0 rapid, violent movements of the muscles that are difficult to stop or control: --
The most common neurologic manifestations of the disease are seizures, personality changes, and chorea.
Huntington's chorea
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.
Specific symptoms included tics, grimacing, movement disorders, difficulty swallowing, poor coordination, hyporeflexia, chorea, and seizures.
Adverse central nervous system effects include headache, migraine, dizziness, mental depression, chorea, nervousness/anxiety, mood disturbances, irritability, and worsening of epilepsy.
They are polyarthritis, chorea and carditis.
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.
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.
Out of the 12 patients with recurrences, one with chorea and 11 with carditis, 10 had severe carditis and one had moderate carditis.
From off-period dystonia to peak-dose chorea: the clinical spectrum of varying subthalamic nucleus activity.
