Author/Authors :
Şen, Tolga Altuğ Afyon Kocatepe University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics, Turkey , Kundak, Ahmet Afşin Afyon Kocatepe University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics, Turkey , Güraksın, Özlem Afyon Kocatepe University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics, Turkey , Demir, Tevfik Afyon Kocatepe University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics, Turkey , Narcı, Adnan Afyon Kocatepe University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatric Surgery, Turkey
Abstract :
In 1948 Gairdner firstly defined the linkage of Schoenlein-Henoch purpura (HSP) vasculitis with rheumatic fever (1). Since the first report of that association, only a few cases of HSP with acute rheumatic fever have been reported (2-5). In this article, we present a patient admitted to our clinic with clinical picture of HSP vasculitis, who developed acute rheumatic carditis thereafter.
