Rheumatic heart disease, also known as rheumatic fever, occurs when a strep throat infection is left untreated and subsequently migrates to the joints and heart, thus causing fever, muscle aches, and possible permanent heart valve damage. Just as "rheumatism" refers to joint pain, "rheumatic" fever is so called because one of its main symptoms is actually joint pain as opposed to in the heart........
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Friday, September 21, 2007
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