Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Australia, 2022

In NSW, rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is notifiable only in those aged under 35 at the time of diagnosis. In New South Wales in 2022:

• there were 9 reports of new RHD diagnoses (Supplementary table 3.7b)
• RHD diagnosis rates have remained steady between 2013 to 2022 around 0.3 per 100,000 cases (Supplementary table 3.10b).