Acute rheumatic fever: Diagnosis and treatment

Pediatric Annals

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 295-302

  Alsaeid, Khaled ^a   Majeed, H A ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; ANTISTREPTOLYSIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; HALOPERIDOL; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V; PREDNISONE; SALICYLIC ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS ANTIGEN; SULFADIAZINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTHRALGIA; CARDITIS; CHOREA MINOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FEVER; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POLYARTHRITIS; PR INTERVAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SECONDARY PREVENTION; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; THROAT CULTURE;

EID: 0031799294     PISSN: 00904481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/0090-4481-19980501-09     Document Type: Review

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