"Chronic" Rheumatic Fever
Authors: ANGELO TARANTA
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1962)

Article1 March 1962"Chronic" Rheumatic FeverANGELO TARANTA, M.D., MARIO SPAGNUOLO, M.D., ALVAN R. FEINSTEIN, M.D.ANGELO TARANTA, M.D., MARIO SPAGNUOLO, M.D., ALVAN R. FEINSTEIN, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-56-3-367 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptRheumatic fever has often been described in the past as a chronic disease (2) or as a disease of long duration (3). These descriptions were based on long-term follow-up studies of children who had had rheumatic fever, conducted in the period before widespread use of prophylaxis, and without the benefit of modern immunologic and bacteriologic techniques. The resulting image was of a disease that seemed, at first, to subside, only to reappear months or years later, often without any apparent cause. 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FEINSTEIN, M.D.Affiliations: New York, New YorkFrom Irvington House, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, and the Department of Medicine and the Rheumatic Diseases Study Group, New York University School of Medicine, New York, N. Y.Presented in part at the annual meeting of the American Rheumatism Association, Hollywood-by-the-Sea, Florida, June, 1960 (1).This work was done in part during tenure of an Advanced Research Fellowship of the American Heart Association.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Angelo Taranta, M.D., Irvington House, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. 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