Acute rheumatic fever: a single center experience with 193 clinical cases.
Minerva pediatrica, cilt.68, sa.2, ss.134-42, 2016 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 68 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2016
- Dergi Adı: Minerva pediatrica
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.134-42
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Rheumatic fever, Child, Echocardiography, CARDITIS, CHILDREN, PROFILE, REGION, ANKARA, CHOREA, AREA
- Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
BACKGROUND: Acute rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease that develops via an auto-immune mechanism following group A beta hemolytic streptococcal tonsillopharyngitis. The aim of this study was to describe the clinical presentation of and cardiac involvement in acute rheumatic fever.