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| {{Rheumatic fever}} | | {{Rheumatic fever}} |
| {{CMG}}; {{AOEIC}} {{VK}} | | {{CMG}} {{AE}} {{VK}}; {{AG}} |
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| ==Overview== | | ==Overview== |
| Screening of rheumatic fever and [[carditis]] is important as many cases of RHD are subclinical. [[Echocardiography]] among inhabitants of high risk regions is recommended. If any abnormality is detected on echocardiography, further cardiac evaluation is done followed by prophylactic treatment<ref name="pmid18297157">{{cite journal| author=Marijon E, Ou P, Celermajer DS, Ferreira B, Mocumbi AO, Sidi D et al.| title=Echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease. | journal=Bull World Health Organ | year= 2008 | volume= 86 |issue= 2 | pages= 84 | pmid=18297157 | doi= | pmc=PMC2647380 | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=18297157 }} </ref>. | | [[Screening]] of rheumatic fever is important as many cases of rheumatic heart disease are [[subclinical]]. [[Echocardiography]] among inhabitants of high risk regions is recommended. If any abnormality is detected on [[echocardiography]], further [[cardiac]] evaluation is performed followed by [[antimicrobial]] [[therapy]]. |
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| ==Screening== | | ==Screening== |
| Rheumatic fever is a delayed sequel to upper respiratory track infection by [[Group A streptococcus]], which can lead to immunologic damage of heart and heart valves. Rheumatic heart disease usually results from the repeated damage by recurrent episodes of acute rheumatic fever. Cardiac auscultation becomes unremarkable in one-third of children after a first episode of [[carditis]]. But even these children may progress to significant valvular disease, as confirmed by [[echocardiography]]<ref name="pmid16020588">{{cite journal| author=Meira ZM, Goulart EM, Colosimo EA, Mota CC| title=Long term follow up of rheumatic fever and predictors of severe rheumatic valvar disease in Brazilian children and adolescents. | journal=Heart | year= 2005 | volume= 91 | issue= 8 | pages= 1019-22 | pmid=16020588 | doi=10.1136/hrt.2004.042762 | pmc=PMC1769032 | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=16020588 }} </ref>. Therefore early detection of subclinical disease process helps in early treatment and there by improves prognosis by preventing recurrence<ref name="pmid18297157">{{cite journal| author=Marijon E, Ou P, Celermajer DS, Ferreira B, Mocumbi AO, Sidi D et al.| title=Echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease. | journal=Bull World Health Organ | year= 2008 | volume= 86 | issue= 2 | pages= 84 | pmid=18297157 | doi= | pmc=PMC2647380 | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=18297157 }} </ref>.
| | *According to the [[World Health Organization]], [[screening]] for rheumatic fever by [[echocardiogram]] is recommended among patients with from high risk communities with abnormal [[Auscultation|auscultatory]] findings. Early detection of [[subclinical]] disease process helps in early treatment and improves [[prognosis]] by preventing recurrence.<ref name="pmid18297157">{{cite journal| author=Marijon E, Ou P, Celermajer DS, Ferreira B, Mocumbi AO, Sidi D et al.| title=Echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease. | journal=Bull World Health Organ | year= 2008 | volume= 86 |issue= 2 | pages= 84 | pmid=18297157 | doi= | pmc=PMC2647380 | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=18297157 }} </ref> Screening is performed to prevent significant [[valvular disease]].<ref name="pmid16020588">{{cite journal| author=Meira ZM, Goulart EM, Colosimo EA, Mota CC| title=Long term follow up of rheumatic fever and predictors of severe rheumatic valvar disease in Brazilian children and adolescents. | journal=Heart | year= 2005 | volume= 91 | issue= 8 | pages= 1019-22 | pmid=16020588 | doi=10.1136/hrt.2004.042762 | pmc=PMC1769032 | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=16020588 }} </ref> |
| | | *Screening of rheumatic heart disease involves: |
| Screening of rheumatic heart disease involves: | | **Eliciting history of rheumatic fever |
| #Eliciting history of rheumatic fever
