Rare Diseases Symptoms Automatic Extraction

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 "heart disease" symptom

  • 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
  • achondroplasia
  • acute rheumatic fever
  • adrenal incidentaloma
  • child syndrome
  • classical phenylketonuria
  • cohen syndrome
  • congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • dentinogenesis imperfecta
  • esophageal adenocarcinoma
  • fabry disease
  • familial mediterranean fever
  • heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
  • hirschsprung disease
  • holt-oram syndrome
  • homocystinuria without methylmalonic aciduria
  • kabuki syndrome
  • monosomy 21
  • omenn syndrome
  • phenylketonuria
  • sneddon syndrome
  • systemic capillary leak syndrome
  • wiskott-aldrich syndrome
  • wolf-hirschhorn syndrome

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