Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

JR Carapetis, A Beaton, MW Cunningham… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2016 - nature.com
Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is the result of an autoimmune response to pharyngitis caused
by infection with group A Streptococcus. The long-term damage to cardiac valves caused by …

Contemporary diagnosis and management of rheumatic heart disease: implications for closing the gap: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

RK Kumar, MJ Antunes, A Beaton, M Mirabel… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
The global burden of rheumatic heart disease continues to be significant although it is
largely limited to poor and marginalized populations. In most endemic regions, affected …

[HTML][HTML] Global unmet needs in cardiac surgery

P Zilla, M Yacoub, L Zühlke, F Beyersdorf, K Sliwa… - Global heart, 2018 - Elsevier
More than 6 billion people live outside industrialized countries and have insufficient access
to cardiac surgery. Given the recently confirmed high prevailing mortality for rheumatic heart …

[HTML][HTML] Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

D Sika-Paotonu, A Beaton, A Raghu, A Steer… - 2017 - europepmc.org
Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) results from the body's autoimmune response to a throat
infection caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, also known as the group A Streptococcus …

Towards automatic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease on echocardiographic exams through video-based deep learning

JFBS Martins, ER Nascimento… - Journal of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objective Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) affects an estimated 39 million people worldwide
and is the most common acquired heart disease in children and young adults …

Cardiovascular risk factor burden in Africa and the Middle East: the Africa Middle East cardiovascular epidemiological (ACE) study

AA Alsheikh-Ali, MI Omar, FJ Raal, W Rashed… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Increased urbanization in the develo** world parallels a rising burden of
chronic diseases. Develo** countries account for∼ 80% of global cardiovascular (CV) …

Tertiary prevention and treatment of rheumatic heart disease: a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute working group summary

D Vervoort, CS Yilgwan, A Ansong… - BMJ Global …, 2023 - gh.bmj.com
Although entirely preventable, rheumatic heart disease (RHD), a disease of poverty and
social disadvantage resulting in high morbidity and mortality, remains an ever-present …

[HTML][HTML] Rheumatic heart disease: current status of diagnosis and therapy

F Peters, G Karthikeyan, J Abrams… - Cardiovascular …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is the only preventable cardiovascular disease which
causes significant morbidity and mortality particularly in low-and middle-income countries …

Recent advances in the rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease continuum

J Rwebembera, BR Nascimento, NW Minja… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nearly a century after rheumatic fever (RF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) was
eradicated from the developed world, the disease remains endemic in many low-and middle …

Long-term outcomes from acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: a data-linkage and survival analysis approach

VYF He, JR Condon, AP Ralph, Y Zhao, K Roberts… - Circulation, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: We investigated adverse outcomes for people with acute rheumatic fever (ARF)
and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and the effect of comorbidities and demographic factors …