TY - CHAP
T1 - Neurologic complications of rheumatic fever
AU - Hawkes, Maximiliano A.
AU - Ameriso, Sebastián F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Cardioembolic stroke
KW - Group A streptococcus
KW - PANDAS
KW - Rheumatic fever
KW - St. Vitus dance
KW - Sydenham chorea
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U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-12-819814-8.00002-0
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-12-819814-8.00002-0
M3 - Chapter
C2 - 33632442
AN - SCOPUS:85101419225
T3 - Handbook of Clinical Neurology
SP - 23
EP - 31
BT - Handbook of Clinical Neurology
PB - Elsevier B.V.
ER -