To cite: Steger CM. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2015211943 DESCRIPTION A 65-year-old man with a medical history of rheumatic fever in childhood reported thoracic pain while at work and collapsed. He died in the ambulance on the way to hospital due to ventricular fibrillation. After the few episodes of rheumatic fever with subsequent pancarditis...

A 20-year-old male presented with worsening of shortness of breath of 1-month duration. He provided history of rheumatic fever in the past and was on intramuscular benzathine penicillin prophylaxis, which he discontinued for the last 2 years. There was no history of fever, cough, joint-related symptoms, or involuntary movements. He was moderately built and poorly nourished with bilateral pittin...

SUMMARY Rheumatic heart disease is considered one of the few forms of chronic heart disease which can be effectively prevented today. Yet the incidence of rheumatic fever is still appreciable and the complacency of many physicians and public health officials in regard to the rheumatic fever problem is unwarranted. It is timely, therefore, to reexamine the question of whether this disease can in...

439 O 30 or 40 years ago, rheumatic fever was a common topic in the Journal. A PubMed search for articles on rheumatic fever published between 1967 and 1976 returned 55 New England Journal of Medicine articles — fewer than for endocarditis (77) but more than for stroke and syphilis (24 entries each). A similar PubMed search for the decade 1997 through 2006 yielded just eight entries for rheumat...

AIM An audit of rheumatic fever surveillance in Northland was carried out for the period 2002-2011. The aim of the audit was to establish the accuracy and completeness of surveillance of Acute Rheumatic Fever in Northland, and to provide a robust baseline for future comparison given current rheumatic fever prevention efforts. METHODS Cases of acute rheumatic fever (2002-2011) were identified ...

Sur 2601 admissions, chez 113 enfants at­teints de la maladie de Bouillaud, hospitalises en cinq ans dans deux services de pediatrie de Te­heran (C.H.U. de Pahlavi, C.H.U. de Logman­doleh Adham) 6 cas de manifestations cutanees  (trois cas de nodules, trois cas d'erytheme mar­ginatum) ont ete constates, trois d'entre eux souffrant d'une cardite severe et evolutive.  En Iran !'incidence des si...

Hereditary deficiencies of early complement components have usually been associated with the development of rheumatic diseases like systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), while terminal component deficiency is well known to predispose to recurrent neisserial infection. In contrast, only recently have patients been reported with rheumatic disease and hereditary deficiency of a terminal component. T...

An 11-year-old boy presented to our clinic with abnormal involuntary jerky movements of the limbs for 3 months. Examination revealed fidgetiness with frequent rapid, irregular, and aimless involuntary movements of all 4 limbs, hypotonia, frequent facial grimacing, and dysarthria (Movie I in the online-only Data Supplement). The movements used to disappear with sleep. He was unable to sustain hi...