Anti-CV2/CRMP5 Paraneoplastic Chorea Effectively Managed with Intravenous Amantadine [PDF]
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.
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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1929 In this paper, Winnicott notes that typical chorea is easily diagnosed by any physician who has previously seen a case. Not all cases, he argues, are typical, and, owing to the seriousness of the rheumatic heart disease which is part of the picture of true chorea, it is of the utmost importance for the physician to be able to diagnose the slight or ...
Donald W. Winnicott
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Chorea: clinical correlates of 119 cases [PDF]
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 1996 Chorea is a clinical syndrome characterized by abnormal involuntary arrhythmic movements, randomly distributed in time, affecting mainly the distal parts of the limbs.
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Safety and Efficacy of Tetrabenazine and Use of Concomitant Medications During Long-Term, Open-Label Treatment of Chorea Associated with Huntington’s and Other Diseases [PDF]
Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2013 Background Although tetrabenazine, a drug that depletes presynaptic dopamine by inhibiting vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2), was approved by the U.S.
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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.
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Longitudinal Treatment Patterns of Chorea in North American Patients with Huntington's Disease: Data from Enroll-HD. [PDF]
Neurol TherIntroduction Chorea is the primary manifestation of Huntington’s disease. Different clinicians pursue varied approaches to chorea management, and real-world evidence describing them is needed.
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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.
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