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1Department of Neurology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel.
Abstract:
Chorea is an abnormal hyperkinetic movement disorder. The reasons for chorea are diverse and include hereditary, endocrine, toxic, vascular, infectious, autoimmune, and metabolic etiologies. We present a 64-year-old woman with acute chorea who suffered from diabetes with recurrent hypoglycemia, and chronic renal failure treated by hemodialysis. The full clinical recovery, negative work-up and disappearance of basal ganglia lesions on the follow-up imaging emphasize the transient character of encephalopathy expressed by acute chorea in patients with diabetes treated with hemodialysis.
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