Jones' criteria

Jones' criteria

Cardiology Criteria for diagnosing acute rheumatic fever, first proposed by TD Jones in 1944, later revised and updated by the Am Heart Assn; ARF is diagnosed with reasonable certainty with 2, or more, major criteria, or 1 major and 2 minor criteria, assuming previous evidence of group A streptococcal infection

Jones' Criteria–acute rheumatic fever

Major Manifestations

• Carditis

• Polyarthritis

• Chorea (Sydenham's chorea)

• Eythema marginatum

• Subcutaneous nodules

Minor Manifestations

 Clinical findings

• Arthralgia

• Fever

 Laboratory findings

• ↑ Acute phase reactants

• Erythrocyte sedimentation rate

• C-reactive protein

• Prolonged PR interval

Evidence of previous group A streptococcal infection

 + Throat culture or rapid streptococcal antigen test

↑ (or rising) streptococcal antibody titer  

after JAMA 1992; 268:2069

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