Severe Sydenham’s chorea (chorea paralytica) successfully treated with plasmapheresis

Sydenham’s chorea is often regarded as a relatively benign and self-limiting condition. Treatment is typically symptomatic, although occasionally immunomodulatory therapies are required in severe forms. Here we report a girl who was affected with the severe variant, chorea paralytica, who responded...

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Autores principales: Miranda, Marcelo, Walker, Ruth H, Saez, David, Renner, Victoria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26788338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40734-014-0012-1
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description Sydenham’s chorea is often regarded as a relatively benign and self-limiting condition. Treatment is typically symptomatic, although occasionally immunomodulatory therapies are required in severe forms. Here we report a girl who was affected with the severe variant, chorea paralytica, who responded dramatically and rapidly to plasmapheresis, having failed other therapies. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40734-014-0012-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-47110772016-01-19 Severe Sydenham’s chorea (chorea paralytica) successfully treated with plasmapheresis Miranda, Marcelo Walker, Ruth H Saez, David Renner, Victoria J Clin Mov Disord Case Report Sydenham’s chorea is often regarded as a relatively benign and self-limiting condition. Treatment is typically symptomatic, although occasionally immunomodulatory therapies are required in severe forms. Here we report a girl who was affected with the severe variant, chorea paralytica, who responded dramatically and rapidly to plasmapheresis, having failed other therapies. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40734-014-0012-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2015-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4711077/ /pubmed/26788338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40734-014-0012-1 Text en © Miranda et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Severe Sydenham’s chorea (chorea paralytica) successfully treated with plasmapheresis
title Severe Sydenham’s chorea (chorea paralytica) successfully treated with plasmapheresis
title_full Severe Sydenham’s chorea (chorea paralytica) successfully treated with plasmapheresis
title_fullStr Severe Sydenham’s chorea (chorea paralytica) successfully treated with plasmapheresis
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title_short Severe Sydenham’s chorea (chorea paralytica) successfully treated with plasmapheresis
title_sort severe sydenham’s chorea (chorea paralytica) successfully treated with plasmapheresis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26788338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40734-014-0012-1
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