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2. Rheumatic fever - Wikipedia

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   Rheumatic fever (RF) is an inflammatory disease that can involve the heart, joints, skin, and brain. [1] The disease typically develops two to four weeks after a streptococcal throat infection. [2]

3. Wikipedia : Osmosis/Rheumatic Fever

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   With chronic rheumatic heart disease, the valves, typically the mitral valve but sometimes the aortic valve, develop scar tissue from repeated inflammation. The leaflets of the valves become thicker and can actually fuse together, called commissural fusion, Also the chordae tendinae which are attached to the valves can become thickened as well.

4. Autoimmune heart disease - Wikipedia

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   Autoimmune heart diseases are the effects of the body's own immune defense system mistaking cardiac antigens as foreign and attacking them leading to inflammation of the heart as a whole, or in parts. The commonest form of autoimmune heart disease is rheumatic heart disease or rheumatic fever.

5. 8 Common Cardiovascular Diseases for Men & How to ... - AOL

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   Heart disease and cardiovascular disease have almost the same meaning. ... Causes can include: Rheumatic heart disease (a condition that can occur when the bacteria that causes strep throat isn ...

6. What Is Rheumatic Heart Disease? - AOL

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   What is rheumatic heart disease? Rheumatic heart disease causes more than 290,000 deaths each year. It’s caused by rheumatic fever, an autoimmune reaction brought on by an untreated strep throat ...

7. Hurting all over? Here are 10 Common Causes of Body ... - AOL

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   Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin and ibuprofen, along with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs may also be recommended to relieve pain and prevent further damage to ...

8. Cardiovascular disease - Wikipedia

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   Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels. [3] CVDs constitute a class of diseases that includes: coronary artery diseases (e.g. angina, heart attack), heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia, congenital heart disease, valvular heart disease, carditis, aortic aneurysms, peripheral artery disease ...

9. Valvular heart disease - Wikipedia

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   Valvular heart disease resulting from rheumatic fever is referred to as rheumatic heart disease. Acute rheumatic fever, which frequently manifests with carditis and valvulitis, [ 20 ] is a late sequela of Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus infection in the throat, often lagging the initial infection by weeks to months. [ 21 ]