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Rheumatic Heart disease results from a condition caused by Rheumatic fever. The fever is an inflammatory disease caused by strep throat or scarlet fever. The bacteria can sometimes make its way to the heart and damage the valves that keep blood from flowing backwards. If severe, it may require surgery to replace the valves. Valve replacement is easily done by heart surgeons.
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Has anybody with strep throat ever die?
Every year about 300,000 people die due to rheumatic heart disease. Rheumatic heart disease is direct result of strep throat. Worldwide about 15 million people are suffering due to rheumatic heart disease.
How are autoimmune and rheumatic diseases diagnosed?
Autoimmune and rheumatic diseases can be difficult to diagnose. People with the same disease can have very different symptoms. A helpful strategy in the diagnosis of these diseases is to find and identify an autoantibody in the person's blood
How many people die from strep throat in India?
About 50,000 people die every year in India due to rheumatic heart disease, which is direct sequel of strep throat.
What is differences between Rheumatoid disease and Rheumatic fever?
The difference between rheumatic fever and rheumatoid arthritis is that rheumatic fever affects the kidneys and heart and is typically caused by strep throat. Rheumatoid arthritis is arthritis.
How many people in the U.S. develop Sydenham's chorea?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only 1%-3% of people with streptococcal throat infections develop acute rheumatic fever (ARF)
How does dutch elm disease effect people?
Dutch elm disease has no effect on human beings. However, it is massively devastating to many kinds of elm trees.
Who is at risk for infective endocarditis?
people who have had rheumatic fever, with its resulting scarring, or a congenital cause of heart malformation, may contract this disease when certain bacteria enter the bloodstream and become lodged in the heart.
Gravidocardia disease ralated to rheumatic heart disease?
people help others with disease all the time that is way they give money away do you ask your self i am so lucky to live imang all the one that don't get to live don't you fell bad about that i know i do. that is why i give my saveings to the people with disease and canser that i fell much better to help others you should try it it fells good .
Did people die from rheumatic fever in the civil war?
yes
What effect does flooding have on people?
People losing there houses and Losing there things, also people are killed and have disease's from the water.
What disease can get from the greenhouse effect?
No disease, but people die of heatstroke, sunstroke and heart and respiratory failure during heat waves.
Rheumatic Heart Disease?
Rheumatic heart disease is another name for rheumatic fever, a disease which largely afflicts children between the ages of 6-15. The causative agent is due to a bacterial infection, Strepococcus pyogenes. Though common worldwide, this condition is fairly rare in developed countries, such as the U.S and the U.K., due to the advent and widespread use of antibiotics after the 1960s. However, it is a serious condition that can lead to serious and potentially debilitating heart disease later in life.Rheumatic heart disease is characterized by a set of signs and symptoms. Not all of the signs and symptoms have to be present in order to have rheumatic heart disease. The major criteria for rheumatic heart disease includes:Polyarthritis - inflammation and pain in the joints, usually ascending, starting from the lower jointsCarditis - inflammation of the heart, causing acute heart failure, resulting in pain, shortness of breath and abnormal heart sounds.Subcutaneous nodules - firm, nontender nodules over the tendons of the body.Erythema marginatum - a circular rash, never on the face, that spreads in a snake-like fashion, clears in the middle and worsens with heat.Sydenham's chorea - a series of rapid movements and jerks in the arms and face without voluntary control.Though not all of the symptoms have to be present to have this condition, having two of these symptoms is diagnostic of this disease. In addition, only having one of these symptoms as well as several minor other symptoms can be diagnostic of rheumatic heart disease. Its name, rheumatic heart disease, comes from the fact that many of its symptoms are similar to rheumatic disorders, such as rheumatic arthritis and other inflammatory joint conditions.In terms of the heart, rheumatic heart disease can cause acute signs of congestive heart failure, which is typically uncommon in children. Medically, it is treated similarly to heart failure in adults, which means diuretics and digoxin. However, corticosteroids, which are not used in typical heart failure, are of great benefit because it tunes downs the inflammation response which causes a lot of the symptoms. Though easily treated with antibiotics, treatment should attempt to prevent the formation of thickened leaflets in the heart valve and inflammatory changes that causes dysfunction of the heart valves. Such changes predispose people towards developing congestive heart failure in the future, as well as a potential second attack. In such affected people, low-dose antibiotics like penicillin are required for three to five years after the first attack to prevent future attacks.
