All issues > Volume 32(12); 1989

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1989;32(12):1744-1748. Published online December 31, 1989.

A Case of Acute Rhenmatic Fever Associated with Acute Poststreptococcal Glomerulonepheitis.

Ho Kyung Choi¹, Dong Seok Choi¹, Jae Ho Lee¹, Young Hun Chung¹, Hyon Soon Lee²

¹Department of Pediatrics, Chung Nam National University, Taejon, Korea
²Department of Pathology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Received: May 29, 1989;  Accepted: August 7, 1989.

Abstract

A case of acute glomerulonephritis in association with acute rheumatic fever was presented. The patient rheumatic arthritis and carditis with mitral insufficiency, who had been diagnosed as acute poststreptococcal glomeruoonephritis with non-oliguric renal failure with renal biopsy and laboratory findings. The patient was treated, and symptom and sign were improved.

Keywords :Acute rheumatic fever, acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis.