Découverte fortuite d’un syndrome de Fahr suite à une crise convulsive

Chouaib, Naoufal; Rafai, M.A.; Belkouch, Ahmed; Bakkali, H.; Belyamani, Lahcen

doi:10.1016/j.neurol.2015.09.005

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“…Other conditions, apart from what we encountered in our study, can also give rise to intracerebral calcifications. This is the case for chronic inflammatory pathologies (tuberculosis, CMV infection, flavivirosis, neutrocysticercosis, neurosyphilis), tumor pathologies (astrocytomas, primary cerebral lymphoma), and toxicants (carbon monoxide and lead poisoning, hypervitaminosis D, radiotherapy) [6] [11] [15].…”

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Neuropsychic Disorders Unmasking the Coexistence of Fahr Syndrome and Neuromeningeal Cryptococcosis

Kaboré¹,

Konate²,

Cissoko³

et al. 2020

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Background: Fahr syndrome associates a set of neuropsychiatric manifestations with bilateral calcifications in the basal ganglia and phosphocalcic disorders. Neuromeningeal cryptococcosis can be present in its manifestations, neuropsychic disorders with or without meningeal signs. The objective was to describe a rare association between Fahr syndrome and neuromeningeal cryptococcosis which can be expressed by the same clinical symptomatology in the context of co-infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Presentation: A 37-year-old patient without pathological history, who presented behavioral disorders that led to a fight with those around her and a psychiatric consultation. Then, she was hospitalized in the infectious diseases Department upon discovery of her HIV status and viral hepatitis B. She was logorrheic with behavioral disturbances and subsequently presented with tonic-clonic convulsions. Laboratory tests and imaging have concomitantly discovered Fahr syndrome due to pseudohypoparathyroidism and neuromeningeal cryptococcosis. The correct management of these two pathologies enabled stabilization of the patient's clinical condition with regular monitoring for HIV-HBV coinfection. Conclusion: Farh syndrome and neuromeningeal cryptococcosis are two different entities but sometimes similar symptoms and risk factors. Treatment of metabolic disorders combined with anticryptococcal therapy improved the prognosis.

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Neuropsychic Disorders Unmasking the Coexistence of Fahr Syndrome and Neuromeningeal Cryptococcosis

Kaboré¹,

Konate²,

Cissoko³

et al. 2020

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“…Routine clinical monitoring is done regularly to monitor the evolution of the disease. There's another diagnostic criteria proposed by Saleem et al [10] and Perugula et al [11,12].…”

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Fahr’s Disease Presenting with Non-febrile Epileptic Seizures: Case Report and Systematic Literature Review

Radi,

Sarpong,

Laarej

et al. 2024

Asian J. Pediatr. Res.

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Fahr's disease is a very rare condition characterized by abnormal, symmetrical, and bilateral deposits of calcifications in the basal ganglia without an identifiable cause. Fahr's disease must be differentiated from Fahr's syndrome, which is also a rare anatomo-clinical entity, characterized by the presence of intracerebral calcifications located in the basal ganglia, most often associated with phosphocalcic metabolism disorders, primarily hypoparathyroidism. While Fahr's syndrome involves secondary intracerebral calcifications,Fahr's disease is primary or idiopathic with autosomal dominant or recessive inheritance. There are sporadic and familial forms. The clinical presentations of Fahr's disease vary and can include confusion syndromes, cognitive disorders, cerebellar syndrome, abnormal movements, psychiatric syndrome, or epilepsy. Seizures are very rare clinical presentation of Fahr’s disease. There are also asymptomatic forms. We report the case of a 13-year-old boy with Fahr's disease revealed by a non-febrile epileptic seizure. The patient’s brother has similar epileptic manifestations. The medical history, clinical, biological and radiological findings were supportive of a familial form of Fahr’s disease.

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