Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a chronic valvular disorder that arises as a long-term consequence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF), itself an autoimmune response to untreated Group A Streptococcus ...

Sometimes the human body can become its own worst enemy. Luckily, there is an entire field dedicated to a subset of ...

Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors are associated with a reduced risk for autoimmune rheumatic diseases compared with sulfonylureas among adults with type 2 diabetes, according to a ...

Patients with rheumatic heart disease who took the heart failure drug digoxin were 18% less likely to die or experience new-onset or worsening heart failure during a two-year follow-up compared with ...