An alternate, unitary explanation of these findings was suggested by a previous study from this hospital. 7 Data were presented showing that when chorea, rheumatic polyarthritis and carditis occur in ...

Chorea minor is the delayed symptom of the rheumatic fever which is presented as consequence of the damages of the basal ganglions with beta hemolytic streptococcus. Clinically it is characterized ...

Symptoms of ARF tend to present themselves 1-3 weeks after infection. A high index of suspicion for ARF must be maintained, especially because a single diagnostic tool does not exist. Thomas D. Jones ...

Autoantibodies to group A streptococcocal sugar moieties are now implicated in Sydenham chorea, a neuropsychiatric complication of rheumatic fever. These antibodies appear to disturb neuronal cell ...

Q: I had rheumatic fever when I was 5 years old. My heart is fine, but after my illness, I had trouble learning. I’m 79 now and still struggle to understand some things, especially the age we live in, ...

UNLIKE certain other common diseases of childhood, rheumatic fever leaves no known immunity and seems to create an increased susceptibility to recurrent attacks. The effects of these recurrent attacks ...