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Rheumatic Heart Disease: What is the pathology?
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Begins with strep throat turns into Rheumatic fever which scars heart valves interfering with blood flow through the heart.
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Rheumatic Heart Disease: What is the cause?
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Rheumatic Fever ( systemic inflammatory disease)
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Rheumatic Heart Disease: Most as risk?
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childhood disease
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Rheumatic Heart Disease: What it can cause?
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mitral stenosis
aortic stenosis Heart failure Endocarditis (infection in heart lining) Pericarditis Arrhythmias Sydenham chorea |