Acute Articular Rheumatisms

《英文msh詞典》Acute Articular Rheumatisms
[入口詞] Acute Articular Rheumatisms
[主題詞] Rheumatic Fever
[英文釋義] A febrile disease occurring as a delayed sequela of infections with group A hemolytic streptococci and characterized by multiple focal inflammatory lesions of the connective tissue structures,especially of the heart,blood vessels,and joints (polyarthritis),and by the presence of Aschoff bodies in the myocardium and skin. (Dorland,27th ed)