Progressive myoclonic ataxia associated with coeliac disease: The myoclonus is of cortical origin, but the pathology is in the cerebellum

Brain

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1087-1093

  Bhatia, K P ^a   Brown, P ^a   Gregory, R ^a,b   Lennox, G G ^c   Manji, H ^a   Thompson, P D ^a   Ellison, D W ^d   Marsden, C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Royal Air Force Hospital ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ataxia; Cerebellum; Coeliac disease; Myoclonus; Pathology

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; ATAXIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CELIAC DISEASE; CELL LOSS; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; GLUTEN FREE DIET; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCLONUS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SEIZURE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; ATAXIA; CELIAC DISEASE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CLONAZEPAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCLONUS; PIRACETAM;

EID: 0028864352     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/118.5.1087     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Brücke T, Kollegger H, Schmidbauer M, Muller C, Podreka I, Deecke L. Adult coeliac disease and brainstem encephalitis [letter], J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1988; 51: 456-7.
2. Bye AME, Andermann F, Robitaille Y, Oliver M. Bohane T. Andermann E. Cortical vascular abnormalities in the syndrome of celiac disease, epilepsy, bilateral occipital calcifications, and folate deficiency. Ann Neurol 1993; 34: 399-403.
3. Collin P, Pirttila T, Nurmikko T, Somer H, Erila T, Keyrilainen O, Celiac disease, brain atrophy, and dementia [see comment]. Neurology 1991; 41: 372-5. Comment in: Neurology 1992; 42: 1641.
4. Cooke WT, Smith WT. Neurological disorders associated with adult coeliac disease. Brain 1966; 89: 683-722.
5. Cooper BT, Holmes GKT, Cooke WT. Coeliac disease and immunological disorders. Br Med J 1978; 1: 537-9.
6. Finelli PF, McEntee WJ, Ambler M, Kestenbaum D. Adult celiac disease presenting as cerebellar syndrome. Neurology 1980; 30: 245-9.
7. Fois A, Balestri P, Vascotto M, Fametani MA, DiBartolo RM, DiMarco V. Epilepsy, progressive cerebral calcifications, and coeliac disease [letter; comment]. Lancet 1992; 340: 1095. Comment on: Lancet 1992; 340: 439-13.
8. Gobbi G, Bouquet F, Greco L, Lambertini A, Tassinari CA, Ventura A, et al. Coeliac disease, epilepsy, and cerebral calcifications [see comments]. Lancet 1992; 340: 439-43. Comment in: Lancet 1992; 340: 1095.
9. Harding AE, Matthews S, Jones S, Ellis CJK, Booth IW, Muller DPR. Spinocerebellar degeneration associated with a selective defect of vitamin E absorption. N Engl J Med 1985; 313: 32-5.
10. Kepes JJ, Chou SM, Price LW Jr. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy with 10-year survival in a patient with nontropical sprue. Neurology 1975; 25: 1006-12.
11. Kinney HC, Burger PC, Hurwitz BJ, Hijmans JC, Grant JP. Degeneration of the central nervous system associated with celiac disease. J Neurol Sei 1982; 53: 9-22.
12. Lu CS, Thompson PD, Quinn NP, Parkes JD, Marsden CD. Ramsay Hunt syndrome and coeliac disease: a new association? [see comment], Mov Disorders 1986; 1: 209-19. Comment in: Mov Disord 1993; 8: 252.
13. Rush PJ, Inman R, Bernstein M, Carlen P, Resch L. Isolated vasculitis of the central nervous system in a patient with celiac disease. Am J Med 1986; 81: 1092-1.
14. Tison F, Ame P, Henry P. Myoclonus and adult coeliac disease. J Neurol 1989; 236: 307-8.