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Specific symptoms included tics, grimacing, movement disorders, difficulty swallowing, poor coordination, hyporeflexia, chorea, and seizures. en.wikipedia.org

Involuntary movements can take many forms such as ballism, chorea or dystonia and usually only affect one side of the body or one limb in particular. en.wikipedia.org

Such contractile movements include dystonia, chorea, athetosis, and ballism. en.wikipedia.org

Se specialized in the study of lung and cardiovascular diseases, and he made contributions involving research of chorea and its association with rheumatic disorders. en.wikipedia.org

Rare adverse reactions include psychosis and chorea (involuntary muscle movements). en.wikipedia.org

Children with chorea appear fidgety and will often try to disguise the random movements by voluntarily turning the involuntary, abnormal movement into a seemingly more normal, purposeful motion. en.wikipedia.org

It is not an etiologically or pathologically distinct morbid entity but a generic term for chorea of any cause starting during pregnancy. en.wikipedia.org

It has also been used in the treatment of amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, malaria, chorea, the now discredited diagnosis of hysteria, catarrh, and asthma. en.wikipedia.org

Chorea and ballism can be caused by damage to the subthalamic nucleus. en.wikipedia.org

The relation to rheumatic fever was strengthened by many studies that showed that women with normal pregnancies before rheumatic fever developed chorea in subsequent pregnancies. en.wikipedia.org

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