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	Chorea (disease) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chorea sancti viti (Latin for "St. Vitus' dance") is an abnormal voluntary movement disorder, one of a group of neurological disorders called dyskinesias.
		Chorea is a primary feature of Huntington's disease, a progressive, hereditary movement disorder that appears in adults, but it may also occur in a variety of other conditions.
		Sydenham's chorea occurs in a small percentage (20 percent) of children and adolescents as a complication of rheumatic fever.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chorea_(disease) (337 words)

	Symptoms of CHOREA - Cure, Cause, Treatment & Homeopathic Medicines of Chorea
		Chorea is an irregular, rapid, uncontrolled, involuntary, excessive movement that seems to move randomly from one part of the body to another.
		When chorea is severe, the movements may cause motion of the arms or legs that results in throwing whatever is in the hand or falling to the ground.
		Sticta is a remedy for chorea complicated with hysteria, and the movements are confined to the lower extremities; the feet and legs jump and dance in spite of all efforts to prevent them.
	www.hpathy.com /diseases/chorea.asp (1597 words)

	Chorea (dance) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chorea (choreia, khoreia, χορεία) is a circle dance (χορεύω σε κύκλο) accompanied by singing (see chorus, khoros), known in ancient Greece.
		Although Greece was not the sole originator of circle dances, derivatives of the name are used to describe circle dances in a number of other countries: Khorovod (Russia), Hora (Romania, Moldova, Israel), Horo (Bulgaria).
		Chorea is also the name of a disease, so named by Paracelsus to describe the rapid, jerking physical movements of medieval pilgrims traveling to the healing shrine of St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chorea_(dance) (128 words)

	Chorea Information on Healthline
		Chorea may be a symptom of viral encephalitis or late-stage neurosyphilis.
		A doctor diagnosing the cause of chorea is guided by such factors as the patient's age and sex as well as medication history and family history.
		Chorea caused by a vascular disorder may last for six to eight weeks after the blockage or rupture is treated.
	www.healthline.com /galecontent/chorea (1007 words)

	Chorea disease - huntington's chorea disease
		Chorea is the occurrence of continuous rapid, jerky, involuntary movements that may involve the face and limb and result in an inability chorea huntington disease to maintain a posture.
		When hungting chorea disease chorea is huntingdon's huntington disease chorea chorea disease serious, slight movements will become thrashing motions, this form of severe chorea is referred huntington's disease chorea to as "ballism".
		The term chorea is derived from a Greek word khoreia (a kind of dance, see chorea), as the quick movements of the feet or hands are very huntington's chorea disease comparable disease huntington chorea to dancing or piano playing.
	www.medicalgeo.com /Med-Diseases-C---Ch/Chorea-disease.html (263 words)

	Motor Symptoms, mss2
		Chorea is a disorder of the nervous system that occurs in multiple clinical conditions.
		Chorea is characterized by spontaneous, uncontrollable, irregular movements, generally of the limbs and face.
		Chorea is usually present during waking hours, and cannot generally be suppressed.
	www.stanford.edu /group/hopes/diagnsis/motorsymptoms/mss2.html (282 words)

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		Although there is currently no cure for the disease, many techniques have been developed to detect the gene mutation and therefore, one can know if they carry the disease or not, prior to the expression of the phenotype.
		The cause of the disease is in a gene mutation.
		Conclusion: Although there is hope in treating this unfortunate disease, victims of the disease and their families have to cope through a lot of turmoil.
	education.uncc.edu /cmste/papers/Chorea.doc (964 words)

	Chorea and Athetosis: Movement Disorders: Merck Manual Home Edition
		Chorea consists of repetitive, brief, jerky, large-scale, dancelike, uncontrolled movements that start in one part of the body and move abruptly, unpredictably, and often continuously to another; athetosis is a continuous stream of slow, sinuous, writhing movements, generally of the hands and feet.
		Chorea and athetosis occur in Huntington's disease, a hereditary disease.
		Chorea may also be caused by Sydenham's disease (also called St. Vitus' dance or Sydenham's chorea), a complication of rheumatic fever (a childhood infection caused by certain streptococci).
	www.merck.com /mmhe/sec06/ch091/ch091h.html (384 words)

	Leilanis-Chorea.com - sydenham's chorea, rheumatic fever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Leilani's Chorea - a young child shares her experience with Sydenham's Chorea, a rare disorder associated with rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.
		Sydenham's Chorea is a disorder that affects childrens nervous system causing emotional instability, purposeless movements, and muscular weakness, and is associated with Rheumatic Fever.
		Chorea is a disorder that attacks the nervous system that's characterized by spasms of muscles and involuntary contortions of the limbs.
	www.leilanis-chorea.com (211 words)

