UNLIKE certain other common diseases of childhood, rheumatic fever leaves no known immunity and seems to create an increased susceptibility to recurrent attacks. The effects of these recurrent attacks ...

IN 1945, Gubner and Szucs 1 compared the efficacy of several drugs in the treatment of acute rheumatic fever. They reported that a group of patients treated with ascorbic acid and a succinate compound ...

If a person does not receive treatment for rheumatic fever or experiences it multiple times, they could develop a long-term health condition that affects the heart. This condition is rheumatic heart ...