RESUMEN

We reviewed 53 patients referred to a pediatric rheumatology clinic in Asuncion, Paraguay. In 6 patients, a diagnosis of rheumatic fever was confirmed and in 47 patients other clinically significant diagnoses were made. Eighteen children had nonspecific findings and did not develop a rheumatologic condition on follow-up. Overdiagnosis of rheumatic fever can falsely inflate incidence and prevalence statistics and clinically significant diagnoses may be overlooked.

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Errores Diagnósticos , Fiebre Reumática/diagnóstico , Adolescente , Niño , Preescolar , Femenino , Humanos , Incidencia , Masculino , Paraguay/epidemiología , Prevalencia , Fiebre Reumática/epidemiología