Heart disease is killing more women in Pakistan than previously understood, with female patients experiencing higher ...

According to WHO, heart attacks and strokes are usually acute events mainly caused by a blockage that prevents blood from flowing to the heart or brain.

Despite being aggressive, AML doesn’t always begin with dramatic symptoms. Some of the earlier signs are subtle, everyday experiences that we often tend to overlook, such as fatigue, fever ...

Key messages In people who have had previous rheumatic fever (the body attacking itself in response to bacterial infection) or have rheumatic heart disease (long-term damage to the heart due to ...

Conclusion: Our study shows that rheumatic fever is not rare in Ouahigouya. It is dominated by rheumatoid arthritis and indeterminate chronic inflammatory rheumatism diseases.

Yale researchers have discovered how typhoid fever triggers neurological symptoms, offering new insight into treatment options.

Rheumatic heart disease is a condition in which rheumatic fever has permanently damaged the heart valves, causing symptoms of shortness of breath, chest pain and swelling.

Associate Professor Manisha Pandey said it was imperative to find an alternative to help slow the progression of rheumatic fever to rheumatic heart disease, and ease the health and economic burden.

Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is a postinfectious immune-mediated syndrome predominantly affecting children, adolescents and young adults following infection with the group A Streptococcus ( ...

Hence, in patients with fever accompanied by arthralgia, muscular pains and stiffness, precordial pain and dyspnea, acute abdominal symptoms or acute pyelonephritis and in whom the diagnosis is in ...

Acute rheumatic fever is an autoimmune inflammatory process that develops as a result of streptococcal infection. Acute rheumatic fever has extremely variable manifestations and remains a clinical ...

Rheumatic Fever Week is a week-long campaign that brings attention to RF as a ‘serious autoimmune disease’, that affects various body parts of a child, including the joints, heart, skin, nervous ...