Art. XIV.—Report on Eighty Cases of Chorea.

A Short Analysis of Eighty-Nine Cases of Epilepsy

In a paper read before The National Association for the Study of Epilepsy Dr. Ernest Jones says (1) : " The customary concentration of attention on the more sensational aspects of epilepsy, namely, the fits, has, by furnishing a narrow conception of it, done much to retard our knowledge of the disease as a whole." Dr. Jones goes on to point out how a study of the physical and mental characteris...

Sydenham chorea: MR manifestations in two cases.

The acute onset of a unilateral choreiform movement disorder in a child with a recently documented febrile illness or streptococcal pharyngitis is suggestive of Sydenham chorea. The MR manifestations of two clinically corroborated cases of Sydenham chorea are summarized . Increased signal intensity in the corpus striatum contralateral to the patients ' symptomatic side was observed on T2-weight...

Chorea-acanthocytosis: report of three cases from Iran.

Chorea-acanthocythosis (ChAc) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterized by movement disorders, neuropsychiatric disturbances, neuropathy, myopathy, seizures and acanthocytosis accompanied by an elevated serum creatine kinase (CK) level. Its causative gene (VPS13A) produces chorein which is absent in ChAc patients as evaluated by Western blot assay. We report the first three Irani...

Sydenham's Chorea

Sydenham’s chorea is a delayed complication of group Aßhaemolytic streptococcal infections and forms one of the majorcriteria of acute rheumatic fever.It is characterised bychorea, muscular weakness, and a number of neuropsychiatricsymptoms. It is considered to be an autoantibody mediated disorderwith the evidence suggesting that patients with Sydenham’schorea produce antibodies that cross reac...

A Study of Eighty-four Cases of Delayed Mustard Gas Keratitis Fitted with Contact Lenses.