PARKINSON SYNDROME AFTER CARBON-MONOXIDE INTOXICATION - AN UNEXPECTEDLATE DEVELOPMENT AND FAVORABLE PROGNOSIS

Although individual extrapyramidal symptoms as a consequence of carbon monoxide intoxication have frequently been reported, typical (complet e) Parkinson's syndrome has very rarely been documented. This report p resents for the first time a case of acute Parkinson's syndrome with d elayed manifestation after the initially occurring organic psychosis. A 53-year-old man with a long history of schizoaffective psychosis fir st developed a severe acute organic psychosis with disturbances of ori entation and marked amnestic disturbances after carbon monoxide intoxi cation as a result of a suicide attempt. On the 21st day after intoxic ation, acute Parkinson's syndrome with right accentuation was recorded , with CCT identification of lesions on both sides of the basal gangli a area. Full remission of the Parkinson's syndrome was achieved with r heological treatment and L-dopa therapy.