Chorea and high altitude erythrocytosis: a case report

Authors

  • Luis Torres-Ramírez Departamento de Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas. Lima, Perú. Médico neurólogo
  • Jorge Ramírez-Quiñones Departamento de Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas. Lima, Perú. médico residente de Neurología.
  • Miriam Vélez-Rojas Departamento de Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas. Lima, Perú. Médico neurólogo.
  • Martha Flores-Mendoza Departamento de Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas. Lima, Perú. Médico neurólogo.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17843/rpmesp.2013.304.256

Keywords:

Chorea, Dyskinesias, Polycythemia, Phlebotomy

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.

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Published

2014-03-11

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Case Report

How to Cite

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Torres-Ramírez L, Ramírez-Quiñones J, Vélez-Rojas M, Flores-Mendoza M. Chorea and high altitude erythrocytosis: a case report. Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica [Internet]. 2014 Mar. 11 [cited 2024 Dec. 2];30(4). Available from: https://rpmesp.ins.gob.pe/index.php/rpmesp/article/view/256

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