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Russian rheumatologists held their meeting in Sochi to discuss the most urgent 1_______.
Most reports were devoted to the problem of rheumatic carditis. Academician A. Nesterov, president of the Russian Scientific Society of Rheumatologists, spoke about the 2_______ form of rheumatic carditis. This form may be almost asymptomatic or present only with general arthralgia, rapid 3_______, and general weakness.
Academician A. Nesterov indicated that there was a strong relation of rheumatism to streptococcal disease and, may be, to specific reaction of certain patients to this chronic streptococcal 4_______.
A. Dolgopolova of the Moscow Institute of Rheumatological Research, Department of Pediatrics, again emphasizes the need to differentiate rheumatic latent carditis from its acute and chronic forms.