Revised Jones Criteria for diagnosis of Acute Rheumatic Fever (based on AHA statement)
Keywords:
Rheumatic fever, Jones Criteria,
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2 Dajani AS, Ayoub E, Bierman FZ, et al. 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. Guidelines for the diagnosis of rheumatic fever: Jones criteria, 1992 update [published correction appears in JAMA. 1993;269:476]. JAMA. 1992;268:2069–2073.
3. Ferrieri P; for the Jones Criteria Working Group. Proceedings of the Jones criteria workshop. Circulation. 2002;106:2521–2523.
4. RHD Australia (ARF/RHD Writing Group), National Heart Foundation of Australia, Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. The Australian Guideline for Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease (2nd ed). Casuarina, Australia: RHDAustralia; 2012.
5. Vijayalakshmi IB, Mithravinda J, Deva AN.The role of echocardiography in diagnosing carditis in the setting of acute rheumatic fever.Cardiol Young. 2005;15:583–588. doi: 10.1017/S1047951105001745.
6. Michael H. Gewitz, Robert S. Baltimore, Lloyd Y. Tani, et al. Revision of the Jones Criteria for the Diagnosis of Acute Rheumatic Fever in the Era of Doppler Echocardiography A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.Circulation. 2015;131:000-000. DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000205.
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