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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Lance Christiansen, D.O., Anthony Gallo, B.S. [2]

Overview

Rheumatic fever was first described by Hippocrates, a Greek physician, between 400-370 B.C.^[1] The term was first used post-Renaissance by Guillaume de Baillou, a French physician, in the early 1600s. T. Duckett Jones, MD was the first to publish a set of diagnostic criteria in 1944.^[2]

Historical Perspective

Rheumatic fever was first described by Hippocrates, a Greek physician, between 400-370 B.C.^[1] The term was first used post-Renaissance by Guillaume de Baillou, a French physician, in the early 1600s. It was first thought that individuals developed an allergic response to Streptococcus pyogenes, but later it was determined that rheumatic fever was an autoimmunological response. Thomas Sydenham described a case of severe rheumatic fever in the late 1600's and a similar description is provided in Encyclopedia Britannica's first edition published in 1771. At times the word, rheumatism, was used as a general term for both acute rheumatism and chronic rheumatism. With industrial advancements in the 1850s, the number of cases of rheumatic fever began to decline. In the 1900s, high-grade cases of rheumatic fever became less common in modernized parts of the world.^[3]

During WWII, conditions of over-crowding developed in military training sites and rheumatic fever became more common. U.S. Naval leaders hired T. Duckett Jones, MD to study rheumatic fever's epidemiology and clinical development. Dr. Jones devised certain a criteria for the diagnosis of rheumatic fever that is still in use today, albeit in a modified form.^[4] The diesease is not common in the United States, and usually occurs in isolated outbreaks. The latest outbreak was in the 1980s.

Today, rheumatic fever is more common worldwide, especially in overcrowded areas.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Quinn RW (1991). "Did scarlet fever and rheumatic fever exist in Hippocrates' time?". Rev Infect Dis. 13 (6): 1243–4. PMID 1775859.
↑ THE DIAGNOSIS OF RHEUMATIC FEVER. JAMA (2015). http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=271116 Accessed on October 9, 2015
↑ Bejiqi RA, Retkoceri R, Zeka N, Bejiqi H, Retkoceri A (2015). "Heart lesion after the first attack of the rheumatic Fever 22 years experience in single centre". Med Arch. 69 (1): 49–53. doi:10.5455/medarh.2015.69.49-53. PMC 4384842. PMID 25870479.
↑ "Guidelines for the diagnosis of rheumatic fever. Jones Criteria, 1992 update. Special Writing Group of the Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease of the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young of the American Heart Association". JAMA. 268 (15): 2069–73. 1992. PMID 1404745.

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[pmid1775859-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Quinn RW (1991). "Did scarlet fever and rheumatic fever exist in Hippocrates' time?". Rev Infect Dis. 13 (6): 1243–4. PMID 1775859.

[HIS-2] THE DIAGNOSIS OF RHEUMATIC FEVER. JAMA (2015). http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=271116 Accessed on October 9, 2015

[pmid25870479-3] Bejiqi RA, Retkoceri R, Zeka N, Bejiqi H, Retkoceri A (2015). "Heart lesion after the first attack of the rheumatic Fever 22 years experience in single centre". Med Arch. 69 (1): 49–53. doi:10.5455/medarh.2015.69.49-53. PMC 4384842. PMID 25870479.

[4] "Guidelines for the diagnosis of rheumatic fever. Jones Criteria, 1992 update. Special Writing Group of the Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease of the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young of the American Heart Association". JAMA. 268 (15): 2069–73. 1992. PMID 1404745.

