Being diagnosed with a rheumatic disease is a life-altering experience that can feel overwhelming and intimidating. Rheumatic ...

Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common etiology for inflammatory arthritis in the older population, with an estimated prevalence of 2%. An older individual with inflammatory polyarthritis usually ...

Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is an autoimmune disorder resulting from Group A Streptococcus (GAS) pharyngitis or impetigo in children and adolescents, which may evolve to rheumatic heart disease (RHD) ...

Rheumatic fever can permanently damage the heart valves The disease primarily impacts kids 5 to 15 who have strep throat Six in 10 adults will live and die with heart disease by 2050: Study ...

LD-IL-2 therapy induces functional improvement of the heart and reduces carditis. Credit: mBio (2025). DOI: 10.1128/mbio.03823-24 ...

RHEUMATIC fever has been generally regarded as a disease principally affecting children, and its occurrence in adults has as a consequence been more or less ignored. The high incidence of this dise ...

One example of a prescription treatment your provider might want you to try for polyarthritis is disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs). These medications help slow the course of autoimmune ...

At the population level, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is generally viewed as autoimmune in nature with a small subgroup of cases having a palindromic form or systemic autoinflammatory disorder (SAID) ...

If polyarthritis does not respond within 1 to 2 days, it is probably not associated with acute rheumatic fever. If there is cardiac involvement, glucocorticoids are often used for immunosuppression, ...

KEY POINTS Acute rheumatic fever should be considered in patients with recent pharyngitis and migratory polyarthritis, heart failure, new or worsened mitral regurgitation, chorea, or cutaneous ...

It is usually caused by an underlying condition such as rheumatic fever, lupus, inflammatory bowel disease, or Lyme disease. It is important to treat the underlying cause of migratory arthritis and to ...

Diagnostic Approach Diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is largely clinical, based on key historic and physical findings and serial observation of symptoms, signs and response to therapies.