Acute rheumatic fever: a single center experience with 193 clinical cases.

Yildirim A., Aydin A., Demir T., Kosger P., Ozdemir G., UÇAR B., ...Daha Fazla

Minerva pediatrica, cilt.68, sa.2, ss.134-42, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • 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.