acute rheumatic fever was the most likely diagnosis, given evidence of preceding Group A Streptococcus infection with 1 major criterion, carditis (manifesting as acute mitral valvulitis with severe ...

"And then anyone with pre-existing autoimmune disease like rheumatic syndromes or inflammatory ... that oncologists worry about triple-M -- myocarditis, myositis, myasthenia gravis -- overlap ...

Myocarditis represents a diverse group of inflammatory diseases affecting the heart muscle, with both infectious and non-infectious etiologies. Among the non-infectious causes, drug-induced ...

1 Type and severity of organ involvement drive the heterogeneous prognosis, but overall SSc remains the rheumatic disease with the highest morbidity and mortality, despite recent improvement in ...

What is acute rheumatic fever? Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease that may develop after an infection with a streptococcus bacteria (such as in strep throat or scarlet fever). The disease can ...

Two conditions were linked to the vaccines - inflammation of the heart muscle itself, known as myocarditis, and inflammation of the fluid-filled sac the heart sits in, known as pericarditis.