NEUROIMAGING ON DELAYED POSTANOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHY WITH LESIONS LOCALIZED IN BASAL GANGLIA

Authors
TAKAHASHI W OHNUKI Y TAKIZAWA S YOSHII F TAKAGI S KAMEI T SHINOHARA Y
Citation
W. Takahashi et al., NEUROIMAGING ON DELAYED POSTANOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHY WITH LESIONS LOCALIZED IN BASAL GANGLIA, Clinical imaging, 22(3), 1998, pp. 188-191
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Journal title
Clinical imaging → ACNP
ISSN journal
08997071
Volume
22
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
188 - 191
Database
ISI
SICI code
0899-7071(1998)22:3<188:NODPEW>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
A 59-year-old woman suffered from prolonged hypotension with myocardia l infarction. Sixteen days after the episode, she showed bradykinesia, gait disturbance, and postural tremor. MRI revealed low signa intensi ties in the bilateral caudate nuclei and putamen of the T1-weighted im age and high signal intensities on the T2-weighted image. PET with F-1 8-FDG revealed a severe decrease in glucose metabolism in bilateral ba sal ganglia. It is concluded that prolonged hypotension may induce loc alized delayed anoxic lesions in basal ganglia. (C) Elsevier Science I nc., 1998.