Visual Hallucinations in a Patient with Horner's Syndrome Secondary to Internal Carotid Dissection

A 67-year-old female presented with post-ganglionic Horner's syndrome. In addition to the classical symptoms of Horner's syndrome, the patient reported experiencing frightening complex visual and auditory hallucinations on two different occasions. Magnetic resonance angiography of the cere...

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Autores principales: Singh, Amardeep, Mortzos, Panteleimon, Sørensen, Torben Lykke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2014
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Published online: October, 2014
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4249999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25473403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000368332
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author Singh, Amardeep
Mortzos, Panteleimon
Sørensen, Torben Lykke
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description A 67-year-old female presented with post-ganglionic Horner's syndrome. In addition to the classical symptoms of Horner's syndrome, the patient reported experiencing frightening complex visual and auditory hallucinations on two different occasions. Magnetic resonance angiography of the cerebrum, neck and upper thorax revealed internal carotid dissection. The symptoms and hallucinatory experiences resolved soon after antiplatelet therapy was commenced. We propose peduncular hallucinosis as the underlying mechanism.
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spelling pubmed-42499992014-12-03 Visual Hallucinations in a Patient with Horner's Syndrome Secondary to Internal Carotid Dissection Singh, Amardeep Mortzos, Panteleimon Sørensen, Torben Lykke Case Rep Ophthalmol Published online: October, 2014 A 67-year-old female presented with post-ganglionic Horner's syndrome. In addition to the classical symptoms of Horner's syndrome, the patient reported experiencing frightening complex visual and auditory hallucinations on two different occasions. Magnetic resonance angiography of the cerebrum, neck and upper thorax revealed internal carotid dissection. The symptoms and hallucinatory experiences resolved soon after antiplatelet therapy was commenced. We propose peduncular hallucinosis as the underlying mechanism. S. Karger AG 2014-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4249999/ /pubmed/25473403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000368332 Text en Copyright © 2014 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
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Mortzos, Panteleimon
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Visual Hallucinations in a Patient with Horner's Syndrome Secondary to Internal Carotid Dissection
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title_full Visual Hallucinations in a Patient with Horner's Syndrome Secondary to Internal Carotid Dissection
title_fullStr Visual Hallucinations in a Patient with Horner's Syndrome Secondary to Internal Carotid Dissection
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title_short Visual Hallucinations in a Patient with Horner's Syndrome Secondary to Internal Carotid Dissection
title_sort visual hallucinations in a patient with horner's syndrome secondary to internal carotid dissection
topic Published online: October, 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4249999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25473403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000368332
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