Bilateral Thalamic Infarct in Two Unresponsive Octogenarians
Journal Title: International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 6
Abstract
Bilateral thalamic infarct (BTI) represents an uncommon stroke presentation. Pathophysiology recognizes the occlusion of an anatomic variant of the thalamic blood supply from perforating branches of posterior cerebral arteries. Presentation could be nonspecific and dramatic in the same time, being coma or stupor the possible clinical scenario encountered. Diagnosis is performed by neuroradiological imaging showing the typical bilateral paramedian thalamic infarcts. Literature lacks of evidence in very old patients, therefore we describe two cases of BTI occurred in octogenarians presenting unresponsive. BTI in very old patients presenting comatose should be taken in account as diagnostic possibility.
Authors and Affiliations
Luca Masotti, Gianni Lorenzini, Francesca Gallesi, Daniel Agustin Godoy, Mario Di Napoli
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP241579
- DOI 10.9734/INDJ/2014/9897
- Views 100
- Downloads 0
Preschoolers of Mothers with Affective and Anxiety Disorders Show Impairments in Cognitive Inhibition During a Chimeric Animal Stroop
Aims: To determine whether maternal affective and anxiety disorders are associated with cognitive inhibitory deficits in four-year-old children utilizing a chimeric animal stroop task, a childhood adaptation of the tradi...
Treatment of Catatonia Using Low Doses of Clozapine
Catatonia is a state of apparent unresponsiveness to external stimuli in a person who is apparently awake and which occurs in children, adolescents, and adults and is characterized by a variety of symptoms and signs of i...
Physical Body, Imaginary Body, Symbolic Body: Investigating the Latent Dimensions of Change
Background and Objectives: We present a pilot study of arts psychotherapy proposed in combination with cognitive restructuring techniques to N=13 adult women affected by a disturbed body image, low self-esteem and depres...
Evidence for Oxidative Stress in Suicide Cases- A Postmortem Study
Aim: Many researchers have studied the oxidative mechanism and found that its disruption may play a role in the etiopathogenesis of certain psychiatric diseases such as major depression, bipolar disorder, attention defic...
Psychotherapy and Lausanne Trilogue Play: A Case Report
Aims: This case study aims to explore the use of Lausanne Trilogue Play and its related video-feedback intervention, through the Explanation of a clinical single case. The clinical intervention involves both child psycho...