PMID: 9193455May 1, 1997Paper

Chorea in the antiphospholipid syndrome. Clinical, radiologic, and immunologic characteristics of 50 patients from our clinics and the recent literature

Medicine
R CerveraMiguel Ingelmo

Abstract

We analyzed the clinical, radiologic, and immunologic characteristics of 50 patients with chorea and the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) (6 from our clinics and 44 from a MEDLINE computer-assisted review of the literature from 1985 through 1995). Forty-eight (96%) patients were female and 2 (4%) were male. Twenty-nine (58%) patients had defined systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), 6 (12%) had "lupus-like" syndrome, and 15 (30%) patients had "primary" APS. Mean age of patients in this series was 23 +/- 12 years (range, 6-77 yr); mean age at presentation of chorea was 21 +/- 12 years (range, 6-77 yr). In 11 (22%) patients, the onset of chorea was in childhood (6-14 yr), and in 2 (4%) patients it presented at 60 years or more. Six (12%) patients developed chorea soon after they started taking estrogen-containing oral contraceptives, 3 (6%) developed chorea gravidarum, and 1 (2%) patient developed chorea shortly after delivery. Most patients (66%) presented only 1 episode of chorea. Chorea was bilateral in 55% of patients. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scans reported cerebral infarcts in 35% of patients. The following antibodies were detected: lupus anticoagulant (92%), anticardiolipin antibodies (91%), antinucl...Continue Reading

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