| 1 | Early treatment of streptococcal sore throat can stop the development of rheumatic fever. | |
| 2 | Complications may include abscess, nephritis, and rheumatic fever. Tonsils that become chronically inflamed and enlarged require surgical removal (tonsillectomy). | |
| 3 | Penicillin given when the initial infection is diagnosed can prevent it. | |
| 4 | Acquired aortic stenosis may occur after a strep infection that progresses to rheumatic fever. | |
| 5 | Endocarditis and acute rheumatism heat up sex of serious acute heart myositis or pericarditis , subacute infection; |