… Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is the most common cardiovascular disease in children
and young adults.1 Although in developed countries it has declined, it is still a major public …

… Rheumatic heart disease (RHD), a preventable disease still … tool to identify the patterns
of valvular involvement that helps in … This study aimed at determining the pattern of RHD in …

… rheumatic heart disease the fundamental lesion in the connective tissue of the myocardium
is the same as that in the valve… If myocardium and valve lesions are identical there should be …

… ABSTRACT We determined the pattern and severity of valvular involvement in 100
Sudanese patients with rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in 2 centres in Khartoum in 2003. All the …

… between the pattern of predominant valvular … mitral valve from controls and rheumatic heart
disease patients stained with hematoxylin-eosin. A) Histological view of a control mitral valve, …

… pattern of cytokine expression. In conclusion, our present data, which shows a mixed pattern
of cytokines with significantly lower numbers of IL-4-secreting cells, both in situ and in valve-…

… to expert centres for more advanced disease are urgent and, as yet, unmet clinical needs.
We outline current management strategies for valvular rheumatic heart disease on the basis of …

… Rheumatic heart disease contributed the most to the burden … of valve lesions in RHD in the
current study was mitral, aortic, … the cardiac valves in acute rheumatic fever with mitral being …

… Certain cells with these characteristics have nuclei with chromatin patterns suggestive of …
distinctive pattern of arrangement of nuclear chromatin. The significance of this pattern remains …

… chronic rheumatic type valve pathology. With the decline in rheumatic fever, true rheumatic
heart disease should eventually follow syphilitic heart disease into the category of uncommon …