About: Rheumatic fever   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory autoimmune disease where antibodies to Strepotococcus attack the body's connective tissues in the major joints and the heart. It is a common secondary complication to strep throat or scarlet fever. Once very common, it has become much rarer since the advent of antibiotics. However, patients usually require lifelong prophylactic treatment as a second staphylococcus infection will usually result in death. It has been an occasional differential diagnosis on the series. Rheumatic fever is a common cause of damage to heart valves.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Rheumatic fever
rdfs:comment
  • Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory autoimmune disease where antibodies to Strepotococcus attack the body's connective tissues in the major joints and the heart. It is a common secondary complication to strep throat or scarlet fever. Once very common, it has become much rarer since the advent of antibiotics. However, patients usually require lifelong prophylactic treatment as a second staphylococcus infection will usually result in death. It has been an occasional differential diagnosis on the series. Rheumatic fever is a common cause of damage to heart valves.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
mortalityrate
  • Up to 5%
symptom
  • Inflammation of large joints, inflammation of heart muscle, nodules under the skin, rash, chorea of arms and head
dbkwik:house/prope...iPageUsesTemplate
Name
  • Rheumatic fever
Type
  • Autoimmune
treatment
Cause
abstract
  • Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory autoimmune disease where antibodies to Strepotococcus attack the body's connective tissues in the major joints and the heart. It is a common secondary complication to strep throat or scarlet fever. Once very common, it has become much rarer since the advent of antibiotics. However, patients usually require lifelong prophylactic treatment as a second staphylococcus infection will usually result in death. It has been an occasional differential diagnosis on the series. Rheumatic fever can occur when the original infection is asymptomatic. It is difficult to diagnose, requiring a confiration of a staphylococcus infection unless it has already presented with chorea or severe heart inflammation. The disease almost always affects children from the age of 6-15. Only 20% of cases develop in adults. Rheumatic fever is a medical emergency and requires immediate treatment as it can be fatal in and of itself. Persons who recover may develop the condition again if they develop a second infection and usually have to be on a monthly regimen of antibiotics for life, steroids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories such as aspirin. Rheumatic fever is a common cause of damage to heart valves.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software