Reversible “Pulvinar sign” in Wernicke's encephalopathy

Young onset dementia is a challenge. We describe a case, where a patient presented with psychosis, dementia and MRI showing pulvinar sign, all of this typical of variant Cruetzfelt Jacob disease (CJD). Subsequent investigations lead to the diagnosis of a treatable illness and patient was improved an...

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Autores principales: Gopalakrishnan, Biju, Ashraf, VV, Kumar, Praveen, Kiran, Krishna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4090855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25024580
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.132645
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description Young onset dementia is a challenge. We describe a case, where a patient presented with psychosis, dementia and MRI showing pulvinar sign, all of this typical of variant Cruetzfelt Jacob disease (CJD). Subsequent investigations lead to the diagnosis of a treatable illness and patient was improved and MRI sign reversed, underlining again the importance of search needed for treatable diseases in any “typical” case of fatal illness.
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spelling pubmed-40908552014-07-14 Reversible “Pulvinar sign” in Wernicke's encephalopathy Gopalakrishnan, Biju Ashraf, VV Kumar, Praveen Kiran, Krishna Ann Indian Acad Neurol Case Report Young onset dementia is a challenge. We describe a case, where a patient presented with psychosis, dementia and MRI showing pulvinar sign, all of this typical of variant Cruetzfelt Jacob disease (CJD). Subsequent investigations lead to the diagnosis of a treatable illness and patient was improved and MRI sign reversed, underlining again the importance of search needed for treatable diseases in any “typical” case of fatal illness. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4090855/ /pubmed/25024580 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.132645 Text en Copyright: © Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology 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.
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