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Findings that shed new light on the possible pathogenesis of a disease or an adverse effect
Case report
Hyperglycaemic chorea-ballism or unmasking of Huntington’s chorea in a patient with diabetes
  1. Anudeep Yelam,
  2. Elanagan Nagarajan,
  3. Lakshmi Prasanna Digala and
  4. Pradeep C Bollu
  1. Neurology, University of Missouri Health Care, Columbia, Missouri, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Anudeep Yelam; anudeepyelam{at}gmail.com

Abstract

Chorea-ballism is a neurological syndrome characterised by violent involuntary movements of one or both extremities. In the last decades, several patients with these involuntary movements were reported in association with hyperglycaemia. Here, we present a unique case of possible Huntington’s disease, which could have been unmasked by the hyperglycaemic insult to the basal ganglia in a 64-year-old man who presented with chorea-ballism.

  • neurology
  • movement disorders (other than Parkinsons)
  • neuro genetics

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2019-232726

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors AY and EN conceived the original idea for the manuscript, drafting and revision of the manuscript. LPD and PCB revised the manuscript for intellectual content.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent for publication Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.