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Can you explain the pathophysiology of pneumonia and rheumatic heart disease?
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Two diff diseases: These are two different diseases. Pneumonia is an infection in the lung that causes fluid to collect within the air spaces (maybe w/in a lobe or more diffuse). Rheumatic heart disease is caused by the body attacking the valves of the heart in response to an untreated/inadequately treated streptococcal (most often group a) infection ("strep throat" or other).
Answered 7/4/2013
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See details: Pneumonia is generally an infectious disease and rhd is an autoimmune process.
Answered 12/10/2013
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