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Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease

Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease. Dr Sarika Gupta (MD,PhD); Asst. Professor. ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER. Autoimmune consequence of infection ( pharyngeal infection not the skin infection ) with Group A beta haemolytic streptococcal infection

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Rheumatic Fever and Heart Disease

Rheumatic Fever and Heart Disease. Definition: rheumatic fever is an acute, immunologically mediated, multi-system inflammatory disease that follows, after a few weeks, an episode of group A streptococcal pharyngitis (3% of patients).

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Pathology of Rheumatic heart disease, infective endocarditis and valvular heart disease

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Pathology of Rheumatic heart disease, infective endocarditis and valvular heart disease

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Pathology of Rheumatic heart disease, infective endocarditis and valvular heart disease

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VALVULAR HEART DISEASE

VALVULAR HEART DISEASE. Learning objectives. Describe the etiology and clinical symptoms of acute rheumatic fever. Describe the pathology and natural history of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. Describe an Aschoff body.

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