rheumatic fever
noun
: an acute disease that occurs chiefly in children and adolescents following inadequately treated Group A streptococcal infection of the upper respiratory tract (such as in strep throat) and is characterized by fever, by inflammation and pain in and around the joints, and by inflammatory involvement of the pericardium and heart valves
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Left untreated, strep can turn into the full-body infection known as rheumatic fever, and the bacteria can then damage the heart.
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Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2023
This is a menace of many masks — among them strep throat, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, toxic shock syndrome and flesh-eating disease.
—Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2018
Wracked by chronic asthmatic bronchitis and rheumatic fever, he was forced to spend entire winters indoors.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
Sydenham chorea was like rheumatic fever of the brain, thought to occur when rheumatic fever progresses and strep antibodies (emboldened by fever) breaches the blood-brain barrier (BBB), the tight wall of endothelial cells ordinarily there to protect the brain from the outside world.
—Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
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Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2023
This is a menace of many masks — among them strep throat, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, toxic shock syndrome and flesh-eating disease.
—Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2018
Wracked by chronic asthmatic bronchitis and rheumatic fever, he was forced to spend entire winters indoors.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
Sydenham chorea was like rheumatic fever of the brain, thought to occur when rheumatic fever progresses and strep antibodies (emboldened by fever) breaches the blood-brain barrier (BBB), the tight wall of endothelial cells ordinarily there to protect the brain from the outside world.
—Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
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