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Familial Hemiplegic Migraine With Prolonged Aura and Multimodality Imaging: A Case Report
Author(s) -
Kumar Gogi,
Topper Leonid,
Maytal Joseph
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2008.01180.x
Subject(s) - aura , cortical spreading depression , familial hemiplegic migraine , migraine , right hemisphere , medicine , migraine with aura , neuroscience , pathogenesis , psychology , anesthesia , pathology , audiology
We report a case of familial hemiplegic migraine with prolonged aura where multimodality imaging showed hemispheric cytotoxic edema along with evidence of hypometabolism in the affected hemisphere while there was no evidence of hypoperfusion of the affected hemisphere demonstrating that neuronal depression is a more plausible explanation in its pathogenesis.