Chorea: Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes for Chorea

Chorea Gravidarum

It is associated with history of Sydenham's chorea. [en.wikipedia.org]

Background Chorea gravidarum (CG) is the term given to chorea occurring during pregnancy. [emedicine.com]

Chorea gravidarum is a rare type of chorea which presents with involuntary abnormal movement, characterized by abrupt, brief, nonrhythmic, nonrepetitive movement of any limb [en.wikipedia.org]

Huntington Disease

Chorea, progressive non hereditary, chronic Chronic progressive non hereditary chorea Chronic progressive non-hereditary chorea Dementia due to Huntington chorea Dementia [icd9data.com]

Sydenham's chorea affects almost 30% of patients with acute rheumatic fever. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

566 had a diagnosis of other chorea and 12 had a diagnosis of drug induced chorea. [doi.org]

Rheumatic Fever

Sydenham's chorea, a major manifestation of rheumatic fever, was the most common cause of chorea in children in the past. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Chorea. Syndenham's chorea occurs in about 15% of patients with ARF and is more common in prepubertal girls. [web.archive.org]

Abstract An eight-year-old girl is presented with three major criteria of acute rheumatic fever: polyarthritis, carditis and chorea. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Senile Chorea

Look at other dictionaries: Chorea minor — Klassifikation nach ICD 10 I02.0 Rheumatische Chorea mit Herzbeteiligung I02.9 Rheumatische Chorea ohne Herzbeteiligung … Deutsch [medicine.academic.ru]

Vituss Dance Chorea, Sydenham Choreas, Sydenham Sydenham Choreas Sydenham's Chorea Chorea, Sydenham's Sydenhams Chorea Rheumatic Chorea Sydenham Chorea Hereditary Chorea Chorea [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

These findings support senile chorea as being a distinct clinical entity that is nosologically separate from late-onset HD. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Athetoid Cerebral Palsy

Chorea can also result in difficulties with chewing, drinking, swallowing, and speech. [cerebralpalsyguidance.com]

Chorea Chorea is characterized by jerky and abrupt movements that can range in severity. This can look a lot like fidgeting or clumsiness in its mild form. [childbirthinjuries.com]

Chorea The term chorea is derived from the Greek word for ‘dance’. Chorea is characterised by involuntary movements that are brief, abrupt, irregular and unpredictable. [cerebralpalsy.org.au]

Rheumatic Chorea

Ten of the 33 (30%) had one or more recurrences of chorea. CONCLUSIONS: Chorea affected one-third of the children with RF. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Chorea occurred in 28% of cases of acute rheumatic fever, carditis occurred in 25% of episodes of chorea, and arthritis in 8%. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Codes I02 Rheumatic chorea I02.0 Rheumatic chorea with heart involvement I02.9 Rheumatic chorea without heart involvement [icd10data.com]

Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome

This syndrome is characterized clinically by mental retardation, chorea, athetosis, hyperuricemia, uricosuria and self-mutilation. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

We report the case of a boy aged 1 year and 10 months who was diagnosed with profound global developmental delay, persistent chorea, and compulsive self-mutilation since the [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

● Irritability ● Nervous System impairment ● Chorea: jerking motions ● Hyperuricaemia: blood in urine ● Pain and swelling in joints ● Difficulty swallowing ● Behavioral [de.slideshare.net]

Basal Ganglia Hemorrhage

Radiographic findings of hyperglycemic non-ketotic chorea-hemiballismus and basal ganglia hemorrhage can be highly similar. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Dystonia, asterixis, chorea and hypokinesia are reported after basal ganglia stroke, but restless leg syndrome (RLG), distinguished by a rather unpleasant sensation in the [symptoma.com]

Transient Choreoathetosis It comes from the root words “chorea” which is an uncontrollable, rapid movement and “athetosis” meaning twisting and wiggling movement of the hands [healthfixit.com]

Basal Ganglia Lesion

In 39 patients, chorea had ameliorated completely. The remaining 14 cases showed some improvement during the follow-up period. The chorea recurred in seven patients. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Truncal dyskinesia, right side predominant limbs chorea, cervical dystonia and abnormal gait gradually developed. [mdsabstracts.org]

Types of Hyperkinesia Chorea: Huntington’s chorea and Sydenham chorea. Wilson’s disease. Athetosis. Dystonia. Ballismus/Hemiballismus. Tardive dyskinesia. [drnajeeblectures.com]

Basal Ganglia Mass Lesion

This book describes in detail the latest clinical and etiological information regarding chorea. [books.google.de]

chorea. [dartmouth.edu]

