Treatment/Outcomes for SC (JAMA)

This study led by our colleague Dr Michael Eyre from King’s College, London, looked at individual patient data across the world and across time, finding 1479 patients. Those receiving at […]

On the lookout for Sydenham’s

Letter to Archives of Disease in Childhood from Liz Whittaker (Imperial College London) and Kat Longbottom (Glasgow), highlighting potential surge in post streptococcal conditions including Sydenham’s chorea after last year’s […]

Penicillin prophylaxis in Italy

Our very own Emanuela Ferrarin and Michael Morton have recently published an article in Quaderni ACP on the issues around penicillin prophylaxis for Italian children with Sydenham’s chorea (or rheumatic […]

British Surveillance study of SC

The first prospective surveillance study of Sydenham’s chorea in the UK and Republic of Ireland, which was partly funded by us, has been published here – Archives of Disease in […]

From Sydenham’s to Kilimanjaro

Calum and Andrew Samuel are raising money for the Sydenham’s chorea association by climbing Kilimanjaro! Donate at JustGiving. See their talk about their experience of Sydenham’s chorea.

Fever and vitamin B for treatment of SC?

From New England Journal of Medicine, 1940 – article by Simon Stone, of New Hampshire, USA [behind a pay wall, unfortunately]. Besides streptococcus, other factors likely to be responsible for […]

Question about functional neurological disorder

[Ulrika’s husband] I have a question about functional neurological disorder symptoms. In Sydenham’s Chorea, is it common? And how does it usually present? How is it treated? [Michael]I can’t say […]

An international collaboration to agree best practice in SC – the Delphi Project

https://youtu.be/FbAcyHsuTgU Dr Michael Eyre, Clinical Research Fellow at King’s College London and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, UK “I trained in Natural Sciences at the University […]

Questions to Callum and Andrew

https://youtu.be/uQ5eJAjgl4I See their presentation “From Sydenham’s to Kilimanjaro” here. Transcript “Do you mind just telling us what the your relapses were like, I mean you, you were obviously very badly […]

Italian approaches to Sydenham’s chorea

Dr Giacomo Garone (Paediatric Neurologist, Rome, Italy) discusses data from Italy and current practices. Transcript [Nadine] And the charity is really excited to welcome our first Italian speaker and the lovely […]