Acute Rheumatic fever

Description

Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF) is an inflammatory disease that can affect the heart, joints, brain and skin. It results from body’s autoimmune response to a throat infection caused by streptococcus pyogens. The inflammatory process slowly resolves over weeks or months, but about half of individuals are left with chronic rheumatic heart disease. Cardiac involvement of ARF can result in rheumatic heart disease which leads to heart failure and premature mortality. This video describes about history, epidemiology, aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, guidelines, laboratory investigations, treatment of acute rheumatic fever.