Treatment of sydenham's chorea with intravenous immunoglobulin, plasma exchange, or prednisone

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 424-429

  Garvey, Marjorie A ^a   Snider, Lisa A ^a   Leitman, Susan F ^b   Werden, Rose ^b   Swedo, Susan E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BENZATROPINE MESILATE; CITRIC ACID; CLONIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIAZEPAM; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; HALOPERIDOL; HYDROXYZINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LORAZEPAM; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISONE; SECOBARBITAL; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; CHILD; CHOREA MINOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NAUSEA; PARESTHESIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNCOPE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 21044437689     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/08830738050200050601     Document Type: Article

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