Autoimmune Heart Disease
Autoimmune heart diseases are the effects of the body's own immune defense system mistaking cardiac antigens as foreign and attacking them leading to inflammation of the heart as a whole, or in parts. The commonest form of autoimmune heart disease is rheumatic heart disease or rheumatic fever.
Read more about Autoimmune Heart Disease: Mechanism and Aetiology, Specific Clinical Manifestations, Therapy
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