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Dandy-Walker variant associated with bipolar affective disorder
The Dandy-Walker malformation is a congenital brain malformation, typically involving the fourth ventricle and the cerebellum. To date, the Dandy-Walker syndrome has not been described in association with bipolar disorder type I mania, and therefore we briefly report the case of a Dandy-Walker varia...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3162782/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21887198 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.57341 |
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author | Lingeswaran, Anand Barathi, Deepak Sharma, Gyaneswahr |
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description | The Dandy-Walker malformation is a congenital brain malformation, typically involving the fourth ventricle and the cerebellum. To date, the Dandy-Walker syndrome has not been described in association with bipolar disorder type I mania, and therefore we briefly report the case of a Dandy-Walker variant associated with acute mania. A 10-year-old boy was brought by his mother to the outpatient clinic of the Department of Psychiatry of a tertiary care hospital, with symptoms of mania. The MRI brain of the patient showed a posterior fossa cystic lesion, a giant cisterna magna communicating with the fourth ventricle and mild hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis, with the rest of the structures being normal and no signs of hydrocephalus. These findings showed that the patient had a Dandy-Walker variant. He responded partially to valproate and olanzepine, which controlled the acute manic symptoms in the ward. |
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spelling | pubmed-31627822011-09-01 Dandy-Walker variant associated with bipolar affective disorder Lingeswaran, Anand Barathi, Deepak Sharma, Gyaneswahr J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report The Dandy-Walker malformation is a congenital brain malformation, typically involving the fourth ventricle and the cerebellum. To date, the Dandy-Walker syndrome has not been described in association with bipolar disorder type I mania, and therefore we briefly report the case of a Dandy-Walker variant associated with acute mania. A 10-year-old boy was brought by his mother to the outpatient clinic of the Department of Psychiatry of a tertiary care hospital, with symptoms of mania. The MRI brain of the patient showed a posterior fossa cystic lesion, a giant cisterna magna communicating with the fourth ventricle and mild hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis, with the rest of the structures being normal and no signs of hydrocephalus. These findings showed that the patient had a Dandy-Walker variant. He responded partially to valproate and olanzepine, which controlled the acute manic symptoms in the ward. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC3162782/ /pubmed/21887198 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.57341 Text en © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Lingeswaran, Anand Barathi, Deepak Sharma, Gyaneswahr Dandy-Walker variant associated with bipolar affective disorder |
title | Dandy-Walker variant associated with bipolar affective disorder |
title_full | Dandy-Walker variant associated with bipolar affective disorder |
title_fullStr | Dandy-Walker variant associated with bipolar affective disorder |
title_full_unstemmed | Dandy-Walker variant associated with bipolar affective disorder |
title_short | Dandy-Walker variant associated with bipolar affective disorder |
title_sort | dandy-walker variant associated with bipolar affective disorder |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3162782/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21887198 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.57341 |
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