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Rheumatic Fever

Known as: Acute Articular Rheumatism, Fever, Acute Rheumatic, Articular Rheumatisms, Acute 
An inflammatory disorder that follows infection with group A streptococcus. It affects the heart, joints, and subcutaneous tissues. It manifests with… 
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Streptococcal Infections

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Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
An analysis of the cost-effectiveness of pharyngitis management and acute rheumatic fever prevention.
The cost-effectivness of preventing primary acute rheumatic fever attacks by oral or benzathine penicillin treatment was analyzed… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Decreased serum salicylate concentrations in children with rheumatic fever treated with antacid.
To determine if the common practice of giving antacids to patients on salicylate therapy has an effect on serum salicylate… 
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
The role of tonsils in predisposing to streptococcal infections and recurrences of rheumatic fever.
Abstract The size of tonsils in 532 children and adolescents, all with previous attacks of rheumatic fever, was correlated with… 
Review
1969
Review
1969
Rheumatoid arthritis: extra-articular manifestations.
It is with great pleasure and with a deep sense of the honour done to me that I give this lecture in celebration and memory of… 
Highly Cited
1962
Highly Cited
1962
Factors in prophylaxis behavior in treating rheumatic fever: an exploratory study.
Since 1953, the American Heart Association has promoted the concept of prophylaxis for rheumatic fever.' This recommendation is… 
Highly Cited
1951
Highly Cited
1951
Sodium γ-Resorcylate in Rheumatic Fever
damaged capillaries protein leaves the blood, entering the tissue, where it is stored. Jantz confirmed this theory by experiments… 
1949
1949
The etiology of rheumatic fever.
Excerpt Although a causative role of streptococcal infections with respect to rheumatic fever is fairly widely accepted, the… 
Review
1947
Review
1947
Marfan's syndrome in the adult dissecting aneurysm of the aorta associated with arachnodactyly.
ARACHNODACTYLY (Marfan's syndrome) is a relatively rare familial symptom complex which is familiar to ophthalmologists… 
Highly Cited
1945
Highly Cited
1945
Etiology and Pathogenesis of Rheumatic Fever.
Rheumatic fever is the cause of much disability and of many deaths resulting from the acute process and from the chronic heart… 
Highly Cited
1938
Highly Cited
1938
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC PATTERNS IN ACUTE PERICARDITIS: EVOLUTION, CAUSES AND DIAGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF PATTERNS IN LIMB AND CHEST LEADS; A STUDY OF FIFTY-SEVEN CASES
From time to time various changes have been shown to develop in the electrocardiograms of patients with acute pericarditis.1Often… 
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