[HIV related Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome]

Neurologia. 2003 Dec;18(10):741-5.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Automatic-voluntary motor dissociation of the face and lower cranial nerves of brainstem is the hallmark of Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome (biopercular syndrome). It is commonly caused by ischemic strokes. We present a biopercular syndrome associated with HIV. A 41 year old female who presents a progressive automatic- voluntary motor dissociation of face and lower cranial nerves with later involvement of limbs. She was immunodepressed as a result of HIV. MRI showed bilateral lesions in opercular areas and ventrolateral thalamic nucleus, likely as a result of retrograde neuronal degeneration. Automatic-voluntary dissociation occur after biopercular lesions with sparing of motor pathway proceeding from the cingulate cortex.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Automatism*
  • Cerebellum / physiopathology*
  • Cranial Nerves / physiopathology
  • Facial Nerve / physiopathology*
  • Female
  • HIV Seropositivity / complications*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / complications*
  • Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / diagnosis
  • Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / physiopathology*
  • Pons / physiopathology*
  • Syndrome
  • Ventral Thalamic Nuclei / pathology