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THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS

A. M. MASTER, M.D.; HARRY JAFFE, M.D.

J Am Med Assoc. 1932;98(11):881-882.

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Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatoid (infectious) arthritis are often indistinguishable clinically,¹ particularly at the onset. They may both start acutely with an infection of the upper respiratory tract or with epistaxis. A moderately high temperature, chilliness, perspiration, prostration, spreading and transitory involvement of joints, acutely inflamed joints, leukocytosis and anemia are seen in the two conditions. Furthermore, the spleen and lymph nodes may be enlarged in each. Even the subcutaneous nodule,² hitherto considered to be one of the most characteristic phenomena of acute rheumatic fever, is definitely observed in rheumatoid (infectious) arthritis and its incidence³ reported with increasing frequency by those who search for it. The sedimentation rate, too, no longer serves as a distinction, for the two conditions have been found to present increased rates of sedimentation of the red blood cells.⁴

Although in recent years numerous pathologic, bacteriologic and immunologic investigations⁵ have increased . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Cardiographic Department and the Service of Dr. Leo Kessel, the Mount Sinai Hospital.

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