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I Gus

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PubMed1995

[Epidemiology of rheumatic fever. A local study].

PURPOSE: To identify the clinical findings of first attack in acute rheumatic fever (ARF), and to find a profile of its epidemiology. METHODS: Results of clinical manifestations, incidence, laboratory findings relative to a new cases of first attack in ARF were studied. Six hospitals in Porto Alegre area were involved in the surveillance, during 16 months between 1992 and 1993. RESULTS: Fifty-one cases with clinical manifestations were recorded: 40 (78.4%) cases with arthritis; 28 (56%) with carditis; 6 (11.8%) with Sydenhan's Chorea, 6 (11.8%) with erythema marginatum and 4 (7.8%) with subcutaneous nodes. CONCLUSION: Diagnostic criteria firstly described by Jones are still employed in the clinical diagnosis in ARF in a first attack and that remains the principal etiology of valvar heart disease in that city.

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PubMed1994

[Epidemiology].

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PubMed1993

[Chagas disease--review of 8 simultaneous cases of acute Chagas myocarditis: 25 years later].

PURPOSE: To analyse the evolution of 8 cases of Chagas' disease after a microepidemy of 17 cases which occurred in Teotonia-RS-in 1965 and to discuss the importance of oral contamination in Chagas' disease. METHODS: All 8 patients are followed at the IC/FUC-RS-Brazil since 1980. Clinical examinations, blood tests, ECG, Cx-Ray and Echo were made in 1991. RESULTS: None of the eight cases presented any sign of chronic Chagas' disease manifestation. The blood tests, ECG, Cx-Ray and Echo were normals. Only one case showed a immunofluorescence of 1/20. CONCLUSION: 1) The follow-up after 25 years in all the 8 cases did not show clinical alterations or any chronic manifestation of Chagas' disease. All the tests performed had normal results; 2) the oral transmission must be considered definitive in Chagas' disease.

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