rheumatic heart disease

Heart Disease CAD Go inside the body to see how heart disease develops.

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Permanent damage to the valves of the heart caused especially by repeated attacks of rheumatic fever.

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Damage to heart muscle and heart valves caused by episodes of rheumatic fever. Rheumatic heart disease may result when a susceptible person acquires a group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal infection; an autoimmune reaction may occur in heart tissue, resulting in permanent deformities of heart valves or chordae tendineae.