A Case of Fahr’s Disease Presenting as Chorea Successfully Treated by the Use of Quetiapine

We report a case of 30-year-old man presenting chorea in his legs. A brain computed tomography (CT) scan showed bilateral symmetric calcifications in the basal ganglia, thalamus, cerebellum and subcortical white matter. Laboratory studies showed no abnormalities of serum calcium, phosphate, PTH, lac...

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Autores principales: Kono, Syoichiro, Manabe, Yasuhiro, Tanaka, Tomotaka, Fujii, Daiki, Sakai, Yasuko, Narai, Hisashi, Omori, Nobuhiko, Abe, Koji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Libertas Academica 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24179377
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Sumario:We report a case of 30-year-old man presenting chorea in his legs. A brain computed tomography (CT) scan showed bilateral symmetric calcifications in the basal ganglia, thalamus, cerebellum and subcortical white matter. Laboratory studies showed no abnormalities of serum calcium, phosphate, PTH, lactic acid, pyruvic acid and cerebrospinal fluid. Under the diagnosis of Fahr’s disease (FD), we treated with quetiapine (75 mg/day), which completely abolished his symptoms and he showed no other side effect. Our experience suggests that quetiapine is well tolerated in FD patients and effectively treats chorea without extrapyramidal movement.

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