CHOREA DUE TO A THUNDERSTORM.

Chorea due to nonketotic hyperglycemia.

A 62 year old diabetic and hypertensive male presented with sudden onset generalized chorea. Investigations revealed uncontrolled diabetes with absent ketones and normal serum osmolality. Achievement of euglycemia with insulin therapy abolished the involuntary movements completely within a day. The direct effect of hyperglycemia causing striatal neuronal dysfunction could be the pathogenesis of...

Chorea due to gabapentin monotherapy in a not encephalopatic patient.

Dr. Carlos Alexandre Twardowschy – Rua Dias da Rocha Filho 261 / 11 80040-050 Curitiba PR Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] In the past 10 years the armamentarium of antiepieleptic drugs (AEDs) has almost doubled. With some exceptions, movement disorders are relatively rare in patients using these drugs. In fact, they have become increasingly used to treat some types of movement disorders. ...

A severe thunderstorm climatology for Australia and associated thunderstorm environments

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...

Hypocalcaemic chorea secondary to malabsorption.

A patient presented with chorea and a recent history of Crohn's disease. Investigation revealed the cause of the chorea to be hypocalcaemia secondary to malabsorption. So far as is known there has been no previous report of hypocalcaemic chorea due to malabsorption.