Unilateral Asterixis in Arm and Leg Caused by Internal Capsula Stroke

Feil, Katharina; Huber, Marion; Goldschagg, Nicolina und Kellert, Lars (2018): Unilateral Asterixis in Arm and Leg Caused by Internal Capsula Stroke. In: Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, Bd. 2018, 3946380

Abstract

We report an unusual clinical manifestation of ischemic stroke with acute right-sided asterixis affecting the arm as well as the leg due to a lesion in the left posterior limb of the internal capsula. After treatment with intravenous thrombolysis the patient made a good recovery. Notably, in this case unilateral asterixis affected the armas well as the leg, resulting in postural and gait instability. In addition, damage in the basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical network, as in our patient, has to be distinguished fromother supratentorial causes of acute asterixis like thalamic or frontal lobe lesions linked to the cerebello-brainstem-thalamo-frontal lobe circuits.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Medizin
• Themengebiete: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• ISSN: 2090-6668
• Sprache: Englisch