Acute rheumatic fever in a grown up with repaired tetralogy of Fallot: the role of acquired diseases in patients with congenital heart diseases.
We report a 20 year old patient with repaired Tetralogy of Fallot who presented with acute right side heart failure. The echocardiogram showed severe mitral regurgitation which was not present one year before. Because of mitral insufficiency, pulmonary pressure increased and it was nearby 70% systemic pressure. Pulmonary regurgitation got worse, and the patient came to the hospital in a state of anasarca. After valve replacement, histopathological study of the mitral valve and the aortic valve revealed Aschoff nodules and rheumatic fever was confirmed.
Gomez Rubin
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Tur
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Dobarro
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Oliver
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Gonzalez
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Sanchez Recalde
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Patrón
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Lopez Sendon
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D000367:Age Factors; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012213:Rheumatic Fever / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D055815:Young Adult