Rheumatic fever (RF) remains endemic in many countries and frequently causes heart failure due to severe chronic rheumatic valvular heart disease, which requires surgical treatment. Here, we report on a patient who underwent an elective surgical correction for mitral and aortic valvular heart disease and had a post-operative diagnosis of acute rheumatic carditis. The incidental finding of Aschoff bodies in myocardial biopsies is frequently reported in the nineteenth-century literature, with prevalences as high as 35
作者：Guilherme S, Spina；Roney O, Sampaio；Carlos E, Branco；George B, Miranda；Vitor E E, Rosa；Flávio, Tarasoutchi
来源：Frontiers in pediatrics 2014 年 2卷
