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Article: Fatal cerebral embolism in a young patient with an occult left atrial myxoma.
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ABSTRACT: We report a young patient with a fatal cerebral embolism from an occult atrial myxoma. The patient died before echocardiography was performed and at autopsy the definite diagnosis was made. Our patient suffered from migraine of increasing frequency. The physical exercise of sexual intercourse was the precipitating factor of this fatal embolism. The importance of early echocardiography is stressed, especially in view of the recent tendency of early and aggressive stroke treatment.Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery 05/2001; 103(1):37-8. · 1.58 Impact Factor -
Article: Non-ketotic hyperglycemia in a young woman, presenting as hemiballism-hemichorea.
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ABSTRACT: We report a 22-year-old girl presenting with acute onset left sided hemiballism-hemichorea (HH) and non-ketotic hyperglycemia (NKH). Initial brain CT revealed faint hyperdensities, sharply confined to the contralateral nucleus caudatus and putamen. Sequential MRI investigations yielded increasing hypersignal intensities on T1-weighted images and resolving hypodensities on T2-weighted images of the right striatum, leaving small sequelae in the head of the right caudate nucleus. NKH is an unusual cause of HH. The abnormalities seen in neuroimaging are rare, but seem to be quite specific to this syndrome. We give an update on current literature regarding the possible pathophysiological processes underlying this specific clinical entity.Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 01/2000; 100(6):411-4. · 2.47 Impact Factor
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2001
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Medisch Centrum Haaglanden
Den Haag, South Holland, Netherlands
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