	Sydenham's Chorea Information on Healthline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Also called St. Vitus' dance, Sydenham's chorea is a disorder effecting children and characterized by jerky, uncontrollable movements, either of the face or of the arms and legs.
		Sydenham's chorea is a disorder that occurs in children and is associated with rheumatic fever.
		Sydenham's chorea is one of five "major criteria" for the diagnosis of rheumatic fever.
	www.healthline.com /galecontent/sydenham's-chorea (675 words)

	AllRefer Health - Huntington's Disease (Huntington Chorea)
		Huntington's disease is an inherited condition characterized by abnormal body movements, dementia, and psychiatric problems.
		Huntington's disease is a progressive disorder involving wasting (degeneration) of nerve cells in the brain.
		Huntington's disease is inherited as a single faulty gene on chromosome #4.
	health.allrefer.com /health/huntingtons-disease-info.html (449 words)

	Drug aimed at Huntington's eases chorea, the disease's hallmark feature
		Unlike Alzheimer’s disease, where patients usually lose their memory and insight into their disease at some point, most Huntington’s patients understand exactly what is happening to them throughout most of their illness.
		The disease usually strikes people in their 30s and 40s, though some patients are affected as early as childhood, while others aren’t affected until their older years.
		Virtually everyone with the disease had a parent with the disease, and children of a person with Huntington’s have a 50-percent chance of inheriting the disease.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-02/uorm-daa021306.php (1173 words)

	Huntington disease - Genetics Home Reference
		Huntington disease is a progressive brain disorder that causes uncontrolled movements, mental and emotional problems, and loss of thinking ability (cognition).
		Mutations in the HD gene cause Huntington disease.
		Huntington disease is caused by a mutation in which a DNA segment, known as a CAG repeat, is abnormally expanded within the HD gene.
	ghr.nlm.nih.gov /ghr/disease/huntingtondisease (865 words)

	eMedicine - Huntington Chorea : Article by J Stephen Huff, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As many as 10% of patients with HD have a juvenile form of the disease in which the onset of symptoms may occur when the patient is younger than 20 years.
		In HD, chorea often appears as facial twitching or as twitching and writhing of the distal extremities.
		HD is a genetic disease inherited as an autosomal dominant trait.
	www.emedicine.com /emerg/topic254.htm (2028 words)

	Chorea Information Page: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
		Syndenham's chorea occurs in a small percentage (20 percent) of children and adolescents as a complication of rheumatic fever.
		Treatment for Huntington's disease is supportive, while treatment for Syndenham's chorea usually involves antibiotic drugs to treat the infection, followed by drug therapy to prevent recurrence.
		The prognosis for individuals with chorea varies depending on the type of chorea and the associated disease.
	www.ninds.nih.gov /disorders/chorea/chorea.htm (407 words)

	Patient Education: Huntington's Disease
		George Huntington first published his assay “On Chorea” in 1872 and the eponym “Huntington’s Chorea” was soon adapted in the literature to draw attention to the involuntary dance-like movement called chorea (derived from Latin ‘choreus’ = dance and Greek ‘choros’ = chorus) as the clinical hallmark of this neurodegenerative disorder.
		Chorea consists of involuntary, continuous, abrupt, rapid, brief, unsustained, irregular movements that flow randomly from one body part to another.
		Mutation responsible for the disease consists of an unstable enlargement of the CAG (cytidine-adenine-guanidine) repeat sequence in the gene resulting in an abnormal elongation of the huntingtin protein.
	www.bcm.edu /neurol/jankovic/educ_hd.htm (1273 words)

	Foogle Business - What is Huntingtons Disease - Hereditary Chorea - Dominant Faulty Genetic Disorder - Chromosome 4 - ...
		Huntington's Disease was named after the American, Dr. George Huntington, because in 1872 he was the first person to document an accurate description of the symptoms and the route of the disease.
		It is thought that Sydenham chorea is caused by a malfunctioning of the basal ganglia, groups of nerve cells in the brain.
		Huntington's Disease is due to a dominant and faulty genetic disorder on chromosome 4.
	www.thesahara.net /huntingtons_disease.htm (1927 words)

	Chorea - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Chorea is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary spasmodic movements of the body.
		The prognosis for individuals with chorea varies depending on the type of chorea and the associated disorder.
		Huntington's disease is a hereditary, progressive and fatal neurological disorder.
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /c/chorea/intro.htm (743 words)

	Senile chorea definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Senile chorea: A relatively mild and uncommon disorder that occurs in elderly adults and is characterized by choreic movements.
		Chorea refers to rapid complex body movements that look well coordinated and purposeful but are, in fact, involuntary.
		Senile chorea is believed by some scientists to be caused by a different gene mutation than that responsible for Huntington chorea (Huntington disease).
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=11701 (142 words)

