How to Use rheumatic fever in a Sentence

rheumatic fever

noun
  • In his sophomore year of high school, a bout of rheumatic fever led to paralysis in his legs for a time.
    — Bart Barnes, Washington Post, 2 July 2019
  • Rheumatic heart disease starts as strep throat, which, if untreated, becomes rheumatic fever.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2023
  • It had been rumored that Kennicott had rheumatic fever, which could lead to the scarring of heart tissues.
    — Allison Keyes, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
  • During his freshman year in high school, Rademacher spent four months in the hospital with rheumatic fever.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • During one of those tours, Jeff came down with rheumatic fever, which went untreated for several weeks.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Louise was diagnosed with rheumatic fever, spiked a 104-degree fever, lost her hair, and had to be held out of school for six months.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The disease doesn’t often kill children under 5 years old, and rheumatic fever usually strikes young adults.
    — Kate Sheridan, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Streptococcus can also trigger rheumatic fever, a leading cause of heart disease around the world.
    — Kate Sheridan, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Two years later, though, Williams found herself in hospital, fighting rheumatic fever.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Timothy Irwin Means was diagnosed with rheumatic fever as a child.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2021
  • But by his senior year, his mother, Dorothy Sanders, had become sick, her heart damaged from having rheumatic fever as a child.
    — Sydney Ember, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The bacteria that cause strep throat can lead to rheumatic fever, an inflammatory disease that can cause permanent heart damage.
    — Liz Szabo, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2021
  • An example is rheumatic fever, which can be triggered by Streptococcus bacteria in the form of strep throat or scarlet fever.
    — Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Bedridden for a year with rheumatic fever during the second grade, Keith Wilcock spent hours upon hours drawing scenes of planes crashing.
    — Madison Karas, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
  • If untreated, strep throat can cause complications, such as kidney inflammation or rheumatic fever.
    — Philly.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Medication will both limit spread of the disease to others and prevent further complications such as rheumatic fever.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
  • In other words, in order to prevent a single case of rheumatic fever, eight patients would suffer a near-fatal or fatal allergic reaction.
    — Jeanne Lenzer, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2011
  • The mitral valve in Maria Eliset Centeno Hernandez's heart had been damaged from a bout with rheumatic fever at age 9.
    — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Jeanie has a weak heart from a childhood bout with rheumatic fever and has never worked outside of the sprawling family garden, and Julius, obliged to care for her, is a day laborer.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 14 May 2021
  • Left untreated for as little as five days, strep could produce autoantibodies that damage heart tissue, resulting in rheumatic fever.
    — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
  • At 13, he was stricken with rheumatic fever and spent his days monitoring radio accounts of World War II.
    — Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2021
  • An untreated infection may lead first to a condition called acute rheumatic fever, which typically presents with fever and arthritis weeks after the initial infection.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 July 2021
  • After moving to Conway, Edith contracted rheumatic fever, which prevented her from attending school for a year and gave her a lifelong heart murmur.
    — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Hovde is a native Wisconsinite who attended Baylor after a sibling died from rheumatic fever.
    — Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Complications of scarlet fever can include Bright's disease, a form of kidney damage, and rheumatic fever, an autoimmune disease that affects the heart, joins, skin and brain.
    — Meera Senthilingam and Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Sitting with his wife, Mimi, playing gin rummy at a table outside Gate H, Strickland said rheumatic fever kept him away from ballparks as a child.
    — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
  • At 3, Milton survived a bout with rheumatic fever but complications from the condition left him with an accelerated heartbeat.
    — Joshua Needelman, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Many infections don’t progress further than an annoying rash or sore throat, but under more dire circumstances, the bacteria can threaten lives with conditions like rheumatic fever, toxic shock syndrome or flesh-eating disease.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 3 Dec. 2019
  • But scientists are working on group A strep vaccines more generally because of the many complications these bacteria can cause, particularly rheumatic fever.
    — National Geographic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • That connection was strengthened by immunologist Madeleine Cunningham, a rheumatic fever expert from the University of Oklahoma.
    — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019

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