title: Chorea associated with nonketotic hyperglycemia: An uncommon patient with bilateral movements.
abstract: We report a 74-year-old woman who presented with bilateral chorea and no known history of diabetes. Movement disorders such as chorea can be observed in patients presenting with hyperglycemia. The occurrence of hemichorea-hemiballism has been increasingly associated with nonketotic hyperglycemia in the medical literature. The chorea disappeared completely after correction of the hyperglycemia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Tianjin Baodi Hospital, 8 Guangchuan Street, Baodi District, Tianjin 301800, China; The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Nanguan, Changchun, Jilin, China. Electronic address: wlu1234@163.com.
authors.forename: Lu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Nanguan, Changchun, Jilin, China. Electronic address: chunglingsong@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Chun-ling
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Song
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002819:Chorea / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006943:Hyperglycemia / Q000150:complications*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging
keywords: Chorea; Hyperdensity; Hyperglycemia; Movement disorders