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Impact of Chorea on Self-care Activity, Employment, and Health-care Resource Use in Patients with Huntington’s Disease [PDF]
Journal of Health Economics and Outcomes Research, 2021 # Background Chorea is recognized as a prototypic motor feature of Huntington’s disease (HD), but its effect on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has not been fully explored. This study describes the impact of chorea on HRQoL in patients with HD. #
Daniel O. Claassen +4 more
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Language Impairment in Adolescents With Sydenham Chorea
Pediatric Neurology, 2015 Investigators from hospitals in Brazil tested verbal fluency in 20 adolescent patients, ages ranged from 11 to 16 years (mean 13.8 years), with Sydenham chorea compared with 20 patients with rheumatic fever without chorea and 20 healthy controls, matched
Janaina Moreira +2 more
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Chorea: An unusual manifestation of endocrine diseases
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 Chorea is a movement disorder involving involuntary movements of muscles of the face, neck, and limbs, usually caused by basal ganglia lesions.
Jia Zheng, Xiaohong Wu
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Acute chorea: case series from the emergency room of a Brazilian tertiary-level center [PDF]
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2021 Background: Chorea is a movement disorder characterized by random, brief and migratory involuntary muscle contractions. It is defined as acute when present within hours to days.
Guilherme Diogo SILVA +2 more
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Generalized Chorea Induced by an Unilateral Anterior Cerebral Artery Territorial Infarction [PDF]
Journal of Movement Disorders, 2009 Generalized chorea caused by unilateral cerebral infarction has rarely been reported. A 58-year-old woman presented involuntary movement in her all extremities after acute cerebral infarction on her right anterior cerebral artery territory.
Jae Hong Chang +5 more
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Chorea associated with infections: A narrative review
Annals of Movement Disorders, 2021 In tropical countries like India, infections of the central nervous system (CNS) and their varied complications are often encountered. Movement disorders (MDs) are reported to be a complication of infectious diseases, and the spectrum of MDs differs in ...
Rahul Yadav, Shankar Vijay, Soaham Desai
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Chorea following SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination: a systematic review of reported cases
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023 Objectives: Chorea following SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination, has been increasingly recognized. We aimed to synthesize clinical and paraclinical characteristics, treatment responses, and outcomes of this neurologic complication.
Elena Cecilia Rosca +3 more
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The differential diagnosis of chorea [PDF]
, 2007 Chorea is a hyperkinetic movement disorder characterised by excessive spontaneous movements that are irregularly timed, randomly distributed and abrupt. In this article, the authors discuss the causes of chorea, particularly Huntington's disease and the ...
Tabrizi, SJ, Wild, EJ
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Levodopa-responsive chorea: A review
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2020 Background: Chorea is one of the disabling movement disorders, and the number of drugs which can treat this disorder effectively is limited. Tetrabenazine and deutetrabenazine are the two drugs approved by the US-FDA for the treatment of chorea ...
Mark Farrenburg, Harsh V Gupta
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Anti-CV2/CRMP5 Paraneoplastic Chorea Effectively Managed with Intravenous Amantadine
Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2019 Background: Paraneoplastic chorea is typically a subacute progressive hyperkinetic movement disorder. The mainstay of treatment is managing the underlying neoplasm.
Jongmok Ha +8 more
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