To the Editor: The outstanding role of active rheumatic carditis in episodes of failure, hemoptysis and unresponsiveness to digitalis in rheumatic heart disease seems very apparent to me. Yet few a ...

Rheumatic fever represents a delayed and non-suppurative consequence of a pharyngeal infection with the group A ... Rheumatic carditis is a term used to describe active inflammation of the ...

THE American Heart Association has recommended that "all individuals with a well established history of a previous attack of rheumatic fever or chorea, or who show definite evidence of rheumatic he ...

At this point, acute rheumatic fever was the most likely diagnosis, given evidence of preceding Group A Streptococcus infection with 1 major criterion, carditis (manifesting as acute mitral valvulitis ...

Lyme carditis is a complication of Lyme disease. It involves swelling of the heart and often causes heart block, which is when disruption to the atrioventricular node causes abnormal heart activity.

Rheumatic fever is a complication of a bacterial infection. ... About 50–70% of people with rheumatic fever develop carditis, which is inflammation of your heart.

Lyme disease might be a cause of cardiac symptoms in patients living in or visiting high-incidence areas and might contribute to sudden cardiac death, the CDC has warned healthcare providers.