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    • Diagnostic Criteria - Jones Criteria for Diagnosis of Rheumatic Fever

    Jones Criteria for Diagnosis of Rheumatic Fever

    Select Criteria:

    		Diagnostic : 1 Required Criteria and 2 Major Criteria and 0 Minor Criteria

    		Diagnostic : 1 Required Criteria and 1 Major Criteria and 2 Minor Criteria
     
    Required Criteria
    Evidence of antecedent Strep infection: ASO / Strep antibodies / Strep group A throat culture / Recent scarlet fever / anti-deoxyribonuclease B / anti-hyaluronidase
    Major Diagnostic Criteria
    Carditis
    Polyarthritis
    Chorea
    Erythema marginatum
    Subcutaneous Nodules
    Minor Diagnostic Criteria
    Fever
    Arthralgia
    Previous rheumatic fever or rheumatic heart disease
    Acute phase reactions: ESR / CRP / Leukocytosis
    Prolonged PR interval
    Results:
    1. Special Writing Group of the Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease of the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young of the American Heart Association. Guidelines for the diagnosis of rheumatic fever. Jones Criteria, 1992 update. JAMA. 1992 Oct 21;268(15):2069-73. Erratum in: JAMA 1993 Jan 27;269(4):476.
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