Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) prophylaxis refers to preventive measures that a doctor may take to stop a recurrence of ARF. These measures involve administering antibiotics to prevent infection. ARF is ...

Research led by the University of Otago in New Zealand has uncovered the strongest evidence yet that household overcrowding is a major risk factor for acute rheumatic fever and streptococcal ...

The clinical diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) may be challenging; however, a constellation of signs including new valvular insufficiency, cardiomegaly, and heart failure should readily prompt ...

PATIENTS who are convalescing from rheumatic fever either do or do not have heart disease. Of those who do not, some will later have signs of it. The studies 1–5 that demonstrated this phenomenon ...

The Jones criteria is a diagnostic tool for diagnosing acute rheumatic fever (ARF). It involves testing heart function using echocardiograms, X-rays, blood tests, and other screenings. Rheumatic heart ...

UNLIKE certain other common diseases of childhood, rheumatic fever leaves no known immunity and seems to create an increased susceptibility to recurrent attacks. The effects of these recurrent attacks ...

Recent evidence suggests that there has been an increase in Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF) in the northern portion of the United States. To determine if there has been a similar increase in the south, we ...