Alessandro Orsini, Thomas Foiadelli, Attilio Sica, Andrea Santangelo, Niccolò Carli, Alice Bonuccelli, Rita Consolini, Sofia D'Elios, Nicolò Loddo, Alberto Verrotti, Giuseppe Di Cara, Chiara Marra, Maria Califano, Anna Fetta, Marianna Fabi, Stefania Bergamoni, Aglaia Vignoli, Roberta Battini, Marta Mosca, Chiara Baldini, Nadia Assanta, Pietro Marchese, Gabriele Simonini, Edoardo Marrani, Francesca Felicia Operto, Grazia Maria Giovanna Pastorino, Salvatore Savasta, Giuseppe Santangelo, Virginia Pedrinelli, Gabriele Massimetti, Liliana Dell'Osso, Diego Peroni, Duccio Maria Cordelli, Martina Corsi, Claudia Carmassi
Sydenham's chorea (SC) is a post-streptococcal autoimmune disorder of the central nervous system, and it is a major criterium for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever (ARF). SC typically improves in 12-15 weeks, but patients can be affected for years by persistence and recurrencies of both neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms. We enrolled 48 patients with a previous diagnosis of ARF, with or without SC, in a national multicenter prospective study, to evaluate the presence of neuropsychiatric symptoms several years after SC's onset...
August 25, 2022: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health