Prognosis of Rheumatic fever

Rheumatic fever: Duration statistics

Duration of Rheumatic fever: 3 months with gradual recovery ...see also Overview of Rheumatic fever

Deaths and Mortality Rates

Deaths from Rheumatic fever: 3,767 deaths reported in USA 1999 for acute rheumatic fever and chronic rheumatic conditions (NVSR Sep 2001)

Estimated mortality rate for Rheumatic fever from incidence and deaths statistics:

• Deaths: 3,767 (USA annual deaths calculated from this data: 3,767 deaths reported in USA 1999 for acute rheumatic fever and chronic rheumatic conditions (NVSR Sep 2001))
• Incidence: 3,264,000 (USA annual incidence calculated from this data: 12 per 1000 (NHIS95)
• 0.12% (ratio of deaths to incidence).
• See also Deaths and Rheumatic fever and Overview of Rheumatic fever.

Complications:

Complications of Rheumatic fever may include:

• Carditis (see Heart symptoms)
• Heart inflammation
• Chorea
• Rheumatic heart disease
• Chronic rheumatic heart disease
• more complications...»

Complications of Rheumatic fever from the Diseases Database include:

• Jaccoud's arthropathy
• Tricuspid valve stenosis
• Mitral valve stenosis
• Erythema marginatum
• Arthropathy
• more complications...»

See also complications of Rheumatic fever.

Rheumatic fever: Research More

• Rheumatic fever: Introduction
• Deaths: Rheumatic fever
• Symptoms: Rheumatic fever
• Complications: Rheumatic fever
• Causes: Rheumatic fever
• Treatments: Rheumatic fever

About prognosis:

The 'prognosis' of Rheumatic fever usually refers to the likely outcome of Rheumatic fever. The prognosis of Rheumatic fever may include the duration of Rheumatic fever, chances of complications of Rheumatic fever, probable outcomes, prospects for recovery, recovery period for Rheumatic fever, survival rates, death rates, and other outcome possibilities in the overall prognosis of Rheumatic fever. Naturally, such forecast issues are by their nature unpredictable.

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