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- Joint pain or swelling — most often the knees, ankles, elbows and wrists. Joints may feel hot or tender. Pain in one joint that travels to another joint. Chest pain. Fatigue. Small, painless bumps beneath the skin. Flat or slightly raised, painless rash with a ragged edge.
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- Rationale: Although the incidence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) has declined in Europe and North America over the past 4-6 decades, the disease remains one of the most important causes of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality among socially and economically disadvantaged populations all over the world, especially in developing countries that are home to the majority of the world’s population.
- Epidemiology: The global distribution of ARF and RHD is heterogeneous; certain geographic regions and specific ethnic and socioeconomic groups experience very high rates of ARF, whereas the disease has virtually disappeared in other regions.
- Epidemiologic implications: It is reasonable to consider individuals at low risk of ARF if they come from a setting or population with known low rates of ARF and RHD (Class IIa, Level of Evidence C).
- Clinical manifestations of ARF: The major clinical manifestations of ARF are carditis and arthritis, followed in descending frequency by chorea (with a female predominance), subcutaneous nodules, and erhythema marginatum (uncommon but specific of ARF).
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Rheumatic fever can affect people in different ways. Sometimes, people have such mild strep they don’t realize they had an infection until rheumatic fever develops later on. Rheumatic fever causes many symptoms that look similar to other health issues. Most of these other conditions are routine and not dangerous. Symptoms can vary widely depending ...
Rheumatic fever is an overreaction of your child’s immune system that causes it to fight healthy tissues. An untreated strep throat or scarlet fever infection can trigger this overreaction. It happens when your child doesn’t receive antibiotic treatment for group A Streptococcusinfections. When your body’s defenses (antibodies) begin to fight back,...
Rheumatic fever doesn’t always affect the heart. But when it does, it can damage heart tissues, especially the heart valves. Scarred heart tissue doesn’t work correctly. Over time, rheumatic fever may lead to permanent heart damage. Providers may call this condition rheumatic heart disease or congestive heart failure. If rheumatic fever injures a h...
The goal of this statement was to review the historic Jones criteria used to diagnose acute rheumatic fever in the context of the current epidemiology of the disease and to update those criteria to also take into account recent evidence supporting the use of Doppler echocardiography in the diagnosis of carditis as a major manifestation of acute ...
- Michael H. Gewitz, Robert S. Baltimore, Lloyd Y. Tani, Craig A. Sable, Stanford T. Shulman, Jonathan...
- 2015
Jul 10, 2020 · An overview of rheumatic fever including aetiology, symptoms, signs, key investigations, management options and prognosis.
About. The diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever requires: 2 major, or. 1 major and 2 minor manifestations, AND. evidence of group A streptococcal infection. Required Criteria. Evidence of...
Mar 1, 2024 · Key points. There's no definitive diagnostic test for acute rheumatic fever. A clinical diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever should be made using the 2015 revised Jones Criteria. The Jones Criteria can be used to diagnose initial as well as recurrent illnesses.
Apr 27, 2018 · To estimate the incidence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) in a metropolitan area of Northern Italy and study how the introduction of the 2015 revised Jones criteria affects the epidemiology in a region with moderate to high incidence of ARF.
