Abstract:Rheumatic heart disease(RHD) is an inflammatory disease that mostly occurs in children of 5-15 years old. The major complications of RHD include arrhythmias, especially atrial fibrillation, stroke, infective endocarditis, cardiac failure, and also noted that problems increased in pregnancy. This is a rare case of RHD and urosepsis in a 67- year- old patient with a known history of cerebrovascular accident, pulmonary Arteriovenous(AV) malformation, acute renal failure, and hyponatremia presented to the emergenc… Show more
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