8 results for “acute rheumatic fever”
16y · Male·heart failure due to chronic rheumatic heart disease
A 16-year-old from remote Western Australia died from heart failure due to chronic rheumatic heart disease. He developed acute rheumatic fever in 2006 following streptococcal infection; despite mon…
37y · Male·acute viral pneumonia secondary to swine flu (H1N1) infection of the lungs, exac…
Steven Andrew Forbes, age 37, died of acute viral pneumonia secondary to H1N1 influenza, complicated by chronic rheumatic heart disease. He died in po…
40y · Male·ischaemic heart disease due to left ventricular hypertrophy and coronary artery …
A 40-year-old Aboriginal man with longstanding rheumatic heart disease, left ventricular hypertrophy, and coronary artery atherosclerosis died from acute myocard…
51y · Female·Ischaemic heart disease
… involuntary psychiatric patient with long-standing bipolar affective disorder, complicated by childhood rheumatic fever causing cardiac valve damage requiring prosthetic replacement. She presented with an infected brea…
19y · Male·Rheumatic heart disease (severe aortic valve regurgitation)
Seth Yeeda, 19-year-old Aboriginal male with rheumatic heart disease from childhood, died in custody from severe aortic valve regurgitation. He had required ao…
5y · Male·Acute bronchopneumonia and diffuse alveolar damage due to acute rheumatic cardit…
A 5-year-old boy with rheumatic heart disease and acute mitral valve regurgitation presented to Mt Isa Hospital with acute heart failure…
Female·Betty: cardiac arrhythmia complicating heart failure due to consequences of past…
This inquest examined three deaths of young Aboriginal women from Doomadgee (ages 18, 37, and 17) from rheumatic heart disease (RHD) complications between September 2019 and September 2020. All three deaths were preve…
74y · Male·small intestinal ischaemia caused by aortic atherosclerosis
A 74-year-old man presented to hospital with abdominal pain following a fall. He developed hypotension, fever, tachycardia, and elevated inflammatory markers consistent with sepsis within hours of admission. Despite …
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