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Research Article| Volume 16, ISSUE 3, P189-194, May 1994

Alternating hemiplegia in childhood: a cross-sectional study

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0387-7604(94)90068-X
Alternating hemiplegia in childhood: a cross-sectional study
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      Abstract

      Six patients with alternating hemiplegia in childhood (AHC) were followed, some of them up to childhood. Progressive intellectual deterioration and disturbance of pyramidal, extrapyramidal and cerebellar functions were found in all of them. Multimodal evoked potential abnormalities, changes of sleep structure and HMPAO-SPECT results were correlated with increasing clinical handicap. In older patients increases in the plasma level of lactate, as well as in the lactate: pyruvate ratio, were revealed, accompanied by elevated inorganic phosphate (Pi) values on31P MR spectroscopy. These findings support the hypothesis of a possible secondary mitochondrial deficit in AHC. However, no specific bioptic changes (muscle, skin, or buccal mucous membrane) were found, and thus the etiology of AHC remains unclear.

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      Publication history

      Accepted: February 15, 1994
      Received: August 16, 1993

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0387-7604(94)90068-X

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      © 1994 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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