Novel Finding of Coronary Ectasia in a Case of Acute Rheumatic Fever

A 10-year-old boy presented to his pediatrician with acute fever, rash, and polyarthritis. Laboratory studies revealed elevated inflammatory markers and positive throat culture. Echocardiogram demonstrated panvalvular insufficiency consistent with acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and coronary artery ecta...

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Autores principales: Weiler, Thomas, Chelliah, Anjali, Bradley-Tiernan, Linda, Greene, E. Anne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3722906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23936712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/674174
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description A 10-year-old boy presented to his pediatrician with acute fever, rash, and polyarthritis. Laboratory studies revealed elevated inflammatory markers and positive throat culture. Echocardiogram demonstrated panvalvular insufficiency consistent with acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and coronary artery ectasia. This latter finding, typically associated with Kawasaki disease, has not been previously reported in ARF.
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spelling pubmed-37229062013-08-09 Novel Finding of Coronary Ectasia in a Case of Acute Rheumatic Fever Weiler, Thomas Chelliah, Anjali Bradley-Tiernan, Linda Greene, E. Anne Case Rep Pediatr Case Report A 10-year-old boy presented to his pediatrician with acute fever, rash, and polyarthritis. Laboratory studies revealed elevated inflammatory markers and positive throat culture. Echocardiogram demonstrated panvalvular insufficiency consistent with acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and coronary artery ectasia. This latter finding, typically associated with Kawasaki disease, has not been previously reported in ARF. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3722906/ /pubmed/23936712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/674174 Text en Copyright © 2013 Thomas Weiler et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Novel Finding of Coronary Ectasia in a Case of Acute Rheumatic Fever
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title_fullStr Novel Finding of Coronary Ectasia in a Case of Acute Rheumatic Fever
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title_short Novel Finding of Coronary Ectasia in a Case of Acute Rheumatic Fever
title_sort novel finding of coronary ectasia in a case of acute rheumatic fever
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/674174
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