Rare Diseases Symptoms Automatic Extraction

Sydenham chorea in a 5-year-old Saudi patient.

[acute rheumatic fever]

Despite improvements in socio-economic status and the standard of health care services, rheumatic fever continuous to occur in Saudi Arabia, although with decreasing frequency. The disease is most commonly observed in school-aged children, but can also occur in a younger age group. Carditis and arthritis are the major clinical symptoms on presentation of acute rheumatic fever in young children. Rheumatic chorea is infrequently reported in young children. Here, a case of Sydenham chorea, in a 5-year-old boy, is presented. Although rare, the diagnosis of Sydenham chorea should always be considered in young children with choreiform movements.

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