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Rheumatic fever which may cause heart damage may result from getting?
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You can get Rheumatic fever from having a untreated strep throat
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What does long term strep throat cause?
Untreated strep throat can cause rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.
Why is it important to treat strep throat?
Strep throat is a bacterial infection that makes your throat feel sore and scratchy. If untreated, strep throat can sometimes cause complications such as: * kidney inflammation * rheumatic fever Rheumatic fever can cause: * painful and inflamed joints, * a rash * damage to heart valves (rheumatic heart disease)
How dangerous is rheumatic fever?
Rheumatic fever can be very dangerous once you get it. It can kill over 3million people a year! Crazy i know! It can cause permanent damage to the heart valves, cause heart failure, stroke, and even death! It's not very common though. It's mostly common in the Sub-Saharan, Africa, and the South Central Asia. Hope dat helped ya!
Discuss how rheumatic fever can cause damage to the AV valve?
protein antibodies produced to defend the body against streptococcus bacteria
What damage could strep throat cause?
Strep throat, when untreated can lead to rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever affects your heart valves. You have bout 15 million patients suffering from rheumatic heart disease, world wide. Every year 300,000 die of rheumatic heart disease. Same number is added. Mostly the children are affected. This is a totally preventable disease and the prevalence of the same is shameful for the medical profession.
What is the cause of Tricuspid valve stenosis?
is most often the result of rheumatic fever. On rare occasions, it is caused by a tumor or disease of the connective tissue. The rarest cause is a birth defect.
Can rheumatoid arthritis cause eleavated enzymes levels?
Yes. Elevated liver enzymes may have various causes in cases where there is rheumatoid arthritis . ranging from the rheumatic disease itself, as the result of anti-rheumatic medication or it be caused by an associated autoimmune disease.
Do all hurricanes cause damage?
No. Some hurricanes stay at sea and do not result in any damage.
What causes rheumatic arthritis flareups?
It is not known what the cause for these are.
Can bells cause brain damage?
no technically, yes. If you were to hit your head with a large bell hard enough, it can cause brain damage. But just hearing the noise will only result in hearing damage.
Can an anuerysm cause epilepsy?
If someone gets some damage to their brain, this can result in someone getting epilepsy. So if someone had a aneurysm in their brain and some damage was done, it is possible that epilepsy could develop epilepsy, but it is not certain that it would happen.
Do high carbon dioxide levels cause brain damage?
The brain is starved of oxygen, and brain damage and suffocation can be the result.
