Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
Rheumatic fever is a acute inflammatory disease of the heart involving all layers.
Rheumatic heart disease is chronic condition results from rheumatic fever involving scarring and deformities of heart valves.
Pathophysiology
Clinical manifestations
Modified Jones criteria for diagnosing Rheumatic fever
1. Major criteria
2.Minor criteria
Treatment
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