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65 - Taking Things to Heart

The Curious Clinicians

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Rheumatic Heart Disease - What's the Mechanism?

Rheumatic fever in some way causes valvular damage, mitral more than aortic. There can be molecular mimicry between heart valves and antigens on strep pyogenes. antibodies that targeted the streptococcal M protein also strongly reacted against cardiac myosin molecules. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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