Types of Hyperkinesia Chorea: Huntington’s chorea and Sydenham chorea. Wilson’s disease. Athetosis. Dystonia. Ballismus/Hemiballismus. Tardive dyskinesia. [drnajeeblectures.com]

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

The cognitive injury, akinetic mutism, fecal and uroclepsia, forced crying, forced laughing and extra pyramidal syndromes such as chorea and parkinsonism were manifested in [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Her condition transiently improved; however, within one month, she became drowsy and poorly responsive, with limb chorea and urinary incontinence. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

If poisoning is severe, neuropsychiatric symptoms and signs (eg, dementia, psychosis, parkinsonism, chorea, amnestic syndromes) can develop days to weeks after exposure and [merckmanuals.com]

Cerebral Palsy

KEYWORDS: Ataxic cerebral palsy; Benign hereditary chorea; Dyskinetic cerebral palsy; NKX2-1 [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Emilio Fernández-Alvarez, Chorea in Childhood, Chorea, 10.1007/978-1-4471-6455-5_18, (335-352), (2014). [doi.org]

[…] movements, impaired ability for rapid and selective voluntary activation of muscles, increased muscle tone often appearing as sustained involuntary contractions at rest, chorea [doi.org]

Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis

Emilio Fernández-Alvarez, Chorea in Childhood, Chorea, 10.1007/978-1-4471-6455-5_18, (335-352), (2014). [doi.org]

Swedo SE (1994) Sydenham’s chorea. A model for childhood autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders. JAMA 272:1788–1791 [ PubMed ] 29. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Abena Osei‐Lah, Emma Durrant, Munir Hussain and Fenella Kirkham, Focal EEG slowing and chorea: electroclinical clues to the diagnosis of anti‐NMDAR encephalitis, Epileptic [doi.org]

Aromatic L-Amino Acid Decarboxylase Deficiency

Clinical Presentation: symptoms may include temperature instability, ptosis of the eyelids, hypersalivation, distal chorea, swallowing difficulties, drowsiness, irritability [ndrf.org]

[…] developmental delay, hypokinesia, truncal muscular hypotonia, often combined with limb rigidity, a progressive extrapyramidal movement disorder, especially parkinsonism-dystonia and chorea [medlink.com]

Choreoathetosis Athetosis Parkinsonism Flexor spasms Tremor Drug-induced dyskinesias Chorea Dystonia (disorder of muscle control) Diurnal variation/improvement of neurologic [aadcresearch.org]

Alcoholic Cerebellar Degeneration

This is a rare neurodegenerative disorder that causes difficulties with walking (ataxia), problems with speech, dementia, chorea (involuntary writhing type of movements) and [bcm.edu]

Hence clinical features include progressive cerebellar ataxia, or dementia with chorea, or prominent chorea and dystonia or progressive myoclonic epilepsy. [neuroweb.us]

[…] disorder presents in early adulthood with atypical parkinsonism (initially affecting the legs or bulbar musculature), ataxia, myoclonus, dystonia (tongue or blepharospams), chorea [neuroweb.us]

Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease

CLINICAL COURSE Month of Onset of the Chorea. [jamanetwork.com]

Variant CJD (vCJD) Symptoms may include early psychiatric symptoms and dysaesthesia/paresthsias progressing to chorea/dystonia or myoclonus, dementia, ataxia, and/or akinetic [dshs.state.tx.us]

[…] neurological signs and symptoms including dementia, psychiatric symptoms, incoordination of movements (ataxia, dysarthria), myoclonus (muscle jerks), weakness, spasticity, chorea [florey.edu.au]

Xeroderma

The problems include microcephaly, spasticity, hyporeflexia or areflexia, ataxia, chorea, motor neuron signs or segmental demyelination, sensorineural deafness, supranuclear [aocd.org]

Other neurological deficits include nerve deafness (high-frequency hearing loss), microcephaly, abnormal motor activity (spasticity, ataxia, chorea, spasticity, difficulty [dermatologyadvisor.com]

Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease

Chorea. Multiple sclerosis. [patient.info]

Polycythemia Vera

Abstract We report a case of polycythemia vera with chorea in which the brain metabolism and dopamine system were investigated using 2-[(18)F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

After repeated phlebotomies her chorea was improved. [e-jmd.org]

Chorea disclosing a polycythemia vera. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat 2014;10:563–5. 3. Kremer M, Lambert CD, Lawton N. [e-rvs.org]

Thallium Poisoning

The involvement of basal ganglia in thallium poisoning can result in tremor, chorea, and extrapyramidal motor disturbances and rigidity. 7 Such central nervous system abnormalities [pmj.bmj.com]

Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis

Other abnormal movements: chorea, ballismus. Stage IV No myoclonic spasms. EEG low voltage with no periodic slow wave complexes. Patient in a vegetative state. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Manganese Poisoning

Abstract The clinical picture of Morvan's fibrillary chorea includes a. spontaneous muscular activity resulting from repetitive motor unit action potentials of peripheral [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Streptococcal Infection

Presence of abnormal results on neurological examination in absence of chorea. [patient.info]

The patient was initially diagnosed as having Sydenham chorea due to motor movements. However, these transient movements may be due to the narcolepsy onset. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

We report a case of a 6-year-old boy who presented with tic and hemi-chorea associated with GABHS throat infection. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

X-Linked Parkinsonism with Spasticity

Benign senile chorea & benign inherited chorea of childhood have been described but are controversial. It is important to rule out HD. [stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu]

Low frequency stimulation (40Hz) improved chorea, but not dystonia. [ojrd.biomedcentral.com]

Chorea is a movement disorder characterized by involuntary, jerky movements. [rush.edu]

Paroxysmal Kinesigenic Dyskinesia

[…] carriers, the PRRT2 mutation carriers were younger at onset, experienced longer attacks, and tended to present with complicated PKD, combined phenotypes of dystonia and chorea [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Abstract Familial Paroxysmal Kinesigenic Dyskinesia (PKD) is an autosomal dominant condition characterized by attacks of dystonia or chorea triggered by sudden movements. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Chorea gravidarum can present with paroxysms of chorea in the first trimester of pregnancy and usually resolves after delivery. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Infantile Convulsions and Choreoathetosis

When combined with chorea, as in cerebral palsy, the term " choreoathetosis " is frequently used. [eng.ichacha.net]

Paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia/choreoathetosis is characterized by brief attacks of involuntary movements (dystonia, chorea, athetosis, and ballism), precipitated by a [pediatricneurologybriefs.com]

Report of Chinese cases. ( 4268204 ) Jung S.S....Brody J.A. 1973 34 Paroxysmal choreoathetosis. ( 5358018 ) Tassinari C.A....Fine R.D. 1969 35 Chorea as a manifestation of [malacards.org]

Hemiballismus

Chorea? [dx.doi.org]

Raul Martinez-Fernandez and Elena Moro, Chorea: A Surgical Approach, Chorea, 10.1007/978-1-4471-6455-5_17, (295-334), (2014). [dx.doi.org]

Joohi Jimenez-Shahed and Joseph Jankovic, Tetrabenazine for treatment of chorea associated with Huntington's disease and other potential indications, Expert Opinion on Orphan [dx.doi.org]

Movement Disorder

(rapid, involuntary movement) Drug induced chorea G25.4 Rheumatic chorea (Sydenham's chorea) I02 Huntington's Chorea 333.4 G10 Ballismus (violent involuntary rapid and irregular [en.wikipedia.org]

In a prospective cohort of 52 children (21 male; age range 2mo-15y), the commonest were chorea, dystonia, tremor, myoclonus, and Parkinsonism in descending order of frequency [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Athetosis has features of dystonia and chorea and often occurs with chorea as choreoathetosis. [msdmanuals.com]

Hallervorden-Spatz Syndrome

Senile chorea is a well recognised but poorly understood clinical entity characterised by a slowly progressive, generalised chorea in elderly people without mental deterioration [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Her chorea slowly increased in severity and 5 years after her first assessment reserpine (2 mg/day) was initiated with moderate improvement in her chorea. [jnnp.bmj.com]

These include immune-related chorea, vascular chorea, metabolic disturbances that can induce chorea, chorea in other medical settings (e.g., postpump chorea in children, cancer-related [books.google.ro]

Psychogenic Movement Disorders

Among the whole group, 44% had tremor, 24% dystonia, 12% pure gait disorders, 8% parkinsonism, 6% chorea-ballism, and 4% tic disorder. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The PMD scale developed here rates 10 phenomena (rest tremor, action tremor, dystonia, chorea, bradykinesia, myoclonus, tics, athetosis, ballism, cerebellar incoordination [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Chorea can occur on one side of the body (hemi-chorea) or can involve the entire body (generalized chorea). Chorea cannot be suppressed or controlled by the child. [childneurologyfoundation.org]