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23.01.2019 | Letter to the Editor
Headache, chest pain, and multiplex cranial neuropathy
verfasst von:
Giuseppe Lauria Pinter, Franco Ferracci, Susanna Usai, Daniele Cazzato, Alessandra Erbetta, Alessandro Perin, Gianluca Marucci
Erschienen in:
Neurological Sciences
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Ausgabe 7/2019
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Excerpt
A 58-year-old man with unremarkable past medical history presented with severe episodic right-side periocular pain radiating to the frontal-temporal-parietal region, associated with unstable diplopia in the horizontal gaze. The clinical examination showed partial palsy of the right third cranial nerve sparing the intrinsic function. Prednisone 50 mg daily for 2 weeks was prescribed with sudden relief of pain and recovery of diplopia. Fifteen days after prednisone withdrawal, headache and diplopia caused by right sixth cranial nerve palsy reappeared. Intravenous methylprednisolone (1 g daily for 3 days) was given with transient full recovery. Two weeks later, the patient was readmitted due to recurrent severe headache and started prednisone 75 mg daily. Nevertheless, he developed diffuse chronic headache, bilateral sixth and partial left third cranial nerve palsy, right-side Claude-Bernand-Horner syndrome, dysphagia and dysphonia, intense chest pain, and gait unsteadiness with the need of a wheelchair. Early edema of the optic nerve was seen at the ophthalmological exam. …