A Case of Lance Adams Syndrome in a Patient with Attempted Hanging

Lance Adams syndrome is the term used to describe late post-hypoxic myoclonus. Here we describe a patient who developed action and intention myoclonus after 7 days of attempted partial hanging. The similarity of Lance Adams syndrome, which is a treatable condition to a cerebellar syndrome, and the d...

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Autores principales: Subramanian, Mohanakkannan, Velayudham, Sakthi, Jeyaraj, Malcolm, Arunan, S, Perumal, Sowmini, Mohan, Kranthi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9492758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36213707
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24299
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author Subramanian, Mohanakkannan
Velayudham, Sakthi
Jeyaraj, Malcolm
Arunan, S
Perumal, Sowmini
Mohan, Kranthi
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description Lance Adams syndrome is the term used to describe late post-hypoxic myoclonus. Here we describe a patient who developed action and intention myoclonus after 7 days of attempted partial hanging. The similarity of Lance Adams syndrome, which is a treatable condition to a cerebellar syndrome, and the diagnostic difficulties have been highlighted. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Subramanian M, Velayudham S, Jeyaraj M, Arunan S, Perumal S, Mohan K. A Case of Lance Adams Syndrome in a Patient with Attempted Hanging. Indian J Crit Care Med 2022;26(9):1052–1053.
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spelling pubmed-94927582022-10-07 A Case of Lance Adams Syndrome in a Patient with Attempted Hanging Subramanian, Mohanakkannan Velayudham, Sakthi Jeyaraj, Malcolm Arunan, S Perumal, Sowmini Mohan, Kranthi Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Lance Adams syndrome is the term used to describe late post-hypoxic myoclonus. Here we describe a patient who developed action and intention myoclonus after 7 days of attempted partial hanging. The similarity of Lance Adams syndrome, which is a treatable condition to a cerebellar syndrome, and the diagnostic difficulties have been highlighted. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Subramanian M, Velayudham S, Jeyaraj M, Arunan S, Perumal S, Mohan K. A Case of Lance Adams Syndrome in a Patient with Attempted Hanging. Indian J Crit Care Med 2022;26(9):1052–1053. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2022-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9492758/ /pubmed/36213707 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24299 Text en Copyright © 2022; The Author(s). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/© The Author(s). 2022 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Perumal, Sowmini
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9492758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36213707
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24299
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