Revmaticheskaya bolezn' serdtsa - zabolevanie, kotoroe kharakterizuetsya porazheniem klapanov serdtsa, posle perenesennoy ostroy revmaticheskoy likhoradki. Chasto voznikaet povtornaya revmaticheskaya likhoradka, privodya k formirovaniyu novykh ili usugubleniyu imeyushchikhsya porokov serdtsa. Trudnosti diagnostiki povtornoy revmaticheskoy likhoradki obuslovleny nalichiem latentnykh klinicheskikh form etogo zabolevaniya. V svyazi s etim poisk novykh markerov vospaleniya sredi pokazateley immuniteta, gemostaza i sistemy perekisnogo okisleniya lipidov yavlyaetsya aktual'noy zadachey. Kniga prednaznachena dlya vrachey, internov, ordinatorov, studentov meditsinskikh uchebnykh zavedeniy.