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Purpose: Cardiac involvement in dengue fever is underdiagnosed due to low index of clinical suspicion and its contribution to hemodynamic instability in severe dengue is not well known.
Methods:
OBJECTIVE
To determine and to evaluate valvular involvement, in particular subclinical, as confirmed by colored Doppler echocardiography (CDE) during an initial attack of acute rheumatic fever (ARF). Means of diagnosis and therapeutic implications.
METHODS
Over a 7-year period, from January 1994 to
Myocardial imaging with 99Tcm-hexamethylpropylene amineoxime (HMPAO)-labelled white blood cells (Tc-WBC) was used to detect carditis and differentiate rheumatic fever (RF) and inactive rheumatic heart disease (IRHD). Ten cases of RF and 15 cases of IRHD were studied, and the results revealed 60%
OBJECTIVE
Routine use of Doppler echocardiography for the initial diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) might allow early detection and, hence, prevention of rheumatic recurrences. This study sought to determine the incidence of subclinical carditis in ARF patients.
METHODS
The study included 80
BACKGROUND
This study aimed to evaluate prospectively clinical and echocardiographic findings of patients who had rheumatic fever with and without clinical features of cardiac involvement.
METHODS
For this study, 56 consecutive patients (mean age, 11.4 years) with acute rheumatic fever diagnosed
This study aimed to demonstrate the importance of ECHO in the diagnosis and long-term follow-up of silent carditis.
This study included 182 (157 arthritis; 25 chorea) patients out of 214 patients who had been diagnosed with acute rheumatic fever for the first time. All of the patients were scanned
OBJECTIVE
We aimed to investigate the hypothesis that the presence of left ventricular (LV) dyssynchrony in children with acute rheumatic fever (ARF) children may be a predictor of latent rheumatic carditis.
METHODS
Eighty-nine children with ARF and 45 healthy control children were included the
In a prospective study (1961-1972) the incidence of rheumatic fever (RF), development of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and penicillin prophylaxis efficacy were investigated in 300 000 children and 70 000 adults. Only patients whose index attack met the modified Jones' criteria were included; all
An eight-year-old girl with mitral regurgitation in acute rheumatic fever was examined by echocardiography. The examination showed posterior displacement of the coaptation point of the anterior mitral leaflet, i.e. anterior mitral prolapse, and did not indicate signs of edematous change or verrucous
A 14-year-old boy presented with the symptoms and clinical signs of myocarditis. Ventricular arrhythmias were the main manifestation. Dilated left ventricle with slightly impaired contractility and spongy appearance of the myocardium were also noted. Laboratory signs of an acute infectious disease
BACKGROUND
The incidence of acute rheumatic fever in New Zealand remains relatively high. Reliable early diagnosis of carditis is difficult and important in management.
OBJECTIVE
To determine if Doppler echocardiography contributed to the early diagnosis of carditis in acute rheumatic
In Varanasi carditis is the most important major manifestation of an acute attack of rheumatic fever and is the only one which results in sequelae. In our country carditis constitutes the largest single manifestation of rheumatic fever in its index attack. The overall picture is most distressing
1. Myocarditis in the course of enteric fever is a common occurrence. In a series of 100 bacteriologically or serologically proved enteric fever, we found 7 cases with clinical evidence of myocarditis and 46 cases with ECG evidence of myocarditis. 2. Commonest ECG abnormality was Q-Tc prolongation
The original Jones criteria, first introduced in 1944, have been modified four times and updated-revised criteria were published in 1992. A variety of clinical manifestations, which may be the presenting signs and symptoms of acute rheumatic fever, are not included in the updated-revised Jones
The diagnosis of carditis in acute rheumatic fever traditionally depends on characteristic auscultatory findings. The advent of pulsed and colour Doppler echocardiography provides a method of detecting minor degrees of pathological regurgitation without characteristic clinical signs. Using strict