Rheumatoid arthritis is one of the major manifestations of rheumatic fever. Because most joints  are one of the early symptoms of rheumatic fever, patients' joints are affected, among which 91.7% are adults, 55.7% are children, therefore, in the aspect of clinical, rheumatic fever is referred to rheumatoid arthritis.

As this disease is acute to occur, at the beginning, patients' main performances are systemic fever and swelling painful significant joints. If without taking timely and effective methods of treatment, patients will not only suffer from great physical and mental pain, but also will delay treatments, then it results into a persistent trend of the refractory to induce chronic rheumatoid arthritis. While some patients' disease situation may be developed to the heart, or even life-threatening. 

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