Rheumatic heart disease
Open Access
- 11 September 2015
- journal article
- case report
- Published by BMJ in BMJ Case Reports
Abstract
After the few episodes of rheumatic fever with subsequent pancarditis in childhood, the patient suffered from recurrent arrhythmias throughout his life and received medical treatment including β blockers and diuretics in the past few years due to slowly progressive heart failure.Keywords
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