This paper briefly describes about the RHEUMATIC FEVER. It is apparent that there are two particular sorts of reaction with respect to the body to the infectious operator of rheumatic fever; through, proliferative and exudative. The perivascular proliferative kind of sore, taking after an irresistible granuloma, clarifies the subacute and constant character of the clinical indications in numerous patients with this illness. The complex clinical indications of rheumatic fever have been the reason for much perplexity in our origination of the basic idea of the ailment. Another purpose behind this perplexity is the way that such a large number of maladies now and again have joint agonies as a piece of their side effect complex.

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Dr Rahmat Ali

Fellowship in Spine Surgery, Senior Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon, Combined District Hospital, Sant Kabir Nagar, UP.