Sentences with phrase «as rheumatic fever»

The reaction causes inflammation in heart valves (part of the condition known as rheumatic fever).

This reaction is known as rheumatic fever and can be deadly and often necessitates heart valve transplants.

In their search for such a trigger in people who had become narcoleptic, Mignot's group found elevated levels of antibodies to Streptococcus pyogenes, a bacterium that causes strep throat and has been implicated in other autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatic fever.

Not exact matches

My paternal grandmother had rheumatic fever as a child.

Rheumatic fever, which usually starts as strep throat, was essentially eliminated as a life - threatening disease with the use of penicillin in the early 20th century.

Today, most people in the United States rarely think of rheumatic heart disease (RHD)-- or the rheumatic fever that causes it — as more than a historical footnote.

Scientists have mapped the genome of a bacterium responsible for the heart - damaging illness known as acute rheumatic fever.

A recent search, in PubMed, reveals well over 50,000 studies on vitamin C and literally dozens of remarkable studies revealing the power of vitamin C to cure diseases, such as, 60 out of 60 cases of polio; 327 out of 327 cases of shingles — in 3 days; 7 out of 7 cases of rheumatic fever and, of course, countless studies illustrating the ability of vitamin C to help cancer patients with «incurable» conditions.

These may include asking if you have been treated for, hospitalized for, diagnosed with, and / or prescribed medication for certain issues such as a heart disorder, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and / or rheumatic fever.

These may include asking if you have been treated for, hospitalized for, diagnosed with, and / or prescribed medication for certain issues such as a heart disorder, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and / or rheumatic fever.