Before Hemichorea Can Be Attributed to Diabetic Striatopathy, All Other Causes Must Be Thoroughly Ruled Out

We read with interest the article by Ganessane et al. about a 61-year-old man with nonketotic hyperglycemia manifesting with right-sided hemichorea and a hyperdense lesion in the contralateral striatum on cerebral computed tomography (CCT) (1). The patient's symptoms disappeared after normalization of blood sugar (1). It was concluded that nonketotic hyperglycemic hemichorea should be included in the differential diagnosis of a patient with hemichorea and high blood glucose, and that the prognosis is excellent, with both symptoms and imaging abnormalities typically resolving completely with recovery of normoglycemia (1).
Source: The Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research