All issues > Volume 36(11); 1993
- Case Report
- J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1993;36(11):1635-1637. Published online November 15, 1993.
- A Case of Poststreptococcal Reactive Polyarthralgia
- Sung Ho SH Cha1, Byong Soo BS Cho1, Taekyu Tk Hame2
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1Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
2Department of Pediatrics, Dong Suwon Hospital, Su Won, Korea
- Abstract
- Poststreptococcal reactive arthritis/arthralgia is characterized as an evidence of group A beta hemolytic streptococcal infection and does not fulfill the modified Jones criteria for a diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever. We had used to meet the patients with incomplete acute rheumatic fever who had more than 3 items of minor Jones criteria, or arthralgia or arthritis with one or two minor signs of criteria for a diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever. We sometimes were in the dilemma on such cases. We suggest that poststreptococcal reactive arthritis/arthralgia may be a variant of acute rheumatic fever that need secondary chemoprophylaxis by at least 20 years old or additional 15 years chemoprophylaxis from onste of their age.
Keywords :Group A bete hemolytic streptococcus, Reactive arthritis/arthralgia