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Sydenham's Chorea: Treatment
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Suspected streptococcus infections must be treated. All the other manifestations of rheumatic fever, including Sydenham's chorea and excluding heart valve damage, remit with the acute disease and do not require treatment. Sydenham's chorea generally lasts for several months.
— J. Ricker Polsdorfer, MD
