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Rheumatic fever
(Arthritis, Rheumatic, Acute; Rheumatism, Articular, Acute)
A febrile disease occurring as a delayed sequela of infections with group A hemolytic streptococci and characterized by multiple focal inflammatory lesions of the connective tissue structures, especially of the heart, blood vessels, and joints (polyarthritis), and by the presence of Aschoff bodies in the myocardium and skin. (Dorland, 27th ed)
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- I'm 18, I have rheumatic fever, and I've been off and on the shots but now I just haven't been taking them at all (penicillin). And I've been feeling some chest pain and when i feel chest pain it runs through my left shoulder as well, even when I move/chan... (+)
- I have had two open heart surgeries for replacement of my aortic valve, along with an aortic roo anyuerism. I have been asked if I had rhuematic fever. Growing up, my brother and I had strep throat many times and growing up poor, we did not always go to ... (+)
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