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Jones Criteria for Diagnosis of Rheumatic Fever

 

	Diagnostic: 1 Required Criteria and 2 Major Criteria and 0 Minor Criteria
	Diagnostic: 1 Required Criteria and 1 Major Criteria and 2 Minor Criteria
Required Criteria
		Evidence of antecedent Strep infection: ASO / Strep antibodies / Strep group A throat culture / Recent scarlet fever / anti-deoxyribonuclease B / anti-hyaluronidase
Major Diagnostic Criteria
		Carditis
		Polyarthritis
		Chorea
		Erythema marginatum
		Subcutaneous Nodules
Minor Diagnostic Criteria
		Fever
		Arthralgia
		Previous rheumatic fever or rheumatic heart disease
		Acute phase reactions: ESR / CRP / Leukocytosis
		Prolonged PR interval

 

 

 

 

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References

1. 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. Guidelines for the diagnosis of rheumatic fever. Jones Criteria, 1992 update. JAMA. 1992 Oct 21;268(15):2069-73. Erratum in: JAMA 1993 Jan 27;269(4):476. PubMed ID: 1404745

 

Associated Medical Subject Headings [MeSH]
 

Acute Disease,   Echocardiography,   Humans,   Myocarditis,   Pericarditis,   Rheumatic Fever,   Streptococcal Infections,   Streptococcus pyogenes

 

Associated ICD10-CM Codes
 

	I02.0	Rheumatic chorea with heart involvement
	I09.81	Rheumatic heart failure
	I09.9	Rheumatic heart disease, unspecified
	I09.89	Other specified rheumatic heart diseases
	I01.2	Acute rheumatic myocarditis
	I01.8	Other acute rheumatic heart disease
	I01.9	Acute rheumatic heart disease, unspecified

 

Associated ICD9-CM Codes
 

	391.9	Ac rheumat hrt dis nos
	391.8	Ac rheumat hrt dis nec
	391.2	Ac rheumatic myocarditis
	398.99	Rheumatic heart dis nec
	398.90	Rheumatic heart dis nos
	398.91	Rheumatic heart failure
	392.0	Rheum chorea w hrt invol
	390	Rheum fev w/o hrt involv