference to this point. It was observed that prolongation of the Q-T interval is a rather frequent finding in childhood tuberculosis, but is not an expression of the cardiac status of the patient. The value of t...

T wave alternans is an uncommonly recorded cardiac rhythm. We report here an unusual case of a 13-year-old girl with acute rheumatic carditis and acute nephritis, who developed T wave alternans associated with a prolonged QT interval. These electrocardiographic changes were evident only after the initial acute stage of the disease process and should be borne in mind for patients with acute rheu...

Objective: Acute rheumatic fever is still one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity due to heart disease in developing countries. Carditis is the most important manifestation of the disease and there are still difficulties in diagnosis. Cardiac troponin-T measurement has been found to be valuable in recognition of cardiac injury in various disease states. We investigated the cardiac ...