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What does carditis mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) inflammation of the muscles of the heart.
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In later stages of the disease arthritis, carditis, as well as neurological and dermatological manifestations may occur.
At autopsy, these animals presented acute tubular necrosis, esteatosis, carditis, and diffuse alveolar damage.
Patients with Lyme carditis are treated to prevent later complications of Lyme disease and to shorten the duration of the cardiac effects.
The criteria list major manifestations that include carditis, erythema marginatum, polyarthritis, subcutaneous nodules, and Sydenham's chorea.
Complications of untreated Lyme disease include carditis, neuroborreliosis, arthritis and acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans.
The hallmarks of rheumatic fever include arthritis, carditis, cutaneous disease, chorea, and subsequent acquired valvular disease.

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