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Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Neglected Heart Disease

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Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases

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Acute Rheumatic fever (ARF) and its chronic sequel, rheumatic heart disease (RHD) result from an autoimmune disease that starts with an infection caused by Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A streptococci—GAS) and remain the most common cause of preventable childhood heart disease worldwide. It follows a non-treated throat infection in susceptible children and teenagers (3- to 19-years old); and strongly relates to socioeconomic and environmental determinants, such as overcrowding, poor standard of living, poor access to medical care and inadequate expertise of health-care teams [1, 2].

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  1. ECO Center, Hospital Socor, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Marcia de Melo Barbosa M.D., Ph.D.

  2. Interamerican Society of Cardiology, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Marcia de Melo Barbosa M.D., Ph.D.

  3. School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Maria do Carmo Pereira Nunes M.D.

  4. Working Group on Rheumatic Fever from the World Heart Federation, Geneva, Switzerland

    Regina Müller M.D., Ph.D.

  5. National Heart Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Regina Müller M.D., Ph.D.

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de Melo Barbosa, M., do Carmo Pereira Nunes, M., Müller, R. (2015). Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Neglected Heart Disease. In: Andrade, J., Pinto, F., Arnett, D. (eds) Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22357-5_15

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