THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RHEUMATIC FEVER: A 20 YEAR PERSPECTIVE
Authors: E F BLAND, T D JONES
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1952)

Article1 November 1952THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RHEUMATIC FEVER: A 20 YEAR PERSPECTIVEEDWARD F. BLAND, M.D., F.A.C.P., T. DUCKETT JONES, M.D.EDWARD F. BLAND, M.D., F.A.C.P., T. DUCKETT JONES, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-37-5-1006 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptWe are presenting at this time a summary of the outstanding features of rheumatic fever, and its consequences in terms of heart disease and longevity. This report is in essence a review of 20 years' experience with this disease and of the facts and figures assembled from previous publications by the authors.†Our purpose is threefold: (1) to emphasize certain characteristics of the disease essential for its recognition; (2) to examine the validity and relative importance of these clinical features in the light of more than two decades of follow-up study, and (3) to assess those factors likely to be...Bibliography1. Ash R: The first ten years of rheumatic infection in childhood, Am. Heart J. 36: 89, 1948. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. AshmanHull RE: Essentials of electrocardiography, 1937, The Macmillan Company, New York. Google Scholar3. BlandJonesWhite EFTDPD: The development of mitral stenosis in young people, with a discussion of the frequent misinterpretation of a middiastolic murmur at the cardiac apex, Am. Heart J. 10: 995, 1935. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *From the Symposium on Rheumatic Fever presented at the Thirty-third Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, Cleveland, Ohio, April 25, 1952.From the House of the Good Samaritan and the Massachusetts General Hospital.†We are particularly grateful to Grune and Stratton and to Thomas Nelson & Sons for permission to use material and tables from previously published reports by the authors. 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