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MeSH Heading: Rheumatic Fever
Tree Number(s): C01.150.252.410.890.731; C05.550.114.843; C05.799.825; C17.300.775.860
Unique ID: D012213
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012213
Annotation: rheumatic fever with heart disease, unspecified or specific = RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE + the specific heart disease, but not HEART DISEASES
Scope Note: A febrile disease occurring as a delayed sequela of infections with STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES. It is characterized by multiple focal inflammatory lesions of the connective tissue structures, such as the heart, blood vessels, and joints (POLYARTHRITIS) and brain, and by the presence of ASCHOFF BODIES in the myocardium and skin.
Entry Term(s): Acute Rheumatic Fever; Arthritis, Acute Rheumatic; Arthritis, Rheumatic, Acute; Inflammatory Rheumatism; Polyarthritis Rheumatica; Rheumatic Arthritis; Rheumatism, Acute Articular; Rheumatism, Articular, Acute
NLM Classification #: WC 220
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2022/05/23

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

transmission (TM)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Concept UI: M0019009
Scope Note: A febrile disease occurring as a delayed sequela of infections with STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES. It is characterized by multiple focal inflammatory lesions of the connective tissue structures, such as the heart, blood vessels, and joints (POLYARTHRITIS) and brain, and by the presence of ASCHOFF BODIES in the myocardium and skin.
Terms: Rheumatic Fever Preferred Term
Term UI T036324
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID; Arthritis, Acute Rheumatic
Term UI T036325
Date01/15/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Arthritis, Rheumatic, Acute
Term UI T036326
Date01/15/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Rheumatism, Articular, Acute
Term UI T036329
Date01/15/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Polyarthritis Rheumatica
Term UI T036327
Date01/15/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Rheumatic Arthritis
Term UI T727517
Date09/25/2008
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID; Rheumatism, Acute Articular
Term UI T036328
Date01/15/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID; Acute Rheumatic Fever
Term UI T752441
Date06/08/2009
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID; Inflammatory Rheumatism
Term UI T727516
Date09/25/2008
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID

Rheumatic Fever MeSH Descriptor Data 2023