What's the difference between rheumatism and rheumatismal?
Rheumatism
Definition:
(n.) A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
(2) Although the incidence of acute rheumatic fever has declined in the last decades, a few outbreaks have recently been reported.
(3) No cases of rheumatic fever and no acute nephritis appeared in spite of the vigorous immune response to both cellular and extracellular antigens of group A streptococci documented in 50% to 80% of patients, suggesting that strain variation may be a feature of rheumatogenicity as well as nephritogenicity of group A streptococcal pharyngitis.
(4) A case of post streptococcal acute glomerulonephritis co-existing with acute rheumatic fever is reported.
(5) Capillary neogenesis, probably in reaction to subclinical cutaneous vascularity, was detected in 59% of cases (86% of subjects presenting extra-articular rheumatism).
(6) In 53 patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis we performed echocardiographic study in order to define anatomic and functional alterations.
(7) Seventeen patients were diagnosed as having primary rheumatic carditis, 9 presented with tonsillogenic rheumatic carditis, and 16 had viral rheumatic carditis.
(8) However, antibodies to native DNA and to nuclear ribonucleoprotein were found in a variety of systemic rheumatic diseases.
(9) The Council on Rehabilitative Rheumatology of the American Rheumatism Association, through the Education Subcommittee, surveyed directors of 69 approved rehabilitation medicine residency training programs to assess the nature of training in rehabilitative-rheumatology and whether the directors believed this training to be adequate.
(10) Arthrography before isotope synoviorthesis of the fingers and wrists was carried out in 185 patients suffering from inflammatory rheumatic conditions.
(11) This study has identified a new marker, antibodies against a nuclear RNP protein of 56 KD for detecting muscle involvement among the autoimmune rheumatic diseases.
(12) Mitral valve leaflets were smooth and white in a patients without mitral valvular disease, while the leaflets were yellow, thick and irregular, and blood regurgitation from the left ventricle into the left atrium could be observed in two patients with rheumatic MSR.
(13) Immunological functions were investigated in 10 children with acute rheumatic fever and 11 children with acute nephritis to try and elucidate the cause of heart damage in acute rheumatic fever.
(14) In patients suffering of latent rheumatism with a subminimal activity, no increased number of circulating eosinophils is observed.
(15) 107 Consecutive patients with rheumatic valvular heart disease (41 males, 66 females, average age 24.2 years) being followed at an Ethiopian cardiology referral clinic were examined and questioned about their experience of hemoptysis.
(16) In summary, our findings support the view that implication of CD8(+)-T-cell activation is different in the pathogenesis of each rheumatic disease.
(17) The weakening of rosette-forming function of lymphocytes, a decrease in a mitogenic response to PHA, dysimmunoglobulinemia, imbalance in antibody production, particularly hyperproduction of cardial antibodies in rheumatic fever were observed as was marked delayed-type hypersensitivity to tissue antigens, more frequently to purified cardial antigens--to myocardial cell membranes and myosin.
(18) In conclusion, rheumatic disease is still a frequent cause for surgical replacement of the aortic valve.
(19) The authors present four cases of rheumatic heart disease with severe dilatation of the left atrium which reached the right profile in the radiologic study.
(20) The accent in rheumatism orthopedics should gradually shift toward early preventive operation.
Rheumatismal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to rheumatism.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is well known that rheumatismal manifestations may occur in patients with slow adrenal failure.
(2) The third complication was the development, with or without patent rheumatismal activity, of a lesion of the aortic orifice which required reoperation in 5 cases.
(3) There were no previous rheumatismal or choreic episodes.
(4) In addressing this issue, the study analyzes the length of stay of four groups of patients: patients aged 45-64 with cardiovascular problems; patients aged 45-64 with rheumatismal problems; patients aged 65 and over with cardiovascular problems; and patients aged 65 and over with rheumatismal problems.
(5) It involves the collection of quantitative data on the extent and geographical distribution of different rheumatismal pathologies, their socioeconomic consequences, the handicap they produce, the evaluation of a system of care and the risk factors involved.
(6) The aortic valve lesions were degenerative (46 p. cent), rheumatismal (18 p. cent), congenital (12 p. cent), infective (19 p. cent including acute infective endocarditis) or dystrophic (7 p. cent) in origin.
(7) The mean age is higher in 1984 (55 vs. 47 years); the rheumatismal etiology decreases from 50.2% in 1974 to 35.1% in 1984; the degenerative and dystrophic causes increase from 13.8% in 1974 to 32.9% in 1984; while the monovalvular mitral lesion is more frequent (42%) than the aortic one (32.7%) in 1974, the proportion is reversed in 1984 where 47% aortic and 34.5% mitral lesions are found; the number of surgical treatments of mitral stenoses in 1984 is half of those in 1974, but the number of surgically treated aortic stenoses and mitral regurgitations is double of those in 1974; the preoperative examination includes left-side heart catheterization in 81.1% and coronary angiography in 64% of surgically treated patients en 1984, the respective percentages en 1974 being 57.8% and 16.1%.
(8) Between 1966 and 1975, fifty-one children aged from 8 to 15 years underwent mitral valve replacement for mitral valve disease of rheumatismal origin.
(9) Among hypotheses advanced to explain development of chorea are preexisting presence of unilateral lesions in the gray matter following a rheumatismal or viral episode or neonatal trauma which predisposes to a subsequent chorea induced by hormonal impregnation, or an immunologic action analogous to the mechanism of rheumatismal chorea.