Chorea and Infections
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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...
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IF Onle examines the literature on the bacteriology of chorea, one finds that as far back as 1894 a cliplococcus was isolated by Dana from the brain of a fatal case.1 and others have isolated differenit cocci as being the cause of rheutmiatic infectioni, anid some have injected streptococci into rabbits anid prodluced clhoreiform coniditions. In a paper publislhed elsewvhere in this Journal,2 S...
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The pharmacological treatment of Huntington's chorea has been based on the use of neuroleptic drugs, on the hypothesis that there is a functional dopaminergic hyperactivity in this illness (Agid, 1975). More recently, after the observation of reduced cholinergic and GABAminergic activity at the striatal level in brains of choreic subjects (McGeer et al., 1973; Stahl and Swanson, 1974; Bird and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
سال: 1894
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-189410000-00017