Meanings of acute rheumatic fever in English

The differential diagnosis of arthritis with liver disease must include acute rheumatic fever.

Clinical features overlapped with Kawasaki disease, acute rheumatic fever, and toxic shock syndrome.

All the rest were new cases of acute rheumatic fever.

Two children with acute rheumatic fever had concurrent liver disease which obscured their diagnosis.

Photo: RNZ New Zealand has 14 times more cases of acute rheumatic fever than the OECD average.

There's been a big increase in the number of Wellington children in hospital with acute rheumatic fever.

Early initiation of antibiotics in pharyngitis due to GABS can prevent complications such as acute rheumatic fever.

There's been a sudden increase the number of Wellington children who've been hospitalised with acute rheumatic fever this year.

There had been nine Wellington children in hospital with acute rheumatic fever this year, the public health service said in its alert.

The most frequent causes are acute rheumatic fever, diphtheria, pneumonia, cerebrospinal meningitis, scarlet fever, erysipelas, influenza, chorea, gonorrhea, sepsis and typhoid fever.

Autoimmune reactions due to molecular mimicry of bacterial epitopes by host proteins cause acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and subsequent disease progression to RHD.