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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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Clinical Medicine, 2009 Two weeks after starting the oral contraceptive pill, a 16-year-old girl developed increasingly violent chorea and an evolving psychosis with prominent hallucinations, ideas of reference, and paranoia. An erythematous skin rash subsequently developed and Sydenham's chorea (SC) was diagnosed. Following neuroleptic medication and steroids, her chorea and
Hu, M +4 more
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Unraveling the genetic architecture of non-Huntington chorea: a biobank-scale study of rare variants and repeat expansions [PDF]
npj Genomic MedicineChorea can arise from genetic, metabolic, pharmacologic, and autoimmune causes. In clinical practice, however, non-genetic causes are rare. The most common genetic cause is a CAG repeat expansion in HTT, leading to Huntington’s disease (HD).
Fulya Akçimen +26 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 Matos 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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