Evaluate result of injecting to prevent rheumatic fever degree 2 at the Pediatrics depaprtment of Thanh Nhan Hospital
- Author:
To Van Hai
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Rheumatic fever
- MeSH:
Rheumatic Fever;
Preventive Medicine;
Child
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
2005;311(6):15-20
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Studying on 93 children from 6 to 15 years old who had Rheumatic fever, were injected to prevent rheumatic fever at 2nd level in Thanh Nhan Hospital from 1999 to 2003. The result showed that: in polyarthritic and chorea type, symptoms gradually decreased and disappeared, but common valvular lesions of severe carditis almost still existed. The recurrent rate was very low. The complications of disease were few and might, include: pain and hardening at injected site accounted for 12.9% of total patients and 2.56% of the times of injection. There were 5.38% of patients with mild allergy, accounted for 0.27% of the injection times. It must be on the alert against some dangerous complications as: embolism, anaphylactic shock, mortality… after injection benzathin penicillin
