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===Clinic=== | ===Clinic=== | ||
*It is an entity, characterized by slow, involuntary, convoluted, writhing movements of the fingers, hands, toes, and feet and in some cases, arms, legs, neck and tongue. | *It is an [[Entities list|entity]], characterized by slow, involuntary, convoluted, writhing movements of the fingers, hands, toes, and feet and in some cases, arms, legs, neck and tongue. | ||
*Sometimes called ''athetoid'' movements. | *Sometimes called ''athetoid'' movements. | ||
*Brain lesions particularly to corpus striatum or hippocampus and the motor thalamus | *Brain lesions particularly to corpus striatum or hippocampus and the motor thalamus | ||
Latest revision as of 09:41, 23 November 2023
Clinic
- It is an entity, characterized by slow, involuntary, convoluted, writhing movements of the fingers, hands, toes, and feet and in some cases, arms, legs, neck and tongue.
- Sometimes called athetoid movements.
- Brain lesions particularly to corpus striatum or hippocampus and the motor thalamus
- It does not occur alone and is often accompanied by the symptoms of cerebral palsy, as it is often a result of this physical disability.
- Athetosis typically involves the distal extremities (hands or feet) more than the proximal and it can also involve the face, neck, and trunk.
Signs and symptoms
- Unbalanced, Difficulty maintaining a symmetrical posture.
- It can appear as early as 18 months from birth which progressively worsen through adolescence and at times of emotional distress.
- First signs including difficulty feeding, hypotonia, spasm, and involuntary writhing movements of the hands, feet, and face
- Children during the developmental age could possibly suffer from severe communication deficits such as speech impairment, hearing loss.
- They failed or delayed acquirement of sitting balance.
- Although most people with athetosis have normal or near-normal intelligence.
Causes
- Athetosis occurs when there has been damage to the corpus striatum (caudate and putamen) in the basal ganglia, most often in children with perinatal ischemia
- Athetosis is a symptom primarily caused by the marbling, or degeneration of basal ganglia
- This degeneration is most commonly caused by complications at birth or by Huntington's disease
- In addition to rare cases in which the damage may also arise later in life due to stroke (Thalamic stroke) or trauma.
- The two complications of particular interest are intranatal asphyxia and neonatal jaundice.
Miasms:
CJD according to a case presentation in 1999. [1]
I think Athetosis is not a dynamic entity. It is a static dysfunction of BG, but if we want to find a similar miasm, we should consider its accompanies entities:
- Mouth, Speech difficult
- Hypotonia
- Spasm
- Face, Palsy
- Hearing impaired
Therefore the best similar miasm would be PLV. Although there is no case report for this claim.
Related Entities
- Chorea: Chorea is an ongoing random-appearing sequence of one or more discrete involuntary movements or movement fragments. Athetosis is a slow, continuous, involuntary writhing movement that prevents maintenance of a stable posture.
- Dystonia: Athetosis is distinguished from dystonia by the lack of sustained postures, although it is frequently associated with dystonia so the distinction can be difficult in practice.
- Stereotypy: Athetosis is not rhythmic or stereotyped
- Catatonia
- ↑ Kaneko A, Takei K, Enomoto K, Mitsui T, Nomura K, Iwasaki S, Maruki T, Shimazu K. [A case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease exhibiting athetosis in the early stage]. No To Shinkei. 1999 Oct;51(10):887-90. Japanese. PMID: 10553590.