rheumatic disease

collocation in English

meaningsofrheumaticanddisease

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rheumatic
adjective
uk
/ruːˈmæt.ik/us
/ruːˈmæt̬.ik/
relating to inflammation of muscles, joints, heart valves, or other parts of ...
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disease
noun
uk
/dɪˈziːz/us
/dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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(Definition ofrheumaticanddiseasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Late mortality was much higher in those with congenital (5/14) compared to those withrheumaticdisease(9/18).
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Of the 15 patients with congenital lesions of the tricuspid valve, 10 (66.6%) had alsorheumaticdiseaseof the valve.
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Other anomalies in the heart and aorta were also sought, with special attention given to the mitral valve to rule outrheumaticdisease.
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Accordingly, there are variable numbers of lymphocytes in the myocardium and valves of patients with chronicrheumaticdisease.
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Of the overall 11 deaths, intractable heart failure was the cause of seven-three in patients withrheumaticdiseaseand four in those with congenital lesions.
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Rheumatic damage to the pulmonary valve, therefore, exists in association with plurivalvarrheumaticdisease.
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Rheumaticdiseasein society is an issue of major importance.
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We found only 74 (2.7%) cases with isolated mitral stenosis in the 2,756 hearts withrheumaticdisease.
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In the northeast, 16.5% of the surgical procedures forrheumaticdiseaseare carried out in the young age group.
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Clinical findings during the active period ofrheumaticdiseasesometimes do not permit precise differential diagnosis from infectious endocarditis in patients with chronicrheumaticdisease.
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They found an incidence ofrheumaticdiseaseof 14% of these patients.
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One of two persons with immune-suppressive treatment forrheumaticdiseasewas defined as a case.
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All patients with congenital lesions, and 1,835 (78%) of those with isolatedrheumaticdisease, had at least one well characterized episode of carditis secondary to acute rheumatic fever.
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