Exempel på chorea

• Migrainous type headaches, epilepsy, chorea and transverse myelitis occur, and may not always be thrombotic in origin.

• In chorea, rest in a quiet place decreases the uncoordinated movements.

• All had either migratory polyarthritis (seven patients) or chorea (one patient) as their major symptoms, with normal cardiac findings observed on physical examination.

• We have preferred to treat the arthritis, in the absence of carditis, with salycilates, and the chorea with haloperidol.

• Another patient had a slight postoperative chorea which regressed fully over a few months.

• Even when chorea is most acute, these patients are afebrile and characteristically have no confirmatory clinical or laboratory minor manifestations.

• One patient presented a slight post-operative chorea which fully regressed over a few months.

• From off-period dystonia to peak-dose chorea: the clinical spectrum of varying subthalamic nucleus activity.

• Out of the 12 patients with recurrences, one with chorea and 11 with carditis, 10 had severe carditis and one had moderate carditis.

• After the establishment of the referral clinic for rheumatic fever, health assistance to patients has been improved, and has included patients with chorea and arthritis but without cardiac symptoms.

• Since the diagnosis of this entity itself is exceedingly rare in childhood, the existence of rheumatic fever can be accepted with chorea as the only manifestation.

• They are polyarthritis, chorea and carditis.

• Adverse central nervous system effects include headache, migraine, dizziness, mental depression, chorea, nervousness/anxiety, mood disturbances, irritability, and worsening of epilepsy.

• Specific symptoms included tics, grimacing, movement disorders, difficulty swallowing, poor coordination, hyporeflexia, chorea, and seizures.

• The relation to rheumatic fever was strengthened by many studies that showed that women with normal pregnancies before rheumatic fever developed chorea in subsequent pregnancies.