Choreoathetotic syndrome following cardiac surgery.
(2017) Journal of Clinical Anesthesia — Vol. 36, p. 59-61 (2017)
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- Movement disorders following heart surgery are very unusual. Post-pump chorea is mainly a pediatric complication of heart surgery, typically manifesting after a latent period of normality and is usually related with long extracorporeal circulation time and deep hypothermia. We report a 73-year-old woman, without risk factors predisposing to paroxysmal movement disorders, presenting acute choreoathetoid movements 5 days after aortic valvular replacement with normal extracorporeal circulation time and perioperative normothermia.
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Bisciglia, M., London, F., Hulin, J., Peeters, A., Ivanoiu, A., & Jeanjean, A. (2017). Choreoathetotic syndrome following cardiac surgery. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, 36, 59-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinane.2016.08.043 (Original work published 2017)