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
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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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author Kono, Syoichiro
Manabe, Yasuhiro
Tanaka, Tomotaka
Fujii, Daiki
Sakai, Yasuko
Narai, Hisashi
Omori, Nobuhiko
Abe, Koji
author_facet Kono, Syoichiro
Manabe, Yasuhiro
Tanaka, Tomotaka
Fujii, Daiki
Sakai, Yasuko
Narai, Hisashi
Omori, Nobuhiko
Abe, Koji
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description 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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spelling pubmed-37853612013-10-31 A Case of Fahr’s Disease Presenting as Chorea Successfully Treated by the Use of Quetiapine Kono, Syoichiro Manabe, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Tomotaka Fujii, Daiki Sakai, Yasuko Narai, Hisashi Omori, Nobuhiko Abe, Koji Clin Med Case Rep Case Report 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. Libertas Academica 2009-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3785361/ /pubmed/24179377 Text en © 2009 by the authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
spellingShingle Case Report
Kono, Syoichiro
Manabe, Yasuhiro
Tanaka, Tomotaka
Fujii, Daiki
Sakai, Yasuko
Narai, Hisashi
Omori, Nobuhiko
Abe, Koji
A Case of Fahr’s Disease Presenting as Chorea Successfully Treated by the Use of Quetiapine
title A Case of Fahr’s Disease Presenting as Chorea Successfully Treated by the Use of Quetiapine
title_full A Case of Fahr’s Disease Presenting as Chorea Successfully Treated by the Use of Quetiapine
title_fullStr A Case of Fahr’s Disease Presenting as Chorea Successfully Treated by the Use of Quetiapine
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Fahr’s Disease Presenting as Chorea Successfully Treated by the Use of Quetiapine
title_short A Case of Fahr’s Disease Presenting as Chorea Successfully Treated by the Use of Quetiapine
title_sort case of fahr’s disease presenting as chorea successfully treated by the use of quetiapine
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24179377
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