background: the most common neurologic manifestation of gluten sensitivity is ataxia, which accounts for up to 40% of idiopathic sporadic ataxia. timing of diagnosis of gluten ataxia is vital as it is one of the very few treatable causes of sporadic ataxia and causes irreversible loss of purkinje cells. antigliadin antibody (aga) of the igg type is the best marker for neurological manifestation...

Correspondence: Cahide Yılmaz, MD, Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakultesi, Çocuk Hastalıkları AD, Van, Türkiye Tel: 904322176128, Fax: 904322150479 E-mail: [email protected] Neurological complications caused by chickenpox are estimated as approximately 0.01%0.03%. Frequent complications related to central nerve system involvement are cerebellar ataxia and encephalitis, and rare complicat...

Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) is a rare autosomal recessive spinocerebellar ataxia which in the majority of cases is associated with a GAA-trinucleotide repeat expansion in the first intron of Frataxin gene located on chromosome 9. The clinical features include progressive gait and limb ataxia, cerebellar dysarthria, neuropathy, optic atrophy, and loss of vibration and proprioception. Ataxia with ...

Purpose To evaluate the clinical classification and characteristics of hereditary optic neuropathy patients in a single center in China. Method Retrospective case study. Patients diagnosed with hereditary optic neuropathy between January 2014 and December 2015 in the neuro-ophthalmology division in Shanghai Eye and ENT Hospital of Fudan University were recruited. Clinical features as well as ...

BACKGROUND Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a mitochondrial disorder with optic nerve atrophy. Although there are no other associated neurological abnormalities in most cases of LHON, cases of "LHON plus" have been reported. CASE REPORT The proband was a 37-year-old man who had visual and gait disturbances that had first appeared at 10 years of age. He showed horizontal gaze pals...

Miller-Fisher syndrome (MFS) is considered a variant of Guillain-Barrd syndrome (GBS). The syndrome is characterized by acute onset of gait ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and areflexia. Conventionally, MFS has been considered exclusively a disease of the peripheral nervous system. However there are occasional reports of central nervous system involvement. Here, a 62 year-old woman who presented with ...