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Rheumatic Fever
[OCOSH Code: D012213 58718002 I00-I02 JD_A_RF]

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Rheumatic Nodule (3)
Rheumatic Nodule. A small round or oval, mostly subcutaneous nodule made up chiefly of a mass of Aschoff bodies and seen in cases of rheumatic fever. It is differentiated from the RHEUMATOID NODULE which appears in rheumatoid arthritis, most frequently over bony prominences.
MeSH Search Term "Rheumatic Nodule"[mesh]
ICD-10 Code I00 Rheumatic fever without mention of heart involvement
SNOMED-CT Term Rheumatic fever nodule (disorder) Concept ID: 240041006
OCOSH Code: D012215 240041006 I00 JD_A_RF_RN
Wissler Syndrome (0)
Wissler's Syndrome. A rheumatic syndrome of possibly allergic origin, usually affecting children and adolescents, and characterized by high fever, exanthema, arthralgia, leukocytosis, and increased sedimentation rate.
MeSH Search Term "Wissler's Syndrome"[mesh]
ICD-10 Code I00
SNOMED-CT Term Wissler-Fanconi syndrome (finding) Concept ID: 68190001
Synonyms - Wissler-Fanconi syndrome
Subsepsis hyperergia
Wissler's syndrome
Wissler-Fanconi syndrome (finding)
OCOSH Code: D014924 68190001 I00 JD_A_RF_WS

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Chronic post-rheumatic fever arthritis (Jaccouds)

Location: http://smj.sma.org.sg/1503/1503smj12.pdf

Two cases are presented; the clinical radiological and biochemical features are presented. Jaccoud (1869) described chronic arthritis in a young adult with recurrent rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.
CHRONIC POST-RHEUMATIC FEVER ARTHRITIS (JACCOUD'S) — REPORT OF 2 CASES C.H.Lim & Charles Toh Singapore Medical Journal Vol 15 # 3 p...
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Rheumatic Fever eMedicine Infectious Diseases

Location: http://http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/236582-overview

Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is an autoimmune inflammatory process that develops as a sequela of streptococcal infection. ARF has extremely variable manifestations and remains a clinical syndrome for which no specific diagnostic test exists. Persons who have experienced an episode of ARF are predisposed to recurrence following subsequent (rheumatogenic) group...
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Rheumatic fever—a vignette

Location: http://rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/44/9/1198

A 12-yr-old boy presented with 7 weeks of arthralgia, affecting the knees, cervical spine and small joints of both hands, and pain in the palms of both hands with reduced flexion of the second, third and fourth fingers.
He was initially apyrexial but subsequently developed a temperature of 38°C. He was...
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Update on acute rheumatic fever

Location: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2682299/

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, MEDLINE, and EMBASE were searched from 1996 to 2007 with a focus on prevention, epidemiology, and disease management. Case series data from medical records at the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre in Ontario were also used.
Acute rheumatic fever is still a clinical...
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