HYPERKINETIC MOVEMENT DISORDERS

 

• Chorea, choreoathetosis: drug-induced, Huntington's chorea, Sydenham's chorea

• Tardive dyskinesia (e.g., phenothiazines).

• Hemiballismus (lacunar CVA near subthalamic nuclei in basal ganglia, metastatic lesions, toxoplasmosis [in AIDS]).

• Dystonia (idiopathic, familial, drug-induced [prochlorperazine, metoclopramide]), Wilson's disease.

• Liver failure.

• Thyrotoxicosis.

• SLE, polycythemia.