A forgotten cause of chest pain in the United States: a case report on acute rheumatic fever
Jason A. Miller, Robert Kim, Madhavi Kadiyala, Terry Marryshow, Gordon S. Huggins · 2026
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Jason A Miller and four colleagues recount, in 2026, a young American man whose chest pain was first blamed on repeat inflammation around the heart. Acute rheumatic fever, an immune reaction after untreated strep throat, has grown rare in the United States, which lets it hide. At a Boston hospital his heart enzyme levels ran high, and a heart MRI showed muscle inflammation. No valve damage appeared on scans.
Wandering joint aches then prompted blood tests for strep antibodies, and both markers came back high. With heart inflammation as a major sign and joint aches plus raised inflammation as minor ones, he met the standard Jones criteria. Miller and the team urge keeping rheumatic fever in mind and using heart MRI when standard scans stay murky.
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| CREATOR | Jason A. Miller, Robert Kim, Madhavi Kadiyala, Terry Marryshow, Gordon S. Huggins |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23345 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |