Assertion: rheumatic fever | /r/HasProperty | acute
Facets:
value: usually
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Rheumatic Fever, Acute
text: Rheumatic Fever is ” a subacute febrile syndrome occurring after group A β-hemolytic streptococcal infection (usually pharyngitis) and mediated by an immune response to the organism; most often seen in children and young adults; features include fever, myocarditis (causing tachycardia and sometimes acute cardiac failure), endocarditis (with valvular incompetence, followed after healing by scarring), and migratory polyarthritis; less often, subcutaneous nodules, erythema marginatum, and Sydenham chorea; relapses can occur after reinfection with streptococci.
text: It is an acute inflammatory response that has a PAST untreated or slightly treated Group A or group B beta-hemolytic streptococcal infection, such as strep throat or scarlet fever.
text: Rheumatic fever (usually referred to as acute rheumatic fever) represents delayed, non-suppurative consequence of a pharyngeal infection with the group A streptococcus.