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Rheumatic fever (RF) is an inflammatory disease that can involve the heart, joints, skin, and brain. [1] ... and its natural history may vary between populations.
The 1936 and 1952 papers on the natural history of rheumatic fever, written by Edward Franklin Bland and T. Duckett Jones, are considered classics. [9] Jones served in various capacities, including the vice-presidency of the American Heart Association. At his death he was president-elect of the National Health Council. [10]
Recent figures quote the incidence of Acute Rheumatic Fever as 0.6–0.7/1,000 population in the United States and Japan compared with 15–21/1,000 population in Asia and Africa. [32] The prevalence of Acute Rheumatic Fever and Sydenham's Chorea has declined progressively in developed countries over the last decades. [33] [34]
Rheumatic fever & heart disease. Author: Tanner Marshall, MS Editor: Rishi Desai, MD, MPH, Tanner Marshall, MS “Rheumatism” is used to describe inflammation in the joints, muscles, and the fibrous tissue, so rheumatic fever is a type of inflammatory disease that can damage the heart tissue, and lead to rheumatic heart disease.
James Alison Glover FRSM CBE (21 February 1874 – 17 September 1963) was a British physician, known for his epidemiological studies associating carrier rates of meningococcus with overcrowding, revealing geographic variations in the number of tonsillectomies in school children in England and Wales, and showing that cases of rheumatic fever occurred after outbreaks of sore throats caused by ...
Acute rheumatic fever can be differentiated by a migratory pattern of joint involvement and evidence of antecedent streptococcal infection. Bacterial arthritis (such as by Streptococcus) is usually asymmetric, while RA usually involves both sides of the body symmetrically.
The relation to rheumatic fever was strengthened by many studies that showed that women with normal pregnancies before rheumatic fever developed chorea in subsequent pregnancies. [4] [5] At least 35% of patients have a definite history of acute rheumatic fever and Sydenham chorea; 4% of those with chorea gravidarum had acute rheumatic fever. [2 ...
He saw military service as a major during World War II, serving as chief of the U.S. Army’s Rheumatic Fever Center at Torney General Hospital. [3] In 1942, he was one of two authors of the first English language medical article describing the triad of uveitis , urethritis , and arthritis and coined the eponym Reiter's syndrome (now known as ...