Title:
Dyskinesia-hepatocerebral degeneration.Misericordia Hospital

Description:
A 58 years old man with hepatic insufficiency (presumably alcoholic) and four episodes of acute hepatic encephalopathy in the last year, developed dyskinesia and dysarthria in the last internation. Neuropsychiatrics manifestations were prominent while he was encephalopatic but with minimal expression when he developed dyskinesias. Acquired hepatocerebral degeneration features are entirely different from acute hepatic encephalopathy episodes.1 Neurological manifestations may combine: chorea, dysarthria, postural and intentional tremor , orofacial or generalized dyskinesias, somnolence, and very rarely, transverse myelitis. Choreic movements, typically present as prominent orofacial-buccal and lingual are the most frequent observed while resting tremor and dystonia are less frequent. Neuropsychiatric manifestations are minimal. T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging scan (not performed) may show symmetric high intensity signal lesions in the bilateral globus pallidus and mild cerebral atrophy. Treatments include haloperidol, transplant surgery, benztropine,Tetrabenazine and Ropinirole. 1-Pierre R. Burkhard, MD; Jacqueline Delavelle, MD; Renaud Du Pasquier, MD; Laurent Spahr, MD Chronic Parkinsonism Associated With Cirrhosis A Distinct Subset of Acquired Hepatocerebral Degeneration Arch Neurol. 2003;60:521-528. 2- E A Jones,aK Weissenborn Neurology and the liver J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1997;63:279-293 ( September ) 3-Stephanie Thobois, MD, Pierric Giraud, MD,. Pierre Debat, MD, et al. Orofacial Dyskinesias in a Patient with.Primary Biliary Cirrhosis:A Clinicopathological Case Report and Review. Movement Disorders, Vol. 17, No. 2 ,p 415-419- 2002 4-Spiridon Papapetropoulos. Carlos Singer. Management of the Extrapyramidal Syndrome in Chronic Acquired Hepatocerebral Degeneration (CAHD) Movement Disorders, Vol. 20, No. 8, p-1088- 2005

Author:
cosacov

Tags:
acquired, degeneration, Dyskinesias_Orofacial, hepatocerebral,