Neurologic complications of rheumatic fever

Maximiliano A. Hawkes; Sebastián F. Ameriso

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-819814-8.00002-0

Neurologic complications of rheumatic fever

Maximiliano A. Hawkes, Sebastián F. Ameriso

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Sydenham chorea, also known as St. Vitus dance, is a major clinical criterion for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever. Clinically, it results in a combination of movement disorders and complex neuropsychiatric symptoms. Cardiac damage due to rheumatic fever may also predispose to neurologic complications later in life. Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is associated with heart remodeling, cardiac arrhythmias, and ischemic stroke. Furthermore, chronically damaged heart valves are predisposed to infection. Septic brain embolism, a known complication of infective endocarditis, may result in brain ischemia, hemorrhage, and spread of the infection to the brain.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Handbook of Clinical Neurology
Publisher	Elsevier B.V.
Pages	23-31
Number of pages	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819814-8.00002-0
State	Published - Jan 2021
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Handbook of Clinical Neurology
Volume	177
ISSN (Print)	0072-9752
ISSN (Electronic)	2212-4152

Keywords

Cardioembolic stroke
Group A streptococcus
PANDAS
Rheumatic fever
St. Vitus dance
Sydenham chorea

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Neurology
Clinical Neurology

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