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Rheumatic pneumonia with carditis and arthritis in a three-year-old girl

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Lurildo Ribeiro Saraiva ,
Regina Walmsley Carneiro  and
Glauco Willcox
Lurildo Ribeiro Saraiva*
Affiliation:
From the Serviço de Pediatria Clinica do Hospital Barão de Lucena, the Fundação HEMOPE and Departamento de Medicina Clinica da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife
Regina Walmsley Carneiro
Affiliation:
From the Serviço de Pediatria Clinica do Hospital Barão de Lucena, the Fundação HEMOPE and Departamento de Medicina Clinica da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife
Glauco Willcox
Affiliation:
From the Serviço de Pediatria Clinica do Hospital Barão de Lucena, the Fundação HEMOPE and Departamento de Medicina Clinica da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife
*
Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Hospital das Clinicas UFPE, Cidade Universitária, 50670-901 Recite, PE, Brazil. Tel. 5581 4533633, ext. 2241; Fax. 55 81 2718500.
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Abstract

We describe a three-year-old girl in whom arthritis developed ten days after the onset of illness, followed by clinical features consistent with rheumatic carditis and pneumonia. Treatment with prednisone proved satisfactory. This case illustrates the persistence of patterns of rheumatic fever in northeast Brazil which are most unusual in developed countries

Keywords

Acute rheumatic feverrheumatic pneumoniarheumatic heart disease
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , April 1995 , pp. 197 - 198
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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