| | **Cardiac auscultation for [[murmur]]s |
| #Cardiac auscultation for [[murmur]]s
| | **[[Echocardiography]] |
| #[[Echocardiography]]
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| Evidence of valve abnormalities with a history of rheumatic fever is suggestive of rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Previously, individuals from high risk communities with abnormal auscultatory findings were subjected for further evaluation with echocardiography. But studies relying on echocardiography in the diagnosis of RHD have demonstrated that rates of subclinical carditis is up to 10 times higher than that diagnosed by clinical examination<ref name="pmid17671255">{{cite journal| author=Marijon E, Ou P, Celermajer DS, Ferreira B, Mocumbi AO, Jani D et al.| title=Prevalence of rheumatic heart disease detected by echocardiographic screening. | journal=N Engl J Med | year= 2007 | volume= 357 | issue= 5 | pages= 470-6 | pmid=17671255 | doi=10.1056/NEJMoa065085 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=17671255 }} </ref><ref name="pmid20345448">{{cite journal| author=Bhaya M, Panwar S, Beniwal R, Panwar RB| title=High prevalence of rheumatic heart disease detected by echocardiography in school children. | journal=Echocardiography | year= 2010 | volume= 27 | issue= 4 | pages= 448-53 | pmid=20345448 | doi=10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.01055.x | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=20345448 }} </ref><ref name="pmid18952636">{{cite journal| author=Sadiq M, Islam K, Abid R, Latif F, Rehman AU, Waheed A et al.| title=Prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in school children of urban Lahore. | journal=Heart | year= 2009 | volume= 95 | issue= 5 | pages= 353-7 | pmid=18952636 | doi=10.1136/hrt.2008.143982 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=18952636 }} </ref><ref name="pmid18398402">{{cite journal| author=Carapetis JR, Hardy M, Fakakovikaetau T, Taib R, Wilkinson L, Penny DJ et al.| title=Evaluation of a screening protocol using auscultation and portable echocardiography to detect asymptomatic rheumatic heart disease in Tongan schoolchildren. | journal=Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med | year= 2008 | volume= 5 | issue= 7 | pages= 411-7 | pmid=18398402 | doi=10.1038/ncpcardio1185 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=18398402 }} </ref>. '''Therefore current screening approach involves screening of all individuals in high risk communities with portable echocardiography'''.
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| WHO recommends that antibiotic prophylaxis should be administered to patients with echocardiographically detected significant subclinical RHD i.e. "very mild regurgitant jet, more than 1.0 cm, localized immediately above or below the valve, throughout systole at the [[mitral valve]] or diastole at the [[aortic valve]]"<ref>[http://www.who.int/cardiovascular_diseases/resources/en/cvd_trs923.pdf Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: report of a WHO Expert Consultation, Geneva, 29 October–1 November 2001. Geneva: WHO, 2004]</ref>. This criteria was found to be inadequate as it did not include valves with morphological features of RHD without pathological regurgitation. A study compared the use of WHO criteria with the use of combined criteria which included morphological abnormalities. Up to three quaters of cases with subclinical RHD were missed with WHO criteria<ref name="pmid19667239">{{cite journal| author=Marijon E, Celermajer DS, Tafflet M, El-Haou S, Jani DN, Ferreira B et al.| title=Rheumatic heart disease screening by echocardiography: the inadequacy of World Health Organization criteria for optimizing the diagnosis of subclinical disease. | journal=Circulation | year= 2009 | volume= 120 | issue= 8 | pages= 663-8 | pmid=19667239 | doi=10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.849190 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=19667239 }} </ref>.
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
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| | [[Category:Cardiology]] |
| | [[Category:Rheumatology]] |
| | [[Category:Bacterial diseases]] |