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Possible Causes

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]

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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]

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Chorea Gravidarum

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

[…] gravidarum, and they are also potent risk factors for recurrence of chorea in subsequent pregnancies. [symptoma.com]

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

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Huntington's Disease

The method of inheritance of some of the elements of Huntington's chorea has been worked out. [doi.org]

Chorea diminishes at advanced stages of the disease, at which time dystonia emerges. What is chorea? [huntingtonsdiseasenews.com]

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

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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]

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Rheumatic Fever

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

Why: sydenham's chorea is seen in rheumatic fever. [icd9data.com]

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]

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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]

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Senile Chorea

Abstract The term "senile chorea" is applied to cases of sporadic chorea with onset after the age of 50 years. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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]

Senile chorea, a late-onset, slowly progressive disorder without mental changes, is a poorly characterized entity. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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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]

Abstract Paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD) is characterized by involuntary dystonia and/or chorea triggered by a sudden movement. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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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]

Severe cases of chorea, for example, can result in such violent flailing movements that doctors consider it a separate medical disorder, ballismus. [caringforspecialneedskids.com]

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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]

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Hemiballismus

This case emphasises the importance of MR imaging in the early diagnosis of hyperglycaemia as a cause of chorea-hemiballismus, to enable early treatment and a better clinical [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

What is the presentation sign of chorea? In chorea, the patient will have sudden jerky purposeless movements. What is the characteristic lesion of chorea? [usmlefasttrack.com]

The type of chorea that appears during pregnancy is called chorea gravidarum. [lets-jam.com]

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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]

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Movement Disorder

Chorea developed by age four years in all but one patient, who developed chorea at 14 years. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

(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]

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Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease

Chorea. Multiple sclerosis. [patient.info]

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Infantile Convulsions and Choreoathetosis

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

Signs and Symptoms Chorea ... ... [familydiagnosis.com]

Show Affiliations, Department of Pediatrics, Kyoto University School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan. hhat@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp Source MeSH Adolescent Athetosis Brain Calcinosis Chorea [wwww.unboundmedicine.com]

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Rheumatic Chorea

Sydenham's chorea persisting into late life has not been reported previously. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The authors investigated the role of Vitamin E in reducing rheumatic chorea. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] with past histories of RhCh (controlled chorea). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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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]

Factors influencing age at onset and duration of survival in Huntington's chorea. Annals of Human Genetics 45, 387 – 396. Norman, C. ( 1985 ). [doi.org]

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McLeod Neuroacanthocytosis Syndrome

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

Attributes Values rdf:type kegg resource [kegg_vocabulary:Resource] KEGG disease [kegg_vocabulary:Disease] rdfs:label Core neuroacanthocytosis syndromes, including: Chorea-acanthocytosis [bio2rdf.org]

Chorea-Acanthocytosis.. Gene Reviews 2002. [teachneuro.blogspot.com]

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Juvenile Huntington Disease

In 1916, Magnus 2 described 2 cases of Huntington's chorea in a man and woman in the thirties. Thereafter, much of the literature became [jamanetwork.com]

Juvenile Huntington Chorea I am twenty one years old.when i was eighteen i was diagnosed with Juvenile Huntington Chorea. [literacybase.com]

On chorea. Med Surg Report 1872 ; 26 : 317 – 321. 2. Lyon, JW. Chronic hereditary chorea. Am Med Times 1863 ; 7 : 289 – 290. 3. Westphal, C. [cambridge.org]

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Huntington Disease-Like 3

It is the commonest genetic cause of chorea. It is dominantly inherited. And the mean age of onset is about 40. [hstalks.com]

[…] doi: 10.1097/WCO.0b013e3283632d90 MOVEMENT DISORDERS: Edited by Kailash Bhatia Abstract Author Information Authors Article Metrics Metrics The differential diagnosis of chorea [journals.lww.com]

We read with interest the article by Walker et al [1] who report a pedigree of autosomal dominant chorea-acanthocytosis (AD-ChAc) with an expansion of the CTG repeat within [n.neurology.org]

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Huntington Disease-Like 1

Benign Hereditary Chorea: Usually with Infancy-Onset Benign hereditary chorea (BHC) is a rare autosomal dominant disease that is characterized by nonprogressive chorea, with [movementdisorders.org]

Since it is the dominant allele, individuals with just one parent with Huntingtons's chorea have a 50-50 chance of developing the disease themselves. [evolution.berkeley.edu]

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Huntington Disease-Like 2

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

Patients with chorea had lower expanded repeat lengths compared to patients without chorea. Eye movements were described in 19 cases, 8 were abnormal. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Vitus dance], systemic lupus erythematosus, and chorea gravidarum), post-pump chorea, polycythemia vera, vascular chorea, paraneoplastic chorea and drug-induced chorea (acutely [movementdisorders.org]

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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]

Hyperkinetic disorders: Examples of hyperkinetic movement disorders include dystonias, Huntington disease, chorea, ballism, athetosis, Tourette syndrome, myoclonus, ataxia [icliniq.com]

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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]

The patients with early onset had more frequent truncal and axial dystonia, including retrocollis, oromandibular-facial dystonia and chorea, dysarthria, pyramidal signs, gait [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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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]

In infancy stages (3- 12 months) patients usually experience delayed motor function, and 6-18 months patients experience chorea and involuntary movements within their body [de.slideshare.net]

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Paroxysmal Exertion-Induced Dyskinesia

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.com]

On neurological examination he had mild dystonic posturing and chorea in his arms. [jnnp.bmj.com]

and “senile chorea. [books.google.com]

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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]

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Chorea

/62 Patient UK: Chorea [en.wikipedia.org]

Endocrine conditions that cause chorea eventually improve with treatment of the endocrine disorder. Chorea is associated with various conditions. [symptoma.com]

Chorea as a nonprogressive abnormality is often associated with Sydenham chorea in the pediatric population. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Paroxysmal Non-Kinesigenic Dyskinesia

KW - chorea KW - paroxysmal dyskinesias KW - primary antiphospholipid syndrome KW - PAPS KW - lupus anticoagulant KW - anticardiolipin KW - SYDENHAM CHOREA KW - BASAL-GANGLIA [rug.nl]

The attacks of PNKD may consist of various combinations of dystonia, chorea, athetosis and balism. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Paroxysmal non-kinesigenic dyskinesia (PNKD) is an autosomal-dominant movement disorder characterized by attacks of dystonia, chorea and athetosis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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