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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"Rheumatic"”.
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Rheumatic endocarditis in children
… and clinically. To term a condition "rheumatic" is too often to cloak one's ignorance of what the true diagnosis is. In spite of the careful and tedious researches of such men as Church, Triboulet, Still, Poynton, Paine,Singer, etc. our knowledge of what we term "Rheumatism" is still …
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Temporal logic-based fuzzy decision support system for diagnosis of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
… (CDSS) for diagnosis and recognition of Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF) and Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) at an early stage by developing/adopting UK’s and NHF’s treatment practices and procedures that would be appropriate for the Nepalese environment and lifestyle. The Application we developed was …
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Circulating immune complexes in acute rheumatic carditis
… is known to be the aetiologic agent in acute rheumatic fever, but the exact pathogenesis remains obscure. A review of the histopathology of the Aschoff body suggests that the cardiac pathology is a granulomatous hypersensitivity reaction. However the streptococcus has not been found in the …
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Clinical characteristics and outcomes of children with rheumatic heart disease: a global rheumatic heart disease registry (REMEDY) sub-analysis
Background: Despite Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) contributing to an estimated disease burden in 2019 of 40 million people and 285 500 deaths, few studies document the characteristics and outcomes in children. We undertook a sub-analysis of children from the multi-centre prospective two-year global …
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Outcomes of asymptomatic and symptomatic rheumatic heart disease
Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is a leading cause of heart disease in children and young adults in the developing world, with significant associated morbidity and mortality. Early secondary prophylaxis may retard the deleterious progression from its antecedent, acute rheumatic fever to permanent …
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Optimisation of Surgical Timing in Rheumatic Mitral Valve Disease
Rheumatic heart disease is a consequence of Group A streptococcal infections, and disproportionately affects the world’s most disadvantaged people. Whilst the disease has been essentially eradicated from nonindigenous populations in Australia, Indigenous Australians continue to have some of the …
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Computational modeling of the tissue mechanics in rheumatic heart disease patients
… magnetic resonance (CMR) images from rheumatic heart disease patients (RHD) and healthy individuals. These models will facilitate the investigation of heart biomechanics, focusing on the impact of myocardial elastic material behavior, including compliance (stiffness), muscle fiber …
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Sixteen year retrospective analysis of rheumatic and non-rheumatic heart disease patients undergoing valve procedures at Groote Schuur Hospital first incidence single aortic and mitral valve replacement
Rheumatic heart disease is still the most common cause of valvular heart lesions requiring replacement or repair procedures worldwide. In South Africa, where there is an interesting mix of first and third world dynamics, factors sustaining the epidemic of rheumatic disease are still commonplace. …
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In silico and in vitro analysis of calcific and rheumatic aortic stenosis
… by the calcification of the valve leaflets, rheumatic AS caused by rheumatic heart disease that results in commissural fusion of the leaflets, and congenital or bicuspid AS where the valve has two leaflets instead of three. The severity of AS is classified by the degree of valve obstruction …
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The household economic impact of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) in South Africa
Background: Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains a major public health concern in African countries due to the high rates of complications such as atrial fibrillation, stroke, infective endocarditis, and heart failure, all of which can result in premature death. In 2015, RHD was estimated to …
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The prevalence of rheumatic disease in a rural Coloured population in Namaqualand
No epidemiological field studies of the rheumatic diseases have been undertaken in the Coloured population of South Africa. As a group they are genetically heterogenous and in comparative medicine they have tended to occupy an intermediate position between Black and White South Africans. A study of …
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A study of determinants and prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Cape Town
Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is a post-infectious immune disease ascribed to an interaction between a rheumatogenic strain of group A streptococcus, a susceptible host who lives in poor social conditions with limited access to medical facilities. The disease process begins with repeated group A …
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The impact of patient-clinician interactions on patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases
… is especially important in chronic autoimmune rheumatic diseases, which remain incurable, necessitating a life-long need for regular medical support. The overall objective of this PhD was therefore to investigate the impacts of positive and negative medical interactions on patients with …
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A clinical report on a form of leucorrhoea found in relation to certain rheumatic states
A clinical investigation was made into 92 cases giving a history of leucorrhoea commencing between the ages of 11 years and 20 years, viz. Group A, 82 cases, who were women of child-bearing age, and Group B, 10 cases, who were school-girls. A control series for Group A, Group C (82 cases), was also …
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Prevalence, and outcomes of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
… While eradicated in other parts of the world, Rheumatic Heart Disease, nevertheless, remains one of the most common acquired heart diseases in low- to middle- income countries; in sub-Saharan Africa, there was an estimated prevalence of 10 persons per 1,000 population in 2015. In the Global …
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