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Acute rheumatic heart disease

Known as: Rheumatic carditis, acute, Rheumatic heart disease, active or acute, RHEUMATIC CARDITIS ACUTE 
Pancarditis, involving inflammation of the endocardium, myocardium, and epicardium. It results from an autoimmune reaction following an infection… (More)
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Acute Rheumatic EndocarditisAcute Rheumatic PericarditisAcute rheumatic myocarditisBouillaud Disease
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Rheumatic FeverRheumatic Heart Disease

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2017
2017
Bmi1 and BRG1 drive myocardial repair by regulating cardiac stem cell function in acute rheumatic heart disease.
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) occurs due to the accumulation of complications associated with rheumatic fever, and it results in… (More)
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2015
2015
FALSE AND TRUE ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER: A Lebanese Experience.
OBJECTIVES The main aim of this study is to evaluate the significance of several clinical and laboratory findings presented by a… (More)
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2000
2000
Autoantibodies in the sera of patients with rheumatic heart disease: characterization of myocardial antigens by two-dimensional immunoblotting and N-terminal sequence analysis.
The concept of antigenic mimicry in autoimmune diseases such as rheumatic fever has been under investigation for decades and the… (More)
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1988
1988
Protective and heart-crossreactive epitopes located within the NH2 terminus of type 19 streptococcal M protein
M protein was purified to homogeneity from limited pepsin digests of intact type 19 streptococci (pep M19). The purified pep M19… (More)
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1988
1988
Valve surgery in acute rheumatic heart disease. One- to four-year follow-up.
Six patients with acute rheumatic carditis and intractable left ventricular failure, all in class 4 NYHA classification… (More)
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1988
1988
Aschoff bodies of rheumatic carditis are granulomatous lesions of histiocytic origin.
The histogenesis of the Aschoff body of rheumatic carditis is controversial. Proliferative Aschoff bodies in heart sections from… (More)
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1982
1982
Myocardial metal content in patients who expired from cyanotic congenital heart disease and acute rheumatic heart disease.
The importance of metals in normal and pathologic cardiovascular function has been recognized. Significant derangements in… (More)
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1975
1975
Myocardial lysis in acute rheumatic fever followed by regeneration of cardiac muscle and origin of Aschoff bodies.
In acute rheumatic heart disease, lysis of cardiac muscle fibres with or without retention of sarcolemma is found to be the most… (More)
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1974
1974
Valve replacement in acute rheumatic heart disease.
 
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1947
1947
Treatment of acute rheumatic fever and acute rheumatic heart disease.
 
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