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Delayed onset movement disorders as a complication of central pontine myelinolysis
Delayed onset movement disorders as a complication of central pontine myelinolysis
- Source :
- Movement Disorders. 6:171-173
- Publication Year :
- 1991
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 1991.
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Abstract
- This report describes a case of central pontine myelinolysis occurring after a rapid correction of profound hyponatremia. Delayed-onset generalized dystonia and choreoathetosis then appeared. A small pontine myelinolysis was demonstrated by magnetic resonance images, but striatal myelinolysis could not be established. Aspects of movement disorders associated with the osmotic demyelination syndrome are briefly reviewed and discussed.
- Subjects :
- Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Movement disorders
Choreoathetosis
Hypokalemia
Potassium Chloride
Chorea
Pons
medicine
Humans
Athetosis
Neurologic Examination
Saline Solution, Hypertonic
Dystonia
medicine.diagnostic_test
Delayed onset
Magnetic resonance imaging
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Neurology
Anesthesia
Central pontine myelinolysis
Female
Neurology (clinical)
medicine.symptom
Hyponatremia
Psychology
Complication
Demyelinating Diseases
Follow-Up Studies
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15318257 and 08853185
- Volume :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Movement Disorders
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6e7524da5c05e70afa567118c7627375
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.870060215