REVERSIBLE PERIODIC ALTERNATING GAZE DEVIATION IN HEPATIC-ENCEPHALOPATHY

Authors
AVERBUCHHELLER L MEINER Z
Citation
L. Averbuchheller et Z. Meiner, REVERSIBLE PERIODIC ALTERNATING GAZE DEVIATION IN HEPATIC-ENCEPHALOPATHY, Neurology, 45(1), 1995, pp. 191-192
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Neurology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00283878
Volume
45
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
191 - 192
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-3878(1995)45:1<191:RPAGDI>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
We report two patients with hepatic encephalopathy who developed perio dic alternating gaze deviation (PAGD), Neither patient had an evident structural lesion, and the PAGD subsided after treatment of the enceph alopathy. We postulate that a GABA-mediated disturbance affecting the cerebellar nodulus and uvula was responsible for the PAGD in these pat ients.