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Steroid Treatment In a Neuroacanthocytosis Case Presenting With Respiratory Distress: Case Report
Abstract
Neuroacanthocytosis is a neurodegeneretive disease characterized by movement disorders, seizures, dementia, and cognitive impairment associated with acanthocytes, spike-like abnormality of red blood cells. Lots of neuroacanthocytosis syndromes have been defined in the literature. A lot of syndrome and/or disease like Huntington disease, Parkinson Disease, Tourette Syndrome, and Wilson Disease could be accounted in the differential diagnosis of this pathology. Diagnosis is established in the presence of acanthocytes in the peripheral blood smear and clinical picture. Treatment is only symptomatic and no cure chance is present. Anticholinergic agents, antipsychotic agents, antiepileptic drugs, acetylcholine release inhibitors have been used for the treatment of symptoms. Herein, we are presenting a neuroacanthocytosis case presenting with acute respiratory distress. In the symptomatic relief, we used 1 gram/day methylprednisolone treatment for 10 days
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Turkish
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Gökhan Evcili
Hakan Ak
Publication Date
September 1, 2012
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Year 1970 Number: 3