Title
Chorea and high altitude erythrocytosis: A case report
Other title
Corea y eritrocitosis de altura: Reporte de caso
Date Issued
01 January 2013
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Instituto Nacional de Salud
Abstract
Chorea is a movement disorder which is rarely caused by erythrocytosis. Erithrocytosis or polycythemia is the augmentation of the absolute erythrocytic mass and its most common primary cause is polycythemia vera. Some of the secondary causes are erythrocytosis by central hipoxia occurring in people who live in the highlands. Chore is a rare neurological manifestation of erythrocytosis occurring in 0.5 to 2% of these patients. There was a report of a 71 year-old male patient with generalized chorea of sudden onset predominant in mouth, tongue and face and lower limbs, secondary to acquired erythrocytosis, which improved after the number of erythrocytes decreased through successive sessions of phlebotomy.
Start page
705
End page
708
Volume
30
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Patología Neurología clínica Sistema cardiaco, Sistema cardiovascular
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84892587591
PubMed ID
Source
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica
ISSN of the container
17264634
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