Article Text
Short report
Oral contraceptive induced chorea: another condition associated with anti-basal ganglia antibodies
Abstract
Use of oral contraceptives is a recognised but infrequent cause of chorea. This type of chorea has usually been considered a reactivation of Sydenham’s chorea by an unknown mechanism. A patient developed a chorea triggered by the use of oral contraceptives with no definite evidence of previous Sydenham’s chorea or recent streptoccocal infections. However, the patient had positive anti-basal ganglia antibodies, which supports an immunological basis for the pathophysiology of this chorea.
- chorea
- oral contraceptive
- anti- basal ganglia antibodies
- OC, oral contraceptive
Statistics from Altmetric.com
Footnotes
-
Competing interest: none declared