Two cases of hemiballism-hemichorea with T1-weighted MR image hyperintensities

Intern Med. 2005 Dec;44(12):1280-5. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.1280.

Abstract

Two cases of hemiballism-hemichorea have been reported in woman patients with hyperglycemia; this was a feature of striatal hyperintensity on the T1-weighted MRI. In the first case, strict management of diabetes and treatment with pimozide effectively suppressed the movement disorder. The Z-score Imaging System revealed hyperperfusion in the bilateral dentate nuclei, left striatum, and bilateral motor cortices. In the second case, painful hemiballism-hemichorea limb, followed by the upper limb. The severity of HB-HC corresponded to the expansion of the striatal lesion. The mechanism of HB-HC by using statistical cerebral blood flow evaluation has also been discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Blood Flow Velocity / physiology
  • Cerebellar Nuclei / pathology
  • Cerebrovascular Circulation / physiology
  • Chorea / complications
  • Chorea / diagnosis*
  • Chorea / physiopathology
  • Corpus Striatum / pathology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Hyperglycemia / complications*
  • Hyperglycemia / physiopathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
  • Middle Aged
  • Motor Cortex / pathology
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed