Diagnosis of Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease

Description

This book describes the many forms of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and chronic rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and how to treat them. The book enables practitioners and medical students to handle these diagnostic challenges through evaluation and integration of the history, physical examination, investigations, particularly the cutting-edge technology, echocardiography, and learning about disease prevention and its consequences. The book clarifies that many underdeveloped and impoverished regions of the world still have these diseases in their first stages, undiscovered and untreated. Using prior medical research in this field as a guide, significant advancements have been made in interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery, the benefits of which should be felt by RHD patients who are at an advanced stage. The book aims to help kids live longer, healthier lives by lowering their risk of morbidity and death from ARF and RHD.