Complications of rheumatic heart disease
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VALVULAR HEART DISEASE. Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: Rheumatic fever is a complication of beta-streptococcal infection and causes valvular damage. Healing leads to valve scarring. Prevented by prompt treatment of beta-streptococcal infection. Nonrheumatic aortic stenosis:
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Complications: 1) Rheumatic fever - antibodies cross react with tissues of heart, joints - autoimmune disease 2) Glomerulonephritis - Ag-Ab complexes filtered out in kidneys ( damage kidney (glomerular capillaries) - autoimmune disease
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Infective endocarditis/rheumatic heart disease (mixed picture-s stenosis and regurgitation) Sub-valvular dysfunction- ruptured chordae tendinae. Papillary muscle dysfunction following MI. Myxomatous degeneration- myxoma- benign tumor composed of primitive connective tissue cells and stroma- rare cause of mitral regurgitation
[DOC File]Valvular Heart Disease
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- shortening, rigidity, deformity and retraction due to rheumatic heart disease - vegetations due to infective endocarditis. Chordae tendinae - congenital, infective endocarditis, trauma, rheumatic fever, myxomatous. Papillary muscles - myocardial ischaemia, congenital abnormalities, infiltrative disease . Mitral …
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Health and Welfare report on mortality in Australia, rheumatic and other valvular disease had the highest differential mortality ratio between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians for any clinical category; 19.1, in comparison to 18.2 for nephritis and nephrosis, 18.1 for diabetes, 4.3 for ischaemic heart disease and overall ratio 3.9.
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Rheumatic Fever/ Rheumatic Heart Disease -Aschoff bodies, localized areas of tissue necrosis surrounded by immune cell, develop in cardiac tissue -Fever and migratory join pain-initial manifestation. -Nursing care focus: providing supportive care and preventing complications.
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Complications Of Rheumatic Heart Disease. Congestive cardiac failure. Mural thrombi (due to slow/turbulent flow) Embolism (in systemic circulation) Infective endocarditis. Arrhythmias. Mitral Stenosis. Cause. Almost always a complication of rheumatic heart disease. Effects. Elevated LA pressure ( LA dilatation. Musal thrombosis in LA. Atrial fibrillation. Pulmonary hypertension. …
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Rheumatic fever following group A streptococcus infection is the predominant cause for rheumatic valvular heart disease. Progressive damage to the heart and its valves is associated with clinical complications such as asymptomatic irreversible ventricular dysfunction, pulmonary hypertension, atrial fibrillation and flutter, and stroke, which are major causes of long-term morbidity29.
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The prognosis in conditions treated with a pacemaker is related to the nature of any underlying heart disease. It is poorer in the elderly and those with a history of CAD or congestive heart failure. Complications may include perforation, arrhythmia, infection, thrombosis, emboli, lead fracture, displacement, malfunction, etc.
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