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 ==Overview==
-Rheumatic fever was first described by Galen, a Greek physician in the Roman Empire, in the second century A.D. The term was first used post-Renaissance by Guillaume de Baillou, a French physician, in the early 1600s.
+Rheumatic fever was first described by Hippocrates, a Greek physician, between 400-370 B.C.<ref name="pmid1775859">{{cite journal| author=Quinn RW| title=Did scarlet fever and rheumatic fever exist in Hippocrates' time? | journal=Rev Infect Dis | year= 1991 | volume= 13 | issue= 6 | pages= 1243-4 | pmid=1775859 | doi= | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=1775859  }} </ref> The term was first used post-Renaissance by Guillaume de Baillou, a French physician, in the early 1600s. T. Duckett Jones, MD was the first to publish a set of diagnostic criteria in 1944.<ref name=HIS> THE DIAGNOSIS OF RHEUMATIC FEVER. JAMA (2015). http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=271116 Accessed on October 9, 2015</ref>
 == Historical Perspective==
-Rheumatic fever was first described by Galen, a Greek physician in the Roman Empire, in the second century A.D. The term was first used post-Renaissance by Guillaume de Baillou, a French physician, in the early 1600s. It was first thought that individuals developed an allergic response to ''Streptococcus pyogenes'', but later it was determined that rheumatic fever was an autoimmunological response. Thomas Sydenham described a case of severe rheumatic fever in the late 1600's and a similar description is provided in Encyclopedia Britannica's first edition published in 1771. At times the word, rheumatism, was used as a general term for both acute rheumatism and chronic rheumatism. With industrial advancements in the 1850s, the number of cases of rheumatic fever began to decline. In the 1900s, high-grade cases of rheumatic fever became less common in modernized parts of the world.
+Rheumatic fever was first described by Hippocrates, a Greek physician, between 400-370 B.C.<ref name="pmid1775859">{{cite journal| author=Quinn RW| title=Did scarlet fever and rheumatic fever exist in Hippocrates' time? | journal=Rev Infect Dis | year= 1991 | volume= 13 | issue= 6 | pages= 1243-4 | pmid=1775859 | doi= | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=1775859  }} </ref> The term was first used post-Renaissance by Guillaume de Baillou, a French physician, in the early 1600s. It was first thought that individuals developed an allergic response to ''Streptococcus pyogenes'', but later it was determined that rheumatic fever was an autoimmunological response. Thomas Sydenham described a case of severe rheumatic fever in the late 1600's and a similar description is provided in Encyclopedia Britannica's first edition published in 1771. At times the word, rheumatism, was used as a general term for both acute rheumatism and chronic rheumatism. With industrial advancements in the 1850s, the number of cases of rheumatic fever began to decline. In the 1900s, high-grade cases of rheumatic fever became less common in modernized parts of the world.<ref name="pmid25870479">{{cite journal| author=Bejiqi RA, Retkoceri R, Zeka N, Bejiqi H, Retkoceri A| title=Heart lesion after the first attack of the rheumatic Fever 22 years experience in single centre. | journal=Med Arch | year= 2015 | volume= 69 | issue= 1 | pages= 49-53 | pmid=25870479 | doi=10.5455/medarh.2015.69.49-53 | pmc=PMC4384842 | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=25870479  }} </ref>
-During WWII, conditions of over-crowding developed in military training sites and rheumatic fever became more common. U.S. Naval leaders hired T. Duckett Jones, MD to study rheumatic fever's epidemiology and clinical development. Dr. Jones devised certain a criteria for the diagnosis of rheumatic fever that is still in use today, albeit in a modified form.
+During WWII, conditions of over-crowding developed in military training sites and rheumatic fever became more common. U.S. Naval leaders hired T. Duckett Jones, MD to study rheumatic fever's epidemiology and clinical development. Dr. Jones devised certain a criteria for the diagnosis of rheumatic fever that is still in use today, albeit in a modified form.<ref>{{cite journal |author= |title=Guidelines for the diagnosis of rheumatic fever. Jones Criteria, 1992 update. Special Writing Group of the Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease of the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young of the American Heart Association |journal=JAMA |volume=268 |issue=15 |pages=2069-73 |year=1992 |pmid=1404745 |doi=}}</ref> The diesease is not common in the United States, and usually occurs in isolated outbreaks. The latest outbreak was in the 1980s.
+Today, rheumatic fever is more common worldwide, especially in overcrowded areas.
-In north America, western Europe, Japan, much of Australia and New Zealand rheumatic fever became very uncommon. It decreased in frequency in modern western societies in a progressive fashion from the early 1900's, but it decreased remarkably after WW II so by 1970 it was thought to be a very rare disease in the USA, for instance, but it never disappeared. In certain populations such as the aboriginies of Austrialia and New Zealand it remained common and it also remained common in the aborigines of North America although it is not mentioned frequently in medical literature.
-The chronic non-suppurative target-organ manifestions of rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart-valve disease, is not caused by acute rheumatic fever, but it is due to a reasonably elevated, chronic, inflammatory, rheumatic, autoimmune state, which is caused by repeated, or at times chronic, infections by virulent strains of Streptococcus pyogenes. Rheumatic heart-valve disease is common in American society, but there is no outcry from treating cardiologists, and cardiac surgeons, concerning the ongoing development of the high-grade, chronic, rheumatic state within individuals in the American population.
-Fewer physicians took care of patients with severe rheumatic fever so it slowly became difficult to diagnose, even in the late 1930's, by modern, western-educated physicians. One might think that physicians in modern countries have the least experience and therefore the least knowledge about rheumatic fever, however, they often have advanced knowledge about other aspects of medical science.
- Those diagnostic criteria were published in the following text, (Jones,T.D., ''Journal of the American Medical Association|JAMA],'' 1944; 126:481–484) and have become known as the "Jones Criteria". They are still currently used, in a modified form, to diagnose rheumatic fever. They have been periodically revised by the [[American Heart Association]] in collaboration with other groups.<ref>[http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/106/19/2521?ck=nck Ferrieri P. Proceedings of the Jones criteria workshop]. ''Circulation'' 2002; 106: 2521–23</ref> '''Two major criteria, or one major and two minor criteria''', when there is also evidence of a previous strep infection, support the diagnosis of rheumatic fever.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic509.htm |title=eMedicine — Rheumatic Fever | author = Steven J Parrillo, DO, FACOEP, FACEP|format= |work=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author= |title=Guidelines for the diagnosis of rheumatic fever. Jones Criteria, 1992 update. Special Writing Group of the Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease of the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young of the American Heart Association |journal=JAMA |volume=268 |issue=15 |pages=2069-73 |year=1992 |pmid=1404745 |doi=}}</ref>
-Unfortunately, since the 1930's, most physicians in modern western countries have dealt with fewer and fewer cases of rheumatic fever so at this time only the very most high-grade cases can be recognized and the symptoms and signs of those cases are what compose the "Jones Criteria". Even with the Jones Criteria having existed for decades, most cases of rheumatic fever suffer from mis-diagnosis, because most physicians simply do not think that rheumatic fever exists in modern, western countries including the USA. Out of mind out of sight is the rule.
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