Rheumatic (pronounced roo-MAT-ik) heart disease is a condition in which rheumatic fever damaged the heart. Typically, this long-term damage happens to the mitral valve, aortic valve or both. This ...

Rheumatic heart disease is a chronic condition that results years after acute rheumatic fever, which is caused by group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus pyogenes. This organism produces a ...