Misdiagnosis of Rheumatic fever
| About misdiagnosis: When checking for a misdiagnosis of Rheumatic fever or confirming a diagnosis of Rheumatic fever, it is useful to consider what other medical conditions might be possible misdiagnoses or other alternative conditions relevant to diagnosis. These alternate diagnoses of Rheumatic fever may already have been considered by your doctor or may need to be considered as possible alternative diagnoses or candidates for misdiagnosis of Rheumatic fever. For a general overview of misdiagnosis issues for all diseases, see Overview of Misdiagnosis. |
Alternative diagnoses list for Rheumatic fever: For a diagnosis of Rheumatic fever, the following list of conditions have been mentioned in sources as possible alternative diagnoses to consider during the diagnostic process for Rheumatic fever:
- Sarcoidosis
- Sydenham's chorea - when chorea is the most obvious symptom of rheumatic fever.
Rheumatic fever as an alternative diagnosis: The other diseases for which Rheumatic fever is listed as a possible alternative diagnosis in their lists include:
Discussion of diagnosis/misdiagnosis of Rheumatic fever: The doctor confirms the diagnosis of sarcoidosis by eliminating other diseases with similar features. These include such granulomatous diseases as berylliosis (a disease resulting from exposure to beryllium metal), tuberculosis, farmer's lung disease (hypersensitivity pneumonitis), fungal infections, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever, and cancer of the lymph nodes (lymphoma). 1
Misdiagnosis cases for Rheumatic fever:
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Footnotes:
1. excerpt from NHLBI, Sarcoidosis: NHLBI
Last revision:
June 13, 2003
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