Chorea (Greek for 'dance') refers to widespread arrhythmic involuntary movements of a forcible, jerky and restless fashion. It is a random-appearing sequence of one or more discrete involuntary movements or movement fragments. Movements appear random because of variability in timing, duration or location. Each movement may have a distinct start and end. However, movements may be strung together and thus may appear to flow randomly from one muscle group to another. Chorea can involve the trunk, neck, face, tongue, and extremities.
An intravenous immunoglobulin therapy of serious autoimmune rheumatic diseases.
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The case reports (one patient with lupus erythematosus chorea, two patients with dermatomyositis and one with the Wegener's granulomatosis) present a treatment of systemic connective tissue diseases with IVIg following the failure of standard therapeutic regimens.
