Rheumatic fever is a complication of strep throat. If left untreated, it can cause permanent damage to the heart. The condition usually appears in children between the ages of 5 and 15. However ...

What Rheumatic Fever Can Do To Children – Awareness is the Key to Protection. Written by Savitha C Muppala. Medically Reviewed by The Medindia Medical Review Team on Aug 6 2007 2:58 PM.

But in the first part of the 20th century, it was ever-present, untreatable and devastating. "About 100 years ago, there were more pediatric hospital beds occupied by children with rheumatic fever ...

Rheumatic and scarlet fever are both the result of the same bacterial infection. ... Anyone can develop rheumatic fever, but children between the ages of 5 and 15 and those in group settings, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rheumatic fever is a complication of a bacterial infection. Rheumatic heart disease is a complication of rheumatic fever. ... It’s most common in children between the ages of 5–15.

Rheumatic fever caused by untreated strep throat can lead to rheumatic heart disease. Though rare in the United States, it primarily impacts children ages 5 to 15 with untreated or undertreated ...