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Please add the profiles of those who have or had or died of Rheumatic Heart Disease or Rheumatic Fever or a resulting complication.== Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) – heart muscles and valves damage due to rheumatic fever caused by Streptococcus pyogenes a group A streptococcal infection. Rheumatic heart disease describes a group of short-term (acute) and long-term (chronic) heart disorders that...
The Mitral Valve, located between the left heart chambers, left atrium and left ventricle, doesn’t work properly. It may not be closing properly, which causes blood to leak backward to the left atrium (regurgitation), or the valve may be narrowed (stenosis). As a result, the heart does not pump enough blood out of the left ventricular chamber to supply the body with oxygen-filled blood.The hear...
==Please add people who have, had or died as a result of Myocarditis.== Myocarditis , also known as inflammatory cardiomyopathy, is inflammation of the heart muscle or the middle layer of the heart wall, which is the myocardium. Myocarditis can affect both the heart's muscle cells and the heart's electrical system, leading to reduction in the heart's pumping function and to irregular heart rhyt...
Please add to this project only if you don’t find one of the 3 listed below==* If you need one for Pericarditis or Endocarditis, please see these discussions: ** Cause of Death Projects needed??? (links to pg 1)** Medical Portal project--Needs, questions, concerns & related issues Discussion (this links to pg 1)*** Use for survivors...===Carditis, or inflammation of the heart , is most convenie...