Postanoxic parkinsonism: clinical, radiologic, and pathologic correlation

Neurology. 2000 Aug 22;55(4):591-3. doi: 10.1212/wnl.55.4.591.

Abstract

The authors report a 72-year-old patient who presented with parkinsonism after hypoxic-ischemic insult. T1-weighted MRI revealed high signal intensity lesions in the basal ganglia. Pathologic study of the brain disclosed multiple foci of old infarcts with gliosis and lipid-laden and hemosiderin-laden macrophages, indicating a previous minor hemorrhage after infarction. This observation provided pathologic correlation with the patient's clinical symptoms and MRI.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain Infarction / etiology
  • Brain Infarction / pathology
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Heart Failure / complications*
  • Humans
  • Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain / diagnosis*
  • Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain / etiology
  • Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain / pathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Parkinson Disease, Secondary / diagnosis*
  • Parkinson Disease, Secondary / etiology
  • Parkinson Disease, Secondary / pathology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed