A rare case of Fahr disease revealed by an epileptic seizure

Fahr's disease is a rare neurodegenerative disorder, identified by bilateral and symmetrical intracerebral calcifications of mainly the basal ganglia. Patients often present extrapyramidal or neuropsychological symptoms. Seizure is one of the rarest manifestations that can reveal Fahr disease....

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Autores principales: Choayb, Safaa, El Harras, Yahya, Lahfidi, Amal, Touarsa, Firdaous, Fikri, Meriem, Ech-Cherif El Kettani, Najoua, Jiddane, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10030808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36970236
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2023.02.043
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Sumario:Fahr's disease is a rare neurodegenerative disorder, identified by bilateral and symmetrical intracerebral calcifications of mainly the basal ganglia. Patients often present extrapyramidal or neuropsychological symptoms. Seizure is one of the rarest manifestations that can reveal Fahr disease. We present the case of a 47-year-old male patient who had Fahr disease revealed by an inaugural tonic-clonic seizure.

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