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
• 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
• It had been rumored that Kennicott had rheumatic fever, which could lead to the scarring of heart tissues.
  — Allison Keyes, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• During one of those tours, Jeff came down with rheumatic fever, which went untreated for several weeks.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 21 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The disease doesn’t often kill children under 5 years old, and rheumatic fever usually strikes young adults.
  — Kate Sheridan, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Streptococcus can also trigger rheumatic fever, a leading cause of heart disease around the world.
  — Kate Sheridan, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2018
• Her sister died shortly thereafter, and Ms. Jones came down with a debilitating case of rheumatic fever.
  — Emily Langer, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
• Rheumatic heart disease starts as strep throat, which, if untreated, becomes rheumatic fever.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Timothy Irwin Means was diagnosed with rheumatic fever as a child.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2021
• Two years later, though, Williams found herself in hospital, fighting rheumatic fever.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Her sister died shortly thereafter, her brother nearly died of typhoid fever as well, and Dr. Jones came down with a debilitating case of rheumatic fever.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 18 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When prescribed antibiotics, Hill says it’s important to take the full course even if symptoms go away to prevent rheumatic fever, a serious potential outcome of untreated strep throat in children.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2023
• The country has also battled persistent child poverty, which causes rates of rheumatic fever and lung ailments that are surprisingly high for a developed country.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• Hovde is a native Wisconsinite who attended Baylor after a sibling died from rheumatic fever.
  — Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2021
• If untreated, strep throat can cause complications, such as kidney inflammation or rheumatic fever.
  — Philly.com, 1 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024