Abstract
Ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke may be accompanied by movement disorders (1), either hyperkinetic or hypokinetic. Hyperkinetic movement disorders after stroke comprise dystonia (2-4), chorea with or without hemiballismus (5), tremor (6), parkinsonism (7), segmental or focal myoclonus, athetosis, pseudathetosis, and asterixis (8). Hemiballismus is a movement disorder characterized by involuntary, arrythmic, and large amplitude excursion of a limb, usually from a proximal joint, witn an element of rotation (9). Ballismus is explainable with lesions in the subthalamic nuclei, cerebral cortex, corpus striatum, thalamus and brainstem. (10) The frequency of post-stroke abnormal movements is unclear, the prevalence in a swiss registry being 1% with an incidence of 0.08% per year (8). Of them, hemichorea-hemiballismus is the most common, while dystonia is the next most common disorder (11).
Highlights
Ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke may be accompanied by movement disorders [1], either hyperkinetic or hypokinetic
We present the case of a 72 year-old man, with a history of prosthate hypertrophy, osteoporosis, kidney stones, compression fractures at T12-L2 level, smoking and alcohol consumption
Laboratory findings: The final diagnosis was hemorrhagic stroke at the level of the subthalamic nucleus, with contralateral associated hemiballismus, cerebral atrophy, Compression frectures at T12-L2 level, prosthate hypertrophy
Summary
Ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke may be accompanied by movement disorders [1], either hyperkinetic or hypokinetic. Hyperkinetic movement disorders after stroke comprise dystonia [2,3,4], chorea with or without hemiballismus [5], tremor [6], parkinsonism [7], segmental or focal myoclonus, athetosis, pseudathetosis, and asterixis [8]. Hemiballismus is a movement disorder characterized by involuntary, arrythmic, and large amplitude excursion of a limb, usually from a proximal joint, witn an element of rotation [9]. The frequency of post-stroke abnormal movements is unclear, the prevalence in a swiss registry being 1% with an incidence of 0.08% per year [8]. Hemichorea-hemiballismus is the most common, while dystonia is the most common disorder [11]
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