Acute Congestive Heart Failure in a Young WomanNovel Teaching Points

We describe the case of an adult First Nations woman employed as a daycare worker who presented with clinical symptoms, signs, and imaging suggestive of acute heart failure. In our report, we discuss the likely diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever. Novel teaching points: The incidence of rheumatic fev...

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Main Authors: Preston Njaa, MD, Teresa Bree, MD, Jacobus S. De Villiers, MD, Benjamin Leis, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-02-01
Series:CJC Open
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589790X20301645