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More medication tweaking... what's your take on this?
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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 157855" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>Googling "choreoathetosis, parkisonism" I found a link to a JJNP article which starts out....</p><p></p><p>"Dystonia and chorea are uncommon abnormal movements which can be seen in a wide array of disorders. One quarter of dystonias and essentially all choreas are symptomatic or secondary, the underlying cause being an identifiable neurodegenerative disorder, hereditary metabolic defect, or acquired systemic medical disorder. Dystonia and chorea associated with neurodegenerative or heritable metabolic disorders have been reviewed frequently.1 Here we review the underlying pathogenesis of chorea and dystonia in acquired general medical disorders (table 1), and discuss diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. <strong>The most common aetiologies* are hypoxia-ischaemia and medications</strong>.2-4 Infections and autoimmune and metabolic disorders are less frequent causes. Not uncommonly, a given systemic disorder may induce more than one type of dyskinesia by more than one mechanism..."</p><p></p><p>*In American English, <em>etiology</em> or cause.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 157855, member: 1498"] Googling "choreoathetosis, parkisonism" I found a link to a JJNP article which starts out.... "Dystonia and chorea are uncommon abnormal movements which can be seen in a wide array of disorders. One quarter of dystonias and essentially all choreas are symptomatic or secondary, the underlying cause being an identifiable neurodegenerative disorder, hereditary metabolic defect, or acquired systemic medical disorder. Dystonia and chorea associated with neurodegenerative or heritable metabolic disorders have been reviewed frequently.1 Here we review the underlying pathogenesis of chorea and dystonia in acquired general medical disorders (table 1), and discuss diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. [B]The most common aetiologies* are hypoxia-ischaemia and medications[/B].2-4 Infections and autoimmune and metabolic disorders are less frequent causes. Not uncommonly, a given systemic disorder may induce more than one type of dyskinesia by more than one mechanism..." *In American English, [I]etiology[/I] or cause. [/QUOTE]
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