Rheumatic fever acutely causes symptoms of pericarditis and congestive heart failure, depending on the degree of valvulitis and myocarditis present. Migratory polyarthritis is the most common ...

In rheumatic heart disease, an autoimmune attack on the mitral valve produces thickening of the valve leaflets. The mitral valve is often described as having a "fish-mouth" appearance. Whether the ...

Rheumatic heart disease is one of those conditions. Rheumatic heart disease is a condition in which rheumatic fever has permanently damaged the heart valves, causing symptoms of shortness of ...