Stenosis can be caused by rheumatic fever or other problems, and the Edwards valve is useless for those.

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He grew sicker, and apparently, the strep infection eventually attacked the valves of his heart, a condition known as rheumatic heart disease.

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The heart problem that threatens to bring his life to an end is the result of the rheumatic fever he contracted as a child.

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And at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in the UK, an associate of Ramachandran, Professor Candy McCabe is testing the use of mirrors with acute stroke victims.

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The Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases NHS Foundation Trust has previously said in a statement that the number of local patients they cared for was "really quite small at around 20 people a year".

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The twin unit was set up in 1992 to look at the role that genes play in the development of rheumatic diseases in older women and has now expanded to lok at most common diseases, behaviours and traits.

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