Pneumonia associated with acute rheumatic fever.
Pulmonary involvement in acute rheumatic fever is rare. Clinical and laboratory findings in rheumatic pneumonia are non-specific. Most of the cases of rheumatic pneumonia described in recent years have had a fulminant course often resulting in death. Autopsy findings are suggestive of but not specific for rheumatic pneumonia. In this article a case of pneumonia associated with acute rheumatic fever is described. Pneumonia and carditis occurred simultaneously in a 10-year-old boy treated without steroids, which resulted in recovery. The clinical spectrum of rheumatic pneumonia can range from mild to fulminant.
D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000209:etiology; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000209:etiology*; D012213:Rheumatic Fever / Q000150:complications*