About One Case: Afebrile rheumatic fever in a Clinic in Sincelejo |Biomedgrid

Acute rheumatic fever (RFA) is the result of an autoimmune response to pharyngitis caused by infection with group A streptococcus, with rheumatic heart disease (RHD) being one of its main complications, as well as a notable cause of morbidity and mortality in poor settings around the world. Although it has improved in the understanding of the pathogenesis of the disease in recent years, diagnostic approaches have not led to the improvement of its diagnosis being the Jones criteria introduced in 1944 and revised in 2015 still in force, on the other hand, penicillin has remained the fundamental pillar throughout the decade, and it has not been shown that another treatment is better.