Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 62-63, January 2009

Frequency and significance of vocalizations in Sydenham's chorea

  • Antonio Lúcio de Teixeira

      Affiliations

    • Clínica de Movimentos Anormais, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    • Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, UFMG, Brazil
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  • Francisco Cardoso

      Affiliations

    • Clínica de Movimentos Anormais, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    • Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, UFMG, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Internal Medicine, Av. Pasteur 89/1107, 30150-290 Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil. Tel.: +55 31 32131055; fax: +55 31 32134951.
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  • Débora P. Maia

      Affiliations

    • Clínica de Movimentos Anormais, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    • ,
  • Daniel R. Sacramento

      Affiliations

    • Clínica de Movimentos Anormais, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    • ,
  • Cleonice de Carvalho Coelho Mota

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Pediatria, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    • ,
  • Zilda Maria Alves Meira

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Pediatria, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
    • ,
  • Andrew Lees

      Affiliations

    • Reta Lella Weston Institute, London, UK

Received 25 October 2007; received in revised form 6 January 2008; accepted 18 January 2008.

Abstract 

Sydenham's chorea (SC) is a complication of Streptococcus infection characterized by a combination of motor and non-motor features. We have investigated the presence of vocalizations in 89 consecutive patients with SC evaluated during a one-year period in the UFMG Movement Disorders Clinic. Seven (4/3 M/F) of the 89 patients (29/60 M/F) presented with simple vocalizations not preceded by premonitory sensations but in association with facial chorea in five patients. These findings suggest that vocalizations are not a common feature in SC and their phenomenology is quite distinct from the characteristics of vocal tics in tic disorders.

Keywords: Sydenham's chorea, Chorea, Tics, Rheumatic fever, Streptococcus

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PII: S1353-8020(08)00041-2

doi:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2008.01.014

Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 62-63, January 2009

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