Template:Chorea DDX

Chorea

Most Common

• Tourette
• Behavioral or emotional disorders
• Drugs (many possibilities including dopaminergic drugs)
• Neoplasm with basal ganglia involvement

Autoimmune or inflammatory

• Antiphospholipid syndrome
• Autoimmune encephalitis
• Behçet's disease
• Celiac disease
• Hashimoto encephalopathy
• Polyarteritis nodosa
• Primary angiitis of CNS
• Sarcoidosis
• Sjögren syndrome
• Lupus

Cerebrovascular

• Arteriovenous malformation (CNS)
• Intracerebral hemorrhage
• Ischemic stroke
• Moyamoya disease
• Postpump chorea
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Infectious

• AIDS-related
• Cruetzfeld-Jakob disease or other prion disease
• Diphtheria
• Legionnaire disease
• Lyme disease
• Malaria
• Neurocysticercosis
• Neurosyphilis
• Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
• Toxoplasmosis
• Tuberculosis

Metabolic/Endocrine

• Derangements of calcium, glucose, sodium
• Hyperthyroidism
• Hypoparathyroidism
• Pregnancy induced

Toxic

• Alcohol intoxication or withdrawal
• Carbon Monoxide
• Glue sniffing