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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Lance Christiansen, D.O.; Anthony Gallo, B.S. [2]
Overview
Rheumatic fever was first described by Hippocrates, a Greek physician, between 400-370 B.C.[1] The term was first used post-Renaissance by Guillaume de Baillou, a French physician, in the early 1600s. T. Duckett Jones, MD was the first to publish a set of diagnostic criteria in 1944.[2]
Historical Perspective
Rheumatic fever was first described by Hippocrates, a Greek physician, between 400-370 B.C.[1] The term was first used post-Renaissance by Guillaume de Baillou, a French physician, in the early 1600s. It was first thought that individuals developed an allergic response to Streptococcus pyogenes, but later it was determined that rheumatic fever was an autoimmunological response. Thomas Sydenham described a case of severe rheumatic fever in the late 1600's and a similar description is provided in Encyclopedia Britannica's first edition published in 1771. At times the word, rheumatism, was used as a general term for both acute rheumatism and chronic rheumatism. With industrial advancements in the 1850s, the number of cases of rheumatic fever began to decline. In the 1900s, high-grade cases of rheumatic fever became less common in modernized parts of the world.[3]
During WWII, conditions of over-crowding developed in military training sites and rheumatic fever became more common. U.S. Naval leaders hired T. Duckett Jones, MD to study rheumatic fever's epidemiology and clinical development. Dr. Jones devised certain a criteria for the diagnosis of rheumatic fever that is still in use today, albeit in a modified form.[4] The diesease is not common in the United States, and usually occurs in isolated outbreaks. The latest outbreak was in the 1980s.
Today, rheumatic fever is more common worldwide, especially in overcrowded areas.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Quinn RW (1991). "Did scarlet fever and rheumatic fever exist in Hippocrates' time?". Rev Infect Dis. 13 (6): 1243–4. PMID 1775859.
- ↑ THE DIAGNOSIS OF RHEUMATIC FEVER. JAMA (2015). http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=271116 Accessed on October 9, 2015
- ↑ Bejiqi RA, Retkoceri R, Zeka N, Bejiqi H, Retkoceri A (2015). "Heart lesion after the first attack of the rheumatic Fever 22 years experience in single centre". Med Arch. 69 (1): 49–53. doi:10.5455/medarh.2015.69.49-53. PMC 4384842. PMID 25870479.
- ↑ "Guidelines for the diagnosis of rheumatic fever. Jones Criteria, 1992 update. 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". JAMA. 268 (15): 2069–73. 1992. PMID 1404745.
- ↑ Rheumatic Fever. Wikipedia (2015). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheumatic_fever Accessed on October 9, 2015