A Patient of Migraine-like Headache with Amnesia, Pleocytosis and Transient Hypoperfusion of Cerebral Blood Flow

Autor: Motoharu Kawai, Jun Ichi Ogasawara, Masaaki Abe, Kiyoshi Negoro, Mitsunori Morimatsu, Yukiko Tada
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Internal Medicine. 44:743-746
ISSN: 1349-7235
0918-2918
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.743
Popis: Pseudomigraine with pleocytosis (PMP) is an uncommon disease in Japan. The diagnostic criteria include at least one episode of transient neurological deficit accompanied or followed by migraine-like severe headache, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lymphocytosis, and normal neuroimaging. Both the etiology and the pathophysiology of PMP is not yet well defined. We report a 40-year-old man with a PMP-like syndrome. He came to our clinic because of severe throbbing headache and amnesia, and the examination showed CSF lymphocytosis of 23/mm3, a transient decrease of cerebral blood flow in the left thalamus. All the symptoms were completely resolved within 2 months.
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