Template:Chorea DDX

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Chorea

Most Common

  • Tourette
  • Behavioral or emotional disorders
  • Drugs (many possibilities including dopaminergic drugs)
  • Neoplasm with basal ganglia involvement

Autoimmune or inflammatory

Cerebrovascular

Infectious

  • AIDS-related
  • Cruetzfeld-Jakob disease or other prion disease
  • Diphtheria
  • Legionnaire disease
  • Lyme disease
  • Malaria
  • Neurocysticercosis
  • Neurosyphilis
  • Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
  • Toxoplasmosis
  • Tuberculosis

Metabolic/Endocrine

  • Derangements of calcium, glucose, sodium
  • Hyperthyroidism
  • Hypoparathyroidism
  • Pregnancy induced

Toxic

  • Alcohol intoxication or withdrawal
  • Carbon Monoxide
  • Glue sniffing



Vascular

Metabolic Disorders

Drugs

Paraneoplastic

  • Small-cell lung cancer
  1. Miranda M, et al. Oral contraceptive induced chorea: another condition associated with anti-basal ganaglia antibodies. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004; 75(2): 327-328
  2. Bordelon YM, et al. Movement disorders in pregnancy. Semin Neurol 2007; 27(5):467-475
  3. Chang MH, et al. Non-ketotic hyperglycaemic chorea: a SPECT study. J Neurol neurosurg Psychiatry 1996; 60(4): 428-430