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Abstract This work was dane to estimate the prevalance of theUmatic fever and rheumat1c heart diseaiea among school chtldern in Egypt The study included 9856 pupils from She~bin town and Kaf( Elfill, maW}’ vi,llOlge in [lr i m.>.ry and pI: eparator y :!chool”. The nUmPer of roales was ~19~ , ~hlle the numb~J: of females wa6 46&1. qen~ral11 and locally for the heart to det~ct any orqanic lesion 5 - 1’5 ) Ev~XY pupil was ~xaminBd of the heart. To ensure the d1a~nosl~ of so~@ actlve c.ses ,they wel:e ~ubjo:cted 1:0 1n sherbin hOllpital Ii:.S.R., c .R.P. ,A. S .0. ,complet •• ’::lloodpicture.. out 0 ~ the t.ot;;a1 mlmber 0 I’: exami r-edpupile, 74 ca:’les \ofere found The results revealed the following I to have rheumatic he~ct diseases. out of the~e case~ I 9 c~ses Wlille fOUflC to llavii zheumatic actiVl.ty. while SE cases W’Ill:l!: Qule~cent ~lthout actlvit¥ Tn” prevO! lam; il r a te ~f theumi:lt 1c bae r t d1$e<l ”” am”ng school ch\ldern aged ~ - 15 y~ar8 ~~ ~herbin town & Kafr El-ahena~y vl11~ge ~as 0.75 . |