Revision of the Jones criteria for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever in the era of Doppler echocardiography a scientific statement from the American heart association

Circulation

Volumn 131, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 1806-1818

  Gewitz, Michael H ^a   Baltimore, Robert S ^a   Tani, Lloyd Y ^a   Sable, Craig A ^a   Shulman, Stanford T ^a   Carapetis, Jonathan ^a   Remenyi, Bo ^a   Taubert, Kathryn A ^a   Bolger, Ann F ^a   Beerman, Lee ^a   Mayosi, Bongani M ^a   Beaton, Andrea ^a   Pandian, Natesa G ^a   Kaplan, Edward L ^a  

^a AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

acute rheumatic fever; AHA Scientific Statements; Doppler echocardiography; Jones criteria; rheumatic heart disease; subclinical carditis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDITIS; CHOREA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRITERION VARIABLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JONES CRITERIA; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MONARTHRITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ACUTE DISEASE; ARTHRITIS, REACTIVE; COMPLICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH; HEART VALVE DISEASES; MYOCARDITIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION; ARTHRITIS, REACTIVE; CHOREA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MYOCARDITIS; RECURRENCE; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84931338711     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000205     Document Type: Article

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