	Huntington's disease
		Huntington's disease (Huntington's chorea) is a progressive, degenerative disease that causes certain nerve cells in your brain to waste away.
		The disease usually develops slowly, and the severity of signs and symptoms is related to the degree of nerve cell loss.
		Huntington's disease is an inherited condition caused by a single abnormal gene.
	www.cnn.com /HEALTH/library/DS/00401.html (1677 words)

	Huntington's Disease Information Page: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
		HD is a familial disease, passed from parent to child through a mutation in the normal gene.
		If a child does not inherit the HD gene, he or she will not develop the disease and cannot pass it to subsequent generations.
		As the disease progresses, concentration on intellectual tasks becomes increasingly difficult and the patient may have difficulty feeding himself or herself and swallowing.
	www.ninds.nih.gov /disorders/huntington/huntington.htm (649 words)

	Disease Reference - Chorea Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chorea are uncontrolled, purposeless, rapid and jerky movements of face and body.
		Frequently observed movements are facial grimacing, raising the shoulders and flexing and extending the fingers.
		Major causes are Sydenham's chorea, Huntington's Chorea, metabolic insults (elevated liver enzymes, elevated or lowered blood glucose levels) and stroke.
	www.disease-reference.com /Chorea.htm (134 words)

	Huntington's disease - Huntington's disease (Huntington chorea) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In children it may appear to be Parkinson's disease with rigidity, slow movements, and tremor.
		In Huntington's disease, there are repetitions of a particular set of proteins in the genes.
		Since the odds that the child of a person with Huntington's disease will be affected are so high, people with the disorder may wish to consider adoption or forms of assisted reproduction that can reduce the chance that the disease will be passed on to their children.
	www.virtualneurocentre.com /diseases.asp?did=473 (583 words)

	Spears & MacLeod: Medical Links: Huntington's chorea : Pharmasave :Yarmouth, Nova Scotia : GrassRoutes
		The disease is also known as Huntington’s chorea, Lund-Huntington’s chorea, and Setesdal jerks.The symptoms of the disease start with strange eye movements and deteriorate to include uncontrollable ("dancing") movements and decrease of mental function.
		Huntington's Chorea Background: Huntington's chorea is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor, cognitive, and been diagnosed with Huntington's chorea.
		It used to be commonly known as Huntington’s Chorea - chorea being the Greek word for dancing and describing the strange movements of the sufferer.
	www.spearsmacleod.com /links/h/huntingt (1101 words)

	Chorea definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Chorea: Ceaseless rapid complex body movements that look well coordinated and purposeful but are, in fact, involuntary.
		Chorea was thought suggestive of a grotesque dance.
		The term "chorea" is derived from the Greek word "choreia" for dancing (as is choreography).
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=10029 (113 words)

	Huntington's Chorea: Health Topics: University of Iowa Health Care
		Huntington's Disease (Huntington's chorea) is a rare genetic disease involving wasting or degeneration of nerve cells of the brain.
		This degeneration causes chorea movements, called Huntington's chorea, which are uncontrollable and irregular muscle movements, especially of the arms, legs, and face.
		Huntington's disease causes the brain to slowly decay.
	www.uihealthcare.com /topics/neurologicalhealth/neur3530.html (344 words)

	Chorea and related disorders -- Bhidayasiri and Truong 80 (947): 527 -- Postgraduate Medical Journal
		Huntington’s disease is fivefold that of the general population.
		Abnormalities of the physiology of copper in Wilson’s disease.
		Anti-basal ganglia antibodies in acute and persistent Sydenham’s chorea.
	pmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/80/947/527 (4376 words)

	Huntington's Disease and chorea treatment options at Mayo Clinic
		Mayo Clinic has experience treating Huntington's disease and is extensively involved in clinical and genetic research to better understand its cause and progression, and to increase treatment options.
		Although the disease's progression cannot be stopped or reversed, therapies and support are available to partially alleviate symptoms and improve quality of life.
		Huntington's disease is a progressive, degenerative disorder caused by the deterioration of certain nerve cells in the brain due to an inherited genetic abnormality.
	www.mayoclinic.org /huntingtons-disease (310 words)

	Chorea - WrongDiagnosis.com
		When you follow a link to our interactive multiple symptoms page, you will be able to modify your list by adding and removing symptoms thus helping to better research your condition.
		The distinction between a symptom and complication is not always clear, and conditions mentioning this symptom as a complication may also be relevant.
		This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases, not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Chorea.
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /sym/chorea.htm (715 words)

	Huntington Disease - Huntington Chorea - information page with HONselect
		Conditions which feature recurrent or persistent episodes of chorea as a primary manifestation of disease are referred to as CHOREATIC DISORDERS.
		Chorea is also a frequent manifestation of BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES.
		This condition is frequently accompanied by CHOREA, where it is referred to as choreoathetosis.
	www.hon.ch /HONselect/RareDiseases/EN/C10.228.140.079.545.html (696 words)

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