Choreoathetotic syndrome following cardiac surgery.
Movement disorders following heart surgery are very unusual. Post-pump chorea is mainly a pediatric complication of heart surgery, typically manifesting after a latent period of normality and is usually related with long extracorporeal circulation time and deep hypothermia. We report a 73-year-old woman, without risk factors predisposing to paroxysmal movement disorders, presenting acute choreoathetoid movements 5 days after aortic valvular replacement with normal extracorporeal circulation time and perioperative normothermia.
Department of Neurology, Cliniques Universitaires UCL St-Luc, 10 avenue Hippocrate, 1200, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: michela.bisciglia@libero.it.
Michela
M
Bisciglia
Department of Neurology, Cliniques Universitaires UCL St-Luc, 10 avenue Hippocrate, 1200, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: londonfrederic@gmail.com.
Frédéric
F
London
Department of Anesthesiology, Cliniques Universitaires UCL St-Luc, 10 avenue Hippocrate, 1200, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: jonathan.hulin@uclouvain.be.
Jonathan
J
Hulin
Department of Neurology, Cliniques Universitaires UCL St-Luc, 10 avenue Hippocrate, 1200, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: andre.peeters@uclouvain.be.
André
A
Peeters
Department of Neurology, Cliniques Universitaires UCL St-Luc, 10 avenue Hippocrate, 1200, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: adrian.ivanoiu@uclouvain.be.
Adrian
A
Ivanoiu
Department of Neurology, Cliniques Universitaires UCL St-Luc, 10 avenue Hippocrate, 1200, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: anne.jeanjean@uclouvain.be.
Anne
A
Jeanjean
D000368:Aged; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000601:surgery; D001264:Athetosis / Q000209:etiology*; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects; D002819:Chorea / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D013577:Syndrome
Chorea; Heart surgery; Normothermia; Orofacial dyskinesia