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Clinical Summary
== Clinical Summary ==
This 21-year-old black male with sickle cell anemia had recurrent attacks of acute rheumatic fever beginning at age 14. Mitral insufficiency and stenosis were present by age 16. On prophylactic antibiotics, the patient had no evidence of recurrence until three weeks before his final admission, when an upper respiratory infection developed. A few weeks later he developed acute migratory polyarthritis. This was associated with rapid deterioration of cardiac function and death.
 == Autopsy Findings == At autopsy, the heart was enlarged--weighing 675 grams--especially the left atrium. Both the aortic and mitral valves showed fibrosis as well as the fresh, tiny verrucae characteristic of acute rheumatic fever.
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=== Journal Articles ===
* Wong S, French R, Bolson E, McDonald J, Legget M, Sheehan FAmerican Heart Association Committee on Rheumatic Fever. [http://wwwdx.ncbidoi.nlmorg/10.nih1161/CIR.gov/pubmed/11685179 Morphologic features 0000000000000205 Revision of the Jones Criteria for the Diagnosis of Acute Rheumatic Fever in the rheumatic mitral regurgitant valve by three-dimensional echocardiographyEra of Doppler Echocardiography]. ''Am Heart JCirculation'' 2001 Nov2015 April 23;142(5)131:8971806-9071818.
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