CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ashtabula County is experiencing a spike in cases of strep throat and scarlet fever from strep throat ...

Initially, the fever might be accompanied by obvious symptoms such as achy joints. But silently, if rheumatic fever is not treated quickly, the disease can attack the heart through an overactive ...

UNLIKE certain other common diseases of childhood, rheumatic fever leaves no known immunity and seems to create an increased susceptibility to recurrent attacks. The effects of these recurrent ...

Rheumatic fever acutely causes symptoms of pericarditis ... Physical examination findings include inflamed joints, subcutaneous nodules, a pericardial friction rub, findings of congestive heart ...

"For school-aged children with rheumatic fever, monthly intramuscular penicillin injections for around 10 years can be painful and traumatic if they have a fear of needles, and some people may ...

Without treatment, scarlet fever can lead to complications like rheumatic fever and affect the joints and major organs like ...

Jamuna Patil, Ravindra Sharma and Madhavi Kakade, (names changed) suffered from severe aches, pains and swollen joints for years before they were diagnosed with arthritis or joint inflammation and ...

Credit: Dr Salahuddin Kazi, MD, comments on the challenges of diagnosing seronegative rheumatic diseases and discusses a ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are among the most common rheumatic (joint) conditions. RA and AS are both types of arthritis, but symptoms and treatment are different.

it can develop into rheumatic fever, which impacts the heart, joints, brain, and skin. More rarely, Strep A can cause Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome, leading to “low blood pressure ...