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Chorea in the Elderly: A Differential Diagnosis and Case Report of Late-Onset Huntington's Disease in an Octogenarian.
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Neurological Institute, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.
The term "senile chorea" was previously used to describe cases of insidious onset chorea in elderly patients who lacked family history of chorea. However, many of these patients have an identifiable etiology for their chorea. In this article, we discuss a case of generalized, insidious onset chorea in an 89-year-old man and apply a systematic diagnostic approach to chorea in the elderly to arrive at a diagnosis of late-onset Huntington's disease.
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October 2023
Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Psychosis in Parkinson's disease (PD) can have a hugely detrimental effect on patient outcomes and quality of life. It can be a feature of PD itself, or can be exacerbated by the very pharmacological agents that are prescribed to treat the motor symptoms of the disease. The treatment of psychosis in PD is often complex, with clinicians having to balance the debilitating physical symptoms of PD against the risk of exacerbating the psychosis.
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Consultant Forensic and General Adult Psychiatrist, Head of Forensic Psychiatry Department, KCMH, Kuwait, and vice President of Kuwait Psychiatric Association.
Very old onset parkinsonism: A clinical-pathological study.
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December 2018
Institute of Clinical Neurobiology, Alberichgasse 5/13, A-1150, Vienna, Austria. Electronic address:
Background: With increasing age of the world population, the number of parkinsonian patients with disease onset in very old age is expected to increase. Information about the clinical and morphological phenotype of very old age onset parkinsonism is poor, and only three autopsy-confirmed studies of parkinsonian patients of 80 years and older onset are available.
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Octogenarian parkinsonism - Clinicopathological observations.
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April 2017
Saskatchewan Movement Disorders Program, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Health Region, Canada.
Background: Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder for which old age is the best known risk. The proportion of elderly in the world is increasing, resulting in larger pool of people at risk for Parkinson's disease. Several other neurodegenerative disorders also produce Parkinson syndrome.
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