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Rheumatic Heart Disease

Known as: Rheumatic heart disease NOS, Disease, Rheumatic Heart, Rheumatic heart disease, unspecified 
An autoinflammatory condition following an infection with Group A Beta Hemolytic Streptococcus (GABHS), in which the heart is attacked by antibodies… 
National Institutes of Health

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Acute Rheumatic EndocarditisAcute Rheumatic PericarditisAcute rheumatic heart diseaseAcute rheumatic myocarditis

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Cardiovascular DiseasesRheumatismSoft tissue rheumatism

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Review
1995
Review
1995
Poststreptococcal reactive arthritis in children: a potential predecessor of rheumatic heart disease.
OBJECTIVE To report several cases of arthritis seen in children after infection with Group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus (GABHS… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Antibodies to distinct polypeptides of RNA polymerase I in sera from patients with rheumatic autoimmune disease.
Sera from patients with rheumatic autoimmune diseases were screened for antibodies directed against RNA polymerase I by using a… 
1975
1975
HL-A antigens in Europeans and Maoris with rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.
Using a standard microtoxicity technique of tissue typing, the distribution of tissue antigens in 75 Maoris and 514 European… 
1971
1971
Smoking, Chronic Bronchitis, and Lung Cancer
A follow-up was carried out on 21,579 male mass radiography volunteers aged at least 40 who had been the subject of an earlier… 
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… 
Highly Cited
1954
Highly Cited
1954
A study of minute to minute changes of arterio-venous oxygen content difference, oxygen uptake and cardiac output and rate of achievement of a steady state during exercise in rheumatic heart disease.
When the Fick equation for the estimation of the cardiac output is applied to the values obtained from a few mixed venous blood… 
1954
1954
ACTH and cortisone therapy of rheumatic fever and rheumatic carditis.
Pericarditis. Data on the effect of cortisone or ACTH on this serious and obvious manifestation of rheumatic inflammation of the… 
1951
1951
Effect of pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) in acute rheumatic carditis.
The beneficial effect of pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) in rheumatic fever, first reported by Hench and… 
1950
1950
The clinical response of rheumatic fever and acute carditis to ACTH.
A NEW era in the study and treatment of rheumatic diseases began on April 13, 1949, when Hench and his co-workers1 announced… 
1939
1939
THE DELAYED APPEARANCE OF HEART DISEASE AFTER RHEUMATIC FEVER
Involvement of the heart can be recognized in approximately 70 per cent of patients during the course of rheumatic fever in…