Dystonia as a Presenting Feature of Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Case Report and Literature Review

Hypokinetic and hyperkinetic movement disorders can occur post-stroke. Of these, dystonia is known to occur in the chronic stage of stroke. Rarely, acute dystonia can present as a symptom of acute ischemic stroke or develop during hospitalization for ischemic stroke. In this article, we present a ca...

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Autores principales: Roman Casul, Yoram A, Humbert, Meghan L, Farooqui, Amreen, Wagle Shukla, Aparna, Nagaraja, Nandakumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8448260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34540493
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17272
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description Hypokinetic and hyperkinetic movement disorders can occur post-stroke. Of these, dystonia is known to occur in the chronic stage of stroke. Rarely, acute dystonia can present as a symptom of acute ischemic stroke or develop during hospitalization for ischemic stroke. In this article, we present a case of acute focal dystonia as a presenting symptom of acute ischemic stroke, review the literature to summarize previous reports, and provide more insight into the pathophysiologic mechanisms related to this presentation.
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spelling pubmed-84482602021-09-17 Dystonia as a Presenting Feature of Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Case Report and Literature Review Roman Casul, Yoram A Humbert, Meghan L Farooqui, Amreen Wagle Shukla, Aparna Nagaraja, Nandakumar Cureus Neurology Hypokinetic and hyperkinetic movement disorders can occur post-stroke. Of these, dystonia is known to occur in the chronic stage of stroke. Rarely, acute dystonia can present as a symptom of acute ischemic stroke or develop during hospitalization for ischemic stroke. In this article, we present a case of acute focal dystonia as a presenting symptom of acute ischemic stroke, review the literature to summarize previous reports, and provide more insight into the pathophysiologic mechanisms related to this presentation. Cureus 2021-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8448260/ /pubmed/34540493 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17272 Text en Copyright © 2021, Roman Casul et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Dystonia as a Presenting Feature of Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Case Report and Literature Review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8448260/
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