Morvan syndrome
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Morvan's 'fibrillary chorea' or Morvan's syndrome is a rare syndrome characterised by:
- neuromyotonia
- pain
- hyperhydrosis
- weight loss
- severe insomnia
and - hallucinations
Voltage gated potassium channel (VGKC) antibodies (VGKC abs) are frequently present in this syndrome.
History and etymology
The condition is named after the French physician, Augustin Marie Morvan who first described it in 1890 3,4.
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- 3. Morvan A. De la chorée fibrillaire. Gazette Hebdomadaire de Mèdicine et de Chirurgie. 1890;27:173-200.
- 4. El-Bitar MK, Muwakkit SA, Abboud MR, Sawaya RA, Boustany RM. Morvan syndrome following B-cell lymphoma. (2010) Journal of child neurology. 25 (8): 1038-41. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0883073809356108">doi:10.1177/0883073809356108</a> - <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20110220">Pubmed</a> <span class="ref_v4"></span>
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- Syndromes
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