Acute Rheumatic Fever

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
ARF
Pronunciation
/əˈkjut ruˈmætɪk ˈfivər/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology

Examples in Context

  1. More serious are two distant complications acute nephritis and acute rheumatic fever, with or without heart involvement.
  2. The small verrucous vegetations seen along the closure line of this mitral valve are associated with acute rheumatic fever.
  3. Objective : To reinforce the cognition of clinical characteristic with acute rheumatic fever ( ARF ), decrease the complication and provide scientific basement for clinical treatment.
  4. A journey to a hospital in Sudan, run by an Italian charity, offers hope to eight of those children, their heart valves damaged by acute rheumatic fever.
  5. Objective To study the effects of blood heat shock protein 70 ( HSP70 ) in patients with acute rheumatic fever ( ARF ).

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