ACUTE CASES OF SYDENHAM'S CHOREA SOUGHT
The Child Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health is seeking patients for a study of obsessive compulsive symptoms accompanying Sydenham's chorea. Eligible patients should have had recent (within 2 months) onset of Sydenham's chorea, continue to have choreic symptoms and be at least 6 years of age. This study will rate obsessive compulsive symptoms and link these symptoms to anti-CNS autoantibodies. Patients will be interviewed by phone or in person (out of town subjects will be asked to travel at our expense to the NIH in Bethesda). Brief follow-up interviews will be conducted every 2 months for one year. Serum samples (5 cc) will be obtained on four separate occasions. There will be no expense to the patient and no remuneration. Please call (301) 496-6081 or write: Dr Susan E. Swedo or Dr Judith L. Rapoport; Child Psychiatry Branch, NIMH, Bldg 10, Room 6N240, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892.