57. Supplemental Findings on Huntington's Chorea

Wernicke's encephalopathy with chorea: Neuroimaging findings

We present a case report of motor and cognitive disorders in a 36-year-old woman with a history of twelve years of heavy alcohol abuse. The patient presented depressive symptoms over the course of one year after a loss in the family, evolving with ataxia, bradykinesia and choreiform movements. Progressive cognitive decline, sleep alterations and myalgia were also reported during the course of d...

Clinical and Neuroimaging Findings of Sydenham’s Chorea

OBJECTIVE Sydenham's chorea (SC) is thought to be an autoimmune disorder. MRI is generally used to exclude other causes of chorea. There are no typically defined MRI features of SC. In this study we aimed to determine clinical and neuroimaging findings of SC. METHODS In this study 17 patients with acute SC were retrospectively evaluated. Sydenham's chorea was diagnosed according to the 1992 r...

Cardiac involvement in Sydenham's chorea: clinical and Doppler echocardiographic findings.

Sydenham's chorea is often encountered in pure form, but it may also occur in association with carditis. Recently, it has been reported that silent, mild valvular regurgitation has been encountered in patients with rheumatic fever manifested by isolated polyarthritis and pure chorea. We studied 22 children with Sydenham's chorea to determine clinical and subclinical heart involvement at the tim...

Applying Bioinfomatics Strategies in Huntingtons Disease Research

Sydenham's Chorea

Sydenham’s chorea is a delayed complication of group Aßhaemolytic streptococcal infections and forms one of the majorcriteria of acute rheumatic fever.It is characterised bychorea, muscular weakness, and a number of neuropsychiatricsymptoms. It is considered to be an autoantibody mediated disorderwith the evidence suggesting that patients with Sydenham’schorea produce antibodies that cross reac...