Rheumatic fever

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• Synonyms

  • Rheumatic heart disease

• Causes

  • Post-streptococcal autoimmunity
  • Scarlet fever

• Effects

  • Subcutaneous nodule
  • Migratory polyarthritis
  • Erythema marginatum
  • Sydenham's chorea
  • Third degree atrioventricular block
  • Pericarditis
  • Aschoff nodule
  • Mitral stenosis40.0%
  • Carey-Coombs murmur
  • Aortic regurgitation
  • Mitral regurgitation
  • Valvular heart disease
  • Myxoid degeneration

• Parents

  • Childhood heart disease

• Description

  • "40% mitral stenosis"