Erschienen in:
01.12.2017 | Review
Permanent Cerebellar Degeneration After Acute Hyperthermia with Non-toxic Lithium Levels: a Case Report and Review of Literature
verfasst von:
Fabian H. Rossi, Elisa Marie Rossi, Michael Hoffmann, Welwin Liu, Ramon Rodriguez Cruz, Natasha Antonovich, Arash Rezaei, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Maria Clara Franco, Alvaro Estevez, Florian Thomas
Erschienen in:
The Cerebellum
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Ausgabe 5-6/2017
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Abstract
This was a study of a 33-year-old man with bipolar disorder treated with lithium who developed cerebellar atrophy after an event of extreme hyperthermia. Unlike previously reported cases of acute cerebellar atrophy after heat stroke, neuroleptic syndrome or lithium toxicity, this case was characterized by a chronic cerebellar atrophy that developed after sepsis-induced hyperthermia in the setting of non-toxic lithium levels. Unique to this case also was the early finding of cerebellar atrophy on MRI 2 weeks after the episode of hyperthermia, long-term neurotoxicity after the novo lithium therapy, and longest follow-up case of chronic cerebellar syndrome after hyperthermia with non-toxic lithium levels.