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Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Two new clinical guidance documents from the American College of Rheumatology provide ...

Symptoms of rheumatic fever include arthritic pain around the joints, fever, fatigue, uncontrollable jerky movements, skin rashes, chest pains, difficulty breathing, and a faster than usual heart rate ...

In a new study, researchers reviewed the advancements and ongoing challenges in the development of biologic therapies and disease prognosis of pediatric rheumatic diseases over the past 25 years, ...

In a randomized controlled trial of close to 1000 Ugandan children and youth with latent rheumatic heart disease (RHD), those who received monthly injections of penicillin G benzathine for 2 years had ...

The incidence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) has shown a steady decline in the United States. Attack rates in most recent studies have averaged 0.5 per 100,000 population leading to the concept that ...

The incidence of childhood acute rheumatic fever (ARF) declined abruptly throughout N. America starting in the late 1960s. This decline was associated temporally with the introduction of measles (ML), ...

Subcutaneous nodules in rheumatic fever are firm, painless lesions that appear under the skin covering joints. Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory condition that can affect the joints, heart, brain, ...

Rheumatic fever is a complication of a bacterial infection triggered by an atypical immune response. Rheumatic heart disease is a complication of rheumatic fever characterized by damage to the valves ...

The American College of Rheumatology has issued clinical guidance to rheumatology providers for the management of pediatric patients with rheumatic disease during the COVID-19 pandemic. The American ...