Subcutaneous Nodules in Acute Rheumatic Fever

Observations regarding artificially induced subcutaneous nodules in rheumatic fever patients.

Immunologic Factors in Acute Rheumatic Fever Compared to Rheumatic Heart Disease

Background/Objective: To clarify the state of different immunologic factors in patients with acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) compared to healthy individuals.Patients and Methods: Patients with ARF (#21), patients with RHD six months after the onset of ARF (#19), and healthy children from the same age group with normal physical examination and no history of pharyngi...

A Comparative Study of Subcutaneous Nodules in Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatoid Arthritis

The foregoing comparative study on the subcutaneous nodules in rheumatic fever and rheumatoid arthritis is presented as part of an investigation which has been conducted in this clinic on the relationship of the two clinical entities, rheumatic fever and rheumatoid arthritis. It is believed that the present study has shown that these lesions are highly characteristic of the two diseases and tha...

The Artificial Induction of Subcutaneous Nodules in Patients with Rheumatic Fever.

Although subcutaneous nodules in subjects with rheumatic fever were described prior to the report of Barlow and Warner (1), these workers presented the first series of observations on 27 patients and described the clinical characteristics of nodules. Like Cheadle (2), these observers believed subcutaneous nodules to be diagnostic of rheumatic fever. The early literature has been adequately summ...

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SUBCUTANEOUS NODULES IN RHEUMATIC FEVER AND RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS*t

Since the original observations of Meynet (1) and Barlow and Warner (2) on the occurrence of subcutaneous nodules in rheumatic fever, numerous studies on these lesions have appeared. I t is now well recognized that subcutaneous nodules are a frequent manifestation of the disease rheumatic fever and that these lesions present a highly characteristic histological structure. Occasional reference (...