Rheumatic Arthritis

Introduction: Rheumatic Arthritis

Description of Rheumatic Arthritis

Rheumatic Arthritis (medical condition): An inflammatory disorder that can occur as a complication of untreated...more »

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Rheumatic fever:
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Rheumatic Arthritis: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Rheumatic Arthritis:

• Rheumatic
• Rheumatic disease
• Rheumatic disorder
• Arthritis (224 causes)
• Arthritis symptoms
• Arthritis pain

Rheumatic Arthritis: Rare Disease

Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Rheumatic Arthritis is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Rheumatic Arthritis, or a subtype of Rheumatic Arthritis, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Rheumatic Arthritis as a Disease

Rheumatic Arthritis: Another name for Rheumatic fever (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Rheumatic fever
  »Symptoms of Rheumatic fever
  »Causes of Rheumatic fever
  »Treatments for Rheumatic fever

Rheumatic Arthritis: Related Diseases

Rheumatic Arthritis: Rheumatic Arthritis is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Group A Streptococcal Infections
• Rheumatic conditions
• Blood vessel conditions
• Heart conditions
• Bacterial diseases
• Connective tissue conditions
• Systemic conditions
• Conditions involving a pathogen
• Child health conditions

Causes of Rheumatic Arthritis

Some of the causes of Rheumatic Arthritis are included in the list below:

• Streptococcus
• Group A streptococcus
• Strep throat
• Scarlet fever

Read more about causes of Rheumatic Arthritis (Rheumatic fever)

Symptoms of Rheumatic Arthritis (Rheumatic fever)

Some of the symptoms of Rheumatic Arthritis incude:

• Fever
• Appetite loss
• Malaise
• Joint symptoms
  • Joint pain

See full list of 39 symptoms of Rheumatic Arthritis (Rheumatic fever)

Treatments for Rheumatic Arthritis (Rheumatic fever)

Treatments for Rheumatic Arthritis (Rheumatic fever) include:

• Bed rest
• Antibiotics
• Penicillin
• Pain relief
• Anti-inflammatory drugs

See full list of 11 treatments for Rheumatic Arthritis

Treatment of Rheumatic Arthritis: For more treatment information about Rheumatic Arthritis, see treatment of Rheumatic fever (Rheumatic Arthritis)

Rheumatic Arthritis: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Rheumatic Arthritis:

• acute rheumatic fever
• ARF
• group A streptococcal infection
• structural heart disease
• sore throat
• scarlet fever
• streptococcal pharyngitis
• Jones criteria
• valvular vegetations
• endocarditis
• mitral valveregurgitation
• LV dilation
• congestive heart failure

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Terms Similar to Rheumatic Arthritis:

• Rheumatic Fever
• Acute Rheumatic Fever
• Inflammatory Rheumatism

Source - NIH

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