| Front | Describe Rheumatic Heart Disease and Rheumatic Fever |
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| Back | • a fatal complication of S. pyogenes pharyngitis • aboriginal Australians: high rate in world • immune response to bacteria also targets our tissues, especially cardiac • Symptoms - Polyarthritis (migrating inflammation of large joints) - Carditis (inflammation of heart muscle): shortness of breath, heart murmurs - Fever - Subcutaneous nodules: painless, firm, normally over bones and tendons on joints of the limbs - Rash: red, ring-like appearance - Abdominal pain - Nose bleeds |
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