Open AccessFahr's Disease Presenting with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Author(s) -
Hosam Al-Jehani,
Abdulrazag Ajlan,
David Sinclair
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of clinical imaging science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.279
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 2156-7514
pISSN - 2156-5597
DOI - 10.4103/2156-7514.96542
Subject(s) - medicine , subarachnoid hemorrhage , subarachnoid haemorrhage , presentation (obstetrics) , basal ganglia , calcification , neuroimaging , disease , cerebellum , disease entity , pathology , pediatrics , aneurysm , radiology , psychiatry , central nervous system
Fahr′s disease is a rare disorder of slowly progressive cognitive, psychiatric, and motor decline associated with idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (IBGC) and widespread calcification in the brain and cerebellum. Acute presentation of IBGC is most often as a seizure disorder; however, we present a case of an acute IBCG presentation in which the cause of the deterioration was an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
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