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Disease rheumatic heart disease
Phenotype C0018801|heart failure
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PubMedID- 23736132 Complications occurred in 49% (152/309) of the newly diagnosed rheumatic heart disease cases, with heart failure (46.9%) the most common complication, followed by pulmonary arterial hypertension (32.7%), atrial fibrillation (13.9%), recurrence of acute rheumatic fever (11.4%), infective endocarditis (4.5%) and stroke (1.3%).
PubMedID- 24139520 Previous studies have reported non-ischemic cardiopathies to be the most frequent cause of heart failure; with rheumatic heart disease, hypertensive heart disease and cardiomyopathy accounting for over 75% of cases in most series [3,5-10].
PubMedID- 21264181 [14] also demonstrated that serum ctnt concentration does not increase above normal limits in rheumatic carditis with or without heart failure, also they could not find any significant change in function due to myocarditis using echocardiography.
PubMedID- 21254894 Background: little is known about the association of rheumatic heart disease (rhd) with incident heart failure (hf) among older adults.

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