The benefit of digoxin was driven by reduced risk of new-onset or worsening HF hospitalizations, just like its benefit in HFrEF.

Patients with rheumatic heart disease who took the heart failure drug digoxin were 18% less likely to die or experience ...

Though rare in the United States, it primarily impacts children ages 5 to 15 with untreated or undertreated strep throat ...

Worldwide, the risk of dying from rheumatic heart disease has dropped since 1990, but the statistics have hardly changed in some poor populations. Rheumatic heart disease is preventable with ...

Some patients with rheumatic heart disease who are thought to have an allergic response to injectable penicillin may actually be experiencing a cardiac reaction to the injection, new information ...

Group II was composed of 10 cases that clinically were labeled inactive rheumatic heart disease but at post-mortem examination were found to have active rheumatic myocarditis as evidenced by the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For the GOAL trial, Andrea Beaton, MD, pediatric cardiologist and associate professor of pediatrics at ...

PATIENTS who are convalescing from rheumatic fever either do or do not have heart disease. Of those who do not, some will later have signs of it. The studies 1–5 that demonstrated this phenomenon ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with lupus and gout had more than twice the risk for several cardiovascular comorbidities. The ...

Mortality related to rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is high and is correlated with the severity of valve disease, according to a study published online June 5 in the Journal of the American Medical ...

Broad screening efforts to identify rheumatic heart disease (RHD) using echocardiography among schoolchildren can enable prompt care, randomized trial data from Nepal suggest. The clinical need is ...

In patients with a poorly functioning bioprosthetic mitral valve in the heart, a minimally invasive procedure to insert a new ...