14 patients (15%) developed postoperative hemichorea-ballism which required pallidotomy in eight. These 14 patients had significantly higher dyskinesia scores (levodopa induced) preoperatively than ...

THIS report describes the clinical, laboratory and genetic investigations of a large Negro family, many of whose members exhibit choreiform movements of early onset and nonprogressive nature.

A case report indicates that valbenazine may be an effective therapy for chorea-ballism associated with tardive dyskinesia. Valbenazine has therapeutic potential to improve chorea-ballism ...

‌Chorea is a movement disorder that stems from something wrong with the basal ganglia nerve structure deep in your brain. It causes involuntary movements of the hands, feet, and face. These ...

Chorea is often accompanied by athetosis and ballism. Athetosis is milder and includes slow movement with rolling or twisting qualities. Ballism is more severe and includes unilateral (one-sided ...

Chorea is an involuntary movement disorder that causes irregular muscle movements. It occurs due to the overactivity of dopamine in the brain, which can have many causes. Treatment and outlook ...

Ballism was the most common movement disorder (30.5%), followed by pure chorea (25.4%), choreoathetosis (13.6%), tremor (8.5%), hemifacial spasm (5.1%), parkinsonism (5.1%), myoclonus (5.1%), dystonia ...

1 Gabriel Toure University Hospital Centre, Bamako, Mali. 2 University Hospital Centre Point G, Bamako, Mali. Abnormal or involuntary movements correspond to a disorder in the programming and/or ...

Paroxysmal movement disorders represent a heterogeneous group of rare neurological conditions, characterized by episodic and transient occurrence of hyperkinetic movements, such as chorea, dystonia, ...

ABSTRACT Background: Chorea is a movement disorder characterized by random, brief and migratory ...

Diabetic chorea (DC) is a rare complication of diabetes. Here we describe two cases of DC; patient 1 was an 87-year-old woman with chronic kidney disease and was administered with sulphonylurea and ...