Open AccessHEMIBALLISMUS AFTER HEMORRHAGIC STROKE
Author(s) -
Vlad Claudiu Stefanescu,
Irene Davidescu,
Ioan Buraga,
Bogdan Ovidiu Popescu,
Bucharest Pharmacy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
romanian journal of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2069-6094
pISSN - 1843-8148
DOI - 10.37897/rjn.2015.1.9
Subject(s) - chorea , dystonia , movement disorders , athetosis , stroke (engine) , basal ganglia , subthalamic nucleus , myoclonus , thalamus , medicine , parkinsonism , physical medicine and rehabilitation , striatum , psychology , neuroscience , deep brain stimulation , parkinson's disease , central nervous system , dopamine , mechanical engineering , disease , engineering
Ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke may be accompanied by movement disorders (1), either hyperkinetic or hypokinetic. Hyperkinetic movement disorders after stroke comprise dystonia (2-4), chorea with or without hemiballismus (5), tremor (6), parkinsonism (7), segmental or focal myoclonus, athetosis, pseudathetosis, and asterixis (8). Hemiballismus is a movement disorder characterized by involuntary, arrythmic, and large amplitude excursion of a limb, usually from a proximal joint, witn an element of rotation (9). Ballismus is explainable with lesions in the subthalamic nuclei, cerebral cortex, corpus striatum, thalamus and brainstem. (10) The frequency of post-stroke abnormal movements is unclear, the prevalence in a swiss registry being 1% with an incidence of 0.08% per year (8). Of them, hemichorea-hemiballismus is the most common, while dystonia is the next most common disorder (11).