Rheumatic Fever

Yaniv Sherer; Yehuda Shoenfeld; Abihai Lucas Hernández

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-69895-8_75

Rheumatic Fever

Yaniv Sherer, Yehuda Shoenfeld^*, Abihai Lucas Hernández

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Rheumatic fever (RF) is an inflammatory condition involving the heart, joints, skin, and brain that emerges following group A streptococcal infection. The use of appropriate diagnostic criteria for RF is crucial to not underdiagnose this frequent condition that carries the risk of significant long-term morbidity. The most frequent and severe manifestation of RF is carditis. Echocardiography detects subclinical carditis in many patients lacking any clinical presentation, up to 10 times more than cases having clinical evidence of disease. This chapter emphasizes the significance of the Jones criteria, revised over the years, in diagnosing RF, especially in high-risk populations, and the benefit of echocardiography.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Autoimmune Disease Diagnosis
Subtitle of host publication	Systemic and Organ-specific Diseases, Second Edition
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	531-534
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031698958
ISBN (Print)	9783031698941
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69895-8_75
State	Published - 1 Jan 2025
Externally published	Yes

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Echocardiography
Jones criteria
Rheumatic fever

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