Chorea associated with thyroxine replacement therapy

Movement Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1656-1657

  Isaacs, Jeremy D ^a,c   Rakshi, James ^b   Baker, Richard ^a   Brooks, David J ^b   Warrens, Anthony N ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chorea; Iatrogenic; Thyrotoxicosis

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; FRUMIL; LANSOPRAZOLE; NITRAZEPAM; PROPRANOLOL; SIMVASTATIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; WARFARIN;

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CHOREA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; GOITER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID FUNCTION TEST;

AGED; CHOREA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROXINE;

EID: 33644946288     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20603     Document Type: Article

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