Diagnosis of primary chronic rheumatic carditis in adults.

The authors maintain that in some cases one can note the so-called primar chronic rheumatic carditis, or apparently primary rheumatic carditis. Streptococcal infections can be held responsible for the eventuality of a sub-clinical evolution of rheumatism, and there which develops as a clinical form of latent rheumatism, and there is the possibility of ulterior development of valvular cardiopathy without a clear history of acute rheumatic fever …