OBJECTIVES The main aim of this study is to evaluate the significance of several clinical and laboratory findings presented by a large number of pediatric patients who were suspected to have acute rheumatic fever (ARF) by physicians who ordered echocardiogram for confirmation and for avoiding overuse of unnecessary antibiotics. These suspecting reasons include elevated ASO titers and recurrent ...

Between February 1994 and November 1998, 56 oncology patients infected with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) were treated with quinopristin-dalfopristin (Q-D) plus minocycline (MIN). Infections included bacteremia, urinary tract infection, pneumonia, and wound infection. The response rate was 68%, and the most frequent adverse event was arthralgia or myalgia (36%). Q-D-MIN is effective fo...

Schnitzler’s syndrome is a rare clinical condition characterized by chronic urticaria, intermittent fever, bone pain, arthralgia or arthritis, and monoclonal immunoglobulin M (IgM) gammopathy. Here we describe a 64-year-old Taiwanese male with a long history of arthralgia, fever, and chronic urticaria with severe pruritus. The IgMmonoclonal component in the serum was detected 2 years after the ...

Methods Four towns and two rural districts of the Republic of Bashkortostan (Russia) were chosen for the questionnaire. The total number of the childhood population was 50442 children under 17 years of age. Totally 43907 children or their parents were examined with the help of the screening questionnaire. The parents were questioned by medical nurses during consulting reception hours, or in kin...

Despite nearly a decade of paclitaxel’s commercial availability, the best strategy for managing several paclitaxel-related toxicities including myalgia/arthralgia remains to be elucidated. Most available data in the treatment of myalgia/ arthralgia have been anecdotal, reported in the form of case studies or within the toxicity results of published paclitaxel-containing clinical trials. Garriso...

To the Editor: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an emerging arthropodborne alphavirus of the family Togaviridae (1). The most common clinical manifestations of infection with CHIKV are abrupt onset of fever, headache, back pain, myalgia, and arthralgia affecting mainly the extremities; in ≈50% of patients, a rash develops, and relapsing and incapacitating arthralgia is common (1). Three CHIKV linea...

Löfgren's syndrome is an acute clinical form of sarcoidosis that is first described by Sven Löfgren as bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy together with Erythema Nodosum (EN) and accompanying arthritis/arthralgia. This syndrome has some differences in terms of treatment, prognosis and recurrence compared to sarcoidosis. In this report, we describe a 70 years old lady who admitted with multiple eryt...