Concept information
Preferred term
Rheumatic Fever
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Acute Articular Rheumatism
- Acute Articular Rheumatisms
- Acute Rheumatic Arthritides
- Acute Rheumatic Arthritis
- Acute Rheumatic Fever
- Acute Rheumatic Fevers
- Arthritis, Acute Rheumatic
- Arthritis, Rheumatic
- Arthritis, Rheumatic, Acute
- Articular Rheumatism, Acute
- Fever, Acute Rheumatic
- Fevers, Acute Rheumatic
- Inflammatory Rheumatism
- Inflammatory Rheumatisms
- Polyarthritis Rheumatica
- Polyarthritis Rheumaticas
- Rheumatic Arthritides
- Rheumatic Arthritis
- Rheumatic Arthritis, Acute
- Rheumatic Fever, Acute
- Rheumatism, Acute Articular
- Rheumatism, Articular, Acute
- Rheumatism, Inflammatory
Note
- rheumatic fever with heart disease, unspecified or specific = RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE + the specific heart disease, but not HEART DISEASES
Scope note
- A febrile disease occurring as a delayed sequela of infections with STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES. It is characterized by multiple focal inflammatory lesions of the connective tissue structures, such as the heart, blood vessels, and joints (POLYARTHRITIS) and brain, and by the presence of ASCHOFF BODIES in the myocardium and skin.
In other languages
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Finnish
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arthritis rheumatica acuta
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febris rheumatica
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polyarthritis rheumatica acuta
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reumaattinen sydäntauti
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Swedish
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Inflammatorisk reumatism
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012213
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