Abstract

The term "rheumatic epilepsy" has been suggested for patients who develop convulsions following rheumatic fever or chorea, and for epileptic persons with chronic rheumatic cardiovalvular disease. The fundamental process in the brain of these patients consists of a recurrent, obliterating rheumatic arteritis with secondary changes in the cortex.

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