An international collaboration to agree best practice for SC

The second of our presentations from the 2024 Online event –  https://youtu.be/bgGZWn7hlpU?si=09xJZm5WdwlUaC-N Transcript: [Michael] OK. Well, thank you for the invitation to speak. It’s always a real pleasure to actually […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The UK and Republic of Ireland experience of Sydenham’s chorea

Dr Tamsin Newlove-Delgado (Senior Clinical Lecturer and Hon Consultant in Public Health) & Dr Oana Mitrofan (Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist), both of Exeter, UK, present their surveillance study of […]

A child with Sydenham’s chorea and COVID-19

Case Reports in Pediatrics describes an 8yr old girl in Oklahoma, USA, who developed pretty typical Sydenham’s chorea with high streptococcal tests (ASO and anti DNAse B). She had heart […]