MAGNESIUM INFILTRATION AND CHOREA.
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Plasma and erythrocyte magnesium in Huntington's chorea.
Although magnesium activates many enzyme systems in vitro, there is as yet no conclusive evidence that any specific defect in enzyme function producing disease can be attributed solely to alterations in magnesium metabolism. Physiologically, magnesium depresses both central and peripheral nervous systems, and is thought to act by inhibiting the release of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junc...
متن کاملSydenham's Chorea
Sydenham’s chorea is a delayed complication of group Aßhaemolytic streptococcal infections and forms one of the majorcriteria of acute rheumatic fever.It is characterised bychorea, muscular weakness, and a number of neuropsychiatricsymptoms. It is considered to be an autoantibody mediated disorderwith the evidence suggesting that patients with Sydenham’schorea produce antibodies that cross reac...
متن کاملChorea and related disorders.
Chorea refers to irregular, flowing, non-stereotyped, random, involuntary movements that often possess a writhing quality referred to as choreoathetosis. When mild, chorea can be difficult to differentiate from restlessness. When chorea is proximal and of large amplitude, it is called ballism. Chorea is usually worsened by anxiety and stress and subsides during sleep. Most patients attempt to d...
متن کاملHuntington's chorea and tryptophan.
Daily use of 7 g l-tryptophan and 70 mg pyridoxine for 14 days led to no deterioration of objectively measured manual motor skills in a small group of patients with Huntington's chorea.
متن کاملEnterococcus and Sydenham's Chorea
IF Onle examines the literature on the bacteriology of chorea, one finds that as far back as 1894 a cliplococcus was isolated by Dana from the brain of a fatal case.1 and others have isolated differenit cocci as being the cause of rheutmiatic infectioni, anid some have injected streptococci into rabbits anid prodluced clhoreiform coniditions. In a paper publislhed elsewvhere in this Journal,2 S...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 1913
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(00)75487-0