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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
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

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