Rheumatism Heart Disease (PJR), or in medical term known as rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a condition which occur disruption in the heart valve that can be like narrowing or leaking, especially with the mitral valve (mitral valve stenosis) as a result of the remaining symptoms of Rheumatism Fever (DR). Rheumatic fever is a systemic disease that can be acute, sub acute, chronic, or fulminate, and could happen after streptococcal beta hemolyticus infection group A at the upper respiratory tract.
Acute rheumatic fever is marked by prolonged fever, heart pounding, sometimes quickly exhausted. Peak incidence of rheumatic fever are in the group of age 5-15 years, this disease is rarely found on the children under the age of 4 years and on the people age above 50 years. If it is not treated adequately, then very likely to have rheumatic heart disease.
Infection by the bacteria of Streptococcus Beta Hemolyticus group A which causes someone to have rheumatic fever which begins with an inflammation in the throat, due to poor treatment and medication that causing poison / toxin from this bacteria spread through the blood circulation and cause inflammation to the heart valves. As a result the valve leaves will experience adhesion and become narrowed, or thicken and shrivel, so it would be imperfectly close and occurs leaked.
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