Neuroacantocitose: relato de caso

Troiano, André R.; Trevisol-Bittencourt, Paulo César

doi:10.1590/s0004-282x1999000300023

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“…[5][6][7][8][9][10] The neurophysiological imbalance resulting in chorea is attributable to a variety of etiologies, 1 including infections, 11 autoimmune diseases, [12][13][14][15][16] genetic mutations, neurodegeneration, stroke, [17][18][19][20][21] and metabolic diseases. [22][23][24][25] The sudden appearance of chorea is usually attributed to a vascular lesion in the contralateral basal ganglia-thalamocortical system. 17,19,20 We present a patient who suddenly developed concurrent transient hemichorea and a migrainous aura.…”

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Adolescent obsessive compulsive disorder heralding chorea‐acanthocytosis

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We describe one male and one female patient who each developed childhood/adolescent obsessive-compulsive disorder as a prelude to the development of a typical picture of chorea-acanthocytosis (ChAc). In each patient, the caudate nucleus showed dramatic atrophy. The role of the caudate in compulsive phenomena, and the predilection for neurological disorders with onset in adolescence to present as major mental illness, is discussed. On the basis of the current evidence and previous findings, we suggest that ChAc can be understood as a disorder whose clinical presentation reflects an interaction between the disease process and the individual's neurodevelopmental stage with both initial interrupted neurodevelopment, and supervening neurodegeneration.

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