Broad screening efforts to identify rheumatic heart disease (RHD) using echocardiography among schoolchildren can enable prompt care, randomized trial data from Nepal suggest. The clinical need is ...

Subcutaneous nodules in rheumatic fever are firm, painless lesions that appear under the skin covering joints. Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory condition that can affect the joints, heart, brain, ...

Symptoms of rheumatic fever include arthritic pain around the joints, fever, fatigue, uncontrollable jerky movements, skin rashes, chest pains, difficulty breathing, and a faster than usual heart rate ...

Some patients with rheumatic heart disease who are thought to have an allergic response to injectable penicillin may actually be experiencing a cardiac reaction to the injection, new information ...