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Acute rheumatic fever with chorea
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A 9-year-old girl was admitted for the recent onset of jerky, uncoordinated choreiform uncontrollable body movements that disappeared while sleeping, clumsiness (see supplementary video 1), slurred speech and episodes of uncontrollable crying.She had a history of mild sore throat 4 weeks before, followed after about 10 days by a non-pruritic, painless, erythematosus macular rash at legs gluteus …
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Contributors PSB and MM have contributed to case management and writing. FDB, AV and AB have been involved in the case management. AT has contributed to the evaluation of the cardiac involvement.
Funding None.
Competing interests None.
Patient consent Obtained.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.