title: Treatment of acute rheumatic carditis with choline magnesium trisalicylate in a patient needing surgery.
abstract: Acute rheumatic fever is a post-infectious illness characterized by diffuse inflammation. Typically, high-dose anti-inflammatory agents are used as primary therapy for this disorder. In addition to their anti-inflammatory properties, these agents, most frequently aspirin, also have anti-platelet properties. We describe the case of an 11-year-old patient with rheumatic fever who needed to undergo surgery. The use of traditional anti-inflammatory agents would have posed a potential problem with post-surgical bleeding, so a lesser-used anti-inflammatory agent (i.e., choline magnesium trisalicylate) was selected.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas.
authors.forename: Brady S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Moffett
authors.forename: Gaurav
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Arora
authors.forename: J Timothy
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Bricker
keywords: Trilisate; acute rheumatic carditis; anti-inflammatory; choline magnesium trisalicylate; pediatric