“…Particularly, Huntington's disease and the genetic syndromes may resemble it, and brain iron accumulation disorders, Wilson's disease, benign hereditary chorea, Friedreich ataxia, and mitochondrial disease are the inherited causes. Acquired causes of hemichorea include vascular diseases, post-infective central nervous system diseases, drugs such as those associated with levodopa or with estrogen replacement therapy, systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome, thyrotoxicosis, human immunodeficiency virus infection, chorea gravidarum, and polycythemia rubra vera (2,3). Major causes of hemichorea include hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke, metastasis, non-ketotic hyperglycemia, complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt, and nutritional vitamin D deficiency (4)(5)(6)(7).…”