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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.


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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.


What causes rheumatic arthritis flareups?

It is not known what the cause for these are.


Can all type A strep infections cause rheumatic fever?

yes


Pathophysiology of rheumatic heart disease in diagram form?

Type your answer here... rheumatic heart disease is cause by a rheumatic fever that inflamed the heart and scarring it.


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