Hemiballismus in Patients With Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Pressley Chakales; Ariel Park; Austin Amos; Esther Baldinger; Igor Sirotkin; Alfred Frontera

Hemiballismus in Patients With Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Fed Pract. 2020 Jun;37(6):282-287.

Authors

Pressley Chakales¹, Ariel Park¹, Austin Amos¹, Esther Baldinger¹, Igor Sirotkin¹, Alfred Frontera¹

Affiliation

¹ and are Medical Students, was a Medical Student at the time the article was written; and are Associate Professors of Neurology; and is an Assistant Professor of Neurology; all at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine in Orlando. Igor Sirotkin is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Southern Florida in Tampa. Esther Baldinger and Alfred Frontera are Neurologists and Igor Sirotkin is a Neuroradiologist, all at Bay Pines VA Healthcare System in Florida.

PMID: 32669781
PMCID: PMC7357885

Abstract

Swift identification of hemiballismus as a complication of poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus may help facilitate optimal care through glycemic control and prevent debilitating loss of patients' function and autonomy, prolonged hospital stays, and overuse of resources.