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Failure of secondary prophylaxis with erythromycin in rheumatic heart disease.

[acute rheumatic fever]

Erythromycin is recommended for secondary prophylaxis in children with rheumatic heart disease, who are allergic to penicillin.A 9-year-old girl, with rheumatic heart disease, on secondary prophylaxis with erythromycin 250 mg BD, presented with acute rheumatic fever.Responded to steroids and started on a higher dose (250 mg TDS) of erythromycin for secondary prophylaxis.There is need to document the resistance of group A streptococci to erythromycin.

Diseases presenting "fever" symptom

  • 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
  • acute rheumatic fever
  • alexander disease
  • allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
  • canavan disease
  • carcinoma of the gallbladder
  • child syndrome
  • congenital toxoplasmosis
  • cushing syndrome
  • cystinuria
  • dracunculiasis
  • erdheim-chester disease
  • esophageal adenocarcinoma
  • esophageal carcinoma
  • familial mediterranean fever
  • focal myositis
  • hodgkin lymphoma, classical
  • lamellar ichthyosis
  • legionellosis
  • locked-in syndrome
  • malignant atrophic papulosis
  • neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy
  • neuralgic amyotrophy
  • oculocutaneous albinism
  • papillon-lefèvre syndrome
  • pyomyositis
  • pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency
  • scrub typhus
  • severe combined immunodeficiency
  • sneddon syndrome
  • systemic capillary leak syndrome
  • triple a syndrome
  • typhoid
  • waldenström macroglobulinemia
  • wolf-hirschhorn syndrome

This symptom has already been validated