A Case of Chorea: A Rare and Unusual Complication of Hyperglycemia

We present a case of hemichorea in a patient with nonketotic hyperglycemia (NKH), a rare presentation of hyperglycemia. A 55-year-old female with diabetes presented to the emergency department with involuntary bilateral upper and lower limb movements for five days. The patient had a serum glucose le...

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Autores principales: Kaeley, Nidhi, Prasad, Hari, Joseph, Naveen, Ghosh Hazra, Anirban
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8589335/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34796047
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18730
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author Kaeley, Nidhi
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description We present a case of hemichorea in a patient with nonketotic hyperglycemia (NKH), a rare presentation of hyperglycemia. A 55-year-old female with diabetes presented to the emergency department with involuntary bilateral upper and lower limb movements for five days. The patient had a serum glucose level of 358 mg/dL (19.87 mmol/L) and improved after controlling blood sugar levels. When we encounter a case of chorea in the emergency department, high blood sugar levels are an essential underlying reversible etiology to be kept in mind.
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spelling pubmed-85893352021-11-17 A Case of Chorea: A Rare and Unusual Complication of Hyperglycemia Kaeley, Nidhi Prasad, Hari Joseph, Naveen Ghosh Hazra, Anirban Cureus Emergency Medicine We present a case of hemichorea in a patient with nonketotic hyperglycemia (NKH), a rare presentation of hyperglycemia. A 55-year-old female with diabetes presented to the emergency department with involuntary bilateral upper and lower limb movements for five days. The patient had a serum glucose level of 358 mg/dL (19.87 mmol/L) and improved after controlling blood sugar levels. When we encounter a case of chorea in the emergency department, high blood sugar levels are an essential underlying reversible etiology to be kept in mind. Cureus 2021-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8589335/ /pubmed/34796047 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18730 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kaeley et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8589335/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18730
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