PEDIATRICS Vol. 20 No. 2 August 1957, pp. 388
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Sinusitis and Rheumatic Fever

EDWARD E. BROWN M.D.

Rheumatic fever interests every pediatrician. After reading two articles on rheumatic fever in the May, 1957 issue of Pediatrics, one by Diamond and the other by Galdston, as well as much of the recent literature on the subject, I would like to comment on the failure to discuss or consider the probable streptococcal focus for this disease, chronic sinusitis (Brown, E. E.: Cause of rheumatic fever—Chronic sinusitis. Arch. Pediat., 68:575, 1951).

Such theories of etiology as "heredity" (Diamond), "constitution of the victim" (Galdston), virus, diet, allergy, cortical hypoadrenia and others, cannot explain the varying seasonal and geographical incidence of rheumatic fever.