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Choreoathetosis in the Setting of Human Herpesvirus-6 Infection in a Transplant Recipient
BACKGROUND: Human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) has been associated with various neurologic disorders, but movement disorders are rare. This case describes a patient who developed a choreoathetotic movement disorder in the setting of HHV-6 infection. CASE REPORT: A 72-year-old woman with AML and recent HHV-...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8533650/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34721942 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/tohm.657 |
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author | Mancone, Sarah Selvadurai, Chindhuri Baehring, Joachim Patel, Amar |
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description | BACKGROUND: Human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) has been associated with various neurologic disorders, but movement disorders are rare. This case describes a patient who developed a choreoathetotic movement disorder in the setting of HHV-6 infection. CASE REPORT: A 72-year-old woman with AML and recent HHV-6 encephalitis following stem cell transplant presented with involuntary movements. Neurologic examination demonstrated motor impersistence and irregular non-stereotyped writhing movements consistent with a choreoathetotic movement disorder secondary to HHV-6 infection. DISCUSSION: This is the first literature reported case of adult-onset chorea associated with HHV-6 infection, though it remains unclear if the movement disorder was from the infection or a secondary autoimmune response. |
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spelling | pubmed-85336502021-10-29 Choreoathetosis in the Setting of Human Herpesvirus-6 Infection in a Transplant Recipient Mancone, Sarah Selvadurai, Chindhuri Baehring, Joachim Patel, Amar Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y) Case Report BACKGROUND: Human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) has been associated with various neurologic disorders, but movement disorders are rare. This case describes a patient who developed a choreoathetotic movement disorder in the setting of HHV-6 infection. CASE REPORT: A 72-year-old woman with AML and recent HHV-6 encephalitis following stem cell transplant presented with involuntary movements. Neurologic examination demonstrated motor impersistence and irregular non-stereotyped writhing movements consistent with a choreoathetotic movement disorder secondary to HHV-6 infection. DISCUSSION: This is the first literature reported case of adult-onset chorea associated with HHV-6 infection, though it remains unclear if the movement disorder was from the infection or a secondary autoimmune response. Ubiquity Press 2021-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8533650/ /pubmed/34721942 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/tohm.657 Text en Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Mancone, Sarah Selvadurai, Chindhuri Baehring, Joachim Patel, Amar Choreoathetosis in the Setting of Human Herpesvirus-6 Infection in a Transplant Recipient |
title | Choreoathetosis in the Setting of Human Herpesvirus-6 Infection in a Transplant Recipient |
title_full | Choreoathetosis in the Setting of Human Herpesvirus-6 Infection in a Transplant Recipient |
title_fullStr | Choreoathetosis in the Setting of Human Herpesvirus-6 Infection in a Transplant Recipient |
title_full_unstemmed | Choreoathetosis in the Setting of Human Herpesvirus-6 Infection in a Transplant Recipient |
title_short | Choreoathetosis in the Setting of Human Herpesvirus-6 Infection in a Transplant Recipient |
title_sort | choreoathetosis in the setting of human herpesvirus-6 infection in a transplant recipient |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8533650/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34721942 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/tohm.